WASHINGTON, D.C. — This isn’t Peter Pan.
But in sports, as in life, the power of belief can carry you a long way.
There is something special going on in the Sharks’ locker room.
Head coach Ryan Warsofsky tried to quantify it last Wednesday, after the Sharks came back in the last minute to stun the Los Angeles Kings 4-3 in OT.
“Sitting with the coaches in there, it’s the first time in my four years, where there’s this emotion in our locker room,” Warsofsky said, touching on when he started as an assistant coach for the Sharks in 2022-23. “It’s hard to even put into words, the feeling that we get after that type of game, that emotional win. But there’s some real good stuff going on right now.”
He added: “Credit to the group that they’ve put in the work. They understand how we want to play. They just stick with it. They don’t give up. But the feeling in that locker room is pretty special.”
Sticking with it, that’s exactly what the Sharks did at the Washington Capitals on Thursday. And that’s what they’ve been doing, against teams good and bad, especially since their incredible comeback win at the Pittsburgh Penguins on Dec. 13. Including their Dec. 11 comeback win at the Toronto Maple Leafs, they’re 10-5-0 in their last 15 games.