SAN JOSE – San Jose Sharks prospect winger Cam Lund was still being evaluated, and his availability for the start of training camp next week remained in question Sunday after he sustained an upper-body injury the night before in a Rookie Faceoff game against the Los Angeles Kings.
Lund was injured on a hit by Kings prospect defenseman Jared Woolley during the first period of Saturday’s game at Tech CU Arena. Lund left the game briefly, returned shortly after to test the injury, but did not play the final two periods as the Sharks went on to a fight-filled 8-1 win.
Barracuda coach John McCarthy said Sunday morning that Lund, 22, was still being examined and that he would not play in that night’s game against the Utah Mammoth. The Sharks begin their main camp on Thursday.
“They’re still kind of looking at him,” and determining how long he’ll be out, McCarthy said. “So once they finish their analysis, we’ll know.”
Lund, an AHL All-Star in 2026, suffered a season-ending injury in a game with the Barracuda last February when he toe-picked on the ice and fell hard into the boards. He was playing his best hockey of the season and finished his first full year as a professional with 25 points in 37 games.
Lund was drafted in the second round, 34th overall, by the Sharks in 2022. After three seasons with Northeastern University, he signed an entry-level deal with the Sharks in March 2021 and finished that year with three points in 11 NHL games.
In the third period of Saturday’s game, San Jose winger Quentin Musty, feeling Woolley had been running around too much with other hits on Ivar Stenberg and Michael Misa — two players who will likely be in the NHL to start the season — dropped the gloves and fought the 6-foot-5, 215-pound Kings defenseman.
“(Fighting is) not something I’m trained to do,” said the 6-foot-2 Musty, who had three career fights in four seasons in the OHL. “Those guys all NHL guys, and (Woolley’s) not going to come out here and touch those guys or try and hurt those guys. Like I said, it’s not something that I’m here to do. I think I’m more of a skilled forward, but anytime your teammates are getting roughed up like that, that’s the time I’ll step in and fight.
“Kind of started a war out there, but it’s the right thing to do when they’re going at guys like that.”
The two teams on Saturday combined for 10 fighting majors and 81 penalty minutes. Carson Wetsch, Andre Gasseau, and Stenberg had two goals each in the win.
Musty and Lund, drafted one year apart by the Sharks, have become good friends, and they started Saturday’s game on the same line.
“I hope it’s not major,” Musty said of Lund’s injury. “Obviously, it’s tough to see a guy go down like that. I lived with him last year. We got very close, and I love him as a teammate, love him as a friend. Tough to see him go down like that. But that was one of the main reasons for the fight, and just trying to defend him that way. Just be there as a friend for him.”
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