{"id":190812,"date":"2026-02-24T01:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190812\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:40:27","slug":"sharks-share-reactions-to-olympic-gold-medal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190812\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks Share Reactions To Olympic Gold Medal Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026<\/a> now fully in the rearview mirror, the San Jose Sharks are back to business in the NHL.<\/p>\n

The team had a day off on Sunday and watched the game at their various homes. Sharks forward Will Smith told SHD that he watched the game from his bed. Sharks defenseman Sam Dickinson was wide awake for the 5 a.m. PT start and watched from his couch.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was up at 5 a.m. and watched the whole thing. That\u2019s one of those games that I would have woken up at any time to watch, and I\u2019m happy I did,\u201d Dickinson said. [It] sucks to walk away with the silver medal [for Canada]. It was a pretty special tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith, who played for Team USA at the 2025 IIHF World Championship<\/a>, said he didn\u2019t care who scored the game-winning overtime goal for the Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone to score would have been awesome,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI\u2019ve met a bunch of those guys over the years, some are from Boston, so just rooting for all of them. It was such a cool game.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was some controversy over the Gold Medal game ending in 3-on-3 overtime rather than 5-on-5. Smith and Team USA experienced that during the championship game at Worlds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of people have mixed opinions about it. Three-on-three is exciting, has a lot of offense, but it\u2019s definitely tough when you\u2019re on the losing side of it,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it should be four-on-four or something. It\u2019s up to them and the Olympic Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n

San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky<\/a>, who coached Team USA at Worlds, shared his thoughts on the overtime format.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou wish, in that type of atmosphere, in a gold medal game, you would like to play five-on-five. That is my opinion. The rule is a rule. I don\u2019t know if you can complain about it when you\u2019ve won the semifinal game three-on-three format, but I get where [Jon Cooper<\/a> is] coming from for sure, but that is the rule,\u201d Warsofsky said. \u201cIt does change the game a little bit, and it comes down to a flip of a coin and some luck. But [Canada] also had probably the three greatest players in today\u2019s game out there as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dickinson was able to enjoy the game fully. Like the rest of the hockey world, the San Jose Sharks defenseman was able to forget he was in the NHL and watched as a pure fan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of those games where I don\u2019t feel like a hockey player anymore. I feel like a fan,\u201d Dickinson said. \u201cWhen [Cale Makar] scored that one, I jumped up off my couch and was fist-pumping and walking around by myself in my place at six in the morning. I felt like a kid watching the game, just a fan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander Wennberg<\/a> and Philipp Kurashev<\/a> rejoined the San Jose Sharks at practice on Monday. Pavol Regenda<\/a> is stuck in New York during the snowstorm. Macklin Celebrini<\/a> was diverted to Miami and will be back with the team quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 now fully in the rearview mirror, the San Jose Sharks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[85970,86968,1036,1037,88,90,89,98,755,42303,42304,3578,8629],"class_list":{"0":"post-190812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-gold-medal-game","9":"tag-olympic-winter-games-milano-cortina-2026","10":"tag-ryan-warsofsky","11":"tag-sam-dickinson","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-headlines","14":"tag-san-jose-news","15":"tag-san-jose-sharks","16":"tag-sj-sharks","17":"tag-team-canada","18":"tag-team-usa","19":"tag-will-smith","20":"tag-will-smith-hockey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}