{"id":502139,"date":"2026-10-20T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502139\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:14:18","slug":"san-jose-sharks-alexander-wennberg-injured-in-game-vs-maple-leafs-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502139\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks’ Alexander Wennberg injured in game vs. Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2013 Center Alexander Wennberg sustained an upper-body injury Monday night, forcing him to leave<\/a> the San Jose Sharks\u2019 game against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what caused Wennberg\u2019s injury, but he didn\u2019t play the final 3:56 of the third period in a 3-1 loss<\/a> to the Maple Leafs. The same issue also forced Wennberg to leave the Sharks\u2019 bench briefly earlier in the period. He finished with 16:19 of ice time.<\/p>\n

Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky said postgame that he hadn\u2019t received an update on Wennberg and didn\u2019t know whether his ailment would keep him out of Tuesday\u2019s game in Montreal against the Canadiens.<\/p>\n

If Wennberg misses Tuesday\u2019s game, his absence would no doubt ripple through the Sharks\u2019 lineup.<\/p>\n

Wennberg, the Sharks\u2019 second-line center, entered Monday with three assists in eight games and is typically matched up against the opposing team\u2019s top line, especially at home. He was also third among all Sharks forwards in average ice time (20:00) and led the team in faceoffs taken with 158, including 113 at even strength.<\/p>\n

Recently, he\u2019s formed an effective line with Mason Marchment and Tyler Toffoli. Marchment scored the Sharks\u2019 only goal Monday, taking a pass from Toffoli behind the Leafs\u2019 defense and beating goalie Sergei Bobrovsky in close for a 1-0 San Jose lead 13:54 into the first period.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been pretty good actually,\u201d Warsofsky said of the line. \u201cObviously, scored a big goal there. They\u2019ve been doing a lot of good things. They\u2019re getting to the net.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sharks liked a lot of what they did against the Maple Leafs, as they peppered Bobrovsky with 30 shots, including 13 in the second period.<\/p>\n

But special teams were the difference Monday, as the Sharks went 0-for-4 on the power play, and the Leafs went 2-for-5.<\/p>\n

Auston Matthews\u2019 power-play goal with 12 seconds left in the second period tied the game 1-1, and Gavin McKenna\u2019s man-advantage goal 4:56 into the third period put the Leafs ahead for good.<\/p>\n

Matthews\u2019 goal came after the Sharks were whistled for too many men, and McKenna\u2019s goal came after Luca Cagnoni was called for cross-checking Brandon Duhaime.<\/p>\n

Sharks captain Macklin Celebrini said the too-many-men call was due to a miscommunication. From the bench, Celebrini jumped on the ice thinking Michael Misa was coming off, but the second-year center stayed on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s on me,\u201d Celebrini said.<\/p>\n

The Sharks have lost four of their last five games but feel their game is close.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not playing bad hockey,\u201d Celebrini said. \u201cWe\u2019re in all these games, and it\u2019s just the little stuff, the details that have cost us games down the stretch, and then tonight kind of not executing when we need to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re all right. We know we can feel it. We\u2019re not scoring right now. We\u2019re getting some good looks. We got some good chances,\u201d Warsofsky said. I thought (Bobrovsky) played really well, but there are still some consistency issues in our game, just all over with the puck and without it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 Center Alexander Wennberg sustained an upper-body injury Monday night, forcing him to leave the San Jose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[401,402,181,404,88,90,89,98,403,94685,127],"class_list":["post-502139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-hockey","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sharks-alert","tag-social-alert","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502139","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=502139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}