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EDMONTON, Alberta — The Vegas Golden Knights lost starting goaltender Laurent Brossoit to injury during a 5-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 3 of the Western Conference second-round series Monday night.

Brossoit, 30, left with 8:16 left in the first period. The veteran stopped a shot from Oilers forward Connor McDavid and was pushing cross-crease to defend against a rebound opportunity when he suddenly crumbled to the ice in pain. It took several minutes for Brossoit to unsuccessfully attempt to get up on his own, and it took a pair of teammates to eventually help him off. Brossoit gingerly walked down the hallway separating the Vegas bench from its locker room.

ESPN’s Leah Hextall reported — during the game broadcast — that Brossoit was having his left leg looked at by trainers in that hallway just seconds after leaving the ice. But Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy had no update on Brossoit following the Golden Knights’ victory, which gave them a 2-1 series lead.

Adin Hill took over for the Golden Knights in net. Hill, Vegas’ primary backup netminder, just made his NHL postseason debut last week when he replaced Brossoit in Game 2, a 5-1 Edmonton rout that evened the best-of-seven series, 1-1, on Saturday night.

Jonathan Quick, a two-time Stanley Cup winner with the Los Angeles Kings, was the Golden Knights’ third goaltender and took over on the bench as Vegas’ backup for the remainder of the win. Typically, the No. 3 goalie sits up in the press box, but Quick, as Hextall reported on the broadcast, was working out at ice level during the first period and was quickly able to get his equipment on and join his teammates.

Vegas has had to use multiple starters this season due to various injury problems. At one point, the Golden Knights won four consecutive games with four different goalies.

Brossoit started the season while still recovering from summer hip surgery. He cleared waivers, went to play in the American Hockey League and then was promoted back to the NHL — only to suffer a lower-body injury in February. That limited him to just 11 regular-season appearances.

Brossoit eventually became Vegas’ No. 1 again, finishing the regular season with a 10-7-0 mark and a .927 save percentage to go along with a 2.17 goals-against average. He then backstopped the Golden Knights to a first-round series win over the Winnipeg Jets and a 6-4 victory in Game 1 over Edmonton before being pulled after the second period of Game 2 for allowing five goals on 32 shots. He is 5-2 in the postseason with a 3.13 average and an .896 percentage.

Hill, 16-7-1 in the regular season with a .915 percentage and a 2.45 average, stood tall against an Oilers offense that had been firing on all cylinders in Game 2. And he was thankful to have seen some action Saturday because he hadn’t seen a lot of pucks since mid-March. He finished Monday’s win with 25 saves.

“We knew he was going to be ready,” Vegas forward Nicolas Roy said of Hill. “It was a big challenge for him. He was awesome. It’s really nice to have confidence in all our goalies.”

The series has been goal-heavy from the start. Vegas took Game 1, 6-4, and Edmonton posted a 5-1 victory in Game 2. Game 3 fell in line with that, though it was the Golden Knights who dominated throughout.

Game 4 is Wednesday.

“Not much to like about that game tonight,” McDavid, the Edmonton captain, said. “But our game is not gone. Forty-eight hours ago, we played very well. We need to bring that in Game 4.”

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DETROIT — Josh Jung delivered a special Mother’s Day gift to his mom, Mary.

The Texas Rangers third baseman hit a two-out, two-run homer in the fifth inning off Beau Brieske at Detroit on Sunday. Jung’s brother, Jace, was in the Tigers’ lineup at the same position.

Before the game, Mary Jung delivered the game ball to the mound and her sons joined her on the field.

“My heart is just exploding,” Mary Jung said in an interview on the Rangers’ telecast. “I mean, I couldn’t ask for a better Mother’s Day gift. We’re all in the same place, to begin with. But then to watch them live their dream, do what they love to do, I couldn’t be more proud.”

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, it was the first home run by a player facing his brother’s team on Mother’s Day since at least 1969.

The Jungs’ parents, Mary and Jeff, have been in attendance throughout the three-game series. The brothers also started Saturday when Texas recorded a 10-3 victory.

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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — New York Yankees pitcher Marcus Stroman had a setback as he tries to return from a left knee injury that has sidelined him for the past month.

Manager Aaron Boone said Sunday that Stroman still had “discomfort” in the knee after throwing a live batting practice session in Tampa, Florida, on Friday and will be reevaluated before the team figures out the next step in his rehabilitation process.

“He’s gotten a lot of treatments on it and stuff,” Boone said. “It just can’t kind of get over that final hump to really allow him to get to that next level on the mound. We’ll try and continue to get our arms around it and try and make sure we get that out of there.”

Stroman hasn’t pitched since allowing five runs in two-thirds of an inning against the San Francisco Giants on April 11. He was placed on the 15-day injured list the next day with what Boone hoped at the time would be a short-term absence.

But there is no timeline for the right-hander’s return, and Boone said the injury likely impacted the way Stroman pitched before going on the IL. He was 0-1 with an 11.57 ERA in three starts.

“Certainly that last start, I think he just couldn’t really step on that front side like he needed to,” Boone said. “I talk about how these guys are like race cars, and one little thing off and it can affect just that last level of command or that last level of extra stuff that you need. So we’ll continue to try to get him where we need to.”

Stroman had surgery March 19, 2015, to repair a torn ACL in his left knee. He returned to a major league mound that Sept. 12.

Stroman, 34, is in the second season of a two-year contract guaranteeing $37 million. His deal includes a $16 million conditional player option for 2026 that could be exercised if he pitches in at least 140 innings this year.

Last season, Stroman was 10-9 with a 4.31 ERA in 30 games (29 starts) when he threw 154⅔ innings, his most since 2021 with the Mets. Stroman struggled in the second half and did not pitch in the postseason, when the Yankees made their first World Series appearance since 2009.

In other injury news, DJ LeMahieu played for the second straight day on a rehab assignment at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Sunday and could join the team in Seattle this week to make his season debut. LeMahieu had a cortisone injection last week in his right hip, dealing with an injury stemming from last year.

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