SAN JOSE — Pete DeBoer is back at the white board, drawing up new line combinations to absorb the potential loss of a top Sharks forward.
Tomas Hertl, who left Saturday’s win over the Philadelphia Flyers with a head injury, missed practice Monday, forcing the Sharks coach to go back into the laboratory and rejigger his line combinations after he’d just found the right formula to reintegrate Joe Thornton back into his lineup.
DeBoer labeled Hertl’s status as “day to day.” He doesn’t think the injury is serious.
“I mean, you never know with those things,” the Sharks coach acknowledged.