KANATA, Ont. – Alexander Wennberg will not be returning to the San Jose Sharks lineup anytime soon.

The Sharks’ veteran center, per coach Ryan Warsofsky, is now considered week-to-week with an upper-body injury he sustained during the team’s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday at Scotiabank Arena. As of Tuesday, Wennberg, at least for the time being, had been considered day-to-day.

Wennberg will remain with the Sharks through the end of the road trip on Saturday when they play the Boston Bruins, and be re-evaluated by team doctors after the team returns to San Jose.

Wennberg, 32, missed the end of Monday’s 3-1 loss to the Maple Leafs and Tuesday’s 4-3 overtime win over the Montreal Canadiens. Warsofsky didn’t get into details about what’s wrong with Wennberg or how the injury happened.

“We have a good idea,” Warsofsky said of how the injury occurred. “We want our doctors to figure it out.”

The Sharks are keeping the same forward lines and defense pairs they had in Montreal for Thursday’s game against the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Center. That means Collin Graf will remain in Wennberg’s former spot, playing between wingers Tyler Toffoli and Mason Marchment.

Before his injury, Wennberg had three assists in nine games and averaged 20:00 in ice time, third among all Sharks forwards. So far this season, he has played on the first power-play unit, the penalty kill, and led the team with 158 faceoffs.

Through two-plus years with the Sharks, Wennberg has 93 points in 166 games. He had 35 points in his first season in San Jose in 2024-25, but after Mikael Granlund’s departure, he got more offensive opportunities last season and scored a career-high 18 goals, finishing with 55 points in 80 games.

“He just quiets the game,” Warsofsky said of Wennberg, now in his 13th NHL season. “He’s an eraser out there when it comes to helping other people and correcting some mistakes that happen throughout the game.

“But look, every team loses players. You look (at the Senators), they’ve lost players. It’s the nature of this business. It’s the next man up. We’ve got to compete tonight a lot harder than we did against Montreal.”

Warsofsky liked how Graf played at center against the Canadiens: he won four of six faceoffs, had five shot attempts, and blocked three shots. Graf last played center in college, at Union College in 2021-22 before playing the next two years at Quinnipiac, where he won an NCAA Division I title with the Bobcats in 2023.

“He’s working on (faceoffs) daily, whether that’s through video, on the ice, and morning skates,” Warsofsky said. “I think the more reps you get, the more comfortable you get. We’ve just got to keep working and understanding that it’s not going to be perfect, but it’s a work in progress.

“I think he did a really good job playing the middle there Tuesday night. He hadn’t done it since college, so to do that on the fly was impressive.”