San Jose Sharks' Nico Sturm (7) heads off the ice at the end of the second period against the Calgary Flames at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
The San Jose Sharks will have forwards Filip Zadina and Nico Sturm and defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic in their lineup on Tuesday when they play the New York Islanders at UBS Arena.
Zadina has been on injured reserve since Nov. 27 and Sturm was hurt Sunday morning in the hours before the Sharks’ game against the New York Rangers. Vlasic has been scratched from eight of the last nine games and will take Matt Benning’s spot in the lineup.
Zadina hasn’t played since Nov. 24 when he left the Sharks’ game with the Montreal Canadiens after one period with an upper-body injury. He has three goals and two assists on the season and per The Hockey News and San Jose Hockey Now, skated on a line Tuesday morning with Jacob MacDonald and Matt Hoffman.
Sturm centered a line with Kevin Labanc and Justin Bailey.
The Sharks placed center Ryan Carpenter and defenseman Ty Emberson on injured reserve on Monday. Carpenter and forward Luke Kunin, who was placed on IR on Saturday, went on the ice Tuesday morning after the Sharks finished the main portion of their morning skate.
The Sharks are 1-2-0 on their six-game road trip that continues after Tuesday with games in Detroit on Thursday and Las Vegas on Sunday. MacDonald, Mikael Granlund, Tomas Hertl, and Anthony Duclair are all on two-game point streaks.
Following a 5-6-3 start to the season, the Islanders are 5-1-3 and have moved to within a point of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
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Originally published at Curtis Pashelka