The most exciting team in Bay Area sports right now isn’t the Warriors or the 49ers. It’s not Cal Football or even Tony V’s new-approach Giants.

No, it’s the San Jose Sharks.

And it’s not even particularly close.

The change has been so swift, so decisive, that the baby Sharks have overtaken Bluey as the nightly viewing of choice in the Kurtenbach living room.

Yes, the fever is catching, and it’s not coming from day care. I asked my three-year-old Tuesday night in the afterglow of Collin Graf’s incredible game-winning overtime goal against the Wild “How good are these kids?”

The answer, delivered with swift confidence: ”So good!”

And if a three-year-old who is indulging her father to delay bedtime knows it, the rest of the NHL certainly has taken note.

It is on, folks. That clatterin

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