{"id":539061,"date":"2026-04-03T20:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539061\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:17:31","slug":"back-in-it-how-sharks-fourth-consecutive-win-impacts-tight-nhl-playoff-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539061\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in it: How Sharks&#8217; fourth consecutive win impacts tight NHL playoff race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\/nhl-playoff-race-macklin-celebrini-analysis\/1928419\/?partner=yahoo&amp;cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Back in it: How Sharks&#039; fourth consecutive win impacts tight NHL playoff race;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Back in it&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Back in it: How Sharks&#8217; fourth consecutive win impacts tight NHL playoff race<\/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\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NBC Sports Bay Area&quot;}\" class=\"link \">NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s note:\u00a0Sheng Peng is a regular contributor to NBC Sports California\u2019s Sharks coverage. You can read more of his coverage on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Jose Hockey Now;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Jose Hockey Now&quot;}\" class=\"link \">San Jose Hockey Now<\/a>, listen to him on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/category\/san-jose-hockey-now-podcast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Jose Hockey Now Podcast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Jose Hockey Now Podcast&quot;}\" class=\"link \">San Jose Hockey Now Podcast<\/a>, and follow him on Twitter at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sheng_Peng\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@Sheng_Peng;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@Sheng_Peng&quot;}\" class=\"link \">@Sheng_Peng<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Sharks are back in a playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s their first time since Mar. 14, after a 4-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs, their fourth-straight win.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks are now tied with the Nashville Predators with 79 points, but San Jose has a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>There are two ways that I look at this triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Credit, of course, to the San Jose Sharks for how they manhandled a sleepy Maple Leafs squad, clearly playing out the string. Toronto looked like a team that had just fired their GM and were playing for a potential lame duck coach. At times, in a clear role reversal from recent history, Team Teal was varsity and the Blue and White was JV.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This also, however, felt like a learning lesson for the Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>This was a game, honestly, that should\u2019ve never been in question late, and was, until Adam Gaudette potted an empty netter. The Leafs looked that zonked out. This was a game that a superior opponent, after San Jose took a 2-0 first-period lead, could\u2019ve come back from.<\/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\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Download and follow the San Jose Hockey Now podcast&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Download and follow the San Jose Hockey Now podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in it: How Sharks&#8217; fourth consecutive win impacts tight NHL playoff race originally appeared on NBC Sports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[2806,5,231,4,519,12984,168,5306,5305,1780,1692,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-539061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-adam-gaudette","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nashville-predators","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-hockey","14":"tag-san-jose-sharks","15":"tag-sanjose","16":"tag-sanjosesharks","17":"tag-sharks","18":"tag-the-sharks","19":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116342623716957711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539061","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=539061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}