{"id":433650,"date":"2026-01-29T03:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/433650\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T03:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:30:48","slug":"sharks-make-franchise-history-with-hot-start-vs-canucks-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/433650\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks make franchise history with hot start vs. Canucks \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The future present is so teal.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks have set another franchise record amid a 2025-26 NHL season when they have blown seemingly every expectation out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>Despite giving up an early goal on Tuesday in Vancouver, San Jose responded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/game\/_\/gameId\/401803189\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scoring three unanswered goals<\/a> in just over four minutes to take a 3-1 lead over the Canucks at Rogers Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Needing only five minutes and 55 seconds, the Sharks eclipsed their previous franchise record for fastest three goals to start a game &#8212; by just one second.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tyler Toffoli adds on to the lead with his 15th goal of the season, now 3-1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SJSharks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SJSharks<\/a> just 5:55 into the contest. It\u2019s the fastest three goals from the start of a game in Sharks history, beating the previous fastest (March 29, 1994) by one second.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Jose Sharks PR (@SanJoseSharksPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SanJoseSharksPR\/status\/2016350844694958379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/celebma01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver native Macklin Celebrini<\/a> opened the scoring off a pinpoint assist by Will Smith, then the 19-year-old superstar intercepted a pass to set up the second goal via Adam Gaudette &#8212; a former Canuck &#8212; soon after. Finally, Tyler Toffoli &#8212; another ex-Canuck &#8212; made it three in the first six minutes, swiftly knocking Vancouver starting goalie Kevin Lankinen out of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about a quick, deadly shark bite.<\/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":"The future present is so teal. The Sharks have set another franchise record amid a 2025-26 NHL season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,501,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780,507],"class_list":{"0":"post-433650","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-macklin-celebrini","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-sharks","13":"tag-sanjose","14":"tag-sanjosesharks","15":"tag-sharks","16":"tag-will-smith"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115976279586214430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433650","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=433650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}