New Jersey Devils Head Coach Sheldon Keefe announced that rookie forward Arseny Gritsyuk will undergo surgery for an upper-body injury and miss the remainder of the 2025–26 season.
#NEWS: Head coach Sheldon Keefe announced Arseny Gritsyuk will have surgery and will miss the remainder of the regular season.
— New Jersey Devils (@NJDevils) April 2, 2026
Gritsyuk, 25, has been sidelined since exiting late in the third period of a 6–4 victory over the Dallas Stars on March 24. He was originally considered "week-to-week," but after further evaluation and imaging following the team's return from a road trip, medical staff determined that surgery was the necessary course of action. This marks the second significant injury of Gritsyuk's debut season; he previously missed time in December 2025 with a lower-body injury that landed him on Injured Reserve.
Gritsyuk was originally taken by the Devils in the fifth round, 129th overall, of the 2019 NHL Draft. He signed with the team after spending the last two seasons with SKA St. Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League. In 66 games, Gritsyuk has potted 13 goals and 18 assists for 31 points, good for ninth on the Devils in scoring.
The Devils (38-34-2) are seventh in the Metropolitan Division, 10 points out of a Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference.