{"id":507316,"date":"2026-10-25T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T07:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507316\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T07:24:09","slug":"sharks-locker-room-san-jose-had-winning-road-trip-but-it-didnt-feel-that-way-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507316\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks Locker Room: San Jose Had Winning Road Trip, But It Didn\u2019t Feel That Way Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BOSTON \u2014 The San Jose Sharks echoed the same theme, after a 6-4 loss to the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBe better in front of the net,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/tag\/will-smith\/\" class=\"pb-player-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Smith<\/a> said of four of the Bruins goals, which happened right in front of goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/tag\/alex-nedeljkovic\/\" class=\"pb-player-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a>. \u201cThey\u2019re very preventable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith wasn\u2019t a pointing a finger at just his defensemen, but at the whole team, including himself.<\/p>\n<p>Sharks tools<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe got to help Ned out,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/tag\/michael-misa\/\" class=\"pb-player-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Misa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/tag\/kiefer-sherwood\/\" class=\"pb-player-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kiefer Sherwood<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/tag\/dmitry-orlov\/\" class=\"pb-player-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dmitry Orlov<\/a>, and Smith scored in the back-and-forth tilt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the end, the Sharks came out of a six-game road trip with a 3-2-1 record, but it feels like it could\u2019ve been more, after a 3-1 third period lead at Detroit turned into an OT loss and tonight\u2019s 3-2 third period edge ended in a regulation defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the game, Smith praised Jeremy Swayman\u2019s play, Nedeljkovic shared the key on how the San Jose Sharks can defend harder, Orlov discussed the expectations for this team, and Warsofsky summarized where the squad is at 12 games into the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A deeper game story with micro-stats from Stathletes and game action clips, Sharks Insight, will be published soon.<\/p>\n<p>Will Smith<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Smith, on Swayman&#8217;s save on him, Bruins up 5-4 late in 3rd: &#8220;I think I honestly had that one. It was a quick pump fake and backhander. He made a hell of a save, so we got to tip your cap. He&#8217;s a hell of a goalie and he played good tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sheng_Peng\/status\/2114180916209693125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex Nedeljkovic<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nedeljkovic, on all the net front goals that Boston scored:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think that\u2019s where they scored all their goals except for the Pasta one. All that is, just outwilling guys and wanting to defend harder than the other team wants to score.\u00a0 All it comes down to, no X\u2019s and O\u2019s, and we had bodies in the area, I think, on all of them, it\u2019s just outwilling them a little bit more, just being a little harder on our sticks. I can do a better job, maybe swallowing up another puck or two there and killing plays or putting rebounds in better spots as well.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitry Orlov<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Orlov: &#8220;On paper, everybody expects us to be a good team. But right now, we have to prove it. Not just be a good team on paper. We have to show up every game and battle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sheng_Peng\/status\/2114186405723410601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Orlov, on the San Jose Sharks losing net front battles:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We just shoot ourselves in the foot again. It kind of happens almost every game. We [don\u2019t] battle, [don\u2019t] win the battles when we have to. We not playing more hungry, for the battles, for the puck, and lost focus sometimes. It\u2019s why we give up some goals.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Warsofsky<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warsofsky, on the Michael Misa pass to Ty Dellandrea that led to the David Pastrnak goal:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We make a play on the entry, where we got to be smarter than that. We try to make a cross-ice pass with four seconds left in the power play. Pastrnak comes out of the box, he scores. So we got to be smarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warsofsky, on the 3-2-1 road trip:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We got some results. We still have a long way to go. We\u2019re still good. Some things we got to get better at. Starts with protecting our net front. That\u2019s going to be one. We got to start scoring 5-on-5. That\u2019s going to be another one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We definitely left some points on the table. That\u2019s for sure. And we\u2019ve also gotten points that we probably shouldn\u2019t have. So, you know, our record says what it is. It is what it is. If we\u2019re going to be a really good hockey team in this league, we got to play a lot better going forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warsofsky, on where the San Jose Sharks are after 12 games this season:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a coach of the team, we\u2019re pushing this team, challenging this team to be better. I thought we\u2019d be a little bit more consistent. I would say that maybe is the biggest thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warsofsky, on Misa\u2019s performance:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just his pace. He was holding on to pucks. I thought he was good on the walls and battles. So we\u2019ll have to look at some stuff, but I thought he was better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014 The San Jose Sharks echoed the same theme, after a 6-4 loss to the Boston Bruins.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[102274,4215,16028,5400,98306,41681,3259,1036,88,90,89,98,1038,3577,3578],"class_list":["post-507316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-27","tag-alex-nedeljkovic","tag-david-pastrnak","tag-dmitry-orlov","tag-jeremy-swayman","tag-kiefer-sherwood","tag-michael-misa","tag-ryan-warsofsky","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sharks-locker-room","tag-ty-dellandrea","tag-will-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507316","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=507316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}