The San Jose Sharks count on to have Fabian Zetterlund accessible to play Friday once they face the Utah Hockey Membership on the Delta Heart.
Zetterlund, coping with a lower-body ailment, didn’t apply Wednesday or Thursday and was thought of questionable to play in opposition to Utah. However Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky mentioned Friday morning that Zetterlund, tied for third on the staff with 11 targets this season, needs to be wholesome sufficient to decorate for the sport.
Zetterlund led the Sharks final season with 24 targets and has performed in 147 consecutive video games with San Jose. That streak, the longest lively one amongst all Sharks gamers, will stay intact for not less than yet one more day.
Zetterlund will once more line up with Mikael Granlund and William Eklund because the Sharks (13-24-6) look to bounce again from a 4-2 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday.
Defenseman Cody Ceci, who practiced Thursday, will even be in Friday’s lineup and is predicted to be paired with Henry Thrun.
Of their first sport of a back-to-back, the Sharks plan to begin goalie Alexandar Georgiev in opposition to Utah (17-16-7) and have Yaroslav Askarov play in opposition to the Minnesota Wild on Saturday night time at SAP Heart.
Georgiev began Tuesday’s sport in opposition to the Golden Knights and made a season-high 38 saves. Georgiev has misplaced 5 straight begins with the Sharks, however his look in opposition to the Golden Knights was his finest with the staff since he was acquired from Colorado on Dec. 9 as a part of a deal that despatched Mackenzie Blackwood to the Avalanche.
Askarov, recalled from the San Jose Barracuda on Dec. 18 following the facial damage to fellow goalie Vitek Vanecek, led the Sharks to wins over Tampa Bay and New Jersey earlier this month, stopping 52 of a mixed 55 photographs as he improved his file this season to 3-2-2 with a .923 save share.
Ty Dellandrea, a wholesome scratch the earlier three video games, will re-enter the Sharks lineup and begin the sport because the staff’s fourth-line heart with Barclay Goodrow and Klim Kostin on the wings.
Ahead Nikolai Kovalenko (upper-body damage) didn’t journey with the staff to Utah. He’s thought of day-to-day.
