ADVERTISEMENT
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
And he’s back.
The Vegas Golden Knights released a press item Friday saying goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury had a false positive COVID-19 test result in St. Louis and has rejoined the team.
The VGK release: “After additional testing with players this week, it has been confirmed that the Golden Knights experienced a false positive COVID test in St. Louis, Missouri on Thursday, March 11. Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury has been removed from the NHL’s COVID Protocol list and has rejoined the team.”
The COVID-19 roller-coaster ride just gave the Vegas Golden Knights a big drop Thursday when star goaltender/face-of-the-franchise Marc-Andre Fleury was on the NHL’s COVID protocol list.
If Fleury is still on the list tomorrow, he will be out for Friday’s VGK vs St. Louis Blues game (if the game is played as scheduled).
Fleury is now unavailable, while fellow VGK goalie Robin Lehner is out, too, trying to get back in condition with the Henderson Silver Knights.
VGK goalie Logan Thompson appeared in Wednesday’s VGK game when the Knights lost to Minnesota, 4-3. Thompson replaced Fleury, who was pulled in the third period with the VGK losing, 4-1.
Fleury has been enjoying a bounce-back season during this amended 56-game pandemic schedule after he lost his starting job to Lehner during last season’s bubble postseason in Edmonton. He is one of four players on the NHL COVID protocol list today.
Other Knights on the NHL COVID protocol list this season have been Alex Pietrangelo and Tomas Nosek.
Pietrangelo has more problems. He’s out for “the foreseeable future” because of an upper-body injury, coach Pete DeBoer said this week.