Brodie’s Breakdown vs COL (11/26)

Brodie’s Breakdown vs COL (11/26)

Brody Brazil here to recap game 24 on the season and we knew this one would be a significant challenge for the Sharks. The Colorado Avalanche riding a nine-game win streak and a 13game point streak coming into this one. They’ve only suffered one loss in regulation all season so far. And that didn’t change on this Thanksgiving eve. San Jose had just taken three of four on home ice and now at altitude facing hockeyy’s hottest team. And you know, it’s never even really mattered what road city the Sharks go to. There’s always teal in the stands and it’s always standing out. That is so good to see. Only the 10th game away from the tank so far this season. It’s definitely been a homeheavy run here through October and November. An interesting play here less than 4 minutes into the night. Defenseman Devont Taves flips this puck about 75 ft up ice. It lands somewhere between a few sharks and a few abs. And that’s where Ross Colton took over and picks up his fifth goal on the season. We’ll show you the reverse angle here of it too. And a smart play to get the puck up the ice so quickly. And Colton didn’t waste any time or opportunity going bar down and helping the ABS to a one- nothing lead. Now, we should probably take this moment to highlight Yaruslav Ascarov. And ultimately, you probably know how things went later on in this game, but here early, he stopped so many great A chances. Some in transition, some off rebounds, some one-timers through traffic and redirected shots out front. Colorado outshot San Jose 15 to five in the first 20 minutes. And it was still a manageable deficit at first intermission, but could have been much more one-sided if Ascarov wasn’t that sharp in the paint. We’ll show you San Jose’s best scoring chance here of the first. Watch this beauty of a two-line pass from Will Smith to Mlin Celbrini who played it off the skate, then threw that filthy noer backand to Sam Dickinson. Dickinson couldn’t beat Blackwood. But holy doodle, what a play. A jumboesque feed. And what a highlight that would have been. But the ABS make it a two nothing game here on their second power play of the first period. Right off the draw, little give and go between Kale Mar and Nate McKinnon. That one-time clock stand at 86 m an hour and it also had some eyes on it. That’s McKinnon’s I’m not even kidding here 18th goal of the season already. Wowers abs up 2-nil. Things were not optimal but still manageable after one period but got significantly worse in the middle frame. The ABS early on picked up three even strength goals within a span of 1 minute 16 seconds. We have to show that. We have to show that a couple wristers causing the Sharks a lot of problems. Sam Molinsky in the slot had time to dust it off. He goes gloveside on Asky and it’s a three nothing ABS lead. That was at the 344 mark. Then 67 seconds later, no, I’m not doing 67 DD pass where Josh Manson walks it in a little closer. That was the last shot Ascarov faced as Ryan Warsovski makes the decision to bring in Alex Nadelkovich just looking for any kind of momentum change he could get. But on the very next puck drop, Yoel Kibir is in the middle of a broken play and still bangs home the loose puck out front. It’s 5 nothing now. And fortunately, that was the final Colorado goal of this period. But this game feeling very much unraveled going into second intermission. Now, nobody wants excuses, so I will not make one here. But I will offer you this reminder. Clunkers happen in the NHL. And for the Sharks, it’s been 43 days, I counted, since they went into a third period with little chance to actually take the game. Now, it’s not like you can erase what happened here in Denver, but it’s also not accurate to think this result should diminish all the progress San Jose has made within the last 6 plus weeks. It turned out to be a 26 save shutout performance by McKenzie Blackwood. Our Tur Lechin would add a sixth goal in the third period. And that’s your final score. This is going to take time, but we all know the Sharks are getting better. It is a process. And tonight, they ran into not a roadblock, an absolute buzzsaw in this Colorado Avalanche team that is well miles ahead of many teams right now in the National Hockey League. Well, yeah, we’re going to continue to learn as we go here and get better and um we’ve obviously probably taken a step in the right direction as far as total, you know, sample size of the season, but obviously we have a ways to go and um to keep going through and going through something like that for Sam Dickinson, for ask, you know, as you know, Otopchuk, even Mac and Will and our young players, I think it’s it’s a good learning experience. Uh that’s one of the best teams. Have a good chance they they’ll be there at the very end. The way they play, shift in and shift out. They go, they get in your face, they win pucks. I mean, it’s 6 nothing. That Malinsky is chasing down our guy at the half wall like it’s 000 game five of the Stanley Cup final. We need to get to that mentality. Are we there yet? No. But there’s certainly um some things we can learn from. Just didn’t really come prepared. I mean, that’s that’s the best team in the league and you know, that’s where we want to be. Um, so it just kind of, you know, shows um how much work we’ve got to do and and put in to to get to that level. And, you know, I think that’s kind of, you know, just what you take from this game. It took them however many years to get there. Um, obviously they’re the best team in the league and they’ve won regulation loss this year. So, um, I think just it’s going to take some time. And just anything you learn or gather from tonight? I mean, we got waxed like They’re a great hockey team. It’s already a busy stretch of hockey surrounding US Thanksgiving. San Jose hosting the Canucks on Friday afternoon, 1 p.m. at the tank, and then visiting the Golden Knights in Vegas on Saturday. And another tilt at home on Monday, hosting Utah. That’s another four game in six night span for the second week in a row.

Brodie Brazil breaks down the Sharks loss to the Colorado Avalanche on November 26, 2025.