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NHL podcast with Len Shapiro: Guenther scores twice to give Utah 2-1 win; Caps Lindgren stops 24 shots for 3-1 win over Wild; plus more NHL news

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The Utah Hockey Club’s Dylan Guenther is congratulated from the Utah bench after scoring a goal in the first period against the Minnesota Wild at Xcel Energy Center in Minneapolis on Fri Dec 20, 2024 (AP News photo)

On the NHL podcast with Len Shapiro:

#1 The Utah Hockey Club’s Dylan Guenther scored twice and got a go ahead goal at 10:01 in the third period. Guenther extended his point streak to seven games in a 2-1 win over the Minnesota Wild at the Excel Energy Center in Minneapolis.

#2 The Washington Capitals goalie Charlie Lindgren stopped 24 shots and the Caps got a 3-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes at the Capital One Center on Friday. The Capitals Connor McMichael, Aliaksei Protas, and Jakob Vranda all scored a goal and an assist.

#3 The Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Matt Murray stopped 25 shots in his first NHL game back since Apr 2, 2023 getting the win over the Buffalo Sabres at Key Bank Center in Buffalo on Friday 6-3. it was also Murray’s first NHL win since March 23, 2023. Sabres have lost 12 straight games and have 0-9-3 during the losing streak and are 11-18-4 overall.

#4 The Montreal Canadiens Patrik Laine scored the go ahead goal at 7:58 to lead the Habs to a 4-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings at Little Caesars Pizza Arena in Detroit on Friday. Emil Heineman and Jake Evans each scored and got an assist for Montreal. Habs goaltender Cam Talbot save 24 shots.

#5 Aleksander Barkov scored with 17 seconds remaining in overtime that gave the Florida Panthers a 2-1 win over the the St Louis Blues at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise on Friday. Barkov got a wrist shot from the right circle during a power play right after he was sent to the penalty box for tripping the Blues Brayden Schenn at 4:17.

Len Shapiro does the NHL podcasts each Friday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Jose Sharks podcast with Jeremiah Salmonson: Sharks coming off win in St Louis, Utah have won 3 of last 5, both battle tonight in San Jose

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San Jose Sharks Mikael Granlund (64) goes after a loose puck while the St Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binginton (50) protects the net at the Enterprise Center in St Louis on Sat Dec 14, 2024 (AP News photo)

San Jose Sharks podcast with Jeremiah Salmonson:

#1 Macklin Celebrini scored two goals and got an assist on Thursday night against the St Louis Blues at the Enterprise Center in St Louis there is little doubt in the Sharks wins this season that Celebrini has been the key to a large number of the Sharks victories.

#2 Tyler Toffoli and Jake Walman both scored for San Jose. So the Sharks also have been getting help from a different set of players on offense each night.

#3 The Sharks were on a three game losing streak before playing the Blues on Thursday. They did have some tough customers on this last road trip losing to Tampa Bay, Florida, and Carolina before snapping the skid against St Louis.

#4 The Sharks got great goaltending on Thursday from Alexandar Georgiev who stopped 17 Blues shots for the win.

#5 It’s back to San Jose tonight and the Utah Hockey Club. Utah is rolling they have won six of their last ten games and defeated the Colorado Avalanche in their last game on Thursday 4-1. Sharks are coming off a win against St Louis and have home ice how do you see this match up tonight at SAP Center?

Jeremiah Salmonson is a sports analyst at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Jose Sharks podcast with Mary Lisa: Scrappy Utah comes in to face Sharks tonight; SJ coming off win in St Louis

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San Jose Sharks Jake Walman (96) is congratulated by teammates Cody Ceci (4) and Nico Sturm (7) after scoring a third period goal against the St Louis Blues on Thu Dec 12, 2024 (AP News photo)

On the San Jose Sharks podcast with Mary Lisa:

#1 Macklin Celebrini scored two goals and got an assist on Thursday night against the St Louis Blues at the Enterprise Center in St Louis there is little doubt in the Sharks wins this season that Celebrini has been the key to a large number of the Sharks victories.

#2 Tyler Toffoli and Jake Walman both scored for San Jose. So the Sharks also have been getting help from a different set of players on offense each night.

#3 The Sharks were on a three game losing streak before playing the Blues on Thursday. They did have some tough customers on this last road trip losing to Tampa Bay, Florida, and Carolina before snapping the skid against St Louis.

#4 The Sharks got great goaltending on Thursday from Alexandar Georgiev who stopped 17 Blues shots for the win.

#5 It’s back to San Jose tonight and the Utah Hockey Club. Utah is rolling they have won six of their last ten games and defeated the Colorado Avalanche in their last game on Thursday 4-1. Sharks are coming off a win against St Louis and have home ice how do you see this match up tonight at SAP Center?

