Sharks Morning Skate 03/03/2026

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It's time for the sharks morning skate

with all the latest on San Jose Sharks hockey.

Here are your hosts Dan Ruzanowski and Drew Remenda.

Yet another game against another team based in Canada.

But this one is the Montreal Canadians.

Always exciting to see that team come to town.

And it's exciting to see the San Jose Sharks winning against Edmonton.

Winning against Winnipeg.

And Drew the way that they have done it has been really interesting.

I like the Edmonton game not because of the execution level,

but because of the grit and the stick to itiveness

and the fact that they just played a game where they kept going

and they stuck with it and they were going to grind it out.

There was a sense in that game that even though

it was 3-1 when you and I were talking was like,

here we go again once they got and came back.

And then every time they came back, the sharks answered.

And every time they pushed, the sharks pushed.

The end of the game, though, certainly looked like all my goodness.

Here we go.

Conor McDavid Leon, dry saddle, six on four.

Power plate, gunna score.

And then it's going over time.

And those guys in overtime are unbeatable.

Didn't work out that way.

Great job by Yaroslav Askerov at the end of the game.

Really great job by Windberg.

The guys just gutted it out.

And the Winnipeg game, that was a very good hockey game

as far as the pace of which they played and how heavy they were

and how much they attacked.

And then think about the guys who were involved in the scoring

in that, not in the whole game.

There's only two goals.

Celebrity, Smith, Graf, Dickinson, Misa, Eclin.

Eclin's the old man in that group.

And easy up.

Exactly.

So it was absolutely great to see.

And that's why we all got really excited about that.

The way they won that game and with whom,

and who helped them win that game.

Two things also, in the Edmonton game,

I want to go back to that for a second group.

I thought that one of the best things that happened in that game

was that when they were challenged, they didn't sag.

They kept going.

And to me, the Windberg goal was the key goal of the game.

Just because of that.

Because it was right after Frederick had scored.

Frederick, you know, was not a good goal to give up.

It was not a good situation.

And then I was glad also to see Askerov step up at the end.

Yep.

100% absolutely right.

And boy, it hasn't Alex Windberg been great since he's been great all year.

He's been great since he's been a shark.

But coming back from the Olympics, he's been even better.

He reminds me in certain ways of what Mikhail Grandland did for this team

a couple of years ago.

Strong and both ends.

Very strong in the puck.

Doesn't make too many mistakes and mentors the young players.

And these are all important things if you want to make that step forward.

And now that gets to Michael Misa yesterday.

Against the last game, I should say, against the Windberg Jets.

On Saturday, he was excellent.

He has been playing really solid hockey.

He was the number three star in that game.

And has a three game point scoring streak coming into tonight.

He's getting comfortable.

He's got all the good habits that you want.

And what about that little move and overtime to get through a split through the defense

and then go to the short side against one of the best goalies in the game?

I love the fact he attacked.

I love the fact that he looked up and went.

I can do that.

That's a great level of confidence.

And with Michael, I don't know what he did in the room.

I'm going to talk to him today.

I don't know what he did during the break.

I know he took his stuff back home and skated.

But he has been a player now that not only exudes confidence,

but plays with confidence.

There's guys that show you confidence.

But when they get on the ice, they defer.

And they back off and they're not aggressive.

He's aggressive when he gets the puck.

Great offensive instincts.

And I don't think I sit this on the air the other day.

I don't think it's a coincidence that tires are fully.

And I made it his again.

Another young guy is having a real breakout last part of the season here.

Since he's been a regular in Michael Misa.

Like Macklin, Celabini, like Will Smith, the influence I think a tire

to fully can't be understated.

No, I think you're exactly right to fully such a huge part of this team.

And let's not forget now.

I mean, he's only 19, but Macklin, Celabini,

is also an influence on Michael Misa defensively.

I mean, Michael Misa did some really good things when he didn't add the puck.

I think that's what we've been looking at all year, though.

Danny is the culture of this team.

How everybody is helping everybody else there.

It's a it's a team that cares for each other and cheers for each other

and wants to help each other supports each other.

I think this game against the Montreal canadians is going to be fascinating tonight.

Because Montreal is a team.

They don't even skate on game days.

I mean, that's Martin San Luis method.

And he's pretty smart about it.

They've got guys like Cole Coffield, who kills the sharks all the time it seems.

