SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Everyone has a story about the ping-pong table at the San Jose Sharks ' practice facility.

That includes the franchise players, role players and those who just got called up from the minors. Even the head coaches, assistant coaches and support staff members have stories about the piece of recreational equipment.

This includes second-year Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky. One day, while outside his office, he discovered Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith playing an unconventional style of ping-pong.

"They're playing ping-pong with their shirts off, whacking each other with balls, having welts on them," Warsofsky recalled. "That was kind of my first moment where I'm like, 'Oh my God, these kids are 18 and 19 years old.' But then you talk to them about hockey -- and you

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