Sharks Instant Replay 03/01/2026

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It's time for the Sharks Instant Replay of a dramatic,

exciting, incredible finish.

Final storm over time.

The San Jose Sharks 2, the Winnipeg Jets 1,

in front of a set out crowd of 17,435 fans.

Here's how it happened in the first period.

Gold Tenning was definitely going to be a factor.

Conor Hellabuck, the hero of the Olympics for Team USA,

had to make a glove stop very early.

Michael Misa, backhand to the point.

Here comes a shot blocked in front,

turning Eclan shoots, save, we have a glove stop

and a marvelous save by Conor Hellabuck

with a man right in front of the goal.

William Eclan, the first opportunity

and the second one right in front of the net for Barclay Goodrow.

Just a few seconds after that,

Winnipeg would come up the ice after an offensive

blue line turnover by San Jose,

and Morgan Barron would fool Alex Nadellkovich

to make it one nothing Winnipeg.

Right now, down the left side comes Morgan Barron.

2-on-1 moves in shoots and scores.

A simple rush up the ice for Morgan Barron.

He had a 2-on-1 break going,

but he snapped it up top and it gets by Alex Nadellkovich

and Winnipeg at 2-44 of this first period

leads it one to nothing.

Roll players come through for Winnipeg,

Morgan Barron's eighth of a season from Tanner Pearson

and Cole Kepke, and as we heard on the post-game program,

Alex Nadellkovich kind of blamed himself on that 1-0

and bottom line is that it was a heck of a shot

and he kind of looked over as if he was going to pass the puck

just for that split second. That was the difference.

It sound like he knew he should have probably

made a better effort or a save on it,

but sometimes you tip your head to the shooter.

And so one nothing Winnipeg at the end of 1

and spined the fact that the sharks dominated the period

and outshot Winnipeg 14-8.

In the second period Winnipeg had the better of the play.

It seemed like it was one team playing great defense

or another team not executing offensively

kind of a combination of both really on both sides,

but Winnipeg had the better of the play.

They outshot the sharks 9-4,

and some big saves on both sides by Helibik for Winnipeg

and Nadellkovich for the sharks.

And it was still one nothing jets

after 40 minutes of play.

Again, the sharks came out in the third,

looking to get their groove back, and they would.

They ended up out shooting Winnipeg 13-10 in the third,

but Connor Helibik was really good early.

He's in a round of the air boards now.

On the point, Stanley, the shot that his teammate,

I have funneled, headman feet.

It's a breakaway for Kyrushchev.

He's to Kelsen.

He waits, he digs, he shoots.

A save rebound.

Sure would turn, shoots, save.

By Goldtender Helibik, two great stops

by the US Olympic hero,

stopping for his Kyrushchev, and then, he stops sure would.

Only 47 seconds into the third period,

it's still one nothing winnipeg.

You know, Helibik deserves a lot of credit

for the way he played.

If one of those goes in, that could have broken the game open.

Absolutely. I mean, we talked about the second period.

I don't know, I don't want to call it sloppy,

but the execution wasn't there on both sides of the puck

for both teams.

But Helibik stood his ground when the opportunity was there

when he had to make a save.

He made a save, kept his team in it.

And so, at that point, it was still one nothing winnipeg.

Then, a couple of moments later,

with 18-13 remaining in the third period,

the Sharks would find a way to tie it,

but it started with a big save by Alex Nadellkiewicz

and it finished off with a Will Smith goal.

Huck drops, and it'll be picked up by the defense,

Salamon Senegal will chip it off the boards.

Uh-oh, chance for Connor with speed moving in,

shooting it at a semi-breakaway stop by Alex Nadellkiewicz.

That might be the save of the game right there

to keep the score one nothing.

Here comes the Sharks the other way.

Klingberg, drop pass, Salamon Senegal.

Trying to throw it back to Klingberg,

curling out up from the right wing boards toward the front of a net,

but the Winnipeg defense got their sticks on it,

and here they come the other way.

The big guys are out there for the Jets.

Connor, shifling, velardi.

Back on defense, it's Shen with Flurry.

Sharks get the headband, 2-1-1.

Three on one, moving in graph, shooting it, say, star!

Penelope got a piece of it.

The puck was on the goal line, and Will Smith made sure

that it got across the goal line.

The Sharks have tied the game,

one-one, but what a play by Colin Graff.

As San Jose has equalized this game at 147 of the third.

What a great goal by Will Smith.

He actually batted that puck.

It was on the goal line in the air, and he knocked it in.

For a second, there was a thought maybe there would be a challenge

for a high stick or some other type of review,

but that did not occur.

