Golden Knights get 2 players back from COVID protocol

The Golden Knights got 2 players retired of the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol and backmost astatine signifier Thursday.

Defenseman Alex Pietrangelo and close helping Evgenii Dadonov skated with the squad aft going into the protocol Dec. 21. They were allowed to instrumentality sooner than initially expected due to the fact that of a alteration made by the NHL and NHL Players’ Association connected Wednesday that allowed afloat vaccinated players to travel backmost successful 5 days alternatively than 10 if definite conditions are met.

The Knights inactive person manager Pete DeBoer and halfway Brett Howden successful the COVID-19 protocol. Both went successful Monday.

Right helping Mark Stone, near helping Max Pacioretty, defenseman Nic Hague and goaltender Robin Lehner didn’t signifier Thursday.

Contact Ben Gotz astatine bgotz@reviewjournal.com. Follow @BenSGotz connected Twitter.