{"id":47404,"date":"2019-05-21T15:39:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T19:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=47404"},"modified":"2019-05-21T15:39:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T19:39:53","slug":"erik-karlsson-san-jose-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/05\/21\/erik-karlsson-san-jose-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Karlsson and Tomas Hertl Ruled Out for San Jose Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An already-battered <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> team took another blow today with the announcement that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hertlto01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tomas Hertl<\/a> <\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/karlser01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Karlsson<\/a><\/strong> are ruled out of Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals. This announcement comes following speculation that they did not join the team in travelling to St. Louis. This news came alongside the announcement that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/paveljo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Pavelski<\/a> <\/strong>would be a game-time decision after missing the morning skates.<\/p>\n<h1>Erik Karlsson and Hertl Out<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Don\u2019t even see a stall set up for Karlsson or Hertl in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SJSharks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SJSharks<\/a> room. Pavelski has one but did not take part in morning skate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Murphy (@sportsnetmurph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportsnetmurph\/status\/1130878263176437764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>These injuries come at an incredibly inopportune time for the Sharks, who are looking to avoid elimination tonight in St. Louis. Both Erik Karlsson (2 goals, 16 assists, 14 points) and Hertl (10-5-15) have been sparks for San Jose&#8217;s dynamic, high-powered offence, and veteran Joe Pavelski has added a respectable 4 goals and 5 assists of his own during the 2019 post-season campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Karlsson, Hertl out, Pavelski a game time decision <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PLm5qO4lXt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/PLm5qO4lXt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Pashelka (@CurtisPashelka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisPashelka\/status\/1130883109707223040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sharks coach Pete DeBoer will have several options to fill his starting lineup out in light of these absences, but none with the firepower of Erik Karlsson and Tomas Hertl. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/heedti01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Heed<\/a> <\/strong>looks to be a likely choice to shore up the blue line, but the additional possibility of missing Joe Pavelski makes things even harder for the Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks have dropped 2 games straight following their 2-1 overall series lead against the Blues, including a lackadaisical 2-1 loss in St Louis and a 5-0 drubbing back in San Jose, the game in which most of these injuries occurred. There was worry that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/meierti01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Timo Meier<\/a> <\/strong>and<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/donskjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joonas Donskoi<\/a> <\/strong>were also injured in that game, but they will both take the ice tonight as a depleted Sharks team tries to force a game 7.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"nqoMB_iISUJuo2Q8aCslew\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1149961124\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'nqoMB_iISUJuo2Q8aCslew',sig:'-fy57Nd5xHvJ3x-LV3oBFZgAidzhpS1aqAAodDQdQ68=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1149961124',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An already-battered San Jose Sharks team took another blow today with the announcement that Tomas Hertl and Erik Karlsson are ruled out of Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals. This announcement comes following speculation that they did not join the team in travelling to St. Louis. This news came alongside the announcement that Joe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":47410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,34],"tags":[550,37,368,955,117,623],"class_list":["post-47404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sharks","category-news","tag-erik-karlsson","tag-hockey","tag-joe-pavelski","tag-nhl-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-tomas-hertl"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}