I thought maybe they were looking for offside too,

but that didn't look to be the problem.

As it turned out, there was no challenge,

but Will Smith finished it off after the big save

by Nidelkiewicz, nice play by Graff.

Will Smith showed his hand-eye coordination there.

After I thought about it after a while,

but I just didn't bring it up in the air.

Maybe they thought he hit it in with his hand,

because it was kind of close to what was up that area.

I'm sure they weren't checking that it was high sticking

at the point.

That looked pretty obvious that it was a good goal,

but maybe they were, hey, when you're desperate for points

and trying to stay in the standings and climb up,

you're going to look at every video angle

or as a try and get the call overturned,

but couldn't do it.

Will Smith finishes it in.

I bet you that was happening in the shark's video room too,

because they were all holding their breath,

but it looked like everything was good,

and it turned out to be.

Will Smith gets his 18th goal of a season,

Graff and Sellebrini assisted 147 of the third period

to tie this game 1-1.

Last season, Owen Will Smith had 18 goals

and he did it in 74 games.

This season, he scores 18 in his 45th game of the season.

That's what you want, right?

You want steady improvement each year to year,

keep getting better, keep growing as a pro,

and help this team win.

And so, it was tied 1-1 early in the third.

The Winnipeg Jets would come back and push

after a little bit of a miscue for San Jose

during a power play.

Morgan Barron, the guy who got the goal in the first period

for the Jets, had an amazing chance,

short-handed, and Alex Dindelkevich came up,

giganically.

That's Lisa, centering feet for sure

with block, and it's out of the zone.

You better get back, because here comes Morgan Barron.

He can skate, he's got a short-handed moving in,

and he shoots on the same by Dindelkevich.

He split into two pieces as he stopped that puck

and was able to get his body on it,

knocking aside much to the delight of everybody here

at the Shark Tank.

What a save that was, and Dindelke said

that maybe he felt a little lucky on that one,

but you have to be good to be lucky and lucky to be good.

Dindelkevich's getting his body on that

and making sure the game stayed tied 1-1,

and that was only with about three minutes to play

in the third period.

The Sharks would push back to try to take the lead

in regulation, but there was Connor Hellabuck

to make another huge stop.

Will Smith knock down behind the goal line,

play continues to fully sense it across the ice.

Oh, play for Smith, he couldn't block it.

A shot by Tatholi in his spectacular save by Hellabuck,

diving down it was left.

Good save by Hellabuck down toward the end of the game,

but 240 remaining in the third period,

and we went to overtime with the Sharks

and the Jets desperate for two points.

One thing that happened at OT is that San Jose

changed the look of what was on the ice.

They didn't start this way, Owen.

They started with guys that you would expect.

You'd have Celebrini on the ice,

a couple of other guys to try to win it.

But once the line change came,

they put out the young kids on the ice.

What are your thoughts on that?

I think it's great.

I mean, obviously you're going to start with your big guns

to go for the kill.

It's funny.

We talk about the big guns,

and when I celebrate,

you're still a young kid as well, right?

But he's such a superstar in control of the play.

But then you come back with Misa and Dickinson and stuff like that

and to show the players,

we have confidence in you.

It doesn't matter what age you are,

we want to see you mature,

we want to see you get better,

and the boys provided a goal for them.

And the goal that they got was right here in overtime at 140.

And Michael Misa, one of those young guys that was put

onto the ice had a spectacular rush

to get the crown to their feet to cheer their heroes.

Little dropped by Eclan.

Here comes Misa,

speaking up in the middle across the line,

he's to Kelsey,

tries to split the defense,

he shoots, he scores!

Michael Misa in overtime,

a spectacular rush up the middle,

beats Connor Hellibut,

and the sharks split it to the one.

What a great finish in the entire shark bench emptied

and rushed over to the left wing corner of the Winnipeg Zone

to mob Michael Misa,

who picked up his fourth goal of the season.

The other guys that assisted on that were William Eclan

and Sam Dickinson.

And again, younger guys,

including one 18-year-old name Michael Misa,

who gets the game winner and the sharks get two points,

and they are two to one victors.

I mean, you've got to tip your hat to the coach

for having the confidence to put those guys out there.

But then again, the whole team is young.

So, at some point the young guys are going to be the young guys.

And I love seeing the young guys have success.

They'll only get better for it,

especially the confidence from the coach.

Sharks with it two to one and over time.

And the big reason why they did that was because of the guy

who was named the number one star of the game today.

That, of course, is Alex Nidelkiewicz,

who was spectacular through much of this game,

ended up with 27 saves.

And he joins us right now on the shark's audio network.

Alex, what are your thoughts about the drama,

the emotion, the excitement of getting the win today?

