{"id":13333,"date":"2025-10-19T23:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/13333\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:42:12","slug":"san-jose-sharks-recall-luca-cagnoni-place-shakir-mukhamadullin-on-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/13333\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks Recall Luca Cagnoni, Place Shakir Mukhamadullin On IR"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Jose Sharks have recalled Luca Cagnoni<\/a>, one of their top defensive prospects, from their AHL affiliate, the San Jose Barracuda. In a corresponding move<\/a>, the team placed defenseman Shakir Mukhamadullin<\/a> on injured reserve. Mukhamadullin is dealing with an upper-body injury and is now set to miss the team\u2019s upcoming four-game road trip.<\/p>\n

Although the Sharks have one of the NHL\u2019s more crowded bluelines at this point (this recall gives them eight healthy defensemen, per Puckpedia\u2019s tracking<\/a>) this move is nonetheless an opportunity for Cagnoni. The 20-year-old 2023 fourth-round pick had an exceptional debut campaign in pro hockey last year, amassing 52 points in 64 AHL games en route to AHL All-Rookie Team honors.<\/p>\n

An undersized left-shot defenseman, Cagnoni\u2019s calling card has always been his ability to generate offense from the blueline. While it\u2019s still likely too early in the season to assess overall trends for teams, the Sharks currently rank 28th in goals scored per game and have scored just four goals in their last three games.<\/p>\n

Should Cagnoni get into any NHL games due to this recall, the move could potentially help spark the Sharks\u2019 offense due to the creativity Cagnoni offers from the blueline. Cagnoni has six NHL games on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 from last season, wherein he registered two points.<\/p>\n

While Cagnoni appears unlikely to displace Dmitry Orlov<\/a> or Mario Ferraro<\/a> as one of the Sharks\u2019 top-two left-side blueliners (at least at this point in his career), it\u2019s possible the Sharks could give Sam Dickinson<\/a> (who is still just 19 years old) a breather and dress Cagnoni for a game instead.<\/p>\n

Such a move would not be without precedent: the Pittsburgh Penguins scratched rookie blueliner Harrison Brunicke<\/a> as part of a larger development plan to keep their young blueliner \u201cfresh\u201d and capable of sustaining a high level of play.<\/p>\n

Since Dickinson is occupying a second-unit power play role with John Klingberg<\/a> injured, it\u2019s also a possibility that Cagnoni gets a look there should they elect to give Dickinson a game off.<\/p>\n

Regardless of whether Cagnoni ultimately gets into NHL games as a result of this recall or not, it\u2019s nonetheless an encouraging sign for the young blueliner\u2019s long-term future that he\u2019s already being called upon as an option for the NHL roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks have recalled Luca Cagnoni, one of their top defensive prospects, from their AHL affiliate,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3521,88,90,89,98,3519],"class_list":{"0":"post-13333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-luca-cagnoni","9":"tag-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-headlines","11":"tag-san-jose-news","12":"tag-san-jose-sharks","13":"tag-shakir-mukhamadullin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13333","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=13333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}