{"id":33558,"date":"2025-11-01T15:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T15:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/33558\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T15:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T15:33:16","slug":"sharks-recent-competitive-stretch-offers-hope-for-bright-future-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/33558\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks recent competitive stretch offers hope for bright future \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>The Sharks still are learning to win \u2026 but they\u2019re winning while they\u2019re doing it.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a new feeling for the Sharks, after a 5-2 victory over Eastern Conference power New Jersey Devils on Thursday night at SAP Center.<\/p>\n<p>On the positive side, San Jose is playing the most consistently competitive hockey it has in years, perhaps since  David Quinn&#8217;s first season, pre-Timo Meier trade, or the last Bob Boughner campaign.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve played, including the 3-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, seven straight games that they could\u2019ve won. I\u2019m not sure the last time that you could say that in recent franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>Save for the 3-1 defeat to the Devils in New Jersey last week, they\u2019ve been clearly or arguably the better team in the six other contests.<\/p>\n<p>This might be the best two-week stretch of Sharks hockey since 2022-23.<\/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":33559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1035,88,90,89,4054,4055,2105],"class_list":{"0":"post-33558","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-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-headlines","11":"tag-san-jose-news","12":"tag-sharks-analysis","13":"tag-sheng-peng","14":"tag-william-eklund"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33558","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=33558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}