SAN JOSE – It’s still questionable whether new Sharks acquisition Jannik Hansen will be permitted to make his debut on the team’s upcoming road trip to Minnesota and Winnipeg, as he sorts out the red tape that comes with immigration.
The Sharks visit the Wild on Sunday and Jets on Monday.
“I don’t have an update on [Hansen],” coach Pete DeBoer said on Saturday morning. “It’s really day-to-day. I could get a call in an hour and say he’s got clearance, or it could be two days, I don’t know.”
The Sharks will, however, have two more bodies available to them as they prepare to take on the Western Conference’s top team in Minnesota, as Joonas Donskoi and Dylan DeMelo are both ready to return.