Nutivaara (lower body) is not with the Sharks on the team's European trip, Curtis Pashelka of The San Jose Mercury News reports.
Coach David Quinn said Friday that Nutivaara's lower-body injury was related to the issue that limited the defenseman to one game last season. Nutivaara was in the lineup a week ago for a preseason contest, but he didn't feel right afterward, and now it appears as though he will be out for the start of the 2022-23 campaign.