{"id":70920,"date":"2025-11-26T17:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70920\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:14:07","slug":"early-trends-show-san-jose-sharks-on-rise-minnesota-wild-struggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70920\/","title":{"rendered":"Early trends show San Jose Sharks on rise, Minnesota Wild struggling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NHL is more than 25% through the 2025-26 season, and the Sharks have \u201cseen the most significant increase\u201d in attendance from last year, according to Dayal & Mirtle of THE ATHLETIC. The Sharks are \u201cnot even close\u201d to any other club, as they are up 15.2%, increase of 2,056 fans per game. The team last season \u201cdrew meager crowds of 10,000-11,200\u201d during seven of their first 13 home games it was the only team in the league \u201cselling at less than\u201d 80% of its capacity at the comparable point of the campaign. This year, SAP Center has \u201cyet to dip below 12,000 fans\u201d for a game and has \u201chad several sellouts.\u201d It was atypical that the Sharks did not \u201cget an immediate attendance bump last season from the excitement and hype\u201d of 2024 No. 1 pick C Macklin Celebrini<\/a>. However, there is \u201clikely a catch-up effect\u201d now that Celebrini has \u201cfirmly established himself as a must-see player.\u201d Meanwhile, the biggest attendance decline so far this season goes to the Wild, who after a slow start are on pace for their \u201clowest attendance figure ever.\u201d They are down 6.3% overall, a decline of 1,152 fans per game. The Wild, though, have \u201ccaught fire on the ice lately,\u201d which \u201cshould help ease the fans\u2019 base-level angst.\u201d However, the \u201cbigger issue for the Wild is likely a deeper malaise over the team\u2019s inability to make inroads as a Western Conference contender\u201d (THE ATHLETIC, 11\/26<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL is more than 25% through the 2025-26 season, and the Sharks have \u201cseen the most significant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[401,404,88,90,89,41737],"class_list":["post-70920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-ticketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70920","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=70920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}