You can't put much better than that.

You know, a lot of drama, a lot of excitement.

Just happy to win a game.

And, you know, we had a little bit of, you know,

a little taste of that last night against a good team,

a team that were chasing and trying to compete

with for a playoff spot.

And the same thing tonight, you know,

these guys are kind of chasing us.

And, you know, they took it to us there a little bit at the start.

I felt like I gave him a little bit of soft one.

I mean, a nice shot.

But I felt like I was off my angle just a bit there

and nice to lock it down the rest of the way

and let the guys kind of do their thing.

And, you know, it was never a doubt

if we were going to score.

It was just a matter of win and, you know,

a nice to get it going there at the beginning of the third.

And then from there, you just, you know,

there was never a doubt we were going to come out

of there with two points.

So it was a good win.

Good game all around from everybody.

Alex, one of the things that definitely has been a characteristic

of this club, especially since the Olympic break,

has been that even if a goal is scored against you,

whether it's earlier or late, you guys don't wilt.

You guys don't change.

You guys come back.

You find a way to get your game back.

What's been the cause of that?

I mean, that's what you have to do.

That's how you have to win games in this league.

It doesn't matter.

You make a mistake.

You give up a goal.

You give up two.

Whatever the circumstances are, the situation is,

you have to find a way to get past it, to move on,

and get ready for the next shift, the next shot.

That's what good teams do.

Good teams don't kind of sag and let the past affect them.

You realize it's a long game.

And if you put in, you string them up, good shifts together.

You know, good things are going to happen for you.

And we just stuck with it.

We didn't get frustrated.

We didn't let the emotions get too high.

I get too low.

And we just kept going, kept going.

And then finally, when you got rewarded with it,

you could just feel that we were just

had that little bit of extra juice,

and just kept pushing, and pushing, and pushing.

What did it feel like when the guy who scored a gold against

your Morgan Barron was racing in short-handed?

You had to make that sterling save.

I described it as, you split your body into two to make the stop.

Yeah, you just, you know, got a little lucky there.

I went for a poke check, tried to be aggressive.

I thought I could take away an angle, and then, you know,

he made a good move protecting the puck.

And so I just tried to get low and get long,

and take away the bottom part of the net.

And fortunately, he threw it in my pad,

and then we had some good back pressure there coming back,

and the boys were able to bail me out and clear out

any rebound that was left.

What about the confidence of the coaching staff

in putting the young guys out there in overtime?

I mean, Michael Mesa with a tremendous effort gets the win,

but you don't often see that in the NHL,

but we saw it here today.

Yeah, I mean, we're, you know, we're in a, we're in a,

we're in a hunt, we're in a playoff chase,

and whoever's going for us is going to get the call.

You know, it's, it's, and we have a lot of guys going right now.

So it's going to be hard to make those decisions.

You know, I don't envy the coaching staff,

and who they're going to put out,

because we have, you know, three, four lines that can,

that can do a job on any given night,

and at any given time.

So it was a great call there,

and Mese with some, with some confidence

to take it down the middle there,

and take a guy one on one,

and that's what you got to do in overtime.

You have to be willing to make a play at the right moment,

and he saw a moment there.

He found a way to just get through the guy enough,

and make a move, and then found the right spot on Helly there.

So it's great to see he's coming on strong here.

These last couple of weeks,

been up before the break, and then,

and even now out of the break,

he's been playing him some pretty good hockey.

So it's exciting to see,

and it's going to be really good for us on the stretch.

Well, he did it.

You did it.

You all did it.

Congratulations on the win.

Fantastic game, Alex.

Thanks a lot for joining us.

Awesome. Thanks, guys.

That is Alex Nidelkiewicz,

the winning gold tender.

He was spectacular today against the Jets.

Final score of the Sharks 2,

and the Jets 1 in overtime.

Final totals for the game.

The Sharks had 33 shots on goal,

and Winnipeg had 28.

San Jose's record now is upping again.

They win for the 29th time this season.

They're 16th win at home.

The Sharks are now 29, 25, and 4 for 62 points.

While the Winnipeg Jets get one point,

they drop back to 23, 26, and 10,

56 points on the year.

And for the first time since the 2016-17 season,

the Jets finish their schedule in California,

going 0, 3, and 2.

The first time they've ever been winless

in the Golden State in the last nine years.

Meanwhile, San Jose is also looking forward to Tuesday's game.

As they play the Montreal Canadians,

as their schedule against Canadian-based teams continue,

and the Sharks striving for the playoffs also keeps going.

Final score, Sharks 2, Jets 1 in overtime.

That's our Sharks Instant Replay.

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