Victor Olofsson’s hot start has hit a sudden pause.
Vegas Golden Knights head coach Ryan Craig said Thursday that the 31-year-old forward is week-to-week after getting hurt in the team’s 6-2 win over the Seattle Kraken. Olofsson had already made his mark in that game, scoring twice in 10:48 of ice time before leaving midway through the third period.
The injury came after Kraken forward Ben Meyers checked Olofsson awkwardly into the boards. Meyers was given a five-minute major for boarding and a game misconduct, while Olofsson needed help getting off the ice and did not return.
Vegas was already adjusting on the fly at Thursday morning skate. Raphael Lavoie took Olofsson’s place in line rushes, and Trevor Connelly stepped onto the club’s top power-play unit.
The Golden Knights are set to host the Toronto Maple Leafs at T-Mobile Arena on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. Pacific.
Olofsson signed a one-year, $1.638 million deal with Vegas on July 1 as an unrestricted free agent. The 5’11” winger played for the Golden Knights in 2024-25 as well, putting up 15 goals and 29 points in 56 regular-season games and adding two goals and four points in nine playoff games. Through five games this season, he has four goals and five points.
Originally a seventh-round pick, No. 181 overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2014 NHL Draft, Olofsson came to North America in 2018 after developing in Sweden. He spent parts of six seasons with Buffalo and scored at least 20 goals in three of them.
Olofsson left Buffalo for Vegas as a UFA in 2024. After that first run with the Golden Knights, he signed with the Colorado Avalanche in the summer of 2025 and played 60 games with Colorado in 2025-26 before being moved to the Calgary Flames as part of the Nazem Kadri trade.
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