{"id":399377,"date":"2026-07-15T14:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399377\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:24:34","slug":"san-jose-sharks-face-florida-panthers-in-first-home-game-of-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399377\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks face Florida Panthers in first home game of 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2013 The first home game of the San Jose Sharks\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/49356690\/nhl-27-cover-athlete-macklin-celebrini-sidney-crosby-lebron-james-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> eagerly anticipated 2026-27 season<\/a> will be on Oct. 1 against<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/nhl-home-openers-for-2026-27-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the Florida Panthers,<\/a> the NHL announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks also travel to face the St. Louis on Oct. 8, as the league announced home openers for all 32 teams.<\/p>\n<p>The full regular season schedule for all teams will be released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks haven\u2019t won a home opener since the start of the 2021-22 season when they beat the Winnipeg Jets 4-3. Since then, the Sharks are 0-2-2 in home openers, including a 4-3 overtime loss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/27766538\/how-sharks-vs-golden-knights-became-hockey-hottest-rivalry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to the Vegas Golden<\/a> Knights last October.<\/p>\n<p>Behind a 115-point season from Macklin Celebrni, the Sharks finished last season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/teams\/SJS\/2026_games.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with a 39-35-8 record<\/a> for 86 points, a 34-point improvement over the year before. The Sharks, behind a revamped defense and a bolstered forward group, hope to advance to the playoffs this season for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks signed veteran Jacob Trouba to a four-year deal on July 1 and acquired Darnell Nurse and Michael Kesselring via trade, bringing in three defensemen they hope can fit into their top two pairs.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks also signed winger Mason Marchment and anticipate having No. 2 overall draft pick Ivar Stenberg on the roster to start the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 The first home game of the San Jose Sharks\u2019 eagerly anticipated 2026-27 season will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[404,88,90,89,98,127],"class_list":["post-399377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399377","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=399377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}