{"id":241615,"date":"2025-10-26T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/241615\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T15:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:39:11","slug":"evening-notes-strome-granlund-ellis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/241615\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Notes: Strome, Granlund, Ellis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Capitals centerman Dylan Strome<\/a> exited Saturday night\u2019s game<\/a> after sustaining a lower-body injury in the opening minutes. The injury occured after Strome got tangled up with teammate Jakob Chychrun<\/a> and tumbled hard into the endboards. He made a brief return to the ice during a TV timeout later in the game \u2013 but didn\u2019t stick around after taking a few small laps.<\/p>\n

The chance to see Strome already testing out his injury will be a silver lining for the Capitals, who could be losing their second-highest scorer with this news. Strome has racked up 10 points in eight games this season, all scored across a five-game point streak he was riding entering Saturday night. He led the Capitals in scoring with 82 points in 82 games last season.<\/p>\n

Nic Dowd<\/a> earned the most ice time of Washington\u2019s centers following Strome\u2019s absence. He was already in an elevated role to support Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a>, who made his return from a five-game absence. Dowd and Justin Sourdif<\/a> should be the biggest beneficiaries, though both behind Dubois, should Washington need to fill-in Strome\u2019s minutes.<\/p>\n

Other later-night notes:<\/p>\n

Anaheim Ducks forward Mikael Granlund<\/a> also exited his team\u2019s game, in the first period, with a lower-body injury<\/a>. It\u2019s not exactly clear when Granlund\u2019s injury occured, though he appeared in discomfort away from play and headed towards the locker room after just six minutes of ice time. Granlund is tied with Leo Carlsson<\/a> for the Ducks\u2019 scoring lead with eight points in seven games. He\u2019s in his first year in Anaheim, after spending last season split between the San Jose Sharks and Dallas Stars. He scored 66 points in 83 games between the two teams, his most since he scored 67 points in the 2017-18 season. Now playing for his sixth NHL club, Granlund has continued to prove he can be a flexible scorer in any lineup. His absence would leave Anaheim with a big role to fill. The Ducks would likely lean on Carlsson, Mason McTavish<\/a>, and Nikita Nesterenko<\/a> to fill in.
\nThe Buffalo Sabres intended to start Colten Ellis<\/a> in Saturday\u2019s overtime loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs, but opted to rest the rookie after he woke up with tightness in his back, head coach Lindy Ruff<\/a> told Matthew Fairburn of The Athletic<\/a>. Ellis made 29 saves on 31 shots, and recorded a win, in his NHL debut on Wednesday. He was strong throughout, carrying over the same sharp movement that earned him a .922 save percentage in 42 AHL games \u2013 sixth-highest in the league \u2013 last season. Ellis is another promising young goaltender in Buffalo\u2019s system, and could get a chance to compete with Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a> for a role behind Alex Lyon<\/a>, should the Sabres continue carrying three goalies. Ellis should be back to game-readiness soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals centerman Dylan Strome exited Saturday night\u2019s game after sustaining a lower-body injury in the opening minutes.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6066,766,741,49,48,113693,113694,5718,113695,448,82,754],"class_list":["post-241615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ahl","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-colten-ellis","tag-dylan-strome","tag-injury","tag-mikael-granlund","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-washington-capitals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241615","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=241615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}