{"id":409281,"date":"2026-01-15T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409281\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:42:07","slug":"jakob-chychrun-to-make-return-against-sharks-but-capitals-will-remain-without-tom-wilson-and-justin-sourdif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409281\/","title":{"rendered":"Jakob Chychrun to make return against Sharks, but Capitals will remain without Tom Wilson and Justin Sourdif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Capitals will get key defenseman Jakob Chychrun back against the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Spencer Carbery announced Chychrun\u2019s return during his pregame media availability. He also shared that the team will still be without forwards Tom Wilson and Justin Sourdif, despite Wilson <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2026\/01\/14\/tom-wilson-cleared-contact-capitals-practice-injury-update-sharks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fully participating at practice<\/a> for a second straight day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChychrun will play tonight,\u201d Carbery said. \u201c[Wilson] will not. [Sourdif] not skating, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jakob Chychrun (illness) will be back in the lineup today, per Spencer Carbery. Tom Wilson (lower-body) and Justin Sourdif (upper-body) will not play.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katie Adler (@katieEadler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katieEadler\/status\/2011832630463852801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chychrun has been out of action for the team\u2019s last two games due to illness, last playing against the Chicago Blackhawks six days ago. The 27-year-old rearguard has 32 points (15g, 17a) in 45 games this season, skating a team high 23:15 of ice time per game. He ranks second on the team in scoring from the backend, three points behind John Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>With Chychrun on the shelf, the Capitals split the two games between Declan Chisholm and Dylan McIlrath. McIlrath appears set to stay in the lineup despite Chychrun\u2019s return, as Chisholm and Trevor van Riemsdyk took Thursday\u2019s scratches skate.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson will miss his sixth straight game due to the lower-body injury he suffered against the Blackhawks on January 3. The 31-year-old winger was first cleared for contact at Wednesday\u2019s practice, and Carbery confirmed he has not suffered a setback of any sort.<\/p>\n<p>Without Wilson in their lineup, the Capitals have won three of their last five games. Wilson is still the team\u2019s leading scorer with 42 points (22g, 20a) in 41 games this season, two more than captain Alex Ovechkin, who sits second.<\/p>\n<p>Sourdif\u2019s absence will be his second since taking a puck to the face against the Nashville Predators last weekend. He has yet to return to practice since suffering the upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Projected Capitals lineup for 1\/15 game against Sharks<\/p>\n<p>Milano<\/p>\n<p>Lapierre<\/p>\n<p>Beauvillier<\/p>\n<p>Logan Thompson was the first goaltender off the ice for the Capitals, so he\u2019ll make his sixth start in January. In his previous five appearances this month, Thompson is 2-2-1 with a 2.36 goals-against average and a .920 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks come into Thursday\u2019s game clinging to the second wild card playoff spot in the Western Conference. They have won six of their last 10 games but dropped their most recent contest, a 7-2 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals will get key defenseman Jakob Chychrun back against the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-409281","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\/409281","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=409281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}