Warsofsky on Sharks’ Strong Special Teams, Celebrini Unsportsmanlike Conduct | Post-Game (11.28.25)

Warsofsky on Sharks’ Strong Special Teams, Celebrini Unsportsmanlike Conduct | Post-Game (11.28.25)

like the response from your from your team after the game you guys last game. Yeah, it was a good response. Thought we played better, competed a little bit harder, did some things that we’ve talked about. Um, so keep moving forward. So, coach, the PK has been good, you know, for a long time, but you talked about the power play earlier, how it started to click there at the last game. How big of a factor were both of these things tonight? Huge. Yeah, really important, right? Special teams was really the difference in the game. So, power play came through. uh pound the kill was was outstanding. Yeah, there there was a lot of discussions with the referees just a lot of penalties seemed like some some questionable ones both ways. Would you just is there anything you could say on just that with PK just the flow of the game causing that? Yeah, I think there was you know obviously the calls early in the game had no issues with them you on both sides of it really. Um you know I think the end I was more upset the faceoff should not be inside. Um, they can go back and watch the video and I’ll argue to them blue in the face that that is the wrong call. Um, so is what it is. Didn’t hurt us, but frustrating. You mentioned that faceoff location being outside. Looked like you had Ryan Reeves on the ice with things getting chaotic there at the end. Was he was that the plan to get him out there just if it was outside of the zone? Uh, yeah, if it was outside the zone, we probably would have just to protect him guys. What was the discussion or was that the discussion after Mlin’s penalty? You had a long discussion with the ref. or was that about No, I was just asking what Max said to give him an extra two minutes. Um, so again, don’t don’t agree with it, but he makes the call. Mlin’s obviously a very emotional player. Is that something that he does have to work on to some degree? No, I’ll never u I want him to be emotional. Uh, I think that’s part of being competitive and part of being who he is. Um, you know, he wants to win. He wants to help his teammates. So, uh, those things are going to happen. He’ll learn, you know, maybe some areas he can maybe show a little bit less emotion, you could say, but never never. Imagine this is the best month the Sharks have had in long time here. What is it? What have you seen just overall how the team’s grow just these last three, four weeks here? Yeah, I think we’re getting results. You know, I think this you guys are going to think I’m crazy, but I still think it’s on the level to our game that we can get to um consistently uh to put teams on their heels a little bit. But again, we did we did some good things and we’ve gotten some really good goalending. Um, you know, I think we’ve won in different ways. That’s a big positive. Um, we’ve won with our special teams now. We’ve won the tight games. Uh, we’ve jumped on teams early and scored. Um, you know, so that we’ve done won in different ways, but again, there’s we’ve gotten results, but there’s still another level we can get to. Another 32 saves for for Ascarov here. You almost come to expect it here, but just the steadiness, right? I mean, Yeah. Yeah, he’s been he just he’s confident. He’s calm. Even the six on four, the six on five. He’s seeing pucks. Uh looks really calm. He’s not kind of, you know, sliding all over the place in a sense. He’s he’s very in control. So, he’s he’s playing at a high level. What you think of the power play tonight? Just two for six. Just look. They got more chances created that chaos you’ve been looking for. Yeah, definitely a step in the right direction to get result. You know, two goals is important. Again, we’re going to keep working on it because there’s still areas we can improve on it. Have you seen a lot of growth in Asparos’s rebound control? Yeah, for sure. Uh, I think the game is like any young saw it last year with Mac and Will, the game slows down for you and you can kind of get to your skill set a little bit easier. So, I think the game slowed down for him. Mac and Will, you know, especially Mack here just a lot of offense. How nice is it to get some some other guys involved here and get some offense? Yeah, it’s good. You know, I think you need that. You need some depth scoring. Uh, so God gets one there and um, you know, so I think when some other guys had some looks, I thought to was was one of his better games so far this year. So um, you know, I think you need depth scoring to continue to win. I’m sure you’ll you’ll enjoy enjoy this for a little while here, but you obviously Vegas tomorrow night and fair to say this group hasn’t forgotten what happened in in the opener. Yeah, I would say it’s fair to say. Um, you know, and you know, we’ll get we’ll get to Vegas tonight. We’ll get ready and enjoy this for the the next 10 minutes and we get prepared for Vegas. when there was a five on five in the third period, seemed like you guys did a pretty good job of being hard to play against. One shift in particular that stood out was Colin Graph with about six minutes to go gets under um I think it was Garland and then forces Hughes back there. You speak to his kind of growth in that particular era just you know that shift just being hard to play against making it difficult for break out. Yeah, we’ve asked for a lot from from Colin. Um you know, he’s been on the power play big time on our penalty kill late in games, checking line, been up in the top six. So, um you know, I thought it was a good game from him. That play in particular was um something that we’ve talked about is is staying into people and not coming off and staying on the hunt. So, did a really good job defending uh Garland there. You’ve talked about the fans just creating the atmosphere here. It’s third straight sellout and the crowd really was into every part of it. Did you start to see and feel that energy from the crowd that you’ve wanted to create here? Yeah, it gets definitely gets loud and we we feed off the energy and um we want them to keep coming. We got to keep winning and and putting a product that they’re proud of. So um again, I think we’ve taken a a nice step so far this year. We got a long way to go. Um and I and I still think the best is ahead of us. Thanks, guys. Safe travel Vegas.

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