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Injury Update: Toffoli Ruled Out Tomorrow, 4 Sharks Miss Practice, Recall Coming?

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BOSTON — For several San Jose Sharks, coming to Boston is a homecoming.



For the team though, the bumps and bruises are piling up.

Four skaters missed practice at TD Garden on Sunday, Tyler Toffoli, Fabian Zetterlund, Mikael Granlund, and Marc-Edouard Vlasic.

The Sharks, perhaps because of the shortage in manpower, didn’t even bother to skate in lines.

After practice, San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky ruled Toffoli out for the Monday’s tilt against the Boston Bruins.

Toffoli suffered a lower-body injury during Saturday’s morning skate. He tested it during warm-ups before the match-up against the New York Islanders, but it wasn’t good to go.

Warsofsky still considers the injury day-to-day.

Granlund also has a lower-body injury, though Warsofsky did not rule him out for Monday.

Zetterlund is still dealing with the lower-body injury that’s kept him out of practices recently.

Vlasic, who played yesterday’s game very sick, according to Warsofsky, was given a maintenance day. Warsofsky said that Vlasic lost a lot of weight last night.

At least San Jose’s sickness situation seems to be improving, in general.

Warsofsky didn’t rule out Granlund, Zetterlund, or Vlasic for tomorrow, which is good news.

More good news, Timothy Liljegren returned to practice. He missed yesterday’s game because of illness, and you assume that he was very sick, because Vlasic had to play, and Liljegren was the only Shark on the roster that San Jose Hockey Now didn’t see around UBS Arena on Saturday.

Warsofsky said he should be an option for Monday.

Nikolai Kovalenko practiced for a second-straight day, and Warsofsky says that he could be an option tomorrow.

Yaroslav Askarov is also improving and should be an option to start against either the Bruins on Monday or the Nashville Predators on Tuesday.

Warsofsky said that Askarov lost at least five pounds during his recent illness, which kept him from starting the Islanders game, as originally scheduled.

There was no sight of Klim Kostin, though SJHN didn’t check in on his status.

We’ll see what kind of line-up that the San Jose Sharks can put together tomorrow. Warsofsky did note that he’s not expecting any reinforcements from the San Jose Barracuda, who are in Abbotsford, a sign of the relative health of the Sharks.

 

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