The Sharks returned home on Monday night, limping back after a dismal 0-3-0 road trip. The friendly confines of SAP Center turned into a goaltending exhibition as San Jose held off the New York Islanders in an 8-round shootout. Yaroslav Askarov and Islanders goaltender combined to make 67 save in regulation and overtime, then the stopped 15 of 16 shooters in the shootout, but it was San Jose that prevailed 3-2.

The Sharks wrapped up their 3-game road trip with a good effort, but the NHL doesn't had out standings points for effort. They do for out-scoring your opposition and San Jose failed to that for the 5th consecutive game, dropping a 4-3 decision to the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center. The Star converted on 3-of-5 power play opportunities to out-score San Jose for the second time this season.

Grand Casino Arena in Minnesota was stop number two for the Sharks who continue on with their 3-game road trip on Friday night. San Jose had the unfortunate scheduling disadvantage of facing the best team in the Western Conference in the Wild. San Jose did nothing to dispel the premonition that this night wasn't going to go well for the Bay Area team. Minnesota toyed with the Sharks before exposing them in a 4-1 mismatch.

If the Sharks were supposed take the next step in their development, someone needs to tell them that it was supposed to be a forward step. Kicking off a 3-game road trip in Los Angeles, the Sharks bumbled their way to their 3rd straight loss. The Kings were ripe for the picking, having struggled out of the gate. They used the Sharks as tonic, righting their own ship in 7-2 shellacking. Adrian Kempe recorded a hat trick and Artemi Panerin added 4 assists in the lop-sided win.

The Sharks have a legitimate problem. Entering the second month of the season, San Jose has lost 6 of their last 9 games and are doing it in less than captivating fashion. The offense has vanished without a trace and every lineup change and post game motivational jab has led to the same outcome of late. After last season's emergence, the start of the 2026-27 campaign has been nothing short of a letdown. Monday night's contest just added to the misery as the rebuilding Calgary Flames waltzed out of town with a 2-1 win at SAP Center.

The Sharks got a jump on Dia de los Muertos on Saturday by playing like corpses at SAP Center in a 5-1 loss to the visiting Ottawa Senators. The Spanish day of remembrance was co-mingled with Los Tiberones Day at SAP, complete with mariachis, dia decorations and a Sharks team that was skewered by the Senators in lop-sided loss to close out October.

The Sharks looked to snap their brief 2-game losing streak on Thursday as they hosted the Vancouver Canucks at SAP Center. Entering play, the Canucks held the league' worst record, even though they recorded a big comeback overtime win in Anaheim 48 hours earlier. Things looked as if the Sharks would extend their losing streak and the Canucks would continue to build on their solid win in Southern California. Then the Sharks worked a little 3rd period magic, scoring 3 goals in a span of 2 minutes and 50 seconds to wipe away a 2-0 Canucks lead.

The Sharks faced the cursed trap game, or the first game following a long road trip, on Tuesday night as they hosted the Buffalo Sabres at SAP Center. San Jose has historically struggled with home games that are played after returning to home ice. Tuesday night's game was not different. Losing 7 of their last 8 games against the Sabres also stacked the deck against the Sharks who failed to build on a great road trip, losing to the Sabres 2-0.

The 6-game, 11 day road trip came to an end on Saturday afternoon in Boston as the Sharks fell short in a wide-open 10-goal game at TD Garden. San Jose secured 7 of 12 points on their trip, but they may be kicking themselves for not grabbing the extra 2 in Boston. After falling to Boston 6-3 at SAP Center on October 13th San Jose found a way to grab a 3rd period lead on Saturday night, but they allowed Boston to score 4 goals in the final 11 minutes of the game to deny the Sharks.

The table was set for San Jose on Thursday night. They had an extra day of rest compared to their hosts, the Ottawa Senators, who played in an emotional reunion game with Brady Tkachuk less than 24 hours earlier. The short turn around and the return to earth following their adrenaline induced victory was something that certainly put the Senators at a disadvantage. After grabbing a 4-1 lead, the Sharks had to survive a crazy 3rd period push by Ottawa. They would prevail 6-2 to win for the 3rd time on their current 6-game trip.

