{"id":117795,"date":"2025-09-03T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117795\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:23:10","slug":"eichel-marner-chemistry-on-golden-knights-1st-line-to-be-determined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117795\/","title":{"rendered":"Eichel-Marner chemistry on Golden Knights’ 1st line ‘to be determined’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vegas should be strong down the middle with Eichel, Tomas Hertl<\/a> and William Karlsson<\/a>. The fourth line will have a different look with Colton Sissons<\/a>, acquired in a trade with the Nashville Predators on June 30.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe miss Nic Roy,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cHe\u2019s a good player. Toronto is going to be pleased, I believe, with what they\u2019re getting. But we still feel with Eichel, Hertl, Karlsson \u2026 Those are our top three until they\u2019re not. But that\u2019s how it\u2019s looking right now, and Sissons should anchor the fourth line. Brett Howden<\/a> also plays center and wing, so he\u2019s in that mix somewhere depending on how things shake out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The defense will have a different look too.<\/p>\n

Alex Pietrangelo<\/a>, a key part of the Golden Knights\u2019 2023 Stanley Cup championship team and their average ice time leader last season (22:24), likely will retire due to a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n

Vegas also parted with Nicolas Hague<\/a> and acquired Jeremy Lauzon<\/a> in the trade with Nashville on June 30. Kaedan Korczak<\/a> signed a four-year, $13 million contract ($3.25 million AAV) on July 2. Zach Whitecloud<\/a> could play a larger role.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have Kaedan Korczak, who we feel is about to take another step,\u201d Cassidy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve made an investment in the player, he\u2019s made an investment in our team by signing an extension, and so we\u2019re all feeling good about where he\u2019s at. Who he plays with, that\u2019ll be a different thing. We\u2019ve got some pairs back that have played together, so that\u2019s to be determined. Whitecloud, he\u2019s probably thinking, \u2018OK, ‘Petro,’ I can take a step.\u2019 And he\u2019s deserved that. He\u2019s been in the League four, five years now.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s going to be an opportunity for leadership too. Petro\u2019s been a big leader for us, and maybe some of the other defensemen now will have a little opportunity to have a larger voice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vegas should be strong down the middle with Eichel, Tomas Hertl and William Karlsson. The fourth line will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-117795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}