{"id":404172,"date":"2026-01-12T23:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/404172\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:14:10","slug":"sharks-injury-update-smith-upgraded-to-day-to-day-kurashev-will-not-travel-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/404172\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks Injury Update: Smith Upgraded to Day-to-Day, Kurashev Will Not Travel Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith\u2019s return appears imminent\u2026could it be on Jan. 15 at the Washington Capitals?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a possibility, as Smith\u2019s upper-body injury has now been upgraded, from week-to-week to day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Smith also took contact today for the first time in about a month during a San Jose Sharks\u2019 optional practice.<\/p>\n<p>A big hurdle for Smith will be Wednesday, when the Sharks practice in Washington, D.C. He\u2019ll need a full-contact practice, perhaps a couple, before he\u2019s ready for game action.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will Smith flashing the white on his skates! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ySdQ68kLMu\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ySdQ68kLMu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sheng_Peng\/status\/2010799502417088668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Sharks play on Jan. 15 and 16 at the Capitals and Detroit Red Wings, and Jan. 19 and 20 at the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Defensemen Shakir Mukhamadullin (upper-body) and Vincent Desharnais (upper-body) are also expected to travel. They both practiced today, but their game-readiness remains a question mark. Warsofsky said neither blueliner is closer than the other to returning.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Philipp Kurashev (upper-body) will not travel tomorrow with the San Jose Sharks, but there\u2019s a possibility that he will join the team on the trip.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Smith\u2019s return appears imminent\u2026could it be on Jan. 15 at the Washington Capitals? It\u2019s a possibility, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[58,5,402,4,4525,38272,748,519,168,5306,5305,5719,1780,4462,507],"class_list":["post-404172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose-sharks","tag-featured","tag-hockey","tag-injury","tag-nhl","tag-philipp-kurashev","tag-road-trip","tag-ryan-warsofsky","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sanjose","tag-sanjosesharks","tag-shakir-mukhamadullin","tag-sharks","tag-vincent-desharnais","tag-will-smith"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115884671893881733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404172","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=404172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}