For a while there, as the NHL season skated off, you figured the Golden Knights might have a new best-selling children’s puzzle book in the making.
Waldo appeared to have some competition.
Where’s Shippy?
The answer came this week when Vadim Shipachyov was recalled from an American Hockey League team he never joined, a Russian center signed by the Knights in May whose scoring aptitude was hyped as a needed and welcome skill to the expansion team.
The Knights wanted him to the tune of $9 million over two years.
Shipachyov scored his first NHL goal in a win against Boston on Sunday and played nearly 11 minutes of a 5-4 overtime victory against Buffalo on Tuesday night before 17,617 at T-Mobile Arena.