{"id":561669,"date":"2026-04-03T06:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/561669\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:31:07","slug":"sharks-4-1-maple-leafs-apr-2-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/561669\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks 4-1 Maple Leafs (Apr 2, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4874881\/zack-ostapchuk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zack Ostapchuk<\/a> scored his first goal in nearly three months and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/sj\/san-jose-sharks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> beat the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-maple-leafs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> 4-1 on Thursday night for their fourth straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5136607\/collin-graf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collin Graf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4874721\/william-eklund\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Eklund<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3942868\/adam-gaudette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Gaudette<\/a> also scored and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3114994\/alex-nedeljkovic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a> made 18 saves.<\/p>\n<p>              San Jose, which had the worst record in the NHL last season, holds the second wild-card spot in the crowded Western Conference. The Sharks haven\u2019t made the playoffs since 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p>              Sharks star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5206628\/macklin-celebrini\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macklin Celebrini<\/a>, who had nine points in his previous three games, was scoreless on three shots.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5160\/john-tavares\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Tavares<\/a> scored a power-play goal for Toronto. The Maple Leafs have lost two of three on a four-game trip.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Maple Leafs: At Los Angeles on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>              Sharks: Host Nashville on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 Zack Ostapchuk scored his first goal in nearly three months and the San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-561669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561669","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=561669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}