SAN JOSE \u2013 Sharks forward Adam Gaudette has a lower-body injury and will have to miss Wednesday\u2019s game with the Minnesota Wild, coach Ryan Warsofsky said.<\/p>\n
Gaudette was injured during the Sharks\u2019 5-4 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Monday night, with his last shift coming early in the third period. He is now considered day-to-day.<\/p>\n
The Sharks finish their homestand with games against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday and the Columbus Blue Jackets next Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Gaudette, signed to a two-year, $4 million contract as a free agent in July, has helped solidify the Sharks\u2019 bottom-six forward group with 14 points in 33 games this season. He is also seventh on the team with eight goals, with two coming on the power play.<\/p>\n
Taking Gaudette\u2019s spot in the lineup for Wednesday\u2019s game will likely be Pavol Regenda, who was recalled from the Barracuda on Tuesday morning and took part in the Sharks\u2019 early afternoon practice. Regenda was also with the Sharks at the start of December and had two goals in two games before he was returned to the AHL.<\/p>\n
Without Gaudette, the Sharks only have 12 healthy forwards on the active roster right now. Will Smith and Philipp Kurashev, both out with upper body injuries, skated Tuesday but remain week-to-week, Warsofsky said.<\/p>\n
While the Sharks (19-17-3) enter Wednesday holding the Western Conference\u2019s second wild card spot, the Wild (24-10-6) have won nine of their last 11 games and are third in the Central Division.<\/p>\n
With Norris Trophy winner Quinn Hughes, who Minnesota acquired from the Vancouver Canucks on Dec. 12, in the lineup, the Wild are 6-1-1.<\/p>\n
OTHER INJURIES<\/p>\n
Defenseman Shakir Mukhamadullin was injured during Monday\u2019s game and is questionable to play Wednesday, Warsofsky said. Mukhamadullin was on the ice for two Ducks goals, and his failed clearing attempt started a sequence that led to Troy Terry\u2019s goal with 4:02 left in the third period that cut the Sharks\u2019 lead to 5-4.<\/p>\n
Asked if Mukhamadullin\u2019s injury affected his performance, \u201cIt could. Let\u2019s be honest, it\u2019s an injury. Guys have played through a lot of injuries. (Ty Dellandrea\u2019s) battling it out. (Alexander) Wennberg\u2019s battling it out. So I give (Mukhamadullin) credit for finishing the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cGuys did a good job of playing through injuries and kind of just getting through it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sharks defensemen Vincent Desharnais and Timothy Liljegren, both out with upper-body injuries, practiced Tuesday but will not be available to play against the Wild. Desharnais hasn\u2019t played since Nov. 26, when the Sharks were walloped 6-0 by the Colorado Avalanche, and Liljegren\u2019s last game came on Dec. 18, when San Jose lost 5-3 to the Dallas Stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 Sharks forward Adam Gaudette has a lower-body injury and will have to miss Wednesday\u2019s game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[404,88,90,89,98,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-114213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-headlines","11":"tag-san-jose-news","12":"tag-san-jose-sharks","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}