#san-jose-sharks

#san-jose-sharks

The individual, whose TikTok handle is @judijupiter, asked Smith and Celebrini one question after another, including a peculiar request to stand up and spin around. Celebrini and Smith mostly smiled, answered the questions, and politely complied with the request in a video that had close to 400,000 views as of early Wednesday. Unfortunately for the Sharks' organization over the last few days, that's been one of the few sources of amusement.

The San Jose Sharks take the team's first East Coast road trip of the season, and the first stop is a showdown between the top two picks of the 2025 NHL Entry Draft. The Sharks will face the New York Islanders on Long Island this afternoon, with Matthew Schaefer and Michael Misa both expected to play. Of the two, Schaefer is the standout. He is the youngest defenseman to open his career with a five-game point streak.

"Trust me, it sucks," Warsofsky said Saturday night. "I keep telling myself, there's a reason why this keeps happening."

The San Jose Sharks lost to the Utah Mammoth and, most specifically, Nick Schmaltz on Friday night, by the score of 6-3. Schmaltz had a hat trick in the win and the Sharks fell to 0-2-2 to start the season, remaining the only team in the NHL without a win. The Sharks didn't get off to the best of starts last night and dug a hole early in the game. After that, it was a steep slope to climb just to get back to even. Once the Sharks pulled even, stupid mistakes killed all the momentum, and San Jose couldn't pull itself back to even again.

The Sharks were badly outplayed in the first period, but erased a 2-0 deficit on second-period goals by Tyler Toffoli and Jeff Skinner. But late in the second, Askarov went behind his net to play the puck after it had been sent into the Sharks' zone, couldn't control it, and a forechecking O'Brien was there to take control and score his first goal since April 17, 2014, the Arizona Coyotes' final game.

Mukhamadullin's injury, and those to John Klingberg (lower body) and Timothy Liljegren (upper body), will thrust Vincent Iirio into the Sharks' lineup on Friday, one day after he was claimed off waivers from the Washington Capitals. Rookie Sam Dickinson will also dress on Friday, marking his third straight game. Iorio, listed at 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds, has one assist in nine career NHL games. He spent all of last season with Hershey of the AHL, with his last NHL game coming on April 16, 2024, when the Capitals played the Flyers in Philadelphia.

Misa, 18, and Dickinson, 19, each found out they had cracked the Sharks' season-opening 23-man roster on Monday and went through their first practices as NHL players on Tuesday. Still, there is no guarantee they'll play against the Vegas Golden Knights in Thursday's season-opener, which begins a three-game homestand. Dickinson was on the fourth defense pair Tuesday with Vincent Desharnais, and Misa was left out of the Sharks' initial line rushes.

Okay, so we made guesses way, way too early before free agency and we made guesses way too early, after the draft and free agency, but before camps started. Now that things have had time to settle down and a few rounds of cuts have been made, we can start thinking about what the opening night roster will look like for the San Jose Sharks.

As if you need another reason to say F*** Vegas. It sounds like the Golden Knights are the frontrunners to sign goaltender Carter Hart, one of five former Hockey Canada players who were on trial and accused of sexually assaulting an extremely intoxicated woman in a hotel room. Hart was the only one of the five players to testify in the trial. While the woman, identified as E.M. said she felt pressured into having oral sex with Hart, he said it was consensual.

Lately, the Sharks have been one of the main teams that the Leafs like to deal with and make trades with. Most recently, Toronto sent out Ryan Reaves to San Jose in return for young defenseman Henry Thrun, who could make the team as a seventh blueliner. And a little further back, in a somewhat similar type of deal to what we could expect a Robertson trade to look like, the Leafs send former first-round pick Timothy Liljegren to the Sharks, as well.