Panthers vs. Sharks | NHL Highlights | Oct 1, 2026

Last season, his first full year in the NHL. Sharks fans all over the world, welcome to the start of the 26-27 season for your San Jose Sharks. For Ivar Stenberg and Sharks fans as well, the Florida Panthers turn it over. Here's Settle Brady with his first shot of the season, catching Akira speed up high and Celebrity with a great chance. Here's a backhand puck by Sam Bennett and now Matthew Kuchuk rips one that just goes off Askaroff wide. Here's a puck from the wing that's fired wide of the net. Comes to their side. Niko Mikula behind the goal. A chance here for Florida and the shot by Sandus Villamas and a stoppage in play. Well, with expectations come pressure and Yaroslav Askaroff has a lot of that on him. Mind you, that's a fantastic save to start out your season. And then rewarded with a nice new contract in the offseason. Trouba's pass gobbled up by Sam Reinhardt. Now back in comes Mason Marchment. Saved by speed. Panthers had their share of power plays on Tuesday in Carolina. They went 0 for 7. Here's a two-on-one. Short-handed. Nolan Allen shoots. Saved by speed and he'll cover up the rebound. Mr. Eden there tussling with Will Smith. Celebrity giving a shove. High X-land. Puck gets to the net courtesy of Marchment. No call on the high stick. Here's Mason Marchment. Looks. Wrister. And they score! Mason Marchment! Somewhere right now, Brian Marchment is looking down and smiling and you can't help but think, wow, what a great moment this is for Mason Marchment and his family but also for the San Jose Sharks. Great work on the forecheck. Will Smith does a bang-up job and then Mason turns and fires. He's not afraid to shoot. Fires it towards the net. Traffic in front of Akira Schmeid and Mason Marchment gets the first. Until that final game in Winnipeg last April and Macklin took the crown. Here's Celebrity! And a glove. Saved by speed. Under a minute to go on the Panther power play. Here's Matthew Kachuk. He'll stop. Get it. Net front off. Mascarabi finds it. It comes back out in front. Still loose. He doesn't even fire it. It's a pass to the front of the net and there you've got Lindell and then Brady comes crashing in and then you create that havoc. And the referee is having to explain right now to Ryan Warsawski how in the heck that whistle didn't go a heck of a lot earlier. Watched by Goodreau with the stick extended. Nolan Allen there too on the strong side against Sam Bennett. Bang, bang. Play! Mascarabi gets square to it and robs Brady Kachuk. Into work of Yaroslav Mascarabi who has 11 saves on the night. Celebrity with a steal off Matthew Kachuk and now with Will Smith 2-1-1. Here's Celebrity to Smith. Let's go back. Forward check or a back check I should say. Defensive check anyway. Mattman Celebrity creates the turnover. He draws the man to him. Gives it to Will Smith and from my angle, Randy, right here I can see where Will was shooting at. A beautiful look at it. The speed. Very hard to catch. Boom! Beautiful shot. Beautiful placement. This place is going crazy. A seemingly harmless play in the offensive zone. Goes down and goes off. Now a chance for Reinhardt. Saved by Mascarabi. Wins a job in training camp. Now to establish himself as the go-to man on the power play at least from the point. Here's Smith and he gave up the shot. Set up the first of the year. Good work again along the boards and then Mattman Celebrity after a little bit of a shovel pass by Will Smith Mattman Celebrity slides it around. Let's see from this angle if we can see. Gets it to Mattman. What a play by Will. Here's the overhead. You know what? I think it's going to be Will's goal. Two special team goals tonight. One shorty by Will Smith and a power play for Celebrity. Wemberg with a great look there and a big save for Akira Schmid. You can waste 20 seconds if you're in the penalty kill or you get a dynamite chance right off the bat. Good face-off win. Real good puck movement. Bing bang boom and a nice save by Akira Schmid. Well you know how Kiefer is. The emotion that he plays with it is unbridled passion. And the good news is you've got a 20 goal guy on your fourth line. Ekblad. Askerov the save and they score on the rebound. 8-2. Lusterinen. A power play goal for Florida and it's 3-1. On the power play especially when you're shorthanded. Good job on the pursuit. Look at how they get inside on this particular play. So they get possession of Florida Panthers. Goes deep. Goes behind the net and then the shot and the rebound. Again, very simple. It's just a wrister by Ekblad but inside position at the net by two guys. And that leads to the goal. That inside position if you can, you want to come up and try to front. Randy Hahn. Drew Emenda. Tara Sloan. Glad you're along. Game 1 of 84. Here's Graff. He's slowed down by Bennett. Now here's Wenberg who throws one off the pads of Schmied. Before those two wins last year over Florida the Sharks had lost ten in a row to the Panthers over five years. Things have changed. Here's Michael Mesa. In alone and it's saved by Schmied. Now Lusterinen who has the Florida goal. Working against Will Smith and Mason Marshmidt. Lundell back for Kulikov. He'll scoop one and they score. A bad deflection and Florida is within a goal. It's 3-2. You can't protect net front. You get the net dry but you've got two layers. Good job by the Florida Panthers to keep the puck alive and then roll back. So you've got the man in tight and then you've got the high slot deflection. Just a shot towards the net and it wasn't really even just off the body. Did it hit Lusterinen? Yeah, it hit Lusterinen just in front. It was just off his body. It's not like he... Oh well, maybe there he did. Well no, geez, it went off of Lusterinen. And the Panthers now smell blood. They've cut the lead to just a goal. 3-2. Lots of time left here in the third. Here's Matthew Kachuk and we're tied. Average is over a point a game in his career against the Sharks. Matthew Kachuk makes it 3-3. On this particular play, it's for check and then on the boards. We talked earlier about how the Florida Panthers make sure they pinch and keep pucks in the zone. Put a lot of pressure on trying to get the puck out along the board. Mesa has it. For check. That's just a simple for check and a good shot and traffic. Five left here in the third. Tie game. 3-3. As the Panthers look to start their year 2-0. Askarov a save. Rebound. Another save by Askarov down in the crease he is. Back for Sam Bennett. He couldn't catch up to it but Kulikov did. Just stays in. Off the high glass down to Carter Verhege. Matthew Kachuk. One-hander. And a stuffed play. Bennett denied by Askarov in the crease. Here's Jones scampering to keep it in for Florida. It's deep again to Lusterinan. Lusterinan. One-timer. Lundell. Huge stop by Askarov. It's Cagnone with it up top. Celebrini flanked on the right. Macklin waiting. Thought about the one-timer. Carries it into the high slot. Back to Cagnone. And it's blocked in front as it hit Ekblad. Draws it back. Gives for Will Smith. Luka Cagnone. Full-up shot. Blue liner. Luka with the puck. Look. Smith. One-timer. Off the stick. It looked like it hit Guda's blade and went wide of the net. Here's Cagnone again. Celebrini ready. Luke shoots. And it's saved by Speed. Got his blocker out on it. Now Smith with four on four. Down low. March with the shot. Speed dives out after it. Can't control it. Reinhardt will clear it. It'll be icing against Florida. Puck movement. Some chances on net. Missed a couple opportunities. Misa takes it to the net. Goes down by Bennett. Gives it for Cagnone. And he can't control as it's back out across center to Will Smith. Celebrini goes to the bench. In comes Smith with the puck. Will protecting. Cagnone. Will Smith. Good job bringing the puck up. No look. Now he finds Luka Cagnone who jumps up with the perfect time.