The Sharks were apparently taking notes. After coughing up 2-goal leads in back to back games, San Jose turned the tables on the Montreal Canadiens, scoring a pair of 3rd period goals to get the game to overtime where Macklin Celebrini ended it with a power play goal. It was an incredible 4-3 comeback given the Sharks played less than 24 hours earlier in Toronto and the Canadiens last played on Saturday.

The Sharks got back at it on Monday night following their tough shootout loss to Detroit 48 hours earlier, with a stop in Toronto to take on the struggling Maple Leafs. Toronto entered play having lost 3 straight, but the Sharks obliged their hosts with another mistake filled game that gave Toronto a 3-1 victory at Scotiabank Arena.

The Sharks hit the road for the 1st of 6 away from SAP Center on Tuesday with a stop in the Music City. Alex Nedeljkovic made his 2nd start of the season, stopping 32 shots en route to a crazy 3-2 shootout win over the Nashville Predators. The Sharks played solid road hockey and were poised to win in overtime, but Steven Stamkos tied the game with 8 tenths of a second left in regulation. After a wild overtime period, Macklin Celebrini was the only player to score in the overtime to win it for San Jose.

The NHL had all 32 teams playing on Tuesday night in their Frozen Frenzy event. San Jose hosted the Boston Bruins in the final game on the docket that didn't start until 8:15 local time. That late start was foreshadowing the Sharks, who were late to the party. dropping a 6-3 decision at SAP Center. San Jose played like that teenager who rolls out of bed at noon, fumbling away goal after goal to drop their second consecutive game.

The question everyone's been asking was answered on Saturday afternoon, when Sharks captain Macklin Celebrini returned to the lineup after missing the last two games with a lower body injury. Celebrini did return, but his addition wasn't enough as the Oilers scored a pair of goals early in the 3rd period and cruised to a 3-1 victory at SAP Center.

The Sharks wrapped up their short 2-game road trip in St Louis on Thursday night, but they continued on without captain Macklin Celebrini. San Jose elected to sit Celebrini, which turned out to be the right call after Darnell Nurse deposited a Ivar Stenberg feed in overtime as the Sharks knocked off the Blues 3-2 at the Enterprise Center in Missouri. San Jose shook off a slow start to earn 2 more points.

The Sharks hit the road for the first time this season, and the road decided to hit back. Starting a quick 2-game trip in Dallas, the Sharks were upended by an injury to team captain Macklin Celebrini in warm-ups, then the host Dallas Stars laid down a smackdown with a 5-0 win at American Airlines center. Star goaltender Jake Oettinger only faced 13 shots to help Dallas win their 1st game of the season.

After all the pomp and circumstance of opening night wore off, the Sharks hit the ice for the next of 83 games this season on Saturday night at SAP Center. Like their overtime win on opening night, the Sharks were forced to dig deep in extra time to beat the Los Angeles Kings. San Jose allowed an opponent to comeback from a 2-goal deficit in the 3rd period once again, but like their win over the Florida Panthers, they scored in overtime to take the 2 points. Igor Chernyshov was the man of the hour, bagging the game winner 3:18 into the extra period to cap a 3 point night.

The Sharks unveiled their new look roster in an opening night tilt with the Florida Panthers at SAP Center on Thursday night. As expected, the rough and tumble Panthers played their brand of hockey, but the Sharks looked like they would steam-roll their guests. After taking a 3-0 lead, San Jose forgot who they were playing. The Panthers stormed back to extend the game to overtime before Luca Cagnoni scored the game-winner in the extra period.

The San Jose Sharks officially named Macklin Celebrini as the team’s captain at a press conference on Friday afternoon. Celebrini enters his third season with the Sharks and becomes the 12th captain in franchise history. At 20 years old, he becomes the youngest captain in team history.

The Sharks got to flip the tables on the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night after suffering a bit of a spanking last Sunday in Southern California. This time the Ducks were the road team and they activated more of their prospects against a veteran Sharks lineup. The Ducks vets pasted San Jose 6-2 in their last meeting, but San Jose returned the favor by scoring 5 goals in the 1st period to cruise to a 10-0 win at SAP Center.

The Sharks hit home ice for the first time this preseason on Tuesday night as they hosted the Vegas Golden Knights at SAP Center. As is the case every preseason, there was some good, some bad. Neither team would score until the 3rd period, then Vegas converted an additional chance in the shootout to take a 2-1 decision. Player evaluations is the name of the game as both teams prepare for the start of the regular season in 2 weeks.

