{"id":348001,"date":"2025-12-14T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348001\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:47:07","slug":"injury-notes-sharks-flyers-danault-erne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348001\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury Notes: Sharks, Flyers, Danault, Erne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two San Jose Sharks forwards left yesterday\u2019s dramatic comeback victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins with injuries: Philipp Kurashev<\/a> and Will Smith<\/a>. Smith left the game after a hit from Penguins defender Parker Wotherspoon<\/a>, while Kurashev also left the game with his own<\/a> apparent upper-body injury. Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky did not have any update to give regarding the status of either player.<\/p>\n

Since the Sharks have a day off Sunday, it\u2019s likely the earliest the club announces an update related to the injury suffered by either player is Monday. If either player misses time, that would be a serious blow to the Sharks\u2019 competitive hopes. Smith, the 2023 No. 4 overall pick, has scored 12 goals and 29 points in 33 games this season. His growing chemistry with franchise face Macklin Celebrini<\/a> has made Sharks hockey must-watch television.<\/p>\n

While Kurashev isn\u2019t quite as important to the Sharks\u2019 present and future as Smith, he nonetheless has been having himself a quality campaign. The versatile Swiss forward scored 18 goals and 54 points in 2023-24 playing alongside Blackhawks star Connor Bedard<\/a>. Playing once again on a team with one of the game\u2019s emerging superstar talents has clearly had its benefits for Kurashev. He\u2019s scored 15 points in 31 games this season, a 40-point full-season scoring pace. That represents a significant improvement over last season, when Kurashev only managed 14 points in 51 games, a performance that got him non-tendered by the Blackhawks over the summer. With key injury updates likely set to come Monday, the Sharks will have to hope that their two forwards have only suffered something minor.<\/p>\n

Other injury notes from across the NHL:<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet told the media, including the Philadelphia Inquirer\u2019s Jackie Spiegel<\/a>, that injured Flyers blueliners Rasmus Ristolainen<\/a> and Cam York<\/a> will travel with the team on its upcoming road trip, and are each nearing a return to the lineup. Tocchet said specifically that he expects York to play either today against the Carolina Hurricanes or Tuesday against the Montreal Canadiens, while he expects Ristolainen to return soon as well. York has been sidelined with an upper-body injury and last played Dec. 3, while Ristolainen has not yet played in 2025-26 as he\u2019s been recovering from 2024-25\u2019s season-ending surgery.
\nSome eyebrows were raised yesterday when it was revealed that Los Angeles Kings forward Phillip Danault<\/a> would not play in the Kings\u2019 Saturday contest against the Calgary Flames, due to the player\u2019s name popping up in trade rumors over the last week. But while Danault remains a possibility to be traded, his absence yesterday was not for trade-related reasons; the veteran forward was ill<\/a>, and unable to play as a result. It was reported on Dec. 8<\/a> that the Kings were exploring their options to provide Danault with a change-of-scenery type trade, but no deal has since materialized. The 32-year-old has scored at least 40 points in each of his four full seasons as a King, but has just five points in 30 games this year. He\u2019s under contract at a $5.5MM AAV through next season.
\nDallas Stars forward Adam Erne<\/a> is continuing to progress in his recovery from his lower-body injury, and is now considered day-to-day, according to Stars head coach Glen Gulutzan. (via The Dallas Morning News\u2019 Lia Assimakopoulos<\/a>) Erne last played Nov. 11 and has missed 16 consecutive games. The 30-year-old winger signed a one-year, two-way deal with the Stars in October and scored three points in 14 games before his injury. Erne played in just 10 games last season, all coming in the AHL with the Hartford Wolf Pack. He has nearly 400 career NHL games to his name, but hasn\u2019t played a full season entirely at the NHL level since his 2021-22 campaign with the Detroit Red Wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two San Jose Sharks forwards left yesterday\u2019s dramatic comeback victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins with injuries: Philipp Kurashev…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[192050,64,63,7521,3899,7526,575,3065,9853,89070,7527,85,10221],"class_list":["post-348001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-adam-erne","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dallas-stars","tag-injury","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-philipp-kurashev","tag-ryan-warsofsky","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports","tag-will-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}