{"id":329328,"date":"2025-12-04T04:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329328\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T04:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:28:08","slug":"john-carlson-and-justin-sourdif-miss-capitals-game-against-sharks-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329328\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carlson and Justin Sourdif miss Capitals game against Sharks due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/file-john-carlson-aland-1020.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"John Carlson\" decoding=\"async\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Capitals will be without veteran defenseman John Carlson and rookie center Justin Sourdif against the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson has an upper-body injury, while Sourdif is out with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson, 35, participated in the team\u2019s warmup skate ahead of the action but did not dress in the game. Sourdif, 23, did not take warmups after missing a few late shifts during the Capitals\u2019 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Caps?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Caps<\/a> forward Justin Sourdif (lower body) and defenseman John Carlson (upper body) are out for tonight\u2019s game against San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Capitals PR (@CapitalsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapitalsPR\/status\/1996412938132079083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Carlson out of action, Declan Chisholm replaced him on the left side of the defense. Nic Dowd, <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/12\/03\/capitals-activate-nic-dowd-injured-reserve-return-bogdan-trineyev-ahl-hershey-bears\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">activated off injured reserve ahead of the game<\/a>, will play in his first game since November 17 on the third line.<\/p>\n<p>Capitals\u2019 12\/3 lineup without John Carlson and Justin Sourdif<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin<\/p>\n<p>Strome<\/p>\n<p>Beauvillier<\/p>\n<p>Carlson played 18:27 of ice time against the Kings, recording an assist and one shot on goal. Sourdif played 14:33 in the win, recording two shots on goal.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this season, Carlson has 23 points (6g, 17a) in 26 games. Sourdif has six points (3g, 3a) in 27 games.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB The Washington Capitals will be without veteran defenseman John Carlson and rookie center Justin Sourdif&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-329328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}