{"id":489706,"date":"2026-02-19T08:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489706\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:13:07","slug":"san-jose-sharks-tyler-toffoli-misses-practice-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489706\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks’ Tyler Toffoli misses practice with lower body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2013 Winger Tyler Toffoli<\/a> missed Wednesday\u2019s practice with a lower-body injury, leaving his availability for the San Jose Sharks\u2019 next regular-season game<\/a> somewhat in question.<\/p>\n

Toffoli was injured in the Sharks\u2019 game against the Colorado Avalanche<\/a> on Feb. 4, with coach Ryan Warsofsky saying Toffoli absorbed a hit, possibly in the second period. Toffoli finished the game and was listed as having three shots on net and two giveaways in 14:59 of ice time as the Sharks lost 4-2<\/a> at Ball Arena.<\/p>\n

Toffoli, who is considered day to day, skated on his own early Wednesday morning, with Warsofsky saying he\u2019ll have a better idea in the next few days whether the veteran will have to miss any games. The Sharks (27-24-4), five points out of a playoff spot,<\/a> begin the post-Olympic schedule with a crucial six-game homestand, starting with a Feb. 26 game against the Calgary Flames.<\/p>\n

Playing mostly in San Jose\u2019s top six forward group this season, Toffoli is tied for third on the Sharks\u2019 roster with 15 goals and is fourth with 36 points.<\/p>\n

Veteran defenseman Dmitry Orlov was also absent from Wednesday\u2019s practice as he had trouble returning from the Lake Tahoe area due to recent snowstorms.<\/a> He is expected back with the team in the next day or two.<\/p>\n

OTHER INJURY NOTES<\/p>\n

The Sharks have two roster players on injured reserve in forwards Ryan Reaves and Ty Dellandrea. Reaves (upper body) practiced\u00a0 Wednesday and is on track to be activated next week, while Dellandrea (lower body) remains week-to-week.<\/p>\n

Warsofsky said the team is optimistic Dellandrea can return before the end of the regular season in April. The Sharks have 27 regular-season games remaining. Before his injury in a Jan. 6 home game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, Dellandrea had 11 points in 42 games<\/a> and had become one of the Sharks\u2019 top penalty killers and faceoff specialists.<\/p>\n

BYSTEDT, LEDDY RECALLED<\/p>\n

Center Filip Bystedt and defenseman Nick Leddy both practiced with the Sharks on Wednesday morning after they were recalled from the Barracuda. The Sharks needed bodies at practice with forwards Macklin Celebrini, Philipp Kurashev, Alex Wennberg, and Pavol Regenda still with their respective teams at the Olympic Games in Italy.<\/p>\n

Bystedt leads the Barracuda with 36 points in 40 games but is still recovering from a head injury he sustained in a Feb. 6 game against Abbotsford. The injury cost him a chance to play in the AHL All-Star Classic after he was selected to be the Barracuda\u2019s representative for the event last month. Forward Cam Lund was chosen as a replacement. It\u2019s unclear when Bystedt might play again.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was disappointing,\u201d Bystedt said. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be chosen, and to not be able to go, it would have been a cool experience to see all the other good guys there, and take in the whole experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leddy was placed on waivers by the Sharks on Jan. 17 and was assigned to the AHL after he cleared waivers the next day.<\/a> He has practiced but not played in any of the Barracuda\u2019s last nine games since the transaction, with Warsofsky saying, \u201cthere are things behind the scenes that (Leddy and the Sharks organization are) working through.\u201d<\/p>\n

WARSOFSKY ON SKINNER<\/p>\n

Warsofsky credited Jeff Skinner for his professionalism in recent weeks, noting that the veteran winger was a healthy scratch f<\/a>or 10 straight games before the Olympic break began earlier this month. Skinner and the Sharks mutually agreed to terminate the remainder of his one-year contract on Monday, allowing him to become an unrestricted free agent and sign with another team.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wasn\u2019t playing there for a while, and he worked hard, did everything we asked, showed up with a good attitude,\u201d Warsofsky said of Skinner. \u201cUnfortunately, just the circumstances that we\u2019re in with our roster and where we are in our transition period as an organization, he was kind of the odd man out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 Winger Tyler Toffoli missed Wednesday\u2019s practice with a lower-body injury, leaving his availability for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,56495,485,1571,56492,3914,575,12204,7527,56496,56494,56497,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-489706","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-bay-area","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-history","13":"tag-inside-sports","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-san-jose","17":"tag-san-jose-sharks","18":"tag-santa-clara-county","19":"tag-sharks-alert","20":"tag-south-bay","21":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489706","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=489706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}