Join Mary Lisa for all the latest in Sharks hockey podcasts every Saturday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Jose Sharks podcast with Mary Lisa: Jumbo of a time expected Thornton’s sweater is retired tonight

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Former San Jose Shark Joe Thornton (beard), San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan ( in Sharks sweater) SJ Sharkey mascot, gathered with Thornton’s family and dignitaries at San Jose City Hall on Thu Nov 21, 2024 for a tribute to honor Thornton who will have his number 19 sweater retired at SAP Center on Sat Nov 23, 2024 before the Sharks and Buffalo Sabres game. (photo by  Mike Zeisberger NHL.com writer)

On the San Jose Sharks podcast with Mary Lisa:

#1 Mary, Thursday Joe Thornton was honored by the City of San Jose ahead of Joe Thornton day at SAP Center Saturday night. The former San Jose Sharks star was honored at City Hall with over 100 people present. Thornton addressed Mayor Matt Mahan who was dressed in a Sharks sweater. Thornton told the crowd “Joe Thornton Day in San Jose. It sounds pretty good, eh?”

#2 Thornton played in the NHL from 1997 to 2022. Thornton played for the Sharks from 2005 to 2020. The Sharks will be raising his sweater number 19 to the rafters next to former teammate Patrick Marleau whose number 12 is also retired.

#3 You had a chance to cover the shootout loss to the St Louis Blues Thursday night in the Sharks last game when the Blues Jake Neighbours scored the winning goal it was the Sharks forth loss in five games and it ended the Blues longest loosing streak at four games.

#4 The Sharks continue to have another rough first period they have been outscored now 28-10. They were tied with the Blues 1-1 after the first period. Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky is working on trying to get that opening period goals against down.

#5 The Sharks honor Jumbo Jim tonight at SAP Center against the Buffalo Sabres. The Sabres have been playing .500 hockey lately and the Sharks could make this a close contest having home ice.

Join Mary Lisa for the Sharks podcasts each Saturday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

NHL podcast with Len Shapiro: Bruins Marchand scores gamer in OT to beat Flames; Panthers win 6th straight game with 6-2 win over Preds; plus more NHL news

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Boston Bruins left wing Brad Marchand right celebrates his goal with teammate defensemen Charlie McAvoy (left) in overtime at the Boston Garden on Thu Nov 7, 2024 (AP News photo)

On NHL podcast with Len Shapiro:

#1 The Boston Bruins Brad Marchand with 20 seconds left in the overtime stanza to help the Bruins with a 4-3 win over the Calgary Flames at Scotiabank Arena in Calgary. The Flames battled earlier scoring two goals in the third period forcing a tie.

# 2 The Florida Panthers are hot they have now won six in a row defeating the Nashville Predators on Thursday night 6-2. The Predators have won five of their last six games. The Panthers Carter Verhaeghe had three points scoring a goal and with two assists.

#3 The New York Islanders Bo Horvat scored a goal and had two assists and stopped the Ottawa Senators from coming back in the Isles 4- 2 win at Canadian Centre in Ottawa. The Isles Anders Lee scored a goal and an assist, Jean-Gabriel Pageu and Oliver Wahlstrom added goals.

#4 The Utah Hockey Club’s Dylan Guenther scored what later be the game winning goal with 3:21 left in the game as Utah defeated the St Louis Blues 4-2 at Enterprise Center in St Louis on Thursday. Guenther had an assist at 16:39 intercepting a pass by the Blues Jordan Kyrou when his centering pass deflected off of the Blues defensemen Colton Parayko.

#5 Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck stopped all 35 of the Colorado Avalanche’s shots for a 1-0 shutout at the Canada Life Centre. The Jets set a record with the win becoming the second NHL team to win 13 of their first 14 games ironically joining the 2007-08 Senators. The win was the Jets fifth straight.

Len Shapiro does the NHL podcasts each Friday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Jose Sharks podcast with Mary Lisa: Eklund, Celebrini injury updates; What’s missing during SJ’s losing streak

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San Jose Sharks William Eklund skates against the St Louis Blues on Sat Apr 6, 2024 at SAP Center in San Jose. Eklund did not play against the Winnipeg Jets on Fri Oct 18, 2024 due to an upper body injury. (AP News photo)

On the San Jose Sharks podcast with Mary Lisa:

#1 Mary Lisa, the San Jose Shark William Eklund didn’t play against the Winnipeg Jets on Friday due to a upper body injury. Eklund a part of the offense his injury impacts the Sharks line up.

