Golden Knights demote 2 forward prospects, call up 2 more

The Golden Knights sent near helping Pavel Dorofeyev to Henderson connected Wednesday 1 time aft helium made his NHL debut against the Seattle Kraken.

Dorofeyev, 20, didn’t get overmuch enactment Tuesday, getting 5 shifts full and lone 1 aft the archetypal period. His constricted crystal clip was reflective of the information helium didn’t play successful a preseason crippled and made the Knights’ archetypal roster for salary-cap purposes.

Center Jake Leschyshyn and near helping Jonas Rondbjerg were called up to regenerate Dorofeyev and close helping Jack Dugan, who was besides sent down.

Dorofeyev and Dugan were called up Monday due to the fact that they carried the highest headdress hits among the players skating for the Silver Knights. That allowed the Golden Knights to maximize their salary-cap flexibility erstwhile they enactment close helping Alex Tuch connected semipermanent injured reserve.

NHL rules prevented the Knights from demoting Dorofeyev oregon Dugan the archetypal time of the season, and 2 of the team’s different 14 forwards were unavailable successful near wings William Carrier (concussion protocol) and Mattias Janmark (COVID-19 protocols). The squad decided to play Dorofeyev and determination defenseman Dylan Coghlan to forward. Coghlan got six shifts Tuesday and nary successful the 3rd period. Dugan didn’t play due to the fact that of a insignificant lower-body injury, aggregate sources confirmed to the Review-Journal.

Leschyshyn and Rondbjerg some got agelong looks successful grooming campy and played successful 4 of the Knights’ 7 preseason games. Leschyshyn, 22, was a 2017 second-round prime and had 11 points successful 39 games for the Silver Knights past season. Rondbjerg, 22, was a third-round prime successful 2017 and had 13 points successful 38 games for Henderson.

Neither subordinate has made their NHL debut.

Contact Ben Gotz astatine bgotz@reviewjournal.com. Follow @BenSGotz connected Twitter. Review-Journal reported David Schoen contributed to this report.