A familiar player is back on the injured list.
Shortly before the team’s matchup with the Seattle Kraken on Friday night, the Vegas Golden Knights revealed that captain Mark Stone is out day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
The team didn’t disclose when or where Stone was injured. He had played the first 13 games of the season with the Golden Knights, including scoring a goal in Vegas’ 4-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night.
The Winnipeg native has had a great start to the season. With six goals and 15 assists for 21 points, he leads the Golden Knights in scoring, sitting tied with Jack Eichel for the team lead in assists.
The placement on the injured list for the Stone has led to plenty of jokes and badgering from fans around the game. Stone has been forced to miss significant time over the past few seasons due to injury problems. Stone played 56 games in 2023-24, the most he’s appeared in one season since the COVID-shortened 2019-20 campaign.
Stone hasn’t played a regular season game beyond February over the past two years but has returned in time for the playoffs. In 2022-23, back surgery kept him out for over two months but he came back and was a big part in helping the Golden Knights win the franchise’s first Stanley Cup. Last season, he was last in the regular-season lineup in late February but was healthy enough to play in the team’s seven-game series against the Dallas Stars.
Stone has played 653 games across 13 NHL seasons. He has notched 218 goals and 370 assists for 588 points. In 102 postseason appearances, he has scored 77 points.
The Golden Knights (9-3-1) came into Friday night’s action tied for first in the Pacific Division with the Los Angeles Kings.
