LAS VEGAS \u2014 Vincent Desharnais is dealing with an injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been dealing with this here for a little bit, so gotta get it looked at,\u201d San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky said about Desharnais\u2019s day-to-day upper-body injury.<\/p>\n
Desharnais missed Friday\u2019s game against the Vancouver Canucks and will miss tonight\u2019s tilt at the Vegas Golden Knights.<\/p>\n
A Desharnais stint on IR could solve the Sharks\u2019 current 12 forward-9 defensemen quagmire. San Jose has a five-game road trip beginning on Dec. 5 at the Dallas Stars, where they\u2019ll probably need an extra forward.<\/p>\n
San Jose Sharks (12-10-3)<\/p>\n
It was a very optional skate this morning in Las Vegas. Only a half-dozen or so Sharks jumped on the ice.<\/p>\n
Alex Nedeljkovic will start.<\/p>\n
Shakir Mukhamadullin and Nick Leddy will return to the line-up, in place of Sam Dickinson and Vincent Iorio.<\/p>\n
Warsofsky, as has been the norm this season, cited the back-to-back for scratching Dickinson. The 19-year-old defenseman has only played in one of the four back-to-backs so far this year.<\/p>\n
Just Dickinson and Iorio stayed on the ice for extra work with Sharks\u2019 assistant coaches, so these are real development days.<\/p>\n
Lines should otherwise be the same, per Warsofsky:<\/p>\n
Toffoli-Celebrini-Smith
Eklund-Wennberg-Gaudette
Kurashev-Dellandrea-Graf
Goodrow-Ostapchuk-Reaves<\/p>\n
Orlov-Liljegren
Ferraro-Klingberg
Leddy-Mukhamadullin<\/p>\n
Nedeljkovic<\/p>\n
Vegas Golden Knights (10-6-8)<\/p>\n
Carl Lindbom should start.<\/p>\n
Barbashev\u2014Eichel\u2014Bowman
Holtz\u2014Hertl\u2014Dorofeyev
Marner\u2014Howden\u2014Stone
Reinhardt\u2014Sissons\u2014Kolesar<\/p>\n
McNabb\u2014Theodore
Hanifin\u2014Whitecloud
Hutton\u2014Korczak<\/p>\n