Sharks Have Injury Woes

It's looking like a very tough stretch of luck here for the San Jose Sharks, who are seeing players drop like flies these days. First, Jason Demers went down earlier in the week with an upper-body injury, which has caused him to miss the last couple of games. Demers was also placed on the injured reserve this weekend, to make room for the call-ups (which included Box 9 forward Benn Ferriero).  Next, non-pool forward Scott Nichol went down with an eye injury and is listed as out day-to-day.  On Saturday night, the Sharks were then without Devin Setoguchi, who suffered an upper-body injury against th Canucks on Friday night and he is currently listed as out day-to-day.  During Saturday night's game against the Oilers, they then lost Box 13 defenseman Kent Huskins to an undisclosed injury after blocking a shot.

For the blog purposes, I'll just stick with the drafted players during the review.

In the 2010 season, Demers had a bit of a breakout season, but he has not been able to grow as a player and improve on those numbers in the 2011 season, but the Sharks defense as a whole seems toothless without having Rob Blake back there.  Demers has only counted 5 assists in 19 games for the Sharks this season, which is almost half of the scoring rate he had in 2010.

Setoguchi has not been much better as the scoring winger he is supposed to be in San Jose, scoring only 2 goals and 5 assists in 21 games this season, which is only good for 344th in pool scoring this season, a little ways down from his 2010 ranking of 226th.  Setoguchi is quickly finding himself on the same path that Jonathan Cheechoo was on, but this time, I don't see any teams lining up to take a chance on Setoguchi after the failure of Cheechoo in Ottawa.

Well, the biggest hit from this news is taken by Wes M., who has both Demers and Setoguchi this season, but you could also argue that the hits have already been taken, since neither player has done very well this season.  Wes already sits in 19th spot in the standings going into Sunday's action, so he should have a pretty good pick when the waiver draft starts on Monday, but the likelihood of coming back into the money remains slim-to-none, unless his picks are going to be great.

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