SAN JOSE – A San Jose Sharks team that was coming off a pair of dramatic comeback wins will now be without two of its top scoring wingers for at least the rest of this week and possibly longer.

The Sharks on Monday placed forwards Will Smith and Philipp Kurashev on injured reserve, meaning both players will be unavailable, at a minimum, for the team’s upcoming three-game homestand, which begins Tuesday night against the Calgary Flames.

It was not immediately clear how much time Smith and Kurashev would have to miss after both were injured during Saturday’s game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, as the team finished a five-game road trip with a historic 6-5 comeback win in overtime.

Kurashev, 26, left the game midway through the second period after crashing hard into the end boards in the Penguins’ zone. He skated to the Sharks’ bench and stayed there momentarily before he walked back to the team’s dressing room at PPG Paints Arena.

Smith, 20, was hurt with 16:30 left in the third period, as he was hit into the boards by defenseman Parker Wotherspoon in the Penguins’ zone.

Smith, in distress, immediately began to skate off the ice and threw off one of his gloves as he clutched his right arm before he reached the bench and went to the team’s room for medical care. Right after the hit, center Macklin Celebrini and winger William Eklund went after Wotherspoon, starting a brief melee.

The Sharks trailed 5-1 at the time of Smith’s injury, but rallied to score four times in 10:49, including Tyler Toffoli’s game-tying goal with 1:38 left in regulation time. John Klingberg then scored at the 2:57 mark in overtime as the Sharks capped the biggest comeback win in team history, two days after they erased a two-goal deficit to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in overtime.

With Smith and Kurashev out indefinitely, the Sharks recalled forwards Igor Chernyshov and Ethan Cardwell from the Barracuda of the AHL. Chernyshov, one of the Sharks’ top prospects, leads the Barracuda with 23 points in 25 games, and Cardwell has nine points in 14 games.

Still, the loss of Smith and Kurashev, at least in the short term, has the potential to take a significant chunk out of the Sharks’ already inconsistent offense.

Smith, who has been on Celebrini’s wing for most of this season, is the Sharks’ second-leading scorer with 29 points in 33 games, including 20 points in 23 games since the end of October when the team began its turnaround after a 2-6-2 start.

Kurashev has 15 points in 31 games this season, already surpassing the 14 points in 51 games he had last season with the Chicago Blackhawks. He and Smith began Saturday’s game on the Sharks’ top line alongside Celebrini, far and away the team’s offensive leader with 47 points in 33 games.

Smith is fourth among all Sharks forwards in average ice time (17:55) this season, and Kurashev is fifth (16:02). Both have been on the Sharks’ power play, with Smith on the first unit and Kurashev usually on the second.

Since the start of November, the Sharks are tied for 26th in the NHL with an average of 2.64 goals per game. Nevertheless, thanks mainly to the efforts of Celebrini and their goaltending, they’ve gone 13-8-1 in that time and entered this week in a Western Conference wild-card spot.

After Tuesday, the Sharks (16-14-3) host the Dallas Stars on Thursday and the Seattle Kraken on Saturday.

With Smith and Kurashev out indefinitely, the Sharks will likely ask Chernyshov and Cardwell to step in and immediately contribute.

Chernyshov, 20, is in his first full professional season after he was selected at the start of the second round, 33rd overall, in the 2024 NHL Draft that also netted Celebrini and defenseman Sam Dickinson. Chernyshov is third among all AHL rookies and tied for 11th among all players with 11 goals as he’s been a mainstay in the Barracuda’s top-six forward group.

Cardwell, a fourth-round pick by San Jose in 2021, has three goals in 10 career NHL games with the Sharks, including one goal in four games in early November when he took the roster spot of an injured Eklund.

The Sharks did not practice on Monday, so it was unclear where Chernyshov and Cardwell would play against the Flames if they’re in the lineup.

Rookie center Michael Misa remains on the Sharks’ injured reserve list, although he skated again on Monday and figures to join Canada’s National Junior Team training camp sometime soon. The Sharks, for unexplained reasons, kept Misa, 18, in San Jose past his long-term AHL conditioning assignment, which ended last week.

Canada’s training camp in advance of the World Junior Championship continues until Dec. 22, with the team’s first game on Dec. 26.