San Jose Sharks
Preview/Lines #38: Eklund, Walman Out With Injuries in Hertl’s Return to SAP Center
The San Jose Sharks will be shorthanded for Tomas Hertl’s return to SAP Center.
Both William Eklund and Jake Walman will not be playing, both out with day-to-day injuries, per head coach Ryan Warsofsky.
Eklund, the San Jose’s second-leading scorer at 27 points, has an upper-body injury, which occurred when Tyler Myers crushed him on Dec. 23 at the Vancouver Canucks.
San Jose Hockey Now reported that William Eklund‘s injury would be labeled day-to-day on Thursday.
Walman, the Sharks’ leading scorer on defense with 25 points, has a lower-body injury that he played through on Dec. 21 at the Edmonton Oilers. He missed the next game.
Played through it, so just kind of flared up after the game.
Warsofsky said both are roughly on the same timeline of return.
San Jose Sharks (11-20-6)
#SJSharks lines this morning, no Walman or Eklund:
Goodrow-Granlund-Toffoli
Zetterlund-Celebrini-Smith
Kovalenko-Wennberg-Kunin
Grundstrom-Sturm-DellandreaThrun-Ceci
Ferraro-Liljegren
Mukhamadullin-Rutta— Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) December 27, 2024
#SJSharks power play lines today:
Liljegren-Celebrini-Toffoli-Granlund-Wennberg
Mukhamadullin-Smith-Zetterlund-Kovalenko-Kunin— Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) December 27, 2024
Alexandar Georgiev will start.
Warsofsky says Klim Kostin, upper-body injury, will be an option to play after today.
The #SJSharks have activated F Klim Kostin from injured reserve.
G Vitek Vanecek has been placed on IR.
— San Jose Sharks PR (@SanJoseSharksPR) December 27, 2024
As for Marc-Edouard Vlasic, he continues to practice with the team, but Warsofsky had no timeline for his return.
“We’ll look at the schedule in January,” Warsofsky said. “We’ll have some more practice time.”
Warsofsky, however, didn’t rule out Vlasic coming back before then.
Vegas Golden Knights (23-8-3)
Adin Hill will start.
Still weird pic.twitter.com/O0ZvstmCiz
— Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) December 27, 2024
This is how the Knights skated in their last game:
Another shuffle to the lines prior to tonight's game vs ANA.
Olofsson-Eichel-Stone⁰Hertl-Karlsson-Kolesar⁰Howden-Laczynski-Dorofeyev⁰Pearson-Schwindt-Holtz
McNabb-Theodore⁰Hanifin-Pietrangelo⁰Hague-Whitecloud
— SinBin.vegas (@SinBinVegas) December 23, 2024
Where To Watch
Puck drop between the San Jose Sharks and Vegas Golden Knights is 7:30 PM PT at SAP Center. Watch it live on NBC Sports California. Listen to it on the Sharks Audio Network.
