Category: Winning Play

Winning Play: The Pavelskis and big picture thinking

By Sheng Peng | Apr 7th 2019 | 5 min read |

The last couple weeks of the regular season are often a drag on the players. Not that anybody cares, but it’s often a drag on the reporters, too. We...

Winning Play: Sharks can overcome potential loss of Meier

By Sheng Peng | Apr 5th 2019 | 3 min read |

In mid-February, the San Jose Sharks were perhaps the healthiest team in the NHL. Up to Feb. 13, they were the only team in the league to have zero ro...

Winning Play: Middleton and San Jose’s playoff defensive pairings

By Sheng Peng | Apr 3rd 2019 | 3 min read |

On the same day that Erik Karlsson re-joined his teammates on the ice for morning skate — the first time he’s been on the ice with all his teammat...

Winning Play: Mike Smith controls the game

By Sheng Peng | Apr 2nd 2019 | 5 min read |

The difference between Mike Smith and Aaron Dell in the San Jose Sharks’ 5-3 loss to the Calgary Flames wasn’t simply goals allowed. Calgary’s g...

Winning Play: Vegas goes high, San Jose goes low

By Sheng Peng | Mar 31st 2019 | 4 min read |

It’s no surprise that the Vegas Golden Knights would try to take away the fulcrum of the San Jose Sharks’ offense, the point shot. “They pla...

Winning Play: History against Sharks as losses mount

By Sheng Peng | Mar 29th 2019 | 4 min read |

When a team is struggling, the players always talk about details. Clearly, the San Jose Sharks, in the midst of a seven-game losing streak, are lackin...

Winning Play: What does Brent Burns do well defensively?

By Sheng Peng | Mar 27th 2019 | 8 min read |

Dear Drew Doughty, Brent Burns does a lot of things well defensively. Really. On Monday, you told The Athletic, “I watch Brent Burns get beat 20 tim...

Winning Play: 5 straight losses (and I feel fine)

By Sheng Peng | Mar 23rd 2019 | 4 min read |

ANAHEIM, Calif. — On the night that the San Jose Sharks set a team record for most goals scored in a season, they also asserted more stretches of de...

Winning Play: Radil returns

By Sheng Peng | Mar 22nd 2019 | 4 min read |

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — When Lukas Radil is at his most effective, he’s using his length. However, we haven’t seen the 6-foot-4 forward in an NHL ...

Winning Play: Reaves gets into Haley’s head

By Sheng Peng | Mar 19th 2019 | 5 min read |

Haley VS Reaves It seemed natural to ask Micheal Haley about Mark Stone. After all, the former Panther had just left the Atlantic Division, where the ...