{"id":18469,"date":"2017-10-31T14:09:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T18:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=18469"},"modified":"2017-10-31T14:09:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T18:09:31","slug":"vegas-golden-knights-goalie-oscar-dansk-out-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/10\/31\/vegas-golden-knights-goalie-oscar-dansk-out-with-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights Goalie Oscar Dansk Out With Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the continuing saga of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/knights\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>\u00a0goalie situation, another has gone down with an injury. This time it&#8217;s third-string goalie\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/danskos01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oscar Dansk<\/a><\/strong>. Dansk left the game on Monday night with an unspecified injury. The injury occurred late in the second period of a 6-3 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Islanders<\/a>. The team has placed Dansk on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ferguson is expected to be available for tonight&#8217;s game against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYRangers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@NYRangers<\/a>; Oscar Dansk has been placed on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoldenKnights\/status\/925398918447460352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Vegas Golden Knights Goalie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/danskos01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oscar Dansk<\/a> Out With Injury<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: #222222;\">It is unknown\u00a0how long Dansk will be out of the lineup. Dansk is 3-0-0 on the year with a .946 save percentage, 1.78 goals against average and one shutout. Dansk joins the crowded Vegas infirmary that already includes goaltenders\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/fleurma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc-Andre Fleury<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/subbama01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malcolm Subban<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">here we have highlights of tonight&#8217;s game but we think you might be better off watching hocus pocus tbh <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wesBj039qx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/wesBj039qx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoldenKnights\/status\/925200021313613824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>New Day New Goalie<\/h2>\n<p>The score was 2-2 at the time of the injury. As a result, fourth string goalie <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lagacma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maxime Lagace<\/a><\/strong> finished the game for the Golden Knights. The 24-year old had a difficult debut, allowing four goals on 11 shots. For Tuesday\u2019s game against the New York Rangers, Vegas will call up <strong>Dylan Ferguson<\/strong> from the WHL Kamloops Blazers. The 18-year-old Ferguson came to the Golden Knights as a part of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/methoma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Methot<\/a><\/strong> deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dallas Stars<\/a>. He has a 4-9-0 record with a .878 save percentage and a 4.05 goals against average with the Blazers this season.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas coach <strong>Gerrard Gallant<\/strong> had this to say about the situation via Twitter. \u201cIt\u2019s part of the game, It\u2019s next guy up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Knights strong start (8-2-0) has them the talk of the league. Many pre-season pundits picked the Golden Knights to struggle and the team is currently proving them wrong. Maintaining their pace is a\u00a0concern moving forward, however. The Knights are now 10 games into the season and on their fourth goalie.<\/p>\n<h2>Goaltending Concerns<\/h2>\n<p>Currently, number one goalie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/fleurma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc-Andre Fleury<\/a> is out with a concussion and is \u201cday to day\u201d according to Gallant. Backup goalie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/subbama01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malcolm Subban<\/a> is out with a lower-body injury and was placed on injured reserve October 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>Lagace is the fourth goalie to see playing time this year for the expansion club. So far the Golden Knights have been able to survive this rash of injuries. However, the team is dipping deep into their goaltending depth at the moment. If Legace&#8217;s performance on Monday is any indication, the Golden Knights could be in for a rough stretch.<br \/>\n<a id=\"fQWNtYLqTqhHP0zo4CoQwg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/868628236\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'fQWNtYLqTqhHP0zo4CoQwg',sig:'eQJWJU7X4O_kgiKXazFN1zIU2Pk8HLvOlbjSSMkKX7E=',w:'594px',h:'402px',items:'868628236',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the continuing saga of the Vegas Golden Knights\u00a0goalie situation, another has gone down with an injury. This time it&#8217;s third-string goalie\u00a0Oscar Dansk. Dansk left the game on Monday night with an unspecified injury. The injury occurred late in the second period of a 6-3 loss to the New York Islanders. The team has placed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2211,"featured_media":18480,"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":[34,807],"tags":[2654,2656,37,2648,557,2655,38,2653,961],"class_list":["post-18469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-vegas-golden-knights","tag-dylan-ferguson","tag-gerrard-gallant","tag-hockey","tag-malcom-subban","tag-marc-andre-fleury","tag-maxim-legace","tag-nhl","tag-oskar-dansk","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"modified_by":"Connor Lapalme","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18469","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\/2211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}