{"id":382467,"date":"2025-12-31T05:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/382467\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T05:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:54:16","slug":"jack-eichel-shea-theodore-out-for-vegas-golden-knights-due-to-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/382467\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Eichel, Shea Theodore out for Vegas Golden Knights due to injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Jack Eichel and Shea Theodore will not make the Vegas Golden Knights\u2019 weekend Canadian road trip because of injuries, costing the team its leading scorer and one of its top defensemen.<\/p>\n<p>Neither played in Wednesday\u2019s <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vegas-golden-knights-new-jersey-devils-nhl-score-8aa30cfcab39733ec9671307fbbc9bbf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-1 shootout loss to New Jersey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eichel did not play because of illness, but coach Bruce Cassidy said Friday he also has a lower-body injury. He indicated Eichel isn\u2019t expected to be out long.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe next week we\u2019ll see where he\u2019s at,\u201d Cassidy said.<\/p>\n<p>Eichel leads the Golden Knights with 29 assists and 41 points, and he also has 12 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy said Theodore\u2019s status changed from day to day to now week to week with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think this will be a long one,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to speak out of turn, and hopefully that\u2019s the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Theodore was playing his best hockey of the season at the time of the injury. He leads Vegas defensemen with 20 points (four goals, 16 assists) and has a plus-5 rating.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Knights went into Friday\u2019s action tied with Anaheim atop the Pacific Division with 42 points apiece. Vegas visits divisional foes Calgary on Saturday and Edmonton on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Jack Eichel and Shea Theodore will not make the Vegas Golden Knights\u2019 weekend Canadian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[762,895,198,149,5317,5,1041,1326,43342,13257,576,4,292,1274,9,43,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-382467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-bruce-cassidy","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-edmonton","11":"tag-golden-knights","12":"tag-goldenknights","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-jack-eichel","15":"tag-las-vegas","16":"tag-local-news-for-apple","17":"tag-nevada","18":"tag-new-jersey","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nhl-hockey","21":"tag-nv-state-wire","22":"tag-shea-theodore","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-vegas","25":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","26":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115812634751402320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}