{"id":555441,"date":"2026-04-18T18:39:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555441\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:39:27","slug":"william-karlsson-injury-update-vegas-golden-knights-without-center-to-start-utah-mammoth-series-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555441\/","title":{"rendered":"William Karlsson injury update: Vegas Golden Knights without center to start Utah Mammoth series | Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/goldenknights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> center William Karlsson will not be available for the start of the first-round series against the Utah Mammoth as he continues to rehab from a lower-body injury, general manager Kelly McCrimmon said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>While he hasn\u2019t been officially ruled out for the series, which begins Sunday at T-Mobile Arena, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/goldenknights\/golden-knights-captains-injury-not-deemed-serious-gm-says-3716186\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">McCrimmon said in March<\/a> that the Knights would have to have \u201csome success in the playoffs for him to play again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCrimmon said the rest of the roster that played in the regular season finale Wednesday are healthy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it\u2019s a question everybody wants to ask,\u201d McCrimmon said. \u201cI\u2019m telling you what I can, but he\u2019s continuing to progress. He\u2019s further along than the last time I saw you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karlsson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/goldenknights\/golden-knights-rally-in-3rd-period-but-fall-to-ducks-in-ot-3535266\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has not played since Nov. 8<\/a> when he suffered the apparent injury following the first period against the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old did the first intermission interview on the Knights\u2019 broadcast, but didn\u2019t return for the second period and has not been seen since.<\/p>\n<p>Karlsson was not placed on season-ending long-term injured reserve, giving him the chance to return to the lineup should the Knights need a cap-compliant gameday roster.<\/p>\n<p>The Original Misfit had seven points in 14 games this season. Karlsson has played 569 of his 752 career games since the Knights selected him in the 2017 expansion draft.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Danny Webster at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/goldenknights\/injured-knights-center-continues-rehab-out-for-start-of-utah-series-3763473\/mailto:dwebster@reviewjournal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dwebster@reviewjournal.com.<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/@DannyWebster21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@DannyWebster21<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights center William Karlsson will not be available for the start of the first-round series against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[149,5317,5,4,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-555441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-golden-knights","9":"tag-goldenknights","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-vegas","13":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","14":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116427172693252791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555441","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=555441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}