CHICAGO \u2014 It was a dream season for Pavol Regenda\u2026.until it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
On Dec. 30, Regenda was recalled from the San Jose Barracuda, and went on a goal-scoring binge for the San Jose Sharks, scoring eight goals in his first 13 games up.<\/p>\n
It looked like the 26-year-old, after bouncing around from AHL to NHL the last four years, might have discovered an everyday role in the best league in the world, as a bottom-six crash-and-bang winger and net front power play specialist.<\/p>\n
Regenda followed this up at the Olympics, starring for a Slovakia side that surprised by reaching a medal game, losing the bronze to Finland. Regenda posted three goals and five points in six games.<\/p>\n
Since the Olympics, however, Regenda has come back to a San Jose Sharks squad that\u2019s deeper at wing. Consequently, the 6-foot-3 winger has appeared in just seven games since the Olympics, notching one goal, getting healthy scratched for 19 other contests.<\/p>\n
San Jose Hockey Now caught up with Regenda in Nashville, where the pending UFA aired out his unhappiness with his playing time, what he\u2019s looking for as a free agent, how he wants to change his body this summer, and discussed his popularity with the fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 It was a dream season for Pavol Regenda\u2026.until it wasn\u2019t. On Dec. 30, Regenda was recalled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,10012,44531,12863,1036,88,90,89,98,4254,63987],"class_list":["post-271293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-featured","tag-olympics","tag-pavol-regenda","tag-philipp-kurashev","tag-ryan-warsofsky","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sjhn","tag-slovakia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271293","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=271293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}