{"id":476869,"date":"2026-02-28T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/476869\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:19:11","slug":"scouts-warsofsky-explain-benching-smith-what-other-sharks-did-wrong-on-line-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/476869\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouts &#038; Warsofsky Explain Benching Smith, What Other Sharks Did Wrong on Line Change (+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did Ryan Warsofsky bench Will Smith on the late 6-on-5 in the San Jose Sharks\u2019 4-1 loss to the Calgary Flames?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeaching moment for sure,\u201d Scout #1 opined.<\/p>\n<p>Warsofsky didn\u2019t offer much explanation after the game but went into more detail on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t just about the Smith line change that played a part in the Connor Zary goal that made it 2-1.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Connor Zary<br \/>2-1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Flames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Flames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PKnOr8zTWc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PKnOr8zTWc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JD Young (@MyFryHole) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyFryHole\/status\/2027248682756890642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two NHL scouts and hockey tactics guru <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JhanHky\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jack Han<\/a> shared their thoughts about the sequence.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why did Ryan Warsofsky bench Will Smith on the late 6-on-5 in the San Jose Sharks\u2019 4-1 loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5127],"tags":[26,5669,58,5,39977,691,6386,55510,4,46451,748,519,168,5306,5305,3893,1780,169,7796,507,1125],"class_list":{"0":"post-476869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-calgary-flames","9":"tag-connor-zary","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-jack-han","13":"tag-john-klingberg","14":"tag-kiefer-sherwood","15":"tag-line-change","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-puck-battles","18":"tag-ryan-warsofsky","19":"tag-san-jose","20":"tag-san-jose-sharks","21":"tag-sanjose","22":"tag-sanjosesharks","23":"tag-scouts","24":"tag-sharks","25":"tag-sjhn","26":"tag-stathletes","27":"tag-will-smith","28":"tag-yaroslav-askarov"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116147753031678557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476869","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=476869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}