Vegas Golden Knights head coach Bruce Cassidy shared updates on the team’s long list of injuries, sharing that Daniil Miromanov is back on the ice, Keegan Kolesar is still out of the lineup with illness, and that starter Adin Hill has returned to skating on his own but isn’t quite ready to rejoin the team. Cassidy also shared that Shea Theodore is still a ways away from returning. The star defenseman is joined by Miromanov and Hill on injured reserve.
These injuries have underscored what’s been a battered Vegas lineup to start the year. The club currently has a top-six forward in William Karlsson, starter Adin Hill, and four different defensemen on IR. The only on the list to not yet make his season debut is NHL newcomer Miromanov, who is dealing with an undisclosed injury that’s held him out since the start of the year.
The amount of talent being held out of Vegas’ lineup is impressive. Karlsson ranks third on the team in scoring with 32 points in 38 games. Theodore still leads all Knights defenders in scoring, despite missing 18 games, with 18 points in 20 games. And Hill has returned to the impeccable goalie that made him an icon last postseason, boasting a .934 save percentage through 15 games this season. The Golden Knights will be in for a big boost when they’re able to get each of these players back, although how long that may take is still up in the air.
Other notes from around the league:
- The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins have signed Jesse Puljujarvi to a professional try-out agreement, extending his time in the Penguins organization. Puljujarvi is working his way back from double hip surgery and has been skating with the Pittsburgh lineup at practices. And while his return still seems to be a ways out, this move helps set him up for an AHL conditioning stint once he’s ready to go.
- The Colorado Avalanche have assigned Ben Meyers to the AHL’s Colorado Eagles. This is likely in an effort to maintain the young forward’s waiver exemption status. Meyers has played in a collective 58 NHL games since joining the Avalanche in 2021-22 and will lose his exemption once he hits 60 games. The 25-year-old centerman has totaled six goals and no assists through those 58 games, adding 37 points in 49 AHL games.
Do games that a player dresses but doesn’t see any ice time count as a game played? Hockey reference shows he has 52 games played, and the article says 58. Just curious if that is the discrepancy.
They do not – the added six games come from Meyers’ appearances in the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs, bringing his combined regular season + playoff total up to 58 games. Funny question, I had to double check it before publishing as well.
Thanks. I always thought the playoffs didn’t count, that clears it up.
Puljujarvi? Really? Still pushing that boulder up a hill.
Can stand in front of net on PP
I have heard that you inspire him in a “if he can keep doing it despite continued poor results, so can I” kind of way.
VGK bloggers/fans swore that their team had the deepest lineup in the League when the season started… That impressive out of the gate run bolstered them for a bit, but where’s the depth now?
Theodore is prolly their 2nd most impactful player after Eichel, so I see where that hurts, but they just look uninspired the past 10-15 games, and a bit ‘old’..
At the halfway marker, how many more shots can Martinez block and how many more corner battles can Pietrangelo endure before those lumps cause them to sit for a while?
I would have an ounce of compassion if I didn’t live here and have to endure their smugness since they have NO idea what it’s like to love a team that loses for years/decades before hitting any paydirt.
Lets see if Hill is really all he’s been cracked up to be after that great start…
Now if that dude falls on his face..? (yikes ~O_o~)