Ryan Warsofsky<\/a>, rightly, went out of his way to keep his team grounded early in the season.<\/p>\n\u201cWhere we\u2019re at as a team is, no offense, but reading all this stuff about playoffs and where we are,\u201d he said on Nov. 14, \u201cwe got a long way to go here.\u201d<\/p>\n
It feels like the Sharks have come a long way, especially since that mid-December road trip that closed with comeback wins at the Toronto Maple Leafs and Pittsburgh Penguins. They\u2019re 9-4-0 since Dec. 11, and spearheaded by Macklin Celebrini\u2019s ascension to NHL superstardom, they\u2019ve been playing, save a couple ugly losses, some of their most consistent hockey of the season.<\/p>\n
And they\u2019re playing, especially tonight against the Stars, playoff-caliber hockey.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re maturing,\u201d Gaudette said, \u201cand we\u2019re playing mature hockey.\u201d<\/p>\n
For weeks, Sharks players, from Celebrini to Collin Graf to Ryan Reaves, have been tossing the \u201cP\u201d word freely.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a big belief in that dressing room right now,\u201d Warsofsky said.<\/p>\n
For the first time in a long time, playoffs aren\u2019t a bad word in San Jose anymore.<\/p>\n
Ryan Warsofsky<\/p>\n
Warsofsky, on the San Jose Sharks\u2019 resiliency:<\/p>\n
The guys did a good job of just competing and playing and playing through things. They scored to make it 4-2. It could have easily went away. And credit to the group for digging in and finding a way.<\/p>\n
Warsofsky, on how impressive this comeback was:<\/p>\n
We\u2019re a good hockey team.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Sam Dickinson<\/p>\n
Dickinson, on his buzzcut:<\/p>\n
I think Delly led the charge first, and then Goody came in and his was gone. And I was like, well, I\u2019ll be next. 2026, Year of the Buzzcut. So we\u2019ll see which one of you guys jump in on that.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Adam Gaudette<\/p>\n
Gaudette, on how the San Jose Sharks keep going, despite being down:<\/p>\n
Just stick with it. We do the right things, we\u2019re going to get rewarded for it.<\/p>\n
When things don\u2019t go our way, you can\u2019t get too low. And when things are going our way, you can\u2019t get too high, because it can change just like that.<\/p>\n
Gaudette: “We like playing good teams, and we like beating the good teams. Because we’re a good team.”<\/p>\n
\u2014 Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) January 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\nGaudette, on how the team has matured this season:<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not getting down. We don\u2019t get down. We\u2019re not motherfucking each other out there. We come together as a group. We get down, we grab the guy next to us, and we just go right back to work. It\u2019s what good thing good teams do.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Tyler Toffoli<\/p>\n
Toffoli, on the San Jose Sharks\u2019 comeback:<\/p>\n
We definitely stuck with it. And obviously we had a lot of power plays, but I thought we earned all of them and did a really good job of using our speed, holding on to pucks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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