{"id":677269,"date":"2026-10-03T01:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T01:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/677269\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T01:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T01:09:20","slug":"newest-sharks-talk-impact-of-a-loud-sap-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/677269\/","title":{"rendered":"Newest Sharks Talk Impact Of A Loud SAP Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Jose Sharks opened their 2026-27 season with a bang against the Florida Panthers<\/a> and SAP Center<\/a> brought the noise.<\/p>\n

Many players who have played at least one season with the Sharks said Thursday\u2019s crowd was the loudest they\u2019ve ever heard. But the veteran players GM Mike Grier<\/a> brought in over the offseason noticed a difference from when they were opponents.<\/p>\n

100% there was a difference. Since I was a kid, that was the loudest I\u2019ve heard it,\u201d Mason Marchment<\/a> said. \u201cGrowing up, people always said the Shark Tank was one of the hardest rinks to come in and play in. The fans are so loud, it feels like they\u2019re right on top of you, and you definitely felt that last night. It was really nice to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right from warmups, San Jose Sharks fans were louder than they\u2019ve been in recent years. While home openers are always sold out, the buzz inside<\/a> the tank was noticeably different.<\/p>\n

Head coach Ryan Warsofsky<\/a> got a massive cheer from the crowd when he was introduced. Instead of a calm wave, the Sharks coach threw his fist in the air almost as if he was cheering with them. But that\u2019s not why Warsofsky did that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all want to reward our fans. This has been tough. [I\u2019m] going into my fifth year. There were some tough years before we\u2019ve gotten to this point, and they\u2019ve stuck with us,\u201d Warsofsky said. \u201cYou could feel the energy coming into the rink, and you could just feel the atmosphere before the players were announced. I thought that was great. That was the first time I\u2019ve witnessed it that loud, and we want to keep that going. It was more thanks for being behind us, and we\u2019re gonna keep putting a product on the ice that [fans] are proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Darnell Nurse<\/a> played against the Sharks for years while he was with the Edmonton Oilers<\/a>. He\u2019s now had the crowd totally against him and now totally behind him. Like Marchment, Nurse has acknowledged that playing at the SAP Center at its peak was one of the hardest things to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could feel it from the start of the game. Hits, good checking, goals, chances, you feel the building and the crowd on top of you,\u201d Nurse told SHD exclusively. \u201cAs the home team, it was a lot of fun. You could feel a lot of support. You fed off the energy, so hopefully [the fans] keep that going all year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Nurse and Marchment got to skate through the giant Shark head for the first time in the regular season last night. For Marchment, it was a full-circle moment after he grew up in San Jose.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a cool, cool moment. One I\u2019ll definitely remember for a long time,\u201d Marchment said.<\/p>\n

Nurse doesn\u2019t have that sort of connection to San Jose like his new teammate, but the Shark head left an impression on his son.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was awesome. My kids love the shark head,\u201d Nurse said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re coming out as a player, it\u2019s kind of just a dome. The kids were all fired up about it. The jerseys were great too, so it was cool. It was just a cool experience all around.\u201d<\/p>\n

The San Jose Sharks will wear their Cali-Fin jerseys for the first time on Saturday against the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks opened their 2026-27 season with a bang against the Florida Panthers and SAP Center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[1809,57,5,862,4,748,519,168,5306,5305,4230,1780,45023,24660],"class_list":["post-677269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose-sharks","tag-darnell-nurse","tag-florida-panthers","tag-hockey","tag-mason-marchment","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-warsofsky","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sanjose","tag-sanjosesharks","tag-sap-center","tag-sharks","tag-sharks-fans","tag-sj-sharks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117374311702310266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677269","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=677269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}