Projected Lineups for Sharks vs Golden Knights – 12/23/25 - The Hockey Writers - Projected Lineups

The San Jose Sharks take on the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

SHARKS (17-16-3) at GOLDEN KNIGHTS (16-8-10)

10 p.m. ET; SCRIPPS, NBCSCA

Sharks projected lineup

Collin Graf — Macklin Celebrini — Igor Chernyshov
William Eklund — Alexander Wennberg — Tyler Toffoli
Jeff Skinner — Ty Dellandrea — Ethan Cardwell
Barclay Goodrow — Adam Gaudette — Ryan Reaves

Dmitry Orlov — John Klingberg
Mario Ferraro — Shakir Mukhamadullin
Sam Dickinson — Nick Leddy

Yaroslav Askarov
Alex Nedeljkovic

Scratched: Vincent Iorio, Zack Ostapchuk

Injured: Vincent Desharnais (upper body), Philipp Kurashev (upper body), Will Smith (upper body), Timothy Liljegren (upper body)

Status report

Graf will play despite leaving practice Monday after taking a puck to the face.

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Golden Knights projected lineup

Ivan Barbashev — Mitch Marner — Mark Stone
Pavel Dorofeyev — Tomas Hertl — Alexander Holtz
Reilly Smith — Brett Howden — Branden Bowman
Brandon Saad — Colton Sissons — Keegan Kolesar

Brayden McNabb — Kaedan Korczak
Noah Hanifin — Ben Hutton
Jeremy Lauzon — Zach Whitecloud

Carter Hart
Akira Schmid

Scratched: Cole Reinhardt, Dylan Coghlan

Injured: Jack Eichel (undisclosed), Adin Hill (lower body), William Karlsson (lower body), Shea Theodore (upper body)

Status report

Holtz enters the lineup for Reinhardt and will play on Hertl’s right wing. … The Golden Knights recalled Coghlan, a defenseman, from Henderson of the American Hockey League. Theodore, a defenseman, was moved to injured reserve in the corresponding move. … Eichel will miss his fourth consecutive game and remains day to day.

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