Injury Updates: Jarvis, Zub, Olofsson, Maatta

The Hurricanes received an encouraging sign in star winger Seth Jarvis’s recovery on Thursday. Jarvis shed the yellow non-contact jersey he’d worn since the start of training camp, taking the ice in a regular sweater at morning skate and cleared for contact for the first time since undergoing offseason shoulder surgery, as reported by Canes reporter Walt Ruff. “It’s probably the biggest step I’ve had so far,” Jarvis told reporters, while noting he isn’t quite ready to return; he worked as an extra, with the focus now on easing back into contact.

Jarvis, 24, had surgery in late June to repair a torn labrum and rotator cuff in his right shoulder, an injury he had managed and played through since the 2023-24 season, including 71 regular-season games and a 19-game run to the Stanley Cup last spring, plus five games for Canada at the 2026 Olympics. He was handed a four-to-six-month recovery timeline that pointed to a return between late October and December, and Carolina’s leading goal scorer in each of the past two seasons has his sights set on the earlier end of that window, eyeing a possible return by late October or the team’s November trip to Finland.

Additional notes:

• Senators defenseman Artem Zub appears to be nearing a return, resuming skating at Ottawa’s morning skate Thursday, per Ottawa reporter Clair Hanna. Zub has missed the first three games of the season after a knee injury, originally suffered in last spring’s first-round playoff series against Carolina, flared up again late in training camp. The reliable top-pair right shot is coming off a career year (30 points, a plus-22, and 120 blocked shots in 81 games) and figures to slot back in alongside Thomas Chabot or Jake Sanderson once he’s cleared.
• The Golden Knights will be without one of their hottest starters, as coach Ryan Craig said winger Victor Olofsson is considered week-to-week, as reported by Jesse Granger. Olofsson had opened the season with four goals and an assist in four games before leaving Tuesday’s win over Seattle with an upper-body injury, the result of a boarding major from the Kraken’s Ben Meyers. Trevor Connelly is expected to step onto Vegas’s top power-play unit in his absence.
• The Wild’s injury woes deepened Thursday, as veteran defenseman Olli Maatta was a late scratch against Tampa Bay with a lower-body injury, the team announced. Maatta, who had been averaging better than 21 minutes a night across his first three games, is considered day-to-day and joins a Minnesota injured list that already includes Filip Gustavsson, Brock Faber, and Nick Foligno. The 23-year-old David Spacek drew into the lineup in his place.