{"id":616478,"date":"2026-07-06T23:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/616478\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T23:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:09:13","slug":"golden-knights-sign-lukas-cormier-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/616478\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights Sign Lukas Cormier \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegas Golden Knights are retaining some of their defensive depth from the last few years. The Golden Knights <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GoldenKnights\/status\/2074237113915318431\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> they\u2019ve re-signed defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/cormilu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lukas Cormier<\/a> to a one-year contract for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Cormier, 24, was drafted 68th overall by the Golden Knights in the 2020 NHL Draft. A few years later, he put together an exceptional year for the QMJHL\u2019s Charlottetown Islanders, scoring 33 goals and 81 points in 62 games with a +40 rating, with an additional eight goals and 21 points in 15 postseason contests.<\/p>\n<p>After that season, Cormier joined the professional ranks. He had a decent showing with the AHL\u2019s Henderson Silver Knights, scoring 10 goals and 35 points in 62 games with a -12 rating. It became apparent relatively early that Cormier was an offense-only defenseman. The following year, despite debuting with the Golden Knights, he finished with a disastrous -30 rating in 58 AHL games.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries limited Cormier in the 2024-25 campaign. Not beginning his season until March 1, he finished with nine assists in 19 games with a -9 rating.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Cormier rebounded well in the 2025-26 season. Putting together his best professional season to date, Cormier finished with eight goals and 47 points in 49 games with a +2 rating. It\u2019s likely that Cormier will again spend much of the 2026-27 campaign with the Silver Knights, but could be called upon as an injury replacement, given that he appears to be healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights are retaining some of their defensive depth from the last few years. The Golden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,20910,405,39],"class_list":["post-616478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-hockey","tag-lukas-cormier","tag-transactions","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116875556500927150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616478","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=616478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}