{"id":545003,"date":"2026-04-07T05:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545003\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:46:12","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-lose-3-2-to-the-san-jose-sharks-on-will-smiths-100th-nhl-point-chicago-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545003\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks lose 3-2 to the San Jose Sharks on Will Smith\u2019s 100th NHL point \u2013 Chicago Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 Will Smith earned his 100th NHL point with a third-period goal, and the San Jose Sharks beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Smith scored the winning goal on a wrist shot 3:28 into the third, assisted by Collin Graf and Macklin Celebrini, putting the Sharks on top 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>William Eklund had a goal and an assist, and Kiefer Sherwood also scored for the Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Donato and Frank Nazar each scored for the Blackhawks.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Bedard earned his 200th career point with an assist on Donato\u2019s first-period goal. Bedard has four assists in his last three games.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 27 shots in the win for the Sharks. Spencer Knight had 20 saves for the Blackhawks.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks won 69.2% of the faceoffs in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Blackhawks: Host the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sharks: Host the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 Will Smith earned his 100th NHL point with a third-period goal, and the San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5127],"tags":[96,508,5,4,292,519,168,5306,5305,1780,507],"class_list":{"0":"post-545003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","9":"tag-connor-bedard","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-hockey","13":"tag-san-jose","14":"tag-san-jose-sharks","15":"tag-sanjose","16":"tag-sanjosesharks","17":"tag-sharks","18":"tag-will-smith"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116361847401014762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545003","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=545003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}