#2 Macklin Celebrini missed his fourth game in a row due to a lower body injury. Celebrini has been on retroactive injury reserve dating back to Oct 10. Celebrini the Sharks No.1 draft pick is expected back any day now.

#3 Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky said before Friday’s game that his benching Will Smith was just part of the plan and that it had nothing to do with Smith’s performance. Smith is the Sharks No.4 pick out of the 2024 NHL draft. Smith was a healthy scratch again on Friday night against the Jets.

#4 Sharks forwards Danil Gushchin and Givani Smith both sat out Thursday’s game in Chicago. Gushchin and Smith both played on Friday night in Winnipeg.

#5 The Sharks have now lost all five of their first five games to start the season. The Sharks closet games were against the St Louis Blues and Dallas Stars both one goal loses. Mary what seems to be the problem a lack of finesse on offense, not enough aggressiveness in crashing the net, not enough defense at the blue line and too much time on their end of the ice by the opposition.

Mary Lisa does the San Jose Sharks podcasts each Saturday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Jose Sharks podcast with Mary Lisa: Celebrini shows flashes of brilliance but Sharks collapse later in opener

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San Jose Sharks Macklin Celebrini (71) is thrilled after scoring his first NHL goal in the first period at SAP Center in San Jose against the St Louis Blues on Thu Oct 10, 2024 (AP News photo)

San Jose Sharks podcast with Mary Lisa:

#1 Mary Lisa, NHL number one draft choice and San Jose Sharks Macklin Celebrini scored the first goal of the home opener against the St Louis Blues on Thursday night at SAP Center. Celebrini also assisted Tyler Toffoli later with a goal. What a debut for Celebrini.

#2 The Sharks did start the game off with Celebrini’s goal at 7:01 and Toffoli’s goal later at 17:14 ending the first period with a 2-1 Sharks lead.

#3 In the second period the Sharks looked like they might just runaway with this opening night thriller getting two unanswered goals from Fabian Zetterlund at 8:26 and Barclay Goodrow at 17:37 and the Sharks took a three goal 4-1 lead.

#4 In the third period the Blues went to work playing catch up scoring three unanswered goals to tie it up from Radek Faksa at 2:54, Ryan Sutter at 6:11, and Justin Faulk at 19:13.The Blues would get the game winner in overtime Brayden Schenn scored 45 seconds into the overtime stanza. At what point did it feel like this one was going to slip away from San Jose.

#5 The Sharks host the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday for the Ducks season opener. After the loss to the Blues on Thursday how motivated do you see the Sharks to get after this game with the Ducks at SAP Center?

Mary Lisa does the San Jose Sharks podcasts each Saturday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

The Future Is Teal: San Jose Kicks Off 2024-25 season with a loss in overtime to Blues

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Hockey is back in the Bay Area. The Sharks kicked off a journey of big dreams.

San Jose Bench lined up during the season opener against St. Louis Blues on Oct 10, 2024, at SAP Center in San Jose. (San Jose Media Relations)

By: Fernando Abarca

SAN JOSE, CA – One of the most anticipated nights in franchise history finally arrived, the 2024-25 campaign kicked off, and with that, the awakening of many dreams.

People showed up tonight after an almost sellout crowd of 17,435 people in attendance. It made a statement of what people wanted to see Thursday night, and that night was Macklin Celebrini who was selected 1st overall in the 2024 draft last summer.

The crowd made themselves be heard, and it was a revelation of what used to be in past years at Shark Tank, a place where several figures from the world of hockey filled the people of San Jose with happiness and nights of joy, something that seemed to have disappeared since 2019. The San Jose Sharks battled the St Louis Blues in overtime but lost the home opener 5-4.

The Sharks dominated for the most part of the game, scoring in the first and second periods. However, the Blues found ways to bounce back. Justin Faulk scored just seconds before to end the game and secure the first victory for the Sharks, but it had to be taken to overtime.

It was then that Brayden Schenn scored the fifth goal for the Blues and ended San Jose’s dreams of victory.

Despite this, we can rescue the wonderful first and second periods in which we can highlight the dream debut of Macklin Celebrini who, beyond his debut, scored his first point in his promising NHL career.

Macklin’s defiant action created a kind of aura for the Sharks, who, with great inspiration, scored a four-goal goal, encouraging the eagerness of the public, who felt the joy that had disappeared a long time ago.

Another important factor was the goaltending, adding 29 saves and taking the ovation and confidence of the team, even though in the third period the goals came for St Louis, Mackenzie Blackwood made a good performance.

Statistically speaking, the visiting team was expected to win, but the way the San Jose team would fight was not expected.

Now, the challenge for San Jose is to avoid in every possible way starting the season in the same way the team started the past seasons with losing records.

