{"id":17051,"date":"2017-10-03T20:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T00:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=17051"},"modified":"2017-10-03T21:16:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T01:16:53","slug":"james-neal-injury-woes-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/10\/03\/james-neal-injury-woes-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"James Neal Injury Woes Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After missing training camp due to a broken hand suffered during last season\u2019s Conference Finals, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/knights\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> winger<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nealja01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Neal<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has now been placed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/fantasy\/hockey\/news\/golden-knights-james-neal-heads-to-non-roster-ir\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">injured non-roster list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Golden Knights have placed forward James Neal on the injured-non roster list. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/79CNoTrFrS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/79CNoTrFrS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoldenKnights\/status\/915288998829887488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Consistent Scoring<\/h2>\n<p>Vegas claimed the high-scoring\u00a0winger from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/predators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nashville Predators<\/a> during the NHL <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/06\/21\/golden-knights-draft-team\/\" target=\"_self\">expansion draft<\/a>. Neal spent three years in Nashville. Some were surprised when he was not protected. His scoring ability and contract status made him a good option for Vegas. His six-year, $30 million contract expires next summer.\u00a0James Neal (30) is one of just six active NHL players to score at least 20 goals in each of his first nine seasons. He is expected to be one of the Golden Knights scoring leader this season, and to play on the first line and on the first power-play unit, once healthy.<\/p>\n<h2>Injury Woes Continue<\/h2>\n<p>Neal broke his right hand\u00a0during the Western Conference finals in May against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/ducks\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>. He continued to play throughout the Predators unlikely\u00a0Stanley Cup run last year. He scored six goals and added three assists during Nashville\u2019s improbable run to the Stanley Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>According\u00a0to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/golden-knights-nhl\/golden-knights-james-neal-likely-sidelined-2-4-more-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/a>, Vegas may be without Neal for at least\u00a0two more weeks. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/golden-knights-nhl\/golden-knights-james-neal-likely-sidelined-2-4-more-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">general manager George McPhee:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThe hand is taking some more time to recover than anticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/golden-knights-place-james-neal-injured-non-roster-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sportsnet<\/a>\u00a0is reporting his $5-million salary will still count towards Vegas\u2019 cap, though he may not practice with the team.<\/p>\n<h2>Vegas baby, Vegas<\/h2>\n<p>LWOH&#8217;s own <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2017\/09\/29\/puck-drop-preview-2017-18-vegas-golden-knights\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriel Foley<\/a>\u00a0offered an in-depth look at the NHL&#8217;s newest team.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gallage01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerard Gallant<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0became the first Golden Knights coach, being hired in April. They also signed top KHL player\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/05\/04\/vegas-golden-knights-sign-vadim-shipachyov\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Vadim Shipachyov<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>in May. Since they picked up three first rounders, including the highly sought-after prospects,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/04\/03\/cody-glass-scouting-report-2017-nhl-draft-6\/\" target=\"_self\">Cody Glass<\/a><\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/04\/12\/nick-suzuki-scouting-report-2017-nhl-draft-14\/\" target=\"_self\">Nick Suzuki<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/05\/17\/2017-nhl-draft-erik-brannstrom\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Erik Brannstrom<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They take to the ice against the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dallas\u00a0Stars<\/a><\/strong> on October 6, 2017. Unfortunately, Neal will not be available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After missing training camp due to a broken hand suffered during last season\u2019s Conference Finals, Vegas Golden Knights winger\u00a0James Neal\u00a0has now been placed on the injured non-roster list. The Golden Knights have placed forward James Neal on the injured-non roster list. pic.twitter.com\/79CNoTrFrS &mdash; Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) October 3, 2017 Consistent Scoring Vegas claimed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2253,"featured_media":11647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[807,34],"tags":[684,37,330,38,961],"class_list":["post-17051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vegas-golden-knights","category-news","tag-george-mcphee","tag-hockey","tag-james-neal","tag-nhl","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}