{"id":483963,"date":"2026-10-03T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483963\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:28:08","slug":"san-jose-sharks-face-los-angeles-kings-looking-for-second-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483963\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks face Los Angeles Kings looking for second straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2013 Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky had a message for his group Friday as they met just 12 or so hours after one of the most emotional<\/a> season-opening games in recent team history.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to move on.<\/p>\n

The Sharks earned an electric 4-3 win<\/a> over the Florida Panthers on Thursday, with defenseman Luca Cagnoni\u2019s goal at the 3:14 mark of overtime sending a raucous sold-out crowd at SAP Center \u2014 reminiscent of the team\u2019s glory days<\/a> \u2014 into hysterics, as San Jose won its first season-opening game since 2021.<\/p>\n

But the Sharks\u2019 home game<\/a> against rival Los Angeles Kings on Saturday matters just as much, especially since they\u2019ll be playing eight of their next 10 on the road.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to turn the page,\u201d Warsofsky said. \u201cIt\u2019s obviously a good win, but there are things for us to work on, and the next step for us is to do it again. To be a really good team, you\u2019ve got to do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Replicating Thursday\u2019s atmosphere at the Shark Tank, anyway, might not be easy.<\/p>\n

The Sharks\u2019 game against the Panthers had a playoff-type feel, with fights, scrums, big hits, and some dazzling goals in a back-and-forth game.<\/p>\n

The Sharks built a 3-0 lead by the midway point of the second period with two goals from forward Will Smith, one on the power play and one shorthanded, and another from winger Mason Marchment.<\/p>\n

New captain Macklin Celebrini<\/a> finished with three assists, including one on Cagnoni\u2019s goal. He had the primary assist on both of Smith\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n

The Panthers, Stanley Cup champions in 2024 and 2025, answered back, with Eetu Luostarinen scoring a power-play goal with 2:50 left in the second period before he and Matthew Tkachuk scored 17 seconds apart in the third.<\/p>\n

Instead of folding, though, the Sharks withstood another Panthers push and held on to force overtime.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe in years prior, we would start freaking out a little bit and kind of get down in the dumps,\u201d Smith said of blowing a three-goal lead. \u201cBut this year, there\u2019s no quit, and we finished the job.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sharks couldn\u2019t convert on a power play that carried into overtime, but with less than two minutes remaining in the extra session, Cagnoni took a pass from Smith and beat Panthers goalie Akira Schmid five-hole for his first career NHL goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty unreal. Probably the best goal of my life,\u201d Cagnoni said. \u201cHard to write one better than an overtime winner. People dream of playing (in the NHL). I feel like I reenacted that a couple times, but (it\u2019s an) unreal feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sharks defenseman Darnell Nurse, now starting his 13th NHL season, said for a regular season game, \u201cThat\u2019s as loud as you\u2019re going to hear. The emotion, the energy that was in the building, it was a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was unclear which goalie the Sharks will start against the Kings, but Warsofsky has to feel good about the way Yaroslav Askarov began the year.<\/p>\n

Askarov finished with 23 saves against the Panthers and was at his best on the penalty kill, making eight saves.<\/p>\n

Askarov looked calm in two preseason games; the question was whether he could keep it up when the regular season started. He mostly answered the bell, with the goal allowed to Luostarinen coming after a couple of crazy bounces in front of the net.<\/p>\n

In two preseason starts, Askarov went 1-0-1 with a stellar .942 save percentage.<\/p>\n

Maybe the Sharks\u2019 biggest issue Thursday was their lack of discipline at times.<\/p>\n

The Sharks were shorthanded for over 10 minutes, with Nurse taking two cross-checking penalties, and Kiefer Sherwood being assessed a double-minor for high-sticking Aleksander Barkov midway through the second period. Barkov sustained a serious-looking lower body injury later in the second period and did not return.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to be a little bit more composed at times,\u201d Warsofsky said. \u201cWe can\u2019t kill six, seven penalties a game against some really good teams. It doesn\u2019t matter what team it is; they\u2019re going to eventually put one in the back of the net.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to learn from that, but we also want to ride that line. We want to be hard to play against. We don\u2019t want to get pushed around. We\u2019re going to protect each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kings began the season with an 8-4 road loss to the Colorado Avalanche and went 1-0-2 against the Sharks last season.<\/p>\n

The Sharks haven\u2019t won their first two home games in a season since 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be consistent with your identity as a hockey team,\u201d Warsofsky said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to pick up and learn from your mistakes and correct them. If we\u2019re going to be a really good hockey team in this league, we\u2019ve got to do it again and turn the page. It\u2019s going to be a completely different game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky had a message for his group Friday as they met just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[401,402,181,404,88,90,89,98,403,94685,127],"class_list":["post-483963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-hockey","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sharks-alert","tag-social-alert","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483963","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=483963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}