The Golden Knights have been vague about the details of the lower-body injury that has kept goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury out of action the last four games.
What appears clear is that Fleury’s time on the bench has come at a pretty good time in the season.
Fleury has been among the league-leaders in games played at the position all season and figures to play every game of the playoffs barring injury, so a rest before the postseason begins can’t be a bad thing.
It also coincided with the final days of his wife’s pregnancy and birth of their third child on Friday.