After a 5 month hiatus, the Sharks returned to the ice on Sunday in a game where they kept score. San Jose brought a lineup primarily of prospects to the Honda Center in Southern California on Sunday afternoon in an opportunity to evaluate players in a live contest. Anaheim rolled out regulars Leo Carlsson, Beckett Sennecke, Alex Killorn, Cutter Gauthier and Mikael Grandlund. Anaheim took advantage of the young roster that San Jose threw on the ice in a 6-2 decision.

The Sharks wrapped up their 2025-26 NHL campaign with one final game in Winnipeg on Thursday night. The Sharks did an about face from their 3rd period meltdown in Chicago 24 hours earlier by spanking the host Jets 6-1 at Canada Life Centre. With their playoff aspirations squashed earlier in the week, the only thing the Sharks had to play for was personal accomplishments. The biggest one came from team MVP Macklin Celebrini who scored a goal and added 2 assists to pass Joe Thornton for the franchise rerecord for scoring in a season.

The assignment on Monday night was simple. Win or go home. That applied to both the Sharks and their hosts, the Nashville Predators, so there was no shortage of motivation for both teams. A simple loss would end San Jose's season. A loss and a Los Angeles Kings win would end the year for Nashville. Both teams clawed for their lives in what would be the closest the Sharks young core would come to a playoff atmosphere. Not unlike most of the previous 79 games, Macklin Celebrini carried the Sharks with a pair of goals to help San Jose knock off the host Predators 3-2 in a wild contest.

The Sharks entered play on life support as their playoff aspirations continue to fade late in the season. With the Los Angeles Kings and Nashville Predators both winning on Saturday, the equations that would help San Jose. San Jose had it's best chance late to secure 2 points in the standing with a date against the last place Vancouver Canucks, but the Sharks would not capitalize. Linus Karlsson scored in the 6th round of a shootout to fall 4-3 to the doormat Canucks.

In what was supposed to be a clash of the two top forwards in the league as their teams try to solidify playoff positioning, one side decided to show up and the other didn't. Macklin Celebrini tried to motivate his side to get in the fight, but Connor McDavid had other plans. The Oilers captain and NHL's leading score single handedly obliterated the Sharks with a 5 point game as Edmonton struck a significant blow in San Jose's playoff aspirations with a 5-2 victory at SAP Center on Wednesday night.

With 10 games remaining in their season, the Sharks have to start consistently recording standings points if they want any chance of participating in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs. They squared off against division rival Anaheim at SAP Center on Wednesday night in what is becoming more must win than just another game. They would respond with one of the most entertaining comebacks of the season, stunning Anaheim with 2 goals in the final 99 seconds to stun the Ducks 4-3.

The Sharks dropped a pair of overtime games this season to the St Louis Blues. With a minute to play, Monday night's tilt between San Jose and St Louis the game sat tied 4-4 and looked headed for another overtime decision. That is until Adam Gaudette carried the puck up the left wing and snapped a shot past Joel Hofer with 21 seconds left in regulation to help San Jose win their 2nd consecutive game and draw within 2 points of a playoff spot.

The Sharks had 9 days to mull over their 6-3 loss to the Buffalo Sabres back on March 9th. As they established a game plan to address the Sabres, allowing the opposition to score on 4 consecutive shots probably wasn't something the coaches felt they needed to cover. They should have as Buffalo exploited every defensive gap the Sharks had in a 4-0 win over San Jose at SAP Center.

The Sharks wrapped up their 5-game road trip with a gritty 20 minutes of hockey. Unfortunately it's a 60 minute game and the host Edmonton Oilers showed San Jose what's required to compete in March. The Sharks overcame a 3-1 deficit with a pair of 2nd period goals, but the Oilers responded with 2 goals of their own in the 3rd period to take the 5-3 decision at Rogers Place.

After getting pasted by the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday, the Sharks needed a rebound performance as they hit the 2nd leg of their current 5-game road trip. They got exactly that as San Jose received scoring from 4 different forwards. Goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic made 38 saves to earn his 12th win of the season.

