Projected Lineups for Sharks vs Stars – 12/5/25 - The Hockey Writers -

The San Jose Sharks take on the Dallas Stars at the American Airlines Center. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

SHARKS (13-12-3) at STARS (18-5-5)

8 p.m. ET; Victory+, NBCSCA

Sharks projected lineup

Tyler Toffoli — Macklin Celebrini — Will Smith
William Eklund — Alexander Wennberg — Adam Gaudette
Jeff Skinner — Ty Dellandrea — Collin Graf
Pavol Regenda — Barclay Goodrow — Ryan Reaves

Dmitry Orlov — Timothy Liljegren
Mario Ferraro — John Klingberg
Sam Dickinson — Vincent Iorio

Yaroslav Askarov
Alex Nedeljkovic

Scratched: Philipp Kurashev, Nick Leddy, Shakir Mukhamadullin, Zack Ostapchuk

Injured: Vincent Desharnais (upper body)

Status report

Skinner will play after missing 10 games because of a lower-body injury sustained Nov. 13.

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Stars projected lineup

Jamie Benn — Wyatt Johnston — Mikko Rantanen
Jason Robertson — Roope Hintz — Mavrik Bourque
Oskar Back — Justin Hryckowian — Nathan Bastian
Sam Steel — Radek Faksa — Colin Blackwell

Esa Lindell — Miro Heiskanen
Vladislav Kolyachonok — Ilya Lyubushkin
Kyle Capobianco — Alexander Petrovic

Jake Oettinger
Casey DeSmith

Scratched: None

Injured: Tyler Seguin (ACL), Matt Duchene (upper body), Adam Erne (lower body), Thomas Harley (lower body), Nils Lundkvist (lower body), Lian Bichsel (lower body)

Status report:

Harley and Lundkvist took part in the morning skate and each of the defensemen is considered day to day. Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said both could return to the lineup next week.