{"id":545710,"date":"2026-04-07T15:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545710\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:13:10","slug":"will-smith-scores-to-lead-sharks-past-blackhawks-3-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545710\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith scores to lead Sharks past Blackhawks 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \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 Tuesday night.<\/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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>William Eklund had a goal and 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>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl;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;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/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. (AP) \u2014 Will Smith earned his 100th NHL point with a third-period goal, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[5807,521,29,37,96,5263,845,508,146,800,5,6386,501,4,6614,168,488,1692,507,801],"class_list":{"0":"post-545710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-alex-nedeljkovic","9":"tag-blackhawks","10":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","13":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","14":"tag-collin-graf","15":"tag-connor-bedard","16":"tag-edmonton-oilers","17":"tag-frank-nazar","18":"tag-hockey","19":"tag-kiefer-sherwood","20":"tag-macklin-celebrini","21":"tag-nhl","22":"tag-ryan-donato","23":"tag-san-jose-sharks","24":"tag-spencer-knight","25":"tag-the-sharks","26":"tag-will-smith","27":"tag-william-eklund"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545710","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=545710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}