{"id":450500,"date":"2026-02-07T18:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/450500\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:11:28","slug":"are-sharks-playoff-hopes-fading-after-fourth-straight-loss-vs-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/450500\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Sharks playoff hopes fading after fourth straight loss vs. Avalanche?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\/playoff-hopes-loss-avalanche\/1913383\/?partner=yahoo&amp;cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Are Sharks playoff hopes fading after fourth straight loss vs. Avalanche?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Are Sharks playoff hopes fading after fourth straight loss vs. Avalanche?<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com?cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBC Sports Bay Area;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 \u201cRage, rage against the dying of the light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll light the fire during break, and then we\u2019ll come ready to rage in the second half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Poet Dylan Thomas and new Sharks winger Kiefer Sherwood are of the same mind.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks lost 4-2 at the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday, and go into the Olympic break on a four-game swoon. They\u2019re now five points out of the last wild card berth in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not the defeat itself that was so disappointing\u2014Colorado, after all, is the best team in the NHL\u2014it\u2019s how San Jose lost.<\/p>\n<p>Through two periods, the Sharks were completely outclassed, outshot 31-13, down only 2-0 because of Yaroslav Askarov\u2019s heroics. It was JV versus varsity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4l4mpADVRh5IPCdD2uRw1i\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Download and follow the San Jose Hockey Now podcast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Download and follow the San Jose Hockey Now podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are Sharks playoff hopes fading after fourth straight loss vs. Avalanche? originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,54610,5,6386,4,54609,519,12984,1780,1692,1125],"class_list":{"0":"post-450500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-coloradoavalanche","12":"tag-dylan-thomas","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-kiefer-sherwood","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-rage-against-the-dying-of-the-light","17":"tag-san-jose","18":"tag-san-jose-hockey","19":"tag-sharks","20":"tag-the-sharks","21":"tag-yaroslav-askarov"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116030700425530520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450500","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=450500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}