San Jose Sharks
Celebrini Won’t Play in Winnipeg, Mukhamadullin Closer to Return Than Celebrini
CHICAGO — Macklin Celebrini is eligible to come off IR for Friday’s game against the Winnipeg Jets…but he won’t.
That’s what San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky told San Jose Hockey Now today.
“He’s progressing well. He’s still in this week-to-week phase. I think he’s taking steps in the right direction,” Warsofsky, who previously hadn’t ruled out Macklin Celebrini from Friday’s game, said. “But we’ll get a better feel when we get home here on Saturday.”
Warsofsky says that Celebrini, dealing with a hip injury, is not skating yet back at home in San Jose.
The San Jose Sharks have a hectic schedule over the next few days, taking on the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night and the Jets on Friday on the road, a home game against the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday, then the beginning of a four-game road trip in Anaheim on Tuesday.
We’re not sure of Celebrini’s status yet for Sunday or the upcoming road trip.
But Warsofsky did comment on Shakir Mukhamadullin’s lower-body injury, which the San Jose Sharks defenseman has been nursing since the beginning of training camp.
“I would say Shakir is closer than Mack,” Warsofsky said, about Mukhamadullin possibly being ready to make the upcoming road trip. “He’s skating. When we get back from [this] road trip, we’ll discuss what the next steps are, but he’s moving in the right direction.”
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Injury bug hitting the team early, hope they can get through this soon so we can see what hte team really has.
Took a look at the Ducks stats and 1 thing stood out. The ice time distribution. The top ice time forward for ANA (Leo Carlsson) is averaging 16:58 per game. 10 of the 12 forwards are over 13 minutes per night. This is the sort of balance I’d like to see for the Sharks. For the Sharks, Eklund and Granlund average 22+ minutes. Eklund isn’t really built for 22 minutes a night and in a re-building season, Granlund doesn’t need to get big minutes. Even if he is the best player on the team. We’ve got respectable 3rd and 4th… Read more »
Those guys both play on PP1 and PK and Top line, Leo does not play PK. Sharks have been taking lot of penalties. Not saying you are completely wrong, more that your argument is better using 5v5 numbers which while not as stark bare out some of what you are alluding to, that perhaps a spread the wealth is better. Course maybe trying to get a W here too.
Lost opportunity for Wars to say “Muk is closer than Mack”.
“Shak is closer than the return of the Mack”
28 years later; I still read the words “return of the Mack” in Mark Morrison’s voice every time.