{"id":495658,"date":"2026-02-28T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/495658\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:20:07","slug":"scouts-warsofsky-explain-benching-smith-what-other-sharks-did-wrong-on-line-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/495658\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouts &#038; Warsofsky Explain Benching Smith, What Other Sharks Did Wrong on Line Change (+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did Ryan Warsofsky bench Will Smith on the late 6-on-5 in the San Jose Sharks\u2019 4-1 loss to the Calgary Flames?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeaching moment for sure,\u201d Scout #1 opined.<\/p>\n<p>Warsofsky didn\u2019t offer much explanation after the game but went into more detail on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t just about the Smith line change that played a part in the Connor Zary goal that made it 2-1.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Connor Zary<br \/>2-1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Flames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Flames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PKnOr8zTWc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PKnOr8zTWc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JD Young (@MyFryHole) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyFryHole\/status\/2027248682756890642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two NHL scouts and hockey tactics guru <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JhanHky\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jack Han<\/a> shared their thoughts about the sequence.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why did Ryan Warsofsky bench Will Smith on the late 6-on-5 in the San Jose Sharks\u2019 4-1 loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4047,39575,831,136454,6521,201570,226732,385,226733,4276,835,16559,6531,99,27418,4277,6538],"class_list":["post-495658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-calgary-flames","tag-connor-zary","tag-featured","tag-jack-han","tag-john-klingberg","tag-kiefer-sherwood","tag-line-change","tag-nhl","tag-puck-battles","tag-ryan-warsofsky","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-scouts","tag-sjhn","tag-sports","tag-stathletes","tag-will-smith","tag-yaroslav-askarov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}