{"id":8774,"date":"2026-03-06T08:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/knights-acquire-f-nic-dowd-place-f-mark-stone-on-ir\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:07:07","slug":"knights-acquire-f-nic-dowd-place-f-mark-stone-on-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/knights-acquire-f-nic-dowd-place-f-mark-stone-on-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights acquire F Nic Dowd, place F Mark Stone on IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<section id=\"0\" class=\"w-full\">\n<div class=\"xl:container mx-0 !px-4 py-0 pb-4 !mx-0 !px-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/28147348.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/28147348.jpg\" alt=\"NHL: Washington Capitals at Philadelphia Flyers\" class=\"w-full\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/><span class=\"text-0.8 leading-tight\">Feb 3, 2026; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Washington Capitals center Nic Dowd (26) finishes his check against Philadelphia Flyers right wing Carl Grundstrom (91) during the first period at Xfinity Mobile Arena. Mandatory Credit: Eric Hartline-Imagn Images<!-- --> <!-- --> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">\n<p>The Vegas Golden Knights acquired center Nic Dowd from the Washington Capitals on Thursday in exchange for goaltender Jesper Vikman, a third-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft and a second-round selection in 2029.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">\n<p>Vegas also placed captain Mark Stone (upper-body injury) on injured reserve Thursday after the forward exited Sunday&#8217;s game at Pittsburgh following a check to his left arm. Stone, who missed the last two games, is among the team&#8217;s leading scorers this season with 60 points (21 goals, 39 assists) in 43 games.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-3\">\n<p>Over 749 NHL games with the Ottawa Senators (2012-19) and Golden Knights, Stone has 694 points (252 goals, 443 assists) and a plus-17 rating.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-4\">\n<p>Dowd, 35, has recorded 16 points (four goals, 12 assists) and 113 hits in 55 games this season. He is one season removed from posting career-high totals in goals (14) and points (27).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-5\">\n<p>Dowd has 192 points (88 goals, 104 assists) and a plus-16 rating in 637 career games with the Los Angeles Kings (2015-17), Vancouver Canucks (2017-18) and Capitals. He was selected by the Kings in the seventh round of the 2009 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-6\">\n<p>Vikman, 23, has an 8-7-3 record with a 3.41 goals-against average and .886 save percentage this season with the Henderson Silver Knights of the American Hockey League.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-7\">\n<p>He was selected by the Golden Knights in the fifth round of the 2020 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-8\">\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/knights-acquire-f-nic-dowd-place-f-mark-stone-on-ir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 3, 2026; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Washington Capitals center Nic Dowd (26) finishes his check against Philadelphia Flyers right wing Carl Grundstrom (91) during the first period at Xfinity Mobile Arena. Mandatory Credit: Eric Hartline-Imagn Images The Vegas Golden Knights acquired center Nic Dowd from the Washington Capitals on Thursday in exchange for goaltender Jesper [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}