{"id":250702,"date":"2026-04-03T23:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250702\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:08:17","slug":"sharks-enjoying-heated-rivalry-buzz-ahead-of-pride-night-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250702\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks enjoying \u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019 buzz ahead of Pride Night \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>\u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d has brought a lot of new fans to hockey, and the Sharks are happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>The critically acclaimed Crave streaming hit on HBO Max in the United States is arguably the sport\u2019s biggest pop culture moment in the States since 1992\u2019s &#8220;The Mighty Ducks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d is the story of Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, hockey stars who play for rival pro teams, whose secret sexual relationship blooms into a deep love over the course of their careers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterest in hockey has spiked because of the TV show,\u201d Alex Wennberg said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, it\u2019s been a topic around the league,\u201d John Klingberg said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I\u2019m scrolling late night on TikTok,\u201d Tyler Toffoli said, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people [saying] it brought them to the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like people have gotten into hockey just because of that show, I can see it online,\u201d Adam Gaudette said. \u201cPeople are trying to learn the rules and what\u2019s going on in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople love the show,\u201d Zack Ostapchuk said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great that more and more people are being introduced to hockey and getting into it,\u201d Sam Dickinson said.<\/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":250703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,4054,4174,22066],"class_list":{"0":"post-250702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news","11":"tag-sharks-analysis","12":"tag-sharks-news","13":"tag-sharks-reaction"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250702","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=250702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}