The Sharks kept things rolling at home, beating the Montreal Canadiens in a wild 7-5 game at SAP Center on Tuesday night. Recently acquired forward Kiefer Sherwood potted his first goal as a Shark and it turned out to be a big one. Sherwood broke a 5-5 tie with 3:26 left in regulation after the Sharks blew a 5-2 lead in the final period. Macklin Celebrini scored a goal and added 3 assists to pace the Sharks.

The Sharks resumed regular season play on Thursday night following the 2-week Olympic break, hosting the Calgary Flame in a divisional tilt at SAP Center. Entering play, San Jose has 26 games left to climb back into a playoff spot. They started the day 5 points behind the Seattle Kraken for the last spot in the Western Conference. The Flames scored 3 times in the 3rd period to beat the Sharks 4-1, hurting the Sharks goal of climbing back into the playoff race.

San Jose limped into Chicago for the battle of British Columbia phenoms on Monday night at the United Center. It was the first match up of the season between B.C. natives Macklin Celebrini and Connor Bedard, both 1st overall draft picks, but the game evolved to turned into a Ryan Donato & Ilya Mikhaylev's coming out party as the Blackhawks smashed the Sharks 6-3 before 20,130 fans.

The Sharks hit the road for the first of 5 game away from SAP Center on Tuesday night with a stop in Vancouver. The wilting Canucks put up a fight for a minute then fell to a quicker Sharks roster that is fighting to stay in the Western Conference playoff race with San Jose taking the 5-2 decision.

The New York Rangers season hasn't gone as planned this season. After opening the season with a winless skid at home that extended through their first 8 games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers have struggled to turn their season around. Their 16-11-2 road record has been the only thing positive for them this season, but even that was tarnished on Friday night as the Sharks made three 1st period goals stand up in a 3-1 win at SAP Center.

After getting pasted by the Tampa Bay Lightning back on January 3rd, the Sharks were intent on cleaning up their defensive play as the two teams locked horns in St Petersberg on Monday night. San Jose played a more organized game, but in the end Tampa Bay had too much against the road weary Sharks. Brandon Hagel scored a pair of goals to lead the Lightning to a 4-1 win at Benchmark International Arena in St Petersberg.

The Sharks hit South Florida on the Martin Luther King Jr holiday with entertaining game against the Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena. San Jose threw a haymaker with a 3-goal 2nd period, then the game was filled with haymakers as San Jose swept the Panthers in the season series. The game was accentuated by a rare goaltender fight that offered fans a little of everything in the Sharks 4-1 win.

The Sharks had little time to celebrate their win over the Washington Capitals on Thursday as the schedule maker had them square off against the Detroit Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena 24 hours after the victory. Detroit last played on Tuesday and had the rested legs in the contest. If tired legs equate to turnovers, then the Shark's tired legs were on full display. Detroit broke a 2-2 tie in the 3rd period with a standard and empty net goal to take a 4-2 decision.

Back on December 3, the Washington Capitals stormed into SAP Center and bum rushed the Sharks in a 7-1 white washing. The Sharks had a chance to return the favor on Thursday night as they kicked a 4- game road trip that is the start of 9 of their next 10 games on the road before the Olympic break. The Sharks did a little bum rushing of their own in the 2nd period by scoring 3 goals in a 2:40 span. They would hold on during a wild final 3 minutes of the game to win 3-2.

Since entering the NHL in 2017 the Vegas Golden Knights have gone 30-6-5 against the Sharks in the regular season. Their entry coincided with the end of the Sharks long playoff run in the NHL so there is a reason Vegas has had such an advantage. This season, Vegas already held a 3-0 record entering play on Sunday. The Golden Knights can increment all those totals by another win after they handed San Jose another lop-sided beat defeat at SAP Center.

The Dallas Stars came calling on Saturday afternoon at SAP Center after already beating the sharks twice this season. With the season series wrapped up back in December, Dallas came to town looking for point to hang in the race for the best record in the Western Conference. The Sharks had other ideas. San Jose would battle back from another 3rd period deficit to get the game to overtime where Tyler Toffoli cranked a shot on the power play to take a 5-4 victory.

The Sharks squared off with the Los Angeles Kings for the third and final time of the regular season on Wednesday night in Southern California. The two teams played a back and forth game was tied the majority of the contest. A late Kings goal looked as if the Sharks would fall short, but a Macklin Celebrini goal with 67 seconds left in regulation helped get the Sharks to the extra period when William Eklund ended things in overtime.

