{"id":644176,"date":"2026-05-15T06:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644176\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T06:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:31:11","slug":"golden-knights-will-look-to-win-game-6-advance-to-west-final-without-suspended-mcnabb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644176\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights will look to win Game 6, advance to West Final without suspended McNabb\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM — The Vegas Golden Knights face a challenge without Brayden McNabb<\/a>\u00a0against the Anaheim Ducks in Game 6 of the Western Conference Second Round at Honda Center on Thursday (9:30 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, truTV, TNT, SN360, TVAS).<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think you can substitute for a guy of that magnitude for us,\u201d Vegas coach John Tortorella said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The defenseman will serve a one-game suspension for interference on Anaheim center Ryan Poehling<\/a>, while the Golden Knights, ahead 3-2 in the best-of-7 series, try to eliminate the Ducks and advance to the Western Conference Final against the Colorado Avalanche. Poehling is out with an undisclosed injury because of the hit.<\/p>\n

McNabb has played 757 games for the Golden Knights in the regular season and Stanley Cup Playoffs combined, most in their history.<\/p>\n

He is averaging 22:24 of ice time — including 3:29 on the penalty kill, most on the Golden Knights — in the playoffs this year entering Game 5, when he left at the 9-minute mark of the first period after receiving a major penalty for interference and game misconduct.<\/p>\n

The Golden Knights are already without defenseman Jeremy Lauzon<\/a>, who will miss his sixth straight game with an upper-body injury. Defenseman Kaedan Korczak<\/a>\u00a0is expected to play for the first time in four games.<\/p>\n

Shea Theodore<\/a>, who usually plays with\u00a0McNabb on the right side of the top pair, likely will switch to the left and partner with Dylan Coghlan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have lean on him even more now with \u2018Nabber\u2019 out,\u201d Tortorella said. \u201cBut the thing that always impresses me about him is just his vision and how he gets us up the ice.\u201d
Theodore leads Vegas skaters in average ice time (25:45) and defensemen with seven points (three goals, four assists) in 11 games in the playoffs. He led Vegas skaters in ice time (30:00) and blocked shots (four) in Game 5, a 3-2 overtime win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM — The Vegas Golden Knights face a challenge without Brayden McNabb\u00a0against the Anaheim Ducks in Game 6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-644176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}