{"id":542819,"date":"2026-04-05T22:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542819\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:42:57","slug":"another-loss-to-predators-might-be-difference-for-sharks-in-wild-card-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542819\/","title":{"rendered":"Another loss to Predators might be difference for Sharks in wild-card race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\/loss-predators-wild-card-race\/1928735\/?partner=yahoo&amp;cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Another loss to Predators might be difference for Sharks in wild-card 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;Another loss to Predators might be difference for Sharks in wild-card race&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Another loss to Predators might be difference for Sharks in wild-card 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>The Sharks will figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe not this year?<\/p>\n<p>San Jose lost 6-3 to the Nashville Predators again on Saturday, repeating the same score from their Mar. 24 defeat at Bridgestone Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks now are two points behind Nashville for the final Western Conference wild-card spot, with two teams to leapfrog. They do have a game in hand on both the Preds and Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n<p>These losses to Nashville \u2014 tonight was Team Teal\u2019s 15th straight to the Predators, dating back to Nov. 2019 \u2014 ultimately might be the difference between the playoffs or not.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the Sharks\u2019 youth struggled in the playoff-like atmosphere tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMentally, you gotta be ready. Number one,\u201d Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky said, alluding to falling behind 3-0 in the first period. \u201cAnd two, physically, you got to be ready. You got to be physical. You got to get into people. You can\u2019t play at the end of your stick. And we had some guys playing at the end of their stick tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Will Smith, for example, had difficulty with the puck and pace, and was just swallowed up at times by an aggressive Predators PK: He\u2019s also just 21 and has a history of clutch performances on the biggest stages. He\u2019ll be fine.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another loss to Predators might be difference for Sharks in wild-card race originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[2416,5,145,2409,231,5281,4,2410,519,12984,1780,1692,507],"class_list":{"0":"post-542819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-bridgestone-arena","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-los-angeles-kings","11":"tag-nashville","12":"tag-nashville-predators","13":"tag-nashvillepredators","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-predators","16":"tag-san-jose","17":"tag-san-jose-hockey","18":"tag-sharks","19":"tag-the-sharks","20":"tag-will-smith"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116354521973349223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542819","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=542819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}