Nick Suzuki, who certainly was a factor during the course of the last few weeks.

Lane Hudson, the kid on defense, who everybody missed as far as drafting

and yet is just astounding everybody with his abilities.

This is a skilled team.

I haven't even said even Demidoff's name yet.

But this is a team.

And your Ice Lafkowski was great in Olympics and is one of the best players in the league.

This is a big challenge.

This is a very good hockey team.

I watched yesterday.

I watched two games.

They're last two games.

This is a team that absolutely flies up and down the ice.

They play straight ahead, puck behind, get in on the forecheck, physical hockey.

They're deer are up on the plate.

They're deer are aggressive in their zone.

They're all aggressive in their zone.

They track pucks really well.

Their power play is through the roof right now.

They got so much movement on the power play.

It reminds you of the Edmonton orders the way they go.

This is a very well coached, well staffed hockey team.

They are fast.

This is going to be a tough, tough game for the sharks.

When you look at them though, I was watching.

Look at them yesterday.

It was going up and down the line up.

And I thought, you look to the age of these guys.

The guys that you mentioned.

Suzuki, coffee, demi top.

Mathisum, sub-cost.

You go on and on.

You look and you go, this is where the sharks can be in the next three, four years.

There's a guys who are 20 in their mid-20s or a little bit younger.

But when you look at this, that team, this is a team that is really, really good.

Look where they are in the standings.

This is a team that in the playoffs, you're going to go, oh, where do they come from?

You should have been watching them all year.

So this is going to be a test for the sharks.

A big thing, Danny.

Special teams is going to be key for the sharks.

And you've got to be able to skate.

You've got to be moving.

You know what I love about the Canadians?

They are basically with this team, the way they've constructed it.

They're basically the standard traditional image of the Montreal Canadians, the flying freshmen.

So skilled, so intense.

But yet, they play a good two-way game.

I mean, you go back to those old Canadians teams at one four straight Stanley Cups in the 1970s.

Yeah, they had Dila Flore, they had Jacque Lamar.

They had all of these great hockey players on their team, Larry Robinson.

But they were the best defensive team in the game.

They always were.

Well, that's because they always have the puck.

Really?

And this team, they always have the puck.

They don't make mistakes.

They played Washington, and it was a close game for a while.

Danny, and they just, they play, they play Ryan Worsowski hockey.

Marta and Stanley, puck is goes in behind, and they get after it because they're so fast.

They get to the net.

They've got highly skilled players.

And I am, I am looking forward to this game because it's going to be a test for the sharks.

But you know, talking to a couple of the players that played against the sharks the last couple of games with the sharks won.

The words that came to, in the conversations after the game when I talked to them were,

can't believe how fast that team is.

Every time Celebrini gets on the ice, it's, okay, what's he going to do now?

They're so quick on pucks.

They're so quick up and down the ice.

There's very complimentary, the players who lost to the San Jose sharks that I know.

And they, they were, boy, you guys are on the right track.

You guys can go.

Was Wade Flaherty on the trip, by the way, I meant to ask you for one to pick.

I didn't see him. No, I don't think he is.

He's a guy that, it's interesting.

He has worked with this gold tender Conor hella book for his entire career.

I think he deserves a lot of credit for developing this guy.

And he's yet another one of those former sharks, Dylan de Meadow, being another one on that team.

It's probably among the people you saw.

You know, when you, when you look at the, the national hockey league and the tentacles that reach out from each team,

and how there's so many abilities to, you know, connect like that show the game with the six degrees of separation of Kevin Bacon,

all the movies.

If you put this star, did he start a movie with Kevin Bacon somewhere down the line?

That's basically what you knew with the San Jose sharks these days.

It really is incredible.

And of course, for today's game, the big test is going to be for Yaroslav Askeroff in goal.

Looks like Adam Godet is going to get in for Pablo Regenda, which is something that he's been deserving to play all this time.

And it looks also as if that the change that the coaching staff made it aligned to put Colin Graff with Sudobrini and Smith is going to stay intact.

And so that's going to flip things around because of how well they played.

The Michael Misa line stays the same.

Why would you change that?

And what we've got is a great contest.

Scott Hannon and I are on at 630 tonight, Pacific time for the sharks and Montreal.

That's it for the morning skate today.

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