{"id":546937,"date":"2026-04-08T06:55:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546937\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:55:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:55:58","slug":"will-smith-scores-to-lead-sharks-past-blackhawks-3-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546937\/","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>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 class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":546938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5807,2617,96,508,800,5,3258,3445,6386,4,292,6614,519,168,5306,5305,1780,488,43,507,801],"class_list":{"0":"post-546937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-alex-nedeljkovic","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","11":"tag-connor-bedard","12":"tag-frank-nazar","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-il-state-wire","15":"tag-illinois","16":"tag-kiefer-sherwood","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-nhl-hockey","19":"tag-ryan-donato","20":"tag-san-jose","21":"tag-san-jose-sharks","22":"tag-sanjose","23":"tag-sanjosesharks","24":"tag-sharks","25":"tag-spencer-knight","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-will-smith","28":"tag-william-eklund"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116367784931620786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546937","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=546937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}