{"id":506553,"date":"2026-10-24T12:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506553\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T12:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:50:45","slug":"san-jose-sharks-alexander-wennberg-now-week-to-week-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506553\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks’ Alexander Wennberg now week-to-week with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

KANATA, Ont. \u2013 Alexander Wennberg<\/a> will not be returning to the San Jose Sharks lineup anytime soon.<\/p>\n

The Sharks\u2019 veteran center, per coach Ryan Warsofsky, is now considered week-to-week with an upper-body injury he sustained during the team\u2019s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> on Monday at Scotiabank Arena. As of Tuesday, Wennberg, at least for the time being, had been considered day-to-day.<\/p>\n

Wennberg will remain with the Sharks through the end of the road trip on Saturday when they play the Boston Bruins, and be re-evaluated by team doctors after the team returns to San Jose.<\/p>\n

Wennberg, 32, missed the end of Monday\u2019s 3-1 loss to the Maple Leafs and Tuesday\u2019s 4-3 overtime win over the Montreal Canadiens. Warsofsky didn\u2019t get into details about what\u2019s wrong with Wennberg or how the injury happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a good idea,\u201d Warsofsky said of how the injury occurred. \u201cWe want our doctors to figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sharks are keeping the same forward lines and defense pairs they had in Montreal for Thursday\u2019s game against the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Center. That means Collin Graf will remain in Wennberg\u2019s former spot, playing between wingers Tyler Toffoli and Mason Marchment.<\/p>\n

Before his injury, Wennberg had three assists in nine games and averaged 20:00 in ice time, third among all Sharks forwards. So far this season, he has played on the first power-play unit, the penalty kill, and led the team with 158 faceoffs.<\/p>\n

Through two-plus years with the Sharks, Wennberg has 93 points in 166 games. He had 35 points in his first season in San Jose in 2024-25, but after Mikael Granlund\u2019s departure, he got more offensive opportunities last season and scored a career-high 18 goals, finishing with 55 points in 80 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just quiets the game,\u201d Warsofsky said of Wennberg, now in his 13th NHL season. \u201cHe\u2019s an eraser out there when it comes to helping other people and correcting some mistakes that happen throughout the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut look, every team loses players. You look (at the Senators), they\u2019ve lost players. It\u2019s the nature of this business. It\u2019s the next man up. We\u2019ve got to compete tonight a lot harder than we did against Montreal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warsofsky liked how Graf played at center against the Canadiens: he won four of six faceoffs, had five shot attempts, and blocked three shots. Graf last played center in college, at Union College in 2021-22 before playing the next two years at Quinnipiac, where he won an NCAA Division I title with the Bobcats in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s working on (faceoffs) daily, whether that\u2019s through video, on the ice, and morning skates,\u201d Warsofsky said. \u201cI think the more reps you get, the more comfortable you get. We\u2019ve just got to keep working and understanding that it\u2019s not going to be perfect, but it\u2019s a work in progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he did a really good job playing the middle there Tuesday night. He hadn\u2019t done it since college, so to do that on the fly was impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANATA, Ont. \u2013 Alexander Wennberg will not be returning to the San Jose Sharks lineup anytime soon. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,401,402,181,404,88,90,89,98,198,403,94685,200,127],"class_list":["post-506553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","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-santa-clara-county","tag-sharks-alert","tag-social-alert","tag-south-bay","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506553","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=506553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}