{"id":392170,"date":"2026-01-05T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/392170\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:36:10","slug":"san-jose-sharks-place-john-klingberg-on-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/392170\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks place John Klingberg on injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 San Jose Sharks defenseman<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/klingjo01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> John Klingberg<\/a> was placed on injured reserve on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/01\/02\/san-jose-sharks-john-klingberg-tampa-bay-lightning-will-smith\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with a lower body ailment<\/a> and will have to miss at least the next two games.<\/p>\n<p>Klingberg was injured in the Sharks\u2019 New Years Eve game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/12\/31\/macklin-celebrini-william-eklund-san-jose-sharks-minnesota-wild\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against the Minnesota Wild<\/a> and did not play in Saturday\u2019s home game against<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/01\/03\/celebrini-extends-points-streak-but-sharks-winning-streak-ends-in-7-3-loss-to-lightning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/a> Defenseman Timothy Liljegren stepped into the lineup for the Sharks on Saturday in what became a 7-3 loss to the Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks play the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday and travel to play the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Klingberg, 31, in second in scoring among all Sharks defenseman with 16 points in 31 games. He is also second among all Sharks skaters in average time on ice (21:37).<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks recalled center Patrick Giles from the Barracuda to take Klingberg\u2019s spot on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Please check back for updates to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 San Jose Sharks defenseman John Klingberg was placed on injured reserve on Monday with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[230,5,691,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780,92,5897],"class_list":{"0":"post-392170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-john-klingberg","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-sharks","14":"tag-sanjose","15":"tag-sanjosesharks","16":"tag-sharks","17":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","18":"tag-timothy-liljegren"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115843942890094193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}