San Jose Hockey Now Podcast · Sheng Peng, Keegan McNally, Bleav

Cat Toffoli Talks Heated Rivalry! | Sharks' Sherwood Trade Excitement EP 118

·2 hr 42 min·2 clips

Kat Toffoli says the Sharks feel different because "they genuinely love each other."

Kat Toffoli gets the first chair. The crew brings her in from the Never Offside Podcast with Julie Petrie and gets into Heated Rivalry, plus the Dodgers years and the strange little Sharks-adjacent life around Tyler Toffoli. It starts loose, and that is part of the charm. The panel lets itself digress the way this show does, then circles back when the hockey question finally matters. The Sharks section comes next. From there, they work through the Florida Panthers game and the bigger shape of the team's week. Colin Graf gets a shout. The conversation treats him like an underrated piece of the game, especially on the shift that helped set up Macklin's second goal. Kiefer Sherwood takes over after that. The group leans into why he gets called a rat, why that is usually a compliment in hockey, and why the Brad Marchand comparison lands so quickly. That turns practical fast. The panel starts asking what the right complimentary winger for Macklin should actually do, especially the board work and puck retrieval that let him attack from better spots. Sherwood fits that argument. He looks like the kind of hard-nosed winger who can grind, feed pucks, and leave Macklin more room to create. The show keeps moving. Other names come up too, including Nolan Allen and maybe Halton in, as the crew looks for another defense look and keeps checking who is really doing enough right now. The end stays very Sharks. There is hope, frustration, and a little scoreboard math about how many more wins it takes to get past the Rubicon. The pace never really settles, and that is the point, because the episode works best as a noisy room that keeps finding its way back to a serious hockey read.

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Kat Toffoli, Sherwood buzz and Macklin fit talk make this a very inside-Sharks hour, mostly in a good way.

San Jose Hockey Now packs this episode around the kind of Sharks talk that plays best for people already living in the weeds. Kat Toffoli comes on from Never Offside to talk Heated Rivalry, giving the front half a fan-friendly hook before the regular crew shifts into the Florida…

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You want a Kat Toffoli interview that slides from heated rivalry talk into Sharks lineup logic.

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