{"id":240678,"date":"2026-03-28T10:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240678\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T10:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:44:26","slug":"how-sharks-ultimately-will-benefit-from-current-losing-streak-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240678\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sharks ultimately will benefit from current losing streak \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note:\u00a0Sheng Peng is a regular contributor to NBC Sports California\u2019s Sharks coverage. You can read more of his coverage on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Jose Hockey Now<\/a>, listen to him on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/category\/san-jose-hockey-now-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Jose Hockey Now Podcast<\/a>, and follow him on Twitter at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sheng_Peng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@Sheng_Peng<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>ST. LOUIS \u2014 The San Jose Sharks, I think, will ultimately benefit from this losing streak that\u2019s likely extinguished their playoff hopes this season.<\/p>\n<p>On Mar. 14, after a 4-2 victory at the Montreal Canadiens, San Jose held the last wild card spot in the West.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve days later, after their sixth-straight loss, a 2-1 OT defeat at the St. Louis Blues, the Sharks are six points out, four teams to leapfrog.<\/p>\n<p>There have been lots of hard lessons over these last 12 days.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night?<\/p>\n<p>The obvious lesson, you can\u2019t let up, which is what Macklin Celebrini (71), perhaps unintentionally, did on the Dylan Holloway (81) last-second OT goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to come back harder. I just misjudged it, and he scored. It\u2019s frustrating,\u201d Celebrini admitted. \u201cI was trying to come back, be patient, for maybe a late guy [coming from behind]. I didn\u2019t know he was gonna cut in the middle there, and I also didn\u2019t feel like there was that much time left. I should have been there for the guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4l4mpADVRh5IPCdD2uRw1i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the San Jose Hockey Now podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s note:\u00a0Sheng Peng is a regular contributor to NBC Sports California\u2019s Sharks coverage. You can read more of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1035,1036,88,90,89,4054],"class_list":{"0":"post-240678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-macklin-celebrini","9":"tag-ryan-warsofsky","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose-news","13":"tag-sharks-analysis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240678","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=240678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}