{"id":268279,"date":"2026-04-15T01:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268279\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:38:19","slug":"next-season-cant-come-soon-enough-for-now-eliminated-sharks-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/268279\/","title":{"rendered":"Next season can\u2019t come soon enough for now-eliminated Sharks \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\/eliminated-playoff-contention-loss-kings\/1930897\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\/eliminated-playoff-contention-loss-kings\/1930897\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharks are out of the playoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But they\u2019re still playing for each other.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose played its best game in a week, blowing up the Nashville Predators\u2019 postseason hopes in the process, in a 3-2 victory. The Los Angeles Kings have clinched the last wild-card spot in the West.<\/p>\n<p>This is San Jose\u2019s first victory over Nashville since Nov. 2019, snapping a 15-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great feeling when you win, when you play like that,\u201d Alex Nedeljkovic said, \u201cyou play for each other, play hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks played a game that they could be proud of, for the first time in a week, outchancing and holding the Predators to just 27 shots.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE \u2014 The Sharks are out of the playoffs. But they\u2019re still playing for each other. San Jose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,4054],"class_list":["post-268279","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-sharks-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268279","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=268279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}