{"id":450562,"date":"2025-12-16T08:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/450562\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T08:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:42:11","slug":"kuemper-danault-byfield-reichel-connelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/450562\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuemper, Danault, Byfield, Reichel, Connelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kings goaltender <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kuempda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-15_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Darcy Kuemper<\/a><\/strong> sustained an upper-body injury in the first period of their game tonight against Dallas, the team announced (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LAKingsPR\/status\/2000753129667563647\">Twitter link<\/a>).\u00a0 The injury occurred after taking a hit from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rantami01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-15_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The 35-year-old has quietly been one of the better goalies in the league this season, taking a 2.21 GAA and a .916 SV% in 22 games into this game while posting a 15.5 Goals Saved Above Expected, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/moneypuck.com\/goalies.htm\" rel=\"noopener\">per MoneyPuck<\/a>, good for fifth in the league.\u00a0 That performance could get him on the Olympic radar with Canada set to reveal its roster for the tournament at the end of the month.\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/forsban01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-15_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anton Forsberg<\/a><\/strong> took over between the pipes following Kuemper\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n<p>More from out West:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Still with Los Angeles, the Kings were without a pair of middlemen tonight as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lakingsinsider.com\/2025\/12\/15\/12-15-preview-precarious-power-play-kuemper-as-the-teams-backbone-danault-byfield-out-with-flu-kopi-on-the-dot\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Jared Shafran of LA Kings Insider relayed<\/a> that Philipp Danault and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/byfiequ01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-15_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quinton Byfield<\/a><\/strong> were both sidelined due to the flu. It\u2019s the second straight game that Danault has missed; the 32-year-old is still looking for his first goal of the year and only has five assists through 30 games.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Byfield has just four goals in 31 outings but with 15 assists, he has enough points to sit third on the team in scoring.<\/li>\n<li>After clearing waivers over the weekend, the Canucks assigned winger <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/reichlu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-15_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lukas Reichel<\/a><\/strong> to the minors. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theprovince.com\/sports\/hockey\/nhl\/vancouver-canucks\/canucks-lukas-reichel-trade-market\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Kuzma of the Vancouver Province mentions<\/a> that Reichel\u2019s agent has permission to talk to other teams about trying to facilitate a trade.\u00a0 While there were no takers for the 23-year-old with his $1.2MM AAV, it\u2019s possible that there could be some interest if they could send a player the other way to offset some of the money.\u00a0 Either way, Reichel\u2019s stock has certainly fallen after struggling following a late-October trade from Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>The Golden Knights\u2019 AHL affiliate in Henderson <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hendersonsilverknights.com\/forward-trevor-connelly-assigned-to-team-usa-for-world-junior-championship\/\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> Sunday that they have officially loaned winger <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/597781\/trevor-connelly\" rel=\"noopener\">Trevor Connelly<\/a><\/strong> to Team USA for the upcoming World Junior tournament. The 19-year-old was the 19th pick in 2024 and is holding his own in his first professional season, notching three goals and four assists in 11 outings so far.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kings goaltender Darcy Kuemper sustained an upper-body injury in the first period of their game tonight against Dallas,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":450563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[155181,2081,20388,71991,293,207044,62,207045,67,132,68,3114,3116],"class_list":{"0":"post-450562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-darcy-kuemper","9":"tag-los-angeles-kings","10":"tag-lukas-reichel","11":"tag-mikko-rantanen","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-quinton-byfield","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-trevor-connelly","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-vancouver-canucks","20":"tag-vegas-golden-knights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115728360951199146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}