{"id":209736,"date":"2026-03-08T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209736\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:56:10","slug":"sharks-locker-room-sherwood-wills-san-jose-to-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209736\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks Locker Room: Sherwood Wills San Jose to Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still not sure why Mike Grier traded a pair of second-round picks for Kiefer Sherwood?<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Sherwood reminded us, scoring the game-winner and producing that rare highlight-reel puck battle assist, leading the San Jose Sharks to a 7-5 victory over the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s fine if they flip Sherwood, but stop the slander. What an effort. \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SJSharks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SJSharks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c9LrUUW2Mj\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/c9LrUUW2Mj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SnipeCity420 \uea00 (@SnipeCity420) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SnipeCity420\/status\/2029056100339999103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still not sure why Grier re-signed the 30-year-old winger to a five-year, $28.75 million contract?<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Sherwood reminded us, not only scoring the game-tying goal, in a disappointing 3-2 OT loss to the St. Louis Blues, but giving a flat San Jose Sharks squad a jolt of energy all night, be it by scoring, his eight hits, or keeping puck after puck alive on the forecheck.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"nl\" dir=\"ltr\">CHIEF KIEF \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YT3AE5Xdio\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/YT3AE5Xdio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sharks on NBCS (@NBCSSharks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSSharks\/status\/2030152513832505507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was really good. He\u2019s a competitive kid. He\u2019s a warrior,\u201d San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky said. \u201cThe desperation, in the way he plays every shift. It\u2019s like his last. I think a lot of our guys could take a lot from that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even his cellys hit different.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now that&#8217;s a celebration.\ud83d\ude0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0oIZV0J5CO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/0oIZV0J5CO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SanJoseSharks\/status\/2030153326835454115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sherwood\u2019s impact wasn\u2019t limited to on the ice, either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can feel it on the bench. You can see it, the way he\u2019s vocal,\u201d Warsofsky said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no exaggeration to say Sherwood willed the Sharks to point, on a night they should\u2019ve steamrolled a Blues squad that dressed 13 forwards and five defensemen after dealing captain Brayden Schenn and top-four blueliner Justin Faulk before Friday\u2019s Trade Deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe drags guys into the fight\u201d is a hockey clich\u00e9, not always easy to explain. But Sherwood\u2019s performance tonight was the textbook definition of that, and proof positive why players like him are special and essential to winning.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Warsofsky<\/p>\n<p>Warsofsky, on what else he needs to see from Will Smith, besides better puck management:<\/p>\n<p>Just overall skating and getting on pucks.<\/p>\n<p>Will Smith<\/p>\n<p>Kiefer Sherwood<\/p>\n<p>Sherwood, on what the San Jose Sharks did better in the third period, when they held the Blues to one shot, as opposed to earlier in the game:<\/p>\n<p>Probably just simplify or execute a little bit on the breakouts, probably gave us a little bit more possession. Skating into pucks a little bit\u2026I think we gotta do a better job of keeping the puck away from [Jordan Binnington] so we can hammer their D a little bit. Obviously, they only had five in this game, so I think after a while, we were starting to get our forecheck working and get pucks back and let our plays develop from there.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Ferraro<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Still not sure why Mike Grier traded a pair of second-round picks for Kiefer Sherwood? 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