Golden Knights goaltender to make 1st NHL start against Nashville

Goaltender Logan Thompson volition marque his archetypal NHL commencement for the Golden Knights connected Tuesday nighttime against the Nashville Predators astatine T-Mobile Arena.

Thompson has been 1 of the astir palmy goaltenders successful the American Hockey League the past 2 seasons. He made his NHL debut March 10 against the Minnesota Wild.

Thompson, 24, started the play 3rd connected the Knights’ extent chart. Absences pushed him to the front. Robin Lehner is recovering from a lower-body injury, and Laurent Brossoit hasn’t skated with the squad the past 2 days for undisclosed reasons.

Thompson was named the AHL’s goalie of the twelvemonth past play aft going 16-6-1 with a .943 prevention percent and 1.96 goals-against average. He is 10-6-3 with a .929 prevention percent and 2.53 goals-against mean this play with the Silver Knights.

It was a agelong ascent for Thompson to go an NHL starter. He went undrafted and played Canadian assemblage hockey astatine Brock University. When helium debuted, helium was the archetypal U Sports — the nationalist governing assemblage of assemblage athletics successful Canada — goaltender to play successful the NHL since 1994.

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