{"id":716082,"date":"2026-06-05T03:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716082\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T03:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:26:08","slug":"mcnabb-hit-in-face-with-puck-leaves-game-2-of-cup-final-for-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716082\/","title":{"rendered":"McNabb hit in face with puck, leaves Game 2 of Cup Final for Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brayden-mcnabb-8475188\" title=\"Brayden McNabb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden McNabb<\/a> took a puck to the face at 10:52 of the first period, and the Vegas Golden Knights defenseman did not return for the second against the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final at Lenovo Center on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>McNabb was in front of the Golden Knights net when he was hit in the face by a slap shot from Hurricanes forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nikolaj-ehlers-8477940\" title=\"Nikolaj Ehlers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolaj Ehlers<\/a>. Players immediately put their hands up to alert officials to the injury to McNabb, who quickly went to Vegas\u2019 locker room holding his hand over his mouth and nose.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN reported that McNabb had been taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old has seven points (one goal, six assists) and is averaging 20:53 of ice time in 17 Stanley Cup Playoff games. McNabb had the first three-assist game of his career, regular season or playoffs, to help the Golden Knights defeat the Hurricanes 5-4 in Game 1 on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McNabb, who helped the Golden Knights win the Stanley Cup in 2023, has 33 blocked shots this postseason after leading them with 142 blocked shots in 63 regular-season games. His 1,417 blocked shots and 1,469 hits with Vegas are both first in Golden Knights history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. &#8212; Brayden McNabb took a puck to the face at 10:52 of the first period, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-716082","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\/716082","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=716082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}