{"id":593041,"date":"2026-06-07T01:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/593041\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T01:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:21:19","slug":"vgk-defenseman-brayden-mcnabb-returns-for-game-3-after-taking-puck-to-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/593041\/","title":{"rendered":"VGK defenseman Brayden McNabb returns for Game 3 after taking puck to face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KTNV) \u2014 Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Brayden McNabb started for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final, just two days after <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktnv.com\/sports\/golden-knights\/golden-knights-brayden-mcnabb-leaves-stanley-cup-final-game-2-after-taking-a-puck-to-the-face\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taking a slap shot to the face<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McNabb left Game 2 in the first period after an 87 mph slap shot from Carolina&#8217;s Nikolaj Ehlers struck him. He quickly left the ice, holding his nose, and was reportedly taken to an area hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Until just before puck drop on Saturday, it was unclear if McNabb would play, but he took the ice in a full face cage, to massive applause from the crowd at T-Mobile Arena. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>McNabb, an Original Misfit who played on the Golden Knights&#8217; inaugural team in 2017, has appeared in 17 postseason games for Vegas in 2026, recording one goal and six assists. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KTNV) \u2014 Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Brayden McNabb started for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[3504,3505,3506,149,5317,5,3507,3508,3509,3510,3511,285,4,3512,74,39,5316],"class_list":["post-593041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vegas-golden-knights","tag-13-action-news","tag-channel-13","tag-go-knights-go","tag-golden-knights","tag-goldenknights","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-in-las-vegas","tag-hockey-in-vegas","tag-ktnv-tv-channel-13","tag-las-vegas-hockey","tag-las-vegas-sports","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-in-las-vegas","tag-vegas","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-vegasgoldenknights"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116706206233331024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593041","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=593041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}