This Saturday, the action returns to San Jose, and together with them, the Sharks will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Night, in which there is much celebration and recognition of the Hispanic culture of the area. The Sharks will host Anaheim Saturday night at 7:00pm PT before embarking on a series of road games.

NHL podcast with Len Shapiro: Blues turn it up with 2 wins after losing to San Jose; Oilers McDavid scratched against Vegas Wednesday; plus more news

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Edmonton Oilers Conner McDavid controls the puck against the St Louis Blues at the Enterprise Center in St Louis on Mon Apr 1, 2024 (AP News photo)

NHL podcast with Len Shapiro:

#1 Arizona Coyotes might relocate to Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City is being very aggressive about getting the Coyotes. The owner of the Utah Jazz Ryan Smith wants an NHL team to join he and the Jazz at the Salt Palace.

#2 The St Louis Blues had to be sore after losing to the San Jose Sharks last Saturday in overtime. The next day the Blues exploded and defeated the Anaheim Ducks six goals and came away with a 6-5 win. On Wednesday the Blues once again got a three goal win to defeat the Chicago Blackhawks by three goals 5-2 all four of the Blues first four shots were all goals to start the game.

#3 The Edmonton Oilers Conner McDavid was scratched out of the line up against the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday. The Oilers have been rolling and even without McDavid the Oilers came out a big winner 5-1 in Edmonton. McDavid missed practice for the second straight day with a lower body injury

#4 Syd the Kid Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins wins the NHLPA most complete player of the year. Crosby got 38.37 percent of the vote Crosby beat out the Florida Panthers center Alexander Barkov who had 14.6 percent of the vote.

#5 Alexander Ovechkin is becoming like the ageless wonder setting a record scoring 30 or more goals for the 18th season. In the first 43 games this season Ovechkin had eight goals and teammate Dylan Strome said he wouldn’t be surprised if he reached 30 which he has now done for the 18th time.

#6 The New Jersey Devils failed to make post season for tenth time in 12 seasons. New Jersey suffered from injuries, goalie instability, and the Devils have suffered a numerous amount of injuries and missed a lot of key players who were out.

Join Len Shapiro for the NHL podcasts each Thursday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Sharks End Losing Streak, Shut Out Blues 4-0

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The St Louis Blues Pavel Buchnevich (89) and the San Jose Sharks Ryan Carpenter (22) battle for the puck in third period action at the Enterprise Center in St Louis on Sat Mar 30, 2024 (AP News photo)

By Mary Walsh

The San Jose Sharks shut out the St Louis Blues 4-0 on Saturday at the Enterprise Center in St Louis. The win ended a nine-game losing streak for San Jose and dimmed the Blues’ playoff hopes. Filip Zadina, Mikael Granlund, Luke Kunin and Jan Rutta scored for the Sharks. Mackenzie Blackwood made 37 saves for the shutout win. Joel Hofer made 16 saves for the Blues.

After the game, Sharks forward Luke Kunin talked about how the team shifted gears from a lackadaisical first period to a very successful second period: “All the things we were doing well in previous games, as far as getting out of our zone, breakouts, we were just not doing any of that. Talked it over there, after the first, and I think you saw it got a lot better throughout the rest of the game.”

In a penalty-free and scoreless first period, the Sharks had just three shots to the Blues’ eleven. The first goal of the game came almost half way through the second period, from Filip Zadina. He stole the puck from Zack Bolduc in the corner and skated back to the slot where he scored with a quick wrist shot.

Mikael Granlund made it 2-0 at 12:05. Granlund followed Fabian Zetterlund’s shot to the net. When the puck bounced off the post and landed behind the goalie in the blue paint, Granlund was there to scoop the puck over the line. Assists went to Zetterlund and William Eklund.

Luke Kunin made it 3-0 at 17:58. Justin Bailey beat a defender to the puck with Hofer out of the net, but he didn’t manage a shot. Nonetheless, he caused the defender to dive for the puck. The puck trickled away, into the path of Kunin, who was racing into the zone. He gathered up the puck for a wrist shot.

The Sharks outshot the Blues twelve to three in that second period. The Sharks took one penalty but that penalty kill was abbreviated when the Blues took an overlapping penalty 40 seconds in. The Blues took two more penalties in the period but no one scored on the power play.

In the first seven minutes of the third period, the Blues managed eleven shots on goal to the Sharks’ two. The Blues pulled their goaltender with just under four minutes to go. Less than a minute later, Jan Rutta took a shot shot next to the Sharks net and scored in the empty net at the other end. An assist went to Nico Sturm.

The Sharks next play on Monday at home against the Seattle Kraken at 7:30 PM PT.