{"id":249628,"date":"2026-04-03T05:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249628\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:26:06","slug":"san-jose-sharks-win-4th-straight-to-improve-playoff-hopes-beating-the-toronto-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249628\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks win 4th straight to improve playoff hopes, beating the Toronto Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Zack Ostapchuk scored his first goal in nearly three months and the San Jose Sharks beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 on Thursday night for their fourth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The loss officially eliminated the Maple Leafs from playoff contention for the first time since 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Collin Graf, William Eklund and Adam Gaudette also scored and Alex Nedeljkovic made 18 saves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">San Jose, which had the worst record in the NHL last season, is fighting for a wild-card spot in the crowded Western Conference. The Sharks haven\u2019t made the playoffs since 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sharks star Macklin Celebrini, who had nine points in his previous three games, was scoreless on three shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">John Tavares scored a power-play goal for Toronto. The Maple Leafs have lost two of three on a four-game trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Maple Leafs: At Los Angeles on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sharks: Host Nashville on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Michael Wagaman, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Zack Ostapchuk scored his first goal in nearly three months and the San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,127],"class_list":["post-249628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249628","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=249628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}