San Jose is coming out the other side of a complete rebuild and has changed its mindset as the season has gone on. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s probably the biggest thing we transitioned in our season,\u201d Warsofsky said. \u201cWe\u2019ve gone from having a chance to now going into games with the expectation to win them and to also carry the play and carry the momentum for longer stretches. I think we\u2019ve done a really good job of that since the beginning of the year and it\u2019s probably where we have grown the most.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Though the Sharks have an eye on a playoff spot, the journey to this point has been a valuable experience for a young roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n
San Jose is hoping as Celebrini continues to develop as a star forward, it will become a Stanley Cup contender.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s super important to go through this and what we\u2019re going through and the ups and downs of hockey at this time of year,\u201d Warsofsky said. \u201cIt\u2019s important to learn from it and learn lessons as we go and also not take it for granted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t know when you\u2019re going to be in this position again. Sometimes it takes years, obviously you hope that it\u2019s not. You learn a lesson the other night in Ottawa on a back-to-back and tough travel and that situation, you really have to get ready and grind one out and get some points. We didn\u2019t do it and hopefully we learned our lesson, but it\u2019s very valuable for our team to go through this for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last season, the Sharks finished last in the Western Conference, 44 points out of the final playoff spot. They were just playing out the string at this time a year ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is super-exciting, it\u2019s definitely different than last year when we were kind of out of the race at this point,\u201d forward Will Smith said. \u201cSo being able to be in it, it\u2019s a lot more fun. It\u2019s definitely growing every year. This only my second year and being able to be in this type of playoff race is definitely a big step for last year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose is coming out the other side of a complete rebuild and has changed its mindset as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-546997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}