{"id":291686,"date":"2025-11-08T19:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/291686\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T19:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:24:16","slug":"sharks-believe-they-can-beat-any-team-in-nhl-after-win-vs-jets-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/291686\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks believe they can \u2018beat any team\u2019 in NHL after win vs. Jets \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note:\u00a0Sheng Peng is a regular contributor to NBC Sports California\u2019s Sharks coverage. You can read more of his coverage on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Jose Hockey Now<\/a>, listen to him on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/category\/san-jose-hockey-now-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Jose Hockey Now Podcast<\/a>, and follow him on Twitter at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sheng_Peng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@Sheng_Peng<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Sharks believe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can beat any team in this league,\u201d Vincent Desharnais told San Jose Hockey Now on Thursday. \u201cWe know who we are, we\u2019re not the old Sharks anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks showed the Winnipeg Jets, in a 2-1 win, who they are on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tied 1-1 after a sloppy first period, bailed out by a number of Alex Nedeljkovic Grade-A saves, San Jose took it to the incumbent Presidents\u2019 Trophy winners from the second period on.<\/p>\n<p>Per Natural Stat Trick, the Sharks owned a 42-24 Shot Attempts and 25-6 Scoring Chances edge at 5-on-5 in the last 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The name of the game? Speed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to be a team that gets on [other teams] with our speed, our forecheck,\u201d San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky said. \u201cWe were rolling four lines. So that\u2019s exactly what it should look like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in years, it was the Sharks pressuring teams into mistakes, making the opposition nervous.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Alex Wennberg (21) getting into Connor Hellebuyck\u2019s kitchen, then Collin Graf (51) flying in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4l4mpADVRh5IPCdD2uRw1i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the San Jose Hockey Now podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s note:\u00a0Sheng Peng is a regular contributor to NBC Sports California\u2019s Sharks coverage. You can read more of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780,6298],"class_list":{"0":"post-291686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-sharks","12":"tag-sanjose","13":"tag-sanjosesharks","14":"tag-sharks","15":"tag-sharks-analysis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115515717346596319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}