While many hockey supporters are dialed into the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, other fans are already counting down to the 2024 NHL Entry Draft.
Logan Couture is hoping that his nightmare season doesn’t repeat itself next year. Couture played just six games this season in January, hampered by a deep groin issue, revealed to be Osteitis pubis.
Some of the faces at San Jose Sharks team picture day haven’t been seen for a while on SAP Center ice. Captain Logan Couture, defenseman Matt Benning, and goaltender Vitek Vanecek, all felled by season-ending injuries, were there.
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Sheng Peng of San Jose Hockey Now: Peng writes that Logan Couture’s season is over for the San Jose Sharks. But that is not the headline. The headline is that Couture knows no team is trading for his contract.
Ahead of the trade deadline this season, Logan Couture, like so many others from the San Jose Sharks, was mentioned in trade rumors. While players like Thomas Hertl, Anthony Duclair, Kaapo Kahkonen, Radim Simek, and Nikita Okhotuik were all dealt, Couture remained for a few reasons.
Apparently Logan Couture didn’t have high hopes on being dealt at the trade deadline. In the wake of the San Jose Sharks making a surprising deal that sent Tomas Hertl to the Vegas Golden Knights, the Sharks captain was asked on Friday about if he expected to be traded.
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, Logan Couture spoke about the trade deadline and why he wasn’t moved by the San Jose Sharks when Tomas Hertl was. Meanwhile, Noah Hanifin has commented on rumors that he was “holding the Flames hostage” during trade deadline talks.
It was a day to remember and a day to forget at Sharks Ice yesterday. Not only was it the Trade Deadline — always a day of saying good-byes — the San Jose Sharks sent franchise icon Tomas Hertl to the hated Vegas Golden Knights.
As if this day couldn’t get worse for San Jose Sharks fans. Hours after news broke that the Sharks were trading franchise icon Tomas Hertl to the hated Vegas Golden Knights, captain Logan Couture said that his season was over.
He ranks fourth in all-time scoring among Sharks with 701 career points, and fifth in all-time games played. He is signed through the end of the 2026-27 season, carrying an $8M cap hit, and will aim to play in his 1,000th NHL game when he returns next season.
Logan Couture wants to come back this season. But first, he’ll have to get back on the ice. The San Jose Sharks captain missed the first 45 games of the season with Osteitis pubis, essentially a significant groin and abdomen and hip issue.
He has been out of the lineup since Jan. 31 after reaggravating the groin injury that prohibited him from playing in the first 45 games of the season.
Logan Couture has had a setback. It was just three weeks ago that the San Jose Sharks captain made a triumphant return to the ice after missing the first 45 games of the season.
The San Jose Sharks will be without team captain Logan Couture on a week-to-week basis as he continues to recover from a groin injury, San Jose Hockey Now’s Sheng Peng reported Monday.
About the San Jose Sharks getting healthy… After a nine-day layoff, there was some hope that the Sharks would be fully healthy for the first time this season.
Logan Couture hasn’t played a game for the San Jose Sharks in 2023-24, but that will change on Saturday night. The 34-year-old will make his season debut in a Pacific Division clash with the Anaheim Ducks at the SAP Center in California.
TSN: San Jose Sharks forwards Logan Couture and Tomas Hertl both have term on their contracts, so Pierre LeBrun isn’t sure much will happen ahead of the March 8th trade deadline.
Once team captain Logan Couture returns from his lower-body injury, how will he fit into the team’s future?
There are a lot of games left in the current NHL season, although that probably seems like an eternity for a San Jose Sharks team still looking for their first win of the 2023-24 campaign.
Couture, 34, suffered the lower-body injury during his offseason training and was announced at the start of Sharks training camp that he would be week-to-week while recovering from the injury.
Any extended Couture absence would be a major blow to the Sharks’ ability to compete.
The future of Logan Couture, center for the San Jose Sharks, has been a topic of discussion and speculation in recent times. With four years remaining on his contract, rumors of a potential trade have surfaced, especially considering the Sharks’ current situation and their ongoing efforts to restructure the team.
This is quite the story from Couture. No video of the incident has been released and he doesn't mention if he pressed charges or not.
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