And now, thanks to the victory Sunday, his Golden Knights lead the best-of-7 series 3-0 and can eliminate the Avalanche with another win here in Game 4 on Tuesday (9 p.m. ET; ESPN, SN, TVAS, CBC).<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt good out there,\u201d he said. \u201cThe timing was a bit off, but otherwise it was good. Been rehabbing, pushing the past couple of weeks. Like I said, it\u2019s a lot easier when the team is playing the way it is playing. So yeah, I was inching closer, trying to buy a little more time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd (Saturday) I felt like there was no reason not to jump back in there. So tonight I felt great.\u201d<\/p>\n
For coach John Tortorella, Stone\u2019s return was a boost both on the ice and off.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019Stoney\u2019 is such an important guy,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve said it before, even before he stepped on the ice, just to have his presence in the room.”<\/p>\n
He was all of that on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And now, thanks to the victory Sunday, his Golden Knights lead the best-of-7 series 3-0 and can eliminate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-693252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}