San Jose shook off the thumping they took from the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday with a rebound win over the Columbus Blue Jackets at SAP Center on Tuesday night. Alex Nedeljkovic made his first start since December 18th and responded with a 34 save performance to lead the Sharks to a 5-2 win. San Jose had to fend off a determined Blue Jackets team who pulled to within a goal with 4 minutes to play.

The Tampa Bay Lightning came to SAP Center on Saturday afternoon and figured out how to stop the Sharks. Taking runs at Macklin Celebrini all game, the Lightning shifted the Sharks focus from playing hockey and it resulted in a 7-3 Lightning victory. After opening the game with 3 straight 1st period goals, Tampa Bay continued to lay the body on Celebrini as much as possible and the Sharks took the bait. The Sharks would respond with a parade to the penalty box in the 2nd period that resulted in 3 Lightning power play goals to put the game out of reach.

Sharks fans now are reaping a benefit that can only make the rest of the league nervous: our young players are getting better and better, especially forward Macklin Celebrini and players like forward Will Smith and goaltender Yaroslav Askarov. We watch this teenager, Celebrini, a first overall draft pick in 2024, get points on the board, game after game after game.

The Sharks returned from the Christmas break on Saturday night and got back into the win column by defeating the Vancouver Canucks 6-3 at Rogers Arena. The Sharks had a pesky Canucks team nipping at their heels all night, but a 3-goal 3rd period helped propel San Jose to their 8th road win of the season, which matches their total for all of the 2024-25 season.

The Sharks wrapped up their 3-game home stand with a flat 4-2 loss to the doormat Seattle Kraken at SAP Center on Saturday night. Fueled by a trade 24 hours earlier, the Kraken had won only once in their last 10 games and with the underachievement this season, Seattle needed something to get things back on track. The Sharks obliged by playing a disconnected game that turned upside down in a pivotal 3rd period.

After completing their successful 3-2-0 road trip and securing 6 of 10 points, the Sharks returned home to take on the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night. Skating for the first time since Will Smith and Philipp Kurashev were placed on the injured reserve, San Jose leveraged a pair of Barclay Goodrow goals and a 4-point night from Macklin Celebrini to beat the Flames 6-3.

There are comebacks in sports, then there was the Sharks comeback over the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena on Saturday afternoon. Trailing 5-1 with 14:35 left to play in regulation, San Jose staged one of the greatest comebacks in team history. The Sharks would score 4 goals in the 3rd period to get the game to overtime before John Klingberg scored in overtime to propel the Sharks to an epic 6-5 win to end their 5-game road trip.

Losing leads in the 3rd period was the Sharks thing last season. They would turn the tables on the Toronto Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena on Thursday night by tying the game with a late 3rd period goal, then winning it overtime on Alex Wennberg's goal and 3rd point of the night. It was a Swedish affair in the overtime when Wennberg and William Eklund steamed up ice on a 2-on-1 break. Wennberg pumped a shot on goaltender Dennis Hildeby, then Wennberg tipped home the rebound to give the Sharks an exciting 3-2 win.

Trudging through a 5-game road trip can be an arduous task, but when you're a professional athlete you have to figure out how to manage the stresses of long periods away from home. After one of their best performances in Carolina on Sunday, the Sharks looked like they were a tired team, skating through tar on Tuesday night as they dropped a 4-1 decision to the host Philadelphia Flyers at Xfinity Mobile Arena.

The Sharks made a stop in Raleigh, North Carolina on Sunday to take on the Carolina Hurricanes at Lenovo Center in an attempt to avenge their tough 5-1 loss on October 14th. Carolina has been a house of horrors for San Jose, but the newly invigorated Sharks lineup shocked the Eastern Conference's 2nd ranked team 4-1.

Making what was likely his last visit to SAP Center as an NHL player, Alexander Ovechkin said farewell to a crowd predominantly donning Washington Capitals jerseys by scoring a pair of goals as the visiting club from D.C. pummeled the Sharks in a 7-1 route on Wednesday night. Ovechkin scored the 1st and 5th goals for the Capitals, who converted 4 times in the opening period to put the game out of reach early. The loss was the worst of the season for San Jose, who lost 6-0 to Colorado two weeks ago.