March 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\nThe San Jose Sharks \u2014 all NHL players, really \u2014 know this simple concept for winning hockey games. But the young Sharks are still working on their execution, at a high pace, of this concept. That\u2019s what the better teams do more consistently than San Jose.<\/p>\n
Wennberg, of course, wouldn\u2019t have necessarily stopped this Kleven goal by himself. But the 31-year-old veteran \u2014 a surprise first scratch of the season on Sunday, after suffering an upper-body injury at the Montreal Canadiens yesterday \u2014 plays perhaps the most patient and calmest game on the Sharks. He\u2019s someone that head coach Ryan Warsofsky has called \u201can eraser\u201d defensively.<\/p>\n
Hockey, the clich\u00e9 goes, is a game of mistakes. It\u2019s how you react to those mistakes, that often determines if you win or lose.<\/p>\n
This is where the veteran Wennberg excels.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t pinning tonight\u2019s loss on Graf, by the way. There\u2019s plenty of blame to go around when you surrender seven goals. And this isn\u2019t to say that San Jose would\u2019ve won tonight with Wennberg.<\/p>\n
But a Wennberg-like poise, on both sides of the puck, was clearly missing for the Sharks in a sloppy defeat.<\/p>\n
Collin Graf<\/p>\n
Laurent Brossoit<\/p>\n
Brossoit, on his first NHL game since 2024:<\/p>\n
Bittersweet, but during it, it was pretty surreal, it\u2019s been a long time coming, and more grateful and appreciate being out there than I ever have.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ryan Warsofsky<\/p>\n
Warsofsky, on the absence of Wennberg:<\/p>\n
I thought [Philipp Kurashev] did a good job stepping in there, but let\u2019s be honest, Wenny is one of our best players. So anytime you lose one of your best players, you suffer a little bit.<\/p>\n
Warsofsky, on what the San Jose Sharks can be better at against the Oilers on Tuedsay:<\/p>\n
Breaking out pucks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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