Though nothing has been formally confirmed by the group, Jesse Granger of The Athletic is reporting that the Vegas Golden Knights have positioned Jack Eichel on injured reserve.
Since Eichel has not performed a recreation since Jan. 11 in opposition to the Boston Bruins, he’ll be capable to return on Jan. 20 in opposition to the Pittsburgh Penguins, solely lacking three video games in complete.
Presently, the Golden Knights haven’t reported precisely the precise harm that Eichel is coping with, however it will likely be the primary time he has been positioned on the injured reserve since December 12, 2022.
In one other largely wholesome season for Eichel, he’s main Vegas in scoring, placing up 19 targets and 44 factors in 43 video games.
Eichel joins a rising listing of Golden Knights who’re lacking time as a consequence of harm, as Adin Hill, William Karlsson and William Service all discover themselves on the group’s injured reserve, and Shea Theodore remains to be positioned on the long-term injured reserve.
Staying comparatively wholesome for many of the starting of the season, Vegas’ unimaginable 11-0-1 begin has become a nonetheless respectable 24-14-5 file on the 12 months.
Fortuitously for the Golden Knights, the group only recently handed the midway level within the season, and all gamers at present injured are nonetheless anticipated again by the top of the season.
Harking back to final 12 months’s Colorado Avalanche, Vegas is having its organizational depth challenged solely a 12 months faraway from successful the Stanley Cup.
With Chandler Stephenson
seemingly sidelined for the group’s recreation Monday night time in opposition to the Nashville Predators with an sickness, the Golden Knights might need to depend on Nicolas Roy and Michael Amadio to heart the highest two traces except they’re comfy transferring Ivan Barbashev off of the wing.
