SAN JOSE – The San Jose Sharks might be down one other veteran ahead for not less than the following week as Barclay Goodrow was positioned on injured reserve Thursday with an upper-body ailment that stemmed from a excessive hit he took within the workforce’s sport towards the Ottawa Senators.
Goodrow was on his first shift of Wednesday’s sport towards the Senators at SAP Heart when he went after a unfastened puck within the Sharks’ finish that Jan Rutta had rimmed across the boards. Senators ahead Ridly Greig then caught Goodrow up excessive with successful that despatched the San Jose ahead sprawling to the ice.
Greig was known as for interference on the play on the 1:50 mark of the primary interval. Goodrow remained within the sport and performed three extra shifts earlier than he began to really feel the results of the hit and left the Sharks’ bench.
The Sharks misplaced 4-3 to the Senators as Adam Gaudette scored the game-winner with 4:12 left in regulation time. Mario Ferraro, Macklin Celebrini, and Will Smith scored for San Jose, which erased a 3-1 deficit earlier than Gaudette’s purpose.
“It happens quick. The refs have a quick decision to make,” Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky mentioned when requested if Greig’s hit warranted greater than a two-minute penalty. “They can’t go back and look at it in slow motion. It wasn’t a great hit. I didn’t like it, I can tell you that.”
Goodrow should miss not less than the following three video games, beginning with a home-and-home collection towards the Seattle Kraken on Friday at SAP Heart. After Saturday’s sport at Local weather Pledge Enviornment, San Jose will head east for 5 video games, beginning with a date towards the Washington Capitals on Tuesday.
Goodrow won’t fly with the Sharks to Seattle after Friday’s sport however may rejoin the workforce on the street. He can be eligible to return off IR earlier than the Sharks play the Tampa Bay Lightning on Dec. 5 within the second sport of the journey.
Goodrow, who has two targets and was averaging over quarter-hour of ice time in 24 video games earlier than Wednesday, gained the Stanley Cup with the Lighting in 2020 and 2021.
The Sharks recalled ahead Ethan Cardwell from the San Jose Barracuda to take Goodrow’s place on the roster. Cardwell was additionally with the Sharks for 3 video games from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2 when Ty Dellandrea was on IR.
Cardwell didn’t have some extent in three video games with the Sharks however averaged 12:44 in ice time as he turned one of many workforce’s penalty-killers. Warsofsky mentioned Cardwell’s penalty-killing prowess was one of many causes he was recalled.
Cardwell has seven factors in 13 video games for the Barracuda this season. He skated on a line Thursday morning with Nico Sturm and Klim Kostin, though the Sharks’ ahead traces have been a bit jumbled with each Alexander Wennberg and Luke Kunin given upkeep days.
Wennberg and Kunin will each play towards the Kraken, Warsofsky mentioned.
The Sharks are already with out Logan Couture (osteitis pubis), who’s out indefinitely, and will once more be with out Mikael Granlund (higher physique) for a 3rd straight sport.
Granlund participated absolutely in Thursday’s apply, skating on a line with Tyler Toffoli and Will Smith. However Warsofsky mentioned Granlund, who leads the Sharks with 24 factors in 23 video games, stays day-to-day, and his availability for Friday might be decided nearer to sport time.
Vanecek hasn’t performed within the final six video games, and his final win got here on Nov. 5 when he made 49 saves within the Sharks’ 2-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets. He’s 1-1-0 with a .902 save proportion in two profession video games towards the Kraken.
With Vanecek beginning Friday, the Sharks will seemingly flip to Mackenzie Blackwood for Saturday’s sport.
NOTABLE: The Sharks saved their high line collectively for Thursday’s apply with Celebrini within the center and William Eklund and Fabian Zetterlund on the wings. The three mixed for 12 photographs on internet and, per Pure Stat Trick, 5 high-danger scoring possibilities throughout 5-on-5 play … Defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic, who has but to play this season with an upper-body damage, practiced once more on Thursday. Nonetheless, it remained unclear as to when he would possibly get added to the Sharks’ lively roster. Warsofsky mentioned it’s doable that Vlasic might be prepared in some unspecified time in the future in the course of the workforce’s street journey, which lasts till Dec. 12.
Initially Revealed: November 28, 2024 at 1:54 PM PST
