{"id":491629,"date":"2026-06-06T19:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=491629"},"modified":"2026-06-06T19:50:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T23:50:47","slug":"mcnabbs-status-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/06\/06\/mcnabbs-status-game-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Brayden McNabb&#8217;s Status For Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/06\/02\/stanley-cup-final-preview-canes-vs-knights\/\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"s1\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/span><\/a> will have their top-line defenceman for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/06\/06\/nhl-predictions-scf-game3\/\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"s1\">Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final<\/span><\/a>. <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcnabbr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><\/span><\/a><a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcnabbr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brayden McNabb<\/a>&#8216;s status was revealed at warmups ahead of Game 3. This morning&#8217;s optional skate was for the scratches only, but it is notable that <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/korczka01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaedan Korczak<\/a> left the skate earlier than the other scratches, which seemingly posed a bad sign for McNabb. Head coach John Tortorella and the players did not disclose any details about McNabb&#8217;s status before warmups tonight. However, it turns out that McNabb will persevere and draw in for Game 3 with the full cage. The ultimate mind games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big cheers as Brayden McNabb, with cage, is featured on the Jumbotron for Game 3 in Vegas <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4fb5Dl2n58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/4fb5Dl2n58<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wyshynski\/status\/2063406464732102944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>McNabb&#8217;s Status and His Injury Does Not Stop Him For Game 3<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBvJhxLsOy\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 4402px; aspect-ratio: 4402\/2935;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<p><span>Credit Image: \u00a9 Peter Joneleit\/Cal Sport Media<\/span><\/p>\n<p>McNabb was struck in the face by an 87-mile-per-hour slap shot from <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/ehlerni01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikolaj Ehlers<\/a> midway through the first period of Game 2. He then had to go to the local hospital for repairs, but did travel with the team back to Vegas. It is suspected that he has some form of nose injury.<\/p>\n<p>McNabb has missed just one game in the playoffs so far, despite numerous injury scares. He was suspended for Game 6 against the Anaheim Ducks in Round 2, where Vegas won that game 5-1 even in his absence. <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lauzoje01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeremy Lauzon<\/a> was also injured, not having played since May 1 at that point, meaning that the team was down two regulars. With both McNabb and Lauzon in tonight, the defensive pairings for Vegas tonight should be as follows:<\/p>\n<p>McNabb &#8211; Theodore<\/p>\n<p>Hanifin &#8211; Andersson<\/p>\n<p>Lauzon &#8211; Coghlan<\/p>\n<h3>McNabb&#8217;s Tenacity and Dedication to the Game On Full Display<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">McNabb is a trooper, known to not miss many games unless he absolutely cannot go. He missed 19 games this season with an upper-body injury, after not missing any regular-season games for the three seasons prior. As he is a very important piece to stabilize the defence, it comes as no surprise that the veteran defenceman will persevere and play through his pain.<\/p>\n<p><span>Main Photo Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">McNabb had to leave the game after taking a shot high <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dKkOj5mu0K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/dKkOj5mu0K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B\/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BR_OpenIce\/status\/2062695887734763738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegas Golden Knights will have their top-line defenceman for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final. Brayden McNabb&#8216;s status was revealed at warmups ahead of Game 3. This morning&#8217;s optional skate was for the scratches only, but it is notable that Kaedan Korczak left the skate earlier than the other scratches, which seemingly posed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5733,"featured_media":491644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[10,2,4547,6671,34,4548,807],"tags":[8285,2731,1681,6182],"class_list":["post-491629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hurricanes","category-featured","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","category-vegas-golden-knights","tag-2026-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-brayden-mcnabb","tag-stanley-cup-final","tag-vegas-golden-knights-news"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491629","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\/5733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491629"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491662,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491629\/revisions\/491662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}