Sharks place Ryan Reaves on injured reserve

A veteran is going to be out of action through the Olympic break.

On Tuesday, the San Jose Sharks announced that forward Ryan Reaves has been placed on injured reserve.

Reaves was absent from practice on Tuesday due to an upper-body injury and will be out of action through the league-wide pause. There have been no reports of when or how the veteran tough guy was hurt.

The 39-year-old was in the lineup for the Sharks’ game on Monday night against the Chicago Blackhawks. He registered 5:38 of ice time across nine shifts, delivering a plus/minus of -1 in a 6-3 defeat, marking the team’s third straight loss. His last shift came in the final minute of regulation.

Reaves has been in the lineup for most of the 2025-26 season, though he has missed a handful of contests due to being a healthy scratch. In 46 games, he has scored three goals, with his last tally coming against the Vancouver Canucks on Dec. 27. He has a -12 rating, one of five players on the Sharks roster to have plus/minuses worse than -10.

Reaves came to San Jose this past July, when the Toronto Maple Leafs traded him to the Sharks for forward Henry Thrun. It came after a rough 2024-25 season in Toronto, where the Winnipeg native was placed on waivers right before the trade deadline, eventually joining the Maple Leafs’ American Hockey League affiliate, the Toronto Marlies.

Reaves is in the final season of his three-year contract that he signed with the Leafs in July 2023. The cap hit of his deal is $1.35 million.

The Sharks (27-23-4) are sixth in the Pacific Division, but are just three points back of the last Wild Card spot in the Western Conference. San Jose gets set to face the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday night, the team’s final game before the break.