Welcome to the NHL Status Report. Here is the latest lineup\/injury news around the NHL.<\/p>\n
San Jose Sharks<\/p>\n
Kiefer Sherwood<\/a> will make his Sharks debut at the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday (9 p.m. ET; NBCSCA, ALT). The forward was acquired in a trade from the Vancouver Canucks on Jan. 19 but hasn\u2019t played since Jan. 10 because of an undisclosed injury. \u201cI’ve been itching for a while and just hoping to try to get back before the before the break; I want to get to know the guys a little bit on the ice,\u201d Sherwood said after the morning skate. \u201cObviously, it’s one thing off the ice; they’ve been extremely welcoming and excited. So, I’m just excited to try to feed them and, yeah, just add to the joy that they come in the rink with every day.\u201d Sherwood had 23 points (17 goals, six assists), in 44 games prior to the trade. He can become an unrestricted free agent July 1. \u201cWe went and acquired him for a reason, and I think we need to get him in the mix with our group here a little bit,\u201d San Jose coach Ryan Warsofsky said. “When we first got him, he obviously wasn’t healthy enough, and now that he’s checked a lot of boxes for us to get him in the lineup \u2026 we just felt like this is a good opportunity, with [Ryan Reaves] banged up, to get him in.\u201d Reaves, a forward, was placed on injured reserve Tuesday; he is day to day with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n New Jersey Devils<\/p>\n Jack Hughes<\/a> (lower body) will miss his third straight game when the Devils host the New York Islanders on Thursday (7 p.m. ET; MSGSN2, MSGSN). The forward, who was named to Team USA’s roster for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, was injured during the first period of a 3-2 overtime win against the Nashville Predators on Jan. 29. He skated again Wednesday after skating and shooting pucks on his own Tuesday. “Jack is just not improved enough to the point that our medical team will let him get out there, so he’s not going to be available for tomorrow,\u201d New Jersey coach Sheldon Keefe said after practice Wednesday. “Based on what they’ve told me, they’re not concerned about [him missing the Olympics]. He’s in the day-to-day category, and it just so happens we don’t have a lot of days left here. I don’t even know exactly what the schedule is when they go over there, but I don’t think they have any concern at this point.\u201d Hughes has 36 points (12 goals, 24 assists) in 36 games. … Forwards Nico Hischier<\/a> and Connor Brown<\/a> did not practice (maintenance) but are expected to play Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the NHL Status Report. Here is the latest lineup\/injury news around the NHL. San Jose Sharks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-458558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458558","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=458558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}