San Jose Sharks
Sharks Practice: Eklund To Miss Another Game, Gaudette & Reaves Updates
William Eklund is still dealing with an injury.
Eklund, playing the best hockey of his career, missed his first game of the season on Sunday, a San Jose Sharks’ 3-2 shootout loss to the Detroit Red Wings.
Head coach Ryan Warsofsky said it was a day-to-day lower-body injury, something that Eklund has been playing through, and hope was, the 23-year-old winger would be ready for Wednesday’s game at the Seattle Kraken.
However, Eklund was not at practice on Tuesday, and did not travel with the team to Seattle, so he’s going to miss another contest.
After this one-game trip, the San Jose Sharks have a home back-to-back on Friday and Saturday against the Winnipeg Jets and Florida Panthers. Will the Sharks’ star winger be ready by this weekend?
“He’s trending in the right direction,” Warsofsky said.
The Sharks ran interesting lines today, before their flight to Seattle.
No Ferraro too
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Defenseman Vincent Iorio skated at forward. We’ll see if that’s meaningful, but Iorio couldn’t remember the last time that he played up front.
Defenseman Mario Ferraro and center-winger Ty Dellandrea also didn’t participate. Warsofsky says both will travel to the Pacific Northwest, but Ferraro (maintenance) is more certain to play than Dellandrea (lower-body), who’s considered questionable.
Also, center-winger Adam Gaudette (upper-body) and defenseman Nick Leddy (upper-body) are poised to come off IR, we’ll see if that happens. Both were full participants in practice today.
Ryan Reaves (lower-body) skated on his own today; he’s still considered day-to-day.
That 2nd D pair (Leddy-Klingberg) scares the living hell out of me. 10 yrs ago maybe that would be a good pairing but today? My goodness is that a Corsi hole, Cave-in city to be sure. Granted Mario was out so maybe (hopefully) this is just a placeholder. Please GMMG get rid of Leddy. He clearly does NOT want to be in SJ. Waive him, trade him for a couple of broken sticks, just please get him away from this team. Plus SJ needs his contract slot for Misa. If not Leddy leaving, name another SJ contracted player who should… Read more »
I agree about that pairing. I feel like Mukh has earned that top 4 spot with his last couple of games, and I’d feel much better putting him next to Klingberg. Dicky and Desharnais feels like an acceptable 3rd pairing and then Leddy can sit. I’m guessing the sharks are trying to stir up some interest in Leddy, though, and that requires him being in the lineup.
They have to try and get Leddy going. If he’s actually healthy and engaged, he’s the 3rd best defenseman on the team. If they’re truly trying to win and be in the playoff conversation, they need him. Deharnais is just too slow. He has to be the last option. Shouldn’t be playing before anyone else on the roster, even Iorio.
I’m not sure I agree that Leddy is the third best defenseman on the team at this point in his career. I would put Orlov, Klingberg, Liljegren, Ferraro and Mukh ahead of him, personally. I think the fact that he was placed on waivers by a mediocre team supports that.
Go look at his stats from the season before last. Orlov, Lily then Leddy (if healthy & engaged). Leddy might even be 2nd. I gave a pretty specific caveat to that assessment. He was placed on waivers because he was injured last season and the Blues didn’t want to risk having that much cap tied up in the player he was last season. The Sharks are betting on his health. Shak should move up that list pretty quick but right now he’s not. Ferraro is fuckin awful and an offense killer and I can’t wait until they move him. Klinger… Read more »
Who the F cares about stats from 2 seasons ago. it’s his play TODAY NOW that is bad. Anyone with eyes can clearly see Leddy does not want to be in SJ playing on this team. A player cannot/will not “engage” as you put it if they clearly do not want to be there. Leddy was free $$ off waivers. He is not playing up to his contracted worth of $4M so the only sunk cost SJ has in Leddy is nothing. Let him go and let him find another team to stink on, on his own. Betcha he has… Read more »
if they cannot get rid of Leddy, they do not need to move an NHL player, just an NHL contract. There are some Cuda guys on nhl contracts that are not exactly prospects that could be moved if needed
Bowers has only gotten into 3 games with the Cuda and is pointless with a -2. Might be hard to even give him away, but maybe a Regenda, who does not appear to have been as strong as his preseason suggested.
dude you don’t give up Regenda due to a slow start. That’s bad management. Plenty of other guys to move. The reality is it needs to be a defenseman from the Sharks roster because they’re carrying way too many.
Don’t give him up for nothing, but he’s tradeable in a way that Leddy or Desharnais might not be.
Deharnais is definitely moveable and that fixes the logjam.
Kinda like Vinny D, big RHD don’t grow on trees.
LHD is where the logjam is so moving one of them might be the better option with Leddy being the prime suspect, imo.
But Vinny is also more “attractive” to other teams with his lower $2M Cap hit so you may end up being correct.
That was the first pair in the first game when they almost upset Vegas.
I miss Reaves already. That dude may only play 6 minutes per game, but his vibes and leadership change the team. Did you see him on Spitting Chicklets the other day? Guy is fantastic at jabbering, can be either a coach or a broadcaster (he says he wants to be a coach, part of team). He knows his role is to protect Mack, Eky, Misa and Will and bring winning culture to the team. Help them become confident pros. Critical for our young players. I know a lot of people hate when Reaves dresses, but I think he has added… Read more »
I think most of the fan base has come around on Reaves. His usage has been appropriate and it doesn’t hurt that he’s scored a couple of goals early. Hopefully the Sharks can find replacement for him after this season, because I don’t think Ostapchuk will ever garner the same respect and I can’t think of anyone else in the system with a mean streak and size to back it up.
Even JD at LOS should be admitting he was dead wrong about Reavo. Most that panned the move don’t understand the role of a guy like that and likely never will.
I panned the move because Reaves is 38. So far he’s beat the odds and I’ve changed my tune. I don’t think it was unreasonable to have doubts that a 38-year-old could still effectively fill the role in today’s NHL.
Like I said, then you don’t understand the role. An enforcer like that can play until whenever if they can skate even a little. They aren’t counted on for offense, just locker room moral and punching and hitting. Dudes built like a super hero. Pro fighters fight into their 50s so it wasn’t unreasonable to think he could still fulfill that role.
I didn’t say they were counted on for offense, I wondered if the 6th-oldest active player in the league would physically be able to keep up enough to catch the guys he’s trying to lay hits on, and bounce back from the rigors of heavy physical play and fighting in particular. Dude may be “built like a super hero” but that’s hardly unusual in the league he plays in, so not sure how relevant that is. Pro fighters have a single digit number of matches per year, it’s utterly irrelevant to projecting age regression for a pro hockey player. I… Read more »
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I was just doing the roster math and if Eklund doesn’t play tonight that means the Sharks HAVE to activate Gaudette off IR in order to ice 12 forwards. If Eklund doesn’t go on IR in a corresponding move, it means the Sharks will have one too many players on their roster. They can’t send Cardwell down, or they’re back to 11 healthy forwards. Which means a defenseman has to be waived or traded. Short version, if the Sharks don’t put anyone on IR today they have to waive or trade someone before… Read more »
I think it was mentioned somewhere that Eklund might go IR?