The Ducks (41-32-5) host the Sharks (37-33-7) for the fourth and final regular season meeting between the teams this season.<\/p>\n
Puck drop is set for 7 p.m. PT and will air on KCOP-13 and Victory+.<\/p>\n
Anaheim\u2019s still seeking their first win since late March after falling to the Predators, 5-0, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not the optimal time to be losing games, obviously, in the season,\u201d Alex Killorn said. \u201cWe put ourselves in a pretty good spot and we\u2019re kind of throwing it away a little bit here at the end. But there\u2019s still plenty of games left to get those points back.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t get any offense and our team game didn\u2019t pick up any momentum off it as well, so it kind of stymied us,\u201d head coach Joel Quenneville said. \u201cOur penalty kill, on certain nights, it\u2019s been decent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Heading into tonight, Anaheim is now third in the Pacific Division with 87 points; one point behind Vegas (second) and three points behind Edmonton (first).<\/p>\n
San Jose comes into Honda Center on the second night of a back-to-back after losing to Edmonton, 5-2, last night.<\/p>\n
“Just this time of year, you’ve got to play simple, direct hockey in the offensive zone, especially,” Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky said. “We can’t seem to grasp that consistently enough right now.”<\/p>\n
The Sharks are currently fifth in the division and three points behind the Predators for the final Western Conference wild card spot.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ll be a tough task for the Ducks as they\u2019re a team desperate to keep their playoff aspirations alive. Part of that push has come from the 108-point season from Macklin Celebrini.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s always pressure,\u201d Killorn said. \u201cEspecially when you get to the end of the season, when points are so important, when you can kind of see where you’re gonna finish off. But we have to kind of embrace that.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Anaheim] has been in a position where these games don’t even matter. So I think we have to be confident and show that we’re pretty happy to be in this position and make the most of the last four games.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the Ducks didn\u2019t hold a morning skate today, in Wednesday\u2019s practice, Radko Gudas (lower-body) returned to the ice in a non-contact jersey while Cutter Gauthier remained out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks (41-32-5) host the Sharks (37-33-7) for the fourth and final regular season meeting between the teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780],"class_list":{"0":"post-548929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-sharks","12":"tag-sanjose","13":"tag-sanjosesharks","14":"tag-sharks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116376223343621784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548929","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=548929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}