{"id":601214,"date":"2026-06-18T01:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T01:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/601214\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T01:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T01:48:19","slug":"west-notes-andersson-stone-foligno-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/601214\/","title":{"rendered":"West Notes: Andersson, Stone, Foligno \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heading into the offseason, the cap-strapped Vegas Golden Knights will need to find a way to retain defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/anderra01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rasmus Andersson<\/a>, should they want to. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DannyWebster21\/status\/2066939986700845525\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to Danny Webster of the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/a>, they won\u2019t get any pushback from Andersson, who reaffirmed his position to remain with the Golden Knights long-term.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas paid a pretty penny to acquire him from the Calgary Flames this past season, especially since no extension had been agreed upon. In mid-January, the Golden Knights sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/whiteza01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zach Whitecloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/wiebeab01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Abram Wiebe<\/a>, a top-10 protected first-round pick, and a second-round pick to the Flames for Andersson\u2019s services.<\/p>\n<p>Still, despite Andersson\u2019s willingness to stay, he wasn\u2019t that productive with Vegas, especially for the price he may have set for his next contract. Andersson scored seven goals and 17 points in 33 games to finish off the regular season, while only tallying six assists in 22 playoff games. Additionally, he proved costly in the Stanley Cup Final, managing a -2 rating in six games with seven turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>Additional notes from the Western Conference:<\/p>\n<p>Sticking with the Golden Knights, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DannyWebster21\/status\/2066967130365706414\" rel=\"nofollow\">Webster also reported<\/a> that captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stonema01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mark Stone<\/a> suffered a tear in his left adductor that led to him missing a few games in Round Two and the Western Conference Final. The injury clearly limited him, as he scored three goals and seven points in nine games before the tear, and four goals and five points in eight games afterwards.<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Aportzline\/status\/2066990879944872012?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to Aaron Portzline of The Athletic<\/a>, veteran forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/foligni01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nick Foligno<\/a> has not made a firm commitment on the future of his playing career. Foligno, 38, split the year with the Chicago Blackhawks before a deadline trade brought him to the Minnesota Wild to play with his brother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/foligma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marcus Foligno<\/a>. Although he hasn\u2019t yet decided, Portzline noted that Foligno has already started offseason workouts and will monitor how his market develops once free agency opens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heading into the offseason, the cap-strapped Vegas Golden Knights will need to find a way to retain defenseman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,402,1040,38,4,5851,3327,39],"class_list":["post-601214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary-flames","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-flames","tag-calgaryflames","tag-flames","tag-hockey","tag-injury","tag-mark-stone","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-nick-foligno","tag-rasmus-andersson","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116768597876712192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601214","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=601214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}