Sissons And Lauzon Both Returning From Serious Injuries

Both players the Golden Knights acquired in the trade with Nashville finished the season on injured reserve. Colton Sissons went down with a fairly gruesome-looking leg injury in a March 29th game against the Golden Knights. A few months earlier, defenseman Jeremy Lauzon left a game against the Wild after re-aggravating an injury from earlier in the season.

Here’s a quick look at the injury that knocked Sissons out for the final few weeks of the season.

Prior to this injury, Sissons had been one of the more durable players in the NHL. He had missed just six games in the previous five seasons and hadn’t missed a game to that point.

As for Lauzon, it’s a little more difficult to pinpoint the exact moment he was injured. Here’s the end of his last shift in New Jersey in November.

Lauzon went on to miss the next 10 games with a lower-body injury. When he returned, he played in each of the next six Predators games but then exited in the 2nd period on December 31st and missed the rest of the season. The video of his final shift of the season does not show anything glaring, and it was later explained that the injury from November had returned.

Both players are expected to be available for the opening of Training Camp with the Golden Knights this fall, but there will be concerns for both moving forward. Lauzon will be going on 10 months since his last game action, while Sissons won’t have seen the ice for about seven months. They’ll both be thrust into a new system and are each going to have multiple players pushing to take their jobs.

Expect to see both Lauzon and Sissons in multiple preseason games, not only to secure their spots in the VGK starting lineup, but also to get their legs back underneath them after extended absences.