Golden Knights report: Star center not ruled out for Olympics

Golden Knights astatine Bruins

Knights triumph 4-1

RJ’s 3 stars

3. Knights close helping Mark Stone — He had 2 assists for his 5th multi-point crippled of the play arsenic helium extended his constituent streak to 9 games. He has 4 goals and 11 assists successful that span.

2. Knights halfway Chandler Stephenson — He recorded 3 assists to springiness him 7 his past 2 games. He is the archetypal subordinate successful franchise past to person three-plus assists successful consecutive games.

1. Knights near helping Max Pacioretty — He scored doubly to widen his goal-scoring streak to 7 games, tied for the longest successful the NHL this play with Toronto’s Auston Matthews. His constituent streak besides reached 9 games.

Key play

Pacioretty’s archetypal goal.

The play started with Stone recovering a puck successful the antiaircraft portion and sending a walk disconnected the boards to Stephenson successful the neutral zone. From there, the halfway fired a diagonal walk that caught Pacioretty’s instrumentality conscionable earlier his near skate entered the violative portion for a breakaway.

Pacioretty utilized a forehand determination to bushed rookie goaltender Jeremy Swayman five-hole and springiness him a career-long extremity streak. It was the archetypal of 2 goals connected the nighttime that featured each 3 members of the Knights’ apical line.

Key stat

16 — The fig of points Pacioretty has scored since returning from a breached bony successful his ft Nov. 24, second-most successful the NHL down Matthews.

Stone has 15 successful the aforesaid span, tied for the fourth-most down Matthews, Pacioretty and Toronto’s John Tavares.

Eichel not ruled retired for Olympics

Newly named Team USA Olympic wide manager Bill Guerin connected Tuesday did not regularisation retired Knights halfway Jack Eichel for the upcoming Winter Games.

Guerin, who is besides the GM of the Minnesota Wild, said he’s talked to Eichel’s cause Pat Brisson astir the player’s availability but wouldn’t disclose specifics. Eichel, who has represented the U.S. astatine the younker and elder levels, is recovering from a November cervix country and has resumed skating. His archetypal betterment timeline was three-to-five months.

Eichel said aft being traded to the Knights successful November helium wanted to hold to spot whether helium could travel backmost successful clip for the Olympics.

“The Olympics, I deliberation it’s a extremity of immoderate hockey subordinate to beryllium capable to correspond your state there,” Eichel said. “Vegas has made a large committedness to maine and truthful my commitment’s to them. I don’t privation to unreserved anything. I conscionable privation to springiness myself arsenic overmuch clip arsenic I tin to get back, and I conjecture we’ll spot erstwhile the day is that I consciousness that I’m astir comfy to travel backmost and play.”

The NHL’s Olympic information arsenic a full is simply a question people arsenic players grapple with the imaginable of choky COVID-19 restrictions successful China. Knights goaltender Robin Lehner has declined to enactment for Team Sweden. Defenseman Alex Pietrangelo, 1 of 3 players already named to Team Canada’s roster, is uncertain if helium volition go.

Knights’ adjacent 10

At New Jersey, 4 p.m. Thursday

At N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. Friday

At N.Y. Islanders, 11 a.m. Sunday

Vs. Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. Dec. 21

Vs. Los Angeles, 7 p.m. Dec. 23

Vs. Colorado, 7 p.m. Dec. 27

At Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 28

Vs. Anaheim, noon Dec. 31

Vs. Winnipeg, 1 p.m. Jan. 2

Vs. Nashville, 7 p.m. Jan. 4

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