{"id":130751,"date":"2026-01-12T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130751\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:29:08","slug":"sharks-injury-update-smith-upgraded-to-day-to-day-kurashev-will-not-travel-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130751\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks Injury Update: Smith Upgraded to Day-to-Day, Kurashev Will Not Travel Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith\u2019s return appears imminent\u2026could it be on Jan. 15 at the Washington Capitals?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a possibility, as Smith\u2019s upper-body injury has now been upgraded, from week-to-week to day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Smith also took contact today for the first time in about a month during a San Jose Sharks\u2019 optional practice.<\/p>\n<p>A big hurdle for Smith will be Wednesday, when the Sharks practice in Washington, D.C. He\u2019ll need a full-contact practice, perhaps a couple, before he\u2019s ready for game action.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will Smith flashing the white on his skates! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ySdQ68kLMu\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ySdQ68kLMu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sheng_Peng\/status\/2010799502417088668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Sharks play on Jan. 15 and 16 at the Capitals and Detroit Red Wings, and Jan. 19 and 20 at the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Defensemen Shakir Mukhamadullin (upper-body) and Vincent Desharnais (upper-body) are also expected to travel. They both practiced today, but their game-readiness remains a question mark. Warsofsky said neither blueliner is closer than the other to returning.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Philipp Kurashev (upper-body) will not travel tomorrow with the San Jose Sharks, but there\u2019s a possibility that he will join the team on the trip.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Smith\u2019s return appears imminent\u2026could it be on Jan. 15 at the Washington Capitals? It\u2019s a possibility, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,349,12863,5099,1036,88,90,89,98,3519,4218,3578],"class_list":{"0":"post-130751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-featured","9":"tag-injury","10":"tag-philipp-kurashev","11":"tag-road-trip","12":"tag-ryan-warsofsky","13":"tag-san-jose","14":"tag-san-jose-headlines","15":"tag-san-jose-news","16":"tag-san-jose-sharks","17":"tag-shakir-mukhamadullin","18":"tag-vincent-desharnais","19":"tag-will-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130751","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=130751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}