Defenseman missed first 14 games with an upper-body injury he sustained in second preseason game.
Zach Whitecloud will make his season debut tonight against the San Jose Sharks at T-Mobile Arena.
Whitecloud missed the first 14 games of the regular season with an upper-body injury he sustained against the Colorado Avalanche on Sept. 25.
“He was out there this morning, so I’ll know for sure tonight,” Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. “But I don’t anticipate any snags there.”
Whitecloud is the only lineup change for the Golden Knights, who look to end a two-game losing skid.
Here are the projected lines:
Sharks projected lineup
Forwards
William Eklund - Tomas Hertl - Fabian Zetterlund
Anthony Duclair - Mikael Granlund - Kevin Labanc
Mike Hoffman - Nico Sturm - Filip Zadina
Givani Smith - Ryan Carpenter - Luke Kunin
Defensemen
Mario Ferraro - Calen Addison
Marc-Edouard Vlasic - Kyle Burroughs
Jan Rutta - Nikita Okhotiuk
Goalies
Kaapo Kahkonen
Mackenzie Blackwood
Golden Knights projected lineup
Forwards
Ivan Barbashev - Jack Eichel - Jonathan Marchessault
William Carrier - Michael Amadio - Mark Stone
Paul Cotter - William Karlsson - Pavel Dorofeyev
Jonas Rondbjerg - Brett Howden - Keegan Kolesar
Defensemen
Alec Martinez - Alex Pietrangelo
Brayden McNabb - Shea Theodore
Ben Hutton - Zach Whitecloud
Goalies
Adin Hill
Logan Thompson