Vegas Golden Knights center William Karlsson will be sidelined on a week-to-week basis due to a lower-body injury, coach Bruce Cassidy said Thursday.
Karlsson played 17-plus minutes in Monday’s 5-4 shootout loss to the St. Louis Blues.
“We had a maintenance day for him the other day and we were hopefully to get good news,” Golden Knights coach Bruce Cassidy said at the morning skate prior to Thursday’s road game against the St. Louis Blues. “It wasn’t what we wanted and what he wanted but he’ll be week for week for now. So we’ll see how it plays out. It’s a whole new lineup when he’s out.”
Karlsson, 32, has seven goals and 11 assists in 38 games this season. He is without a point over his last seven games and hasn’t had a goal since Dec. 21.
Karlsson is in his eighth season with Vegas and he had 11 goals in 22 game playoff games when the Golden Knights won the 2023 Stanley Cup.
He had 30 goals and 30 assists in 70 games last season. His top goal-scoring season was when he scored 43 in 2017-18 in his first year with the Golden Knights.
Karlsson has 177 goals and 258 assists in 723 career games with the Anaheim Ducks (2014-15), Columbus Blue Jackets (2015-17) and Golden Knights.
Vegas also recalled centers Tanner Laczynski and Brendan Brisson from AHL affiliate Henderson.
Laczynski had one goal in six games with the Golden Knights earlier this season, while Brisson went scoreless in seven games.
