{"id":310612,"date":"2026-05-11T18:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310612\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:08:14","slug":"golden-knights-fail-to-step-up-in-stones-absence-in-game-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310612\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights fail to step up in Stone’s absence in Game 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

However, the Golden Knights have plenty of experience playing without Mark Stone<\/a>, and they will need to lean on that for the rest of the Western Conference Second Round against the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always tough losing your captain,\u201d Vegas forward Colton Sissons<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cWe\u2019re all just going to have to step up. That\u2019s what it is. It\u2019s what good teams do. Obviously, we miss \u2018Stoney,\u2019 but we have a lot of good leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stone sustained an undisclosed injury in the first period of Vegas’ 6-2 win in Game 3 on Friday and was not able to play in a 4-3 loss in Game 4 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

His status for the rest of the series, which is tied 2-2, is unknown heading into Game 5 at T-Mobile Arena on Tuesday (9:30 p.m. ET; ESPN, SN360, SN, TVAS).<\/p>\n

Although the Golden Knights might have experience playing without Stone, there’s no understating his impact on the team. They went 8-9-5 without him in the lineup this season compared to 31-17-12 when he played.<\/p>\n

\u201cStoney is a big part of our team,\u201d Vegas coach John Tortorella said. \u201cWe miss him, period, as far as his presence and as far as his play.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old is Vegas’ all-time leader in the playoffs with 79 points (39 goals, 40 assists) in 94 games, including seven points (three goals, four assists) in nine games this postseason.<\/p>\n

As a result, Stone\u2019s absence was noticeable in the Game 4 on Sunday, but as defenseman Brayden McNabb<\/a>\u00a0said after the loss, “you move on.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what the score was, it could be 6-0, 1-0, 4-3, it\u2019s the best-of-3 with home ice,” he added. “We get a rest and will be ready for the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Considering the fact that the Golden Knights are a playoff-savvy team, having two of the last three games of the series at home should certainly give them an advantage against the Ducks, who have had 15 players make their NHL playoff debut this postseason.<\/p>\n

Vegas is the complete opposite, with 12 Stanley Cup champions on its roster and seven players who have played at least 100 playoff games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have zero worries about this team as far as how we\u2019re going to go about the next few games here, wherever it goes to,\u201d Tortorella said. \u201cI have total trust.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, the Golden Knights have plenty of experience playing without Mark Stone, and they will need to lean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-310612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}