Star Vegas Golden Knights forward Mark Stone will be “out for a while” per general manager Kelly McCrimmon, who shared the update with Pierre McGuire and Jimmy Murphy on the latest episode of The Sick Podcast – The Eye Test. McCrimmon added some good news, saying that Jack Eichel and William Carrier are nearing a return.
Stone suffered an apparent upper-body injury in the team’s Tuesday night game against the Nashville Predators, after receiving a big hit from Yakov Trenin. Trenin earned an interference penalty on the play. Stone’s injury is a tremendous loss for the Golden Knights. The 31-year-old winger currently leads the team in scoring, with 16 goals and 53 points through 56 games. It’s yet another successful season for Stone, who has totaled 256 points in 274 games since joining the Golden Knights in 2018-19. Unfortunately, productivity isn’t the only consistent for Stone – as he is yet again facing long-term injury in the second half of the season. Stone has had an upper-body injury hold him out from February to April in each of the last two seasons, earning a spot on injured reserve each time. Vegas will hope lightning doesn’t strike for a third time this season, with Stone so far remaining off of IR.
If Vegas does lose Stone, they’ll quickly turn their towards Jack Eichel, who has been out of action since January 11th with a knee injury. Eichel was moved to long-term injured reserve on Monday, though he has already missed the required amount of time and will be eligible to return as soon as he’s healthy. He has been Vegas’ most-productive scorer, operating as the only Golden Knight scoring above a point-per-game pace with 19 goals and 44 points through 42 games. Eichel has also been consistently limited by injury, with 67 games last season marking the most he’s played in one year since the 2019-20 campaign. He’ll have a chance to beat that mark by one game, with 26 games remaining on Vegas’ schedule, though he’d have to return on Thursday to maintain that pace.
see you on playoff night 1 Mark
SHOCKER!!!!
As great as he is, He’s a huge liability.
he’s great, but a liability.
an oxymoron from a moron
God bless you Wilf. Watching you create a parody of yourself in just a few words never gets old. You have a special talent – keep up the stellar work!
How is that even possible.
Oh no. Please tell me that LTIR is available until April 18. Seriously, though, terrible for Stone.
Pre-planned.
Clearly Stone is past his prime and is just a China doll and should hang them up. Right Wilf?
I’m just grateful Gary Bettman is making sure teams aren’t circumventing the cap by abusing LTIR, otherwise I might be suspicious about players not being “fit to play” until day one of the playoffs.
Hahaha ha, seriously though they need to do something about this.
they still do it lol, Vegas did this last year with Stone
How convenient, Cap Circumvention again? the only reason Vegas won the cup last year
Or possibly Vegas was the best team in the playoffs.
by being $9M over the cap, the extra salary made a big difference, Blackhawks 2015 $5M-$6M over, Tampa 2018 $18M over, Vegas 2023 $9M over, 3 cups in 8 years LTIR was exploited each cup the Injured players Kane, Kucherov, Stamkos, Stone all magically ready for game 1 of the first round and not game 82. every dollar makes a difference Edmonton or Dallas would’ve been playing Florida last year, no Kolesar in the finals Ktachuk possibly wouldn’t of been injured half the finals either (clean hard hit but made a huge difference in the series), Im a Hawks fan and Ill admit 2015 would’ve been Anaheim vs Tampa
Just in time for the trade deadline.
Just institute a luxury tax & end this nonsense already. Then take any expansion talk & kill it by contracting & eliminating the Coyotes & Blue Jackets. Finally go back to the old playoff format.
Good luck with the contraction as the NHL is looking to grow, as many businesses do. Oh, and why Columbus? They have better attendance numbers than several teams in more established markets? Seems that you are in favor killing a bunch of job for hockey players, management, and the other folks who work for the teams and in businesses that derive revenue from NHL teams – hotels, restaurants, airlines, etc…. Why the anti-job rhetoric?
This really is frustrating, bc we all can see whats coming. My Panthers & Hurricanes Cup wagers are not happy lol.