Kiefer Sherwood<\/a> soon to return from injured reserve. Veterans Adam Gaudette and Ryan Reaves have sat recently. Star rookie Igor Chernyshov, right after a two-assist effort at the Florida Panthers, was sent down.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m aware of the roster situation,\u201d the 33-year-old said, when asked if he had asked for a trade. \u201cI\u2019m aware of the amount of young guys here, and sort of where I fit in the big picture. Again, I\u2019m not in control that. So, I just come to practice, and practice. Things [that] go on like that [are] between managers or agents. I think as a player, I just worry about playing or practicing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Skinner has a full No-Trade Clause through Jan. 30, and an eight-team Trade List after that.<\/p>\n
Skinner has six goals and 13 points in 33 contests this season, battling healthy scratches and a mid-November lower-body injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think everyone saw I was playing sort of a little bit up and down,\u201d Skinner lamented. \u201c[I felt] like I could get to another level. Then I got injured and come back from injury, and same thing, just up and down. And then I [felt] like I was starting to find some rhythm, and starting to find my game, and now we\u2019re here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sherwood and Kurashev are expected to return on the San Jose Sharks\u2019 upcoming road trip, so an update on the pending UFA\u2019s future should come soon. Until then, the veteran winger is focused on what he can control.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think any player wants to play,\u201d Skinner said.\u00a0 \u201cI feel like my game is in a decent spot, it is what it is. As players, people always talk about, \u2018You just control what you can control.\u2019 And for me, that\u2019s what I focus on every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where does Jeff Skinner go from here? The San Jose Sharks winger has been a healthy scratch for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,11200,2100,88,90,89,98,3236,62644],"class_list":["post-151339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-featured","tag-free-agent","tag-jeff-skinner","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-trade","tag-ufa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151339","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=151339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}