A former first-round pick in the 2016 NHL draft, Kunin is a gritty, physical forward with over 800 career hits on his resume spanning 410 regular-season games. Kunin has 14 games worth of postseason experience, but he's not been there since he left the Nashville Predators after the 2021-22 season.

Thursday night’s game between the Nashville Predators and the San Jose Sharks offered fans a rare moment in the first period. In a never seen before sequence, three fights took place within 4 seconds, with six players dropping the gloves in a row.

The Sharks' spirited comeback against the Predators fell short Thursday night, but Luke Kunin, Barclay Goodrow and Ty Dellandrea bring something to San Jose's roster that often has lacked: fight.

Both things can be true. Luke Kunin and Barclay Goodrow and Ty Dellandrea’s back-to-back-to-back fights, the San Jose Sharks down 3-0 just 6:53 into the game, did spark the team’s spirited comeback. The Sharks would lose 6-5 to the Nashville Predators,

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Sharks alternate captain Luke Kunin, trying to spark his team, quickly dropped the gloves with Predators forward Cole Smith at the 6:54 mark. Right after the ensuing faceoff, Barclay Goodrow fought Nashville winger Michael McCarron at the 6:56 mark. Two seconds after the next faceoff, Ty Dellandrea had a quick scrap with Zachaery L’Heureux.

Nick Blankenburg scored the eventual game-winner as the Nashville Predators erased a four-goal deficit to defeat the visiting San Jose Sharks 7-5 on Tuesday night.

Following the largest comeback win in franchise history Tuesday at Bridgestone Arena, the Nashville Predators once again beat the San Jose Sharks, 6-5, in another high-scoring affair Thursday at SAP Center.

NASHVILLE — San Jose Sharks visit Bridgestone Arena to take on the Nashville Predators. Macklin Celebrini and Luke Kunin and Mikael Granlund (twice) and Jake Walman scored, but the Sharks lost 7-5. Period 1 Celebrini goal: Snipe!

Nick Blankenburg scored at 8:09 of the third to lead the Nashville Predators to a 7-5 comeback ... a goal and an assist and Jake Walman and Luke Kunin also scored for San Jose, which has lost ...

Hockey insider Elliotte Friedman has linked San Jose Sharks forward Luke Kunin as a potential trade candidate for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Friedman discussed Kunin during his latest 32 Thoughts podcast,