San Jose Sharks’ Nico Sturm takes a shot against then Vegas Golden Knights in the third period of their preseason game at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. SAN JOSE — It’s not every day you hear a hockey player wax poetic about the securities industry.
“It’s kind of like the stock market,” Sturm said. “You look over the last year, two years, has it gone up or gone down? And not just in the last week, the last two weeks. That’s just life in the NHL, both as an individual player and as a team. Some games, you feel like you’re fighting the puck or the puck’s not coming to you at all.
Mikael Granlund, who took a high hit from Logan Cooley that was not called in the third period, kept the focus on maintaining Sharks’ level of physicality, a priority under first-year coach Ryan Warsofsky. “That’s not against the officials,” Warsofsky said. “That’s just where this organization has been the last few years. But it’s starting to turn. We’re starting to get respect back in the National Hockey League for the most part. Most of the year, we’ve been pretty competitive.”