SAN JOSE — San Jose Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic is expected to miss some time with an upper-body injury that’s bothered him since training camp.

Vlasic will be scratched Thursday night when the Sharks host Brent Burns and the Carolina Hurricanes at SAP Center. In October, the 37-year-old Vlasic, now in his 19th NHL season, said that his injury mainly involved his upper back.

Vlasic missed training camp and the first half of the year with the injury and made his season debut on Jan. 2 against the Tampa Bay Lightning,

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