DENVER — The Vegas Golden Knights volition person to effort to instrumentality power of the Western Conference Final without skipper Mark Stone, arsenic he’ll miss Game 2 against the Colorado Avalanche connected Friday, manager John Tortorella said.
Stone took portion successful the Knights’ optional greeting skate astatine Ball Arena, but remained connected the crystal afterward skating with skills manager Sean Farrell. This volition beryllium his 5th consecutive crippled missed.
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The 34-year-old has not played since Game 4 of the 2nd circular against Anaheim owed to a lower-body wounded that kept forced him to permission Game 3.
The Knights pb the best-of-seven bid 1-0. They’ve gone 3-1 with Stone retired of the lineup.
“We’re a bully team. Probably a amended squad with (Stone),” Tortorella said. “But arsenic we ever speech astir erstwhile we speech astir our team, we recognize the concern that needs to beryllium done erstwhile things happen.”
Colorado volition person to effort and adjacent the bid without defenseman Cale Makar, who volition besides miss his 2nd consecutive crippled with an upper-body injury.
Makar was a full-contact subordinate successful signifier Thursday and skated with his squad Friday morning, but manager Jared Bednar ruled him out.
Tortorella said defenseman Jeremy Lauzon volition miss his eighth consecutive crippled with an upper-body injury.
Defenseman Kaedan Korczak volition besides gully backmost into the lineup, replacing Ben Hutton.
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