The Golden Knights could be getting their top winger back relatively soon. Danny Webster of the Las Vegas Review-Journal relays (Twitter link) that Mark Stone took part in practice today in a non-contact jersey. The 32-year-old got off to his best offensive start, recording six goals and 15 assists in the first 13 games of the season before suffering a lower-body injury that has kept him out of the lineup for the last three weeks. Stone is only on regular injured reserve, not LTIR so he doesn’t have to miss at least 10 games before being activated; he can be re-added to the roster as soon as he gets the green light from team doctors.
More from the Western Conference:
- The NHL announced that Oilers winger Jeff Skinner has been fined $2K for embellishment. It’s the second time he has been flagged for that this season with the first only drawing a warning. The 32-year-old has struggled in his first year with Edmonton, notching just four goals and four assists in 24 games while averaging just 13:38 per game, a career-low ATOI.
- Utah Hockey Club netminder Connor Ingram is not close to returning to the lineup, head coach Andre Tourigny told reporters including Cole Bagley of KSL Sports (Twitter link). The reigning Masterton Trophy winner had a rocky start to his season, posting a 3.61 GAA with a .871 SV%, a 36-point drop in that category compared to 2023-24. Ingram sustained an upper-body injury last month and was only ruled out for their road trip at that time but clearly, he’ll be out for a while yet.
- While Kraken goaltender Joey Daccord was a speculative candidate to make Canada’s roster for the 4 Nations Cup since he holds Canadian citizenship, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported over the weekend that this is not the case. Daccord does not have a Canadian passport which is one of the eligibility criteria for the tournament. However, it’s expected that he will get one in the near future, making him eligible to be named as a replacement should one of the three netminders named on Wednesday get injured leading up to the event. Regardless of whether he suits up in this event, he remains eligible to play for Canada, the United States, and Switzerland internationally.
- Jets prospect Brayden Yager is on the move in the WHL. Lethbridge announced that they’ve acquired the center as part of a five-player, six-pick trade with Moose Jaw. The 19-year-old was drafted 14th overall by Pittsburgh in 2023 and was flipped to Winnipeg in the Rutger McGroarty trade over the offseason. Yager had 30 points in 21 games prior to the swap and projects to be an impact player for Canada at the upcoming World Juniors.
McGroarty looked like nothing in the few games he played.
Slow.
Wow, it might take a 20 year old some time to get his game up to NHL speed? Absolutely nothing gets past you.
Your sad pedantry hasn’t, Dog.
Vegas Cap Circumventing is already in the works “Stone Gate”
Glad that you are on the case! Watching your paranoid clan continually whine and complain about teams using the salary cap within the collectively bargained rules continues to be amusing. Please explain how Vegas, or any other team, is circumventing any rule if they are doing things within said rules.
too coincidental that he’s never eligible for game 82 but is ready for game 1 of the playoffs, the IR is for players who are too injured to play not a shelf to hold a player because you already sent the cap on depth pieces, even as a Hawks fan i kinda despised the 2015 run and i do believe that the Ducks were robbed of a trip to the finals, because the otherwise unaffordable depth did show up and steal a couple games too, Stone just like Kane and Kucherov magically ready for Game 1 but not even game 82 is too suspicious and a bit obvious