lineup<\/a> \u2013 that they have, we\u2019ve got to come up with a good team effort and try to put our will on the game. Try to come out and bring our energy and bring our force. Anytime you play against some of the best players in the league, it\u2019s always a tough challenge, but one we\u2019re really looking forward to.\u00a0<\/p>\nOn who will be the strangest guy to see on the other side of the ice\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just the logo, right? I wore the logo for so long. You just look at it \u2013 it\u2019s going to be weird. I think it\u2019s going to be Brad Harrison over there, the trainer on the bench. I\u2019m going to have to fire a puck in there at him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On thanking his Sharks teammates for making his family feel welcome in San Jose\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been planting in the kids\u2019 ears that they\u2019ve got to boo when they see Oilers jerseys. So we\u2019ve been working on it and making sure that they\u2019re going to have their Sharks jerseys on to be happy and excited for the Sharks. I\u2019ve been extremely fortunate here over the last couple months to be a part of this group. This group is a special group, and very welcoming. To come into a new situation, it\u2019s been a lot of fun. It feels like home already. I\u2019m looking forward to challenges that lie ahead over the course of season, and tomorrow is another one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On if it won\u2019t feel weird to play his old team after this first game\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a new experience. I asked some of the guys in here, like \u2018Is it weird to play against your old team?\u2019 I\u2019ve never been through it before, but I\u2019ve played against good friends and people when they get traded and whatnot, so there\u2019s that experience to lean on as well. As a competitor and as someone who wants to win every night, it\u2019ll be pretty easy to compartmentalize and just go out there and play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On if he has a chip on his shoulder with the Oilers fans watching\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just play and see what happens. You can\u2019t get focused on that stuff. We talk about the outside noise and all this stuff, but one of the best things I ever learned from playing in a market like that is to be mentally tough, to just focus on what you can control, and let the rest take care of itself. You don\u2019t focus on it. Anyone playing an old team is a little different, and for how long I was there. But I\u2019m in a new place, I\u2019m exactly where I should be, and enjoying every moment of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On if this game against the Edmonton Oilers will matter to him more than others\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
100%. You know why? It\u2019s a division game, so it matters a little more.\u00a0(laughs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darnell Nurse came out for post-game media after the San Jose Sharks\u2019 5-0 loss at the Dallas Stars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[191895,18693,90987,2070,70138,37614,88,90,89,98,3236],"class_list":["post-492911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-brad-harrison","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-darnell-nurse","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-evan-bouchard","tag-leon-draisaitl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492911","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=492911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}