{"id":683760,"date":"2026-05-21T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683760\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:23:08","slug":"coghlan-making-most-of-stanley-cup-playoff-opportunity-with-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683760\/","title":{"rendered":"Coghlan making most of Stanley Cup Playoff opportunity with Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He had never scored before in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and he hadn\u2019t scored in the NHL since Dec. 27, 2021, when he had a goal for the Golden Knights in a 3-2 shootout win against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCouldn\u2019t be happier for the guy,\u201d Vegas goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/carter-hart-8479394\" title=\"Carter Hart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carter Hart<\/a>\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a long journey since Coghlan\u2019s last NHL goal.<\/p>\n<p>Coghlan had no goals in 17 games for the Carolina Hurricanes in 2022-23, none in one game for the Hurricanes in 2023-24, none in six games for the Winnipeg Jets in 2024-25 and none in three games for the Golden Knights this season, giving him six goals in 115 regular-season games in his NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>But he had 44 goals in 164 games in the American Hockey League over that span, including 14 goals in 62 games this season for Henderson, Vegas\u2019 AHL affiliate. He played in all situations and felt good about his game.<\/p>\n<p>Coghlan made his Stanley Cup Playoff debut in Game 3 of the second round against the Anaheim Ducks, helping fill the void after defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jeremy-lauzon-8478468\" title=\"Jeremy Lauzon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Lauzon<\/a>\u00a0sustained an upper-body injury. He played his fifth straight game Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t really have a lot to lose coming in and stepping up,\u201d Coghlan said. \u201cI think I only played three games in the regular season. But yeah, this is probably the best I\u2019ve felt in my whole career. Whoever it is I\u2019m playing with, I\u2019m very comfortable out there with them. They make it pretty easy on me, and we have some pretty world-class players.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He had never scored before in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and he hadn\u2019t scored in the NHL since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-683760","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\/683760","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=683760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}