{"id":509036,"date":"2026-03-18T04:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/509036\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:55:12","slug":"san-jose-sharks-doomed-by-mistakes-in-loss-to-edmonton-oilers-zach-hyman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/509036\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks doomed by mistakes in loss to Edmonton Oilers, Zach Hyman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Jose Sharks missed an opportunity Tuesday to finish a cross-continent road trip<\/a> on a positive note and make up some ground in their bid for a playoff spot.<\/a><\/p>\n

After rallying to tie the game in the second period, the Sharks allowed net front goals to Max Jones and Zach Hyman in the first 8:12 of the third period in a 5-3 loss to the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> at Rogers Place.<\/p>\n

Jones\u2019 go-ahead goal came 4:49 into the first period as he got position on Sharks defenseman John Klingberg, picked up a rebound, and tucked a shot past goalie Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a> for his second goal of the season.<\/p>\n

Hyman then scored his 29th goal of the season off another rebound. Nedeljkovic stopped a shot from the point by Matt Savoie, only to see Hyman collect the loose puck and backhand the shot for an insurance goal at the 8:12 mark.<\/p>\n

The Sharks were unable to respond, finishing a five-game road trip with a 2-3-0 record.<\/a> Stuck on 70 points, the Sharks are now six points behind the Vegas Golden Knights for third place in the Pacific Division, and also remain one point behind the Seattle Kraken for the Western Conference\u2019s second wild card spot. Both the Golden Knights and Kraken played late Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Nedeljkovic finished with 32 saves, and Dmitry Orlov, Pavol Regenda, and Kiefer Sherwood all scored for the Sharks (32-28-6), who return home to face the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday and the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The goals from Regenda and Sherwood in the second period tied the game after the Sharks trailed 3-1.<\/p>\n

Regenda\u2019s goal came after a Sharks forecheck as Adam Gaudette fished a puck out of the corner to the right of the Oilers net and got it back to the point. Mario Ferraro fired the puck at the net, and Regenda was able to tip it past Edmonton goalie Connor Ingram at the 8:17 mark to cut the Oilers\u2019 lead to one.<\/p>\n

Just over six minutes later, Sherwood capitalized on some Oilers bad luck, as a rim around the boards by Darnell Nurse wound up past both Adam Henrique and Connor Murphy at the blue line. Sherwood picked up the loose puck in the offensive zone and beat Ingram low to the blocker side for his 21st goal of the season and his fourth in eight games.<\/p>\n

In the first period, with the Sharks leading 1-0 on Orlov\u2019s goal, the Oilers responded with goals from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Connor Murphy, and Vasily Podkolzin in a span of 4:18 to take a two-goal lead.<\/p>\n

The Sharks seemed to get a bit of a break, both in the short term and the big picture, with Tuesday\u2019s announcement by the Oilers that center Leon Draisaitl would miss the rest of the NHL regular season because of a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n

Draisaitl was injured in the Oilers\u2019 game against the Nashville Predators on Sunday on a hit by Ozzy Wiesblatt, the Sharks\u2019 2020 first-round draft pick, during the first period. Draisaitl, the NHL\u2019s fourth-leading scorer with 97 points, did not return.<\/p>\n

Draisaitl has 43 points in 38 career games against the Sharks, including four points in two games earlier this season.<\/p>\n

Nedeljkovic has been the Sharks\u2019 best goaltender in recent weeks, owning, since early January, a 8-1-1 record and a .924 save percentage in his last 10 decisions before Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Alexander Wennberg, who assisted on Orlov\u2019s goal, returned to the Sharks\u2019 lineup after he missed Sunday\u2019s game against the Ottawa Senators with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks missed an opportunity Tuesday to finish a cross-continent road trip on a positive note…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[2617,27663,198,146,5300,5,4,27664,24,168,2618,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-509036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-central-coast","10":"tag-edmonton","11":"tag-edmonton-oilers","12":"tag-edmontonoilers","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-northern-california","16":"tag-oilers","17":"tag-san-jose-sharks","18":"tag-santa-clara-county","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116248400712526169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509036","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=509036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}