{"id":557857,"date":"2026-04-22T10:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557857\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:27:27","slug":"zack-ostapchuk-making-himself-super-important-to-sharks-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557857\/","title":{"rendered":"Zack Ostapchuk Making Himself &#8220;Super Important&#8221; to Sharks&#8217; Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The contributions of fourth-line forwards often go under the radar. They rarely show up on the scoresheet, but their hard work and determination earn the respect of their teammates and players around the league. <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/players\/8914\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Zack Ostapchuk;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Zack Ostapchuk&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zack Ostapchuk<\/a> may not have started the season in the NHL with the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/teams\/san-jose\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Jose Sharks;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Jose Sharks&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a>, but he proved his value to the team when he earned his opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The contributions of fourth-line forwards often go under the radar. They rarely show up on the scoresheet, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[21279,5,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-557857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-contributions","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-sharks","13":"tag-sanjose","14":"tag-sanjosesharks","15":"tag-sharks","16":"tag-zack-ostapchuk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116447886974648687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557857","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=557857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}