{"id":255947,"date":"2025-11-02T03:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255947\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T03:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:57:07","slug":"evening-notes-liljegren-dubois-fensore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255947\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Notes: Liljegren, Dubois, Fensore"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Jose Sharks defenseman Timothy Liljegren<\/a> exited the team\u2019s Saturday win over the Colorado Avalanche in the first period after a deflected puck hit him in the face while he was on the bench. The injury looked painful, but Liljegren isn\u2019t expected to miss the long-term with a serious injury, head coach Ryan Warsofsky told Bay Area News Group\u2019s Curtis Pashelka<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Liljegren recorded seven minutes of ice time and a minus-one before exiting. The injury forced an end to a red-hot streak for the veteran defender. He scored three points across his last three games, prior to Saturday, and averaged over 24 minutes of ice time across his last five. He\u2019s begun to show some sea legs after being thrust to the top of a young Sharks blue-line in the early season. Liljegren and defense partner Dmitry Orlov<\/a> have outscored their opponents three-to-one \u2013 the best mark on San Jose blue-line. That will make him tough to replace, even though he\u2019s only managed three assists in eight games.<\/p>\n

The Sharks are currently carrying Sam Dickinson<\/a> and Vincent Iorio<\/a> as their extra defenders. Right-shot Iorio would likely be the preferred fill-in, though Warsofsky wouldn\u2019t committ to either defender yet.<\/p>\n

Other notes from around the league:<\/p>\n

It seems the Washington Capitals have avoided serious injury with centerman Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a>, who sustained an injury in Friday\u2019s game against the New York Islanders. He\u2019s been designated as out day-to-day with a lower-body injury, per Sammi Silber of The Hockey News<\/a>. Dubois was playing his third game back from a previous injury that held him out for two weeks. His struggles to find the scoresheet stuck around, though, pulling the reigning 66-point scorer through a sixth game with no scoring this season. He will miss Washington\u2019s Saturday match against the Buffalo Sabres, but should return to his hunt for a score in the first week of November.
\nWith K\u2019Andre Miller<\/a> nearing a return from injury, the Carolina Hurricanes have assigned<\/a> defenseman Domenick Fensore<\/a> back to the minor-leagues. Fensore played in his first game of the NHL season, and third of his career, on October 28th. He recorded two shots on net and a minus-two. He\u2019s been far more productive in the AHL, where his seven points in four games still leads the Chicago Wolves in scoring, despite the team playing two games without him. Fensore will now return to his cushy top-defender role, where he\u2019ll look to bolster a Wolves offense that\u2019s only scored three goals across their last three games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks defenseman Timothy Liljegren exited the team\u2019s Saturday win over the Colorado Avalanche in the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[6066,49,48,748,118935,5718,448,97182,764,82,118936,4584,754],"class_list":{"0":"post-255947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","12":"tag-domenick-fensore","13":"tag-injury","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-pierre-luc-dubois","16":"tag-san-jose-sharks","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-timothy-liljegren","19":"tag-transactions","20":"tag-washington-capitals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}