Coyotes' Michael Stone: Hopes to be ready for start of season

Stone is pleased with his ongoing recovery from knee surgery but doesn't have a timetable for his return to game action, the Arizona Republic reports.

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Stone put pen to paper on a one-year, $4 million contract extension Thursday, which tells us that the Coyotes are banking on the puck-moving blueliner making a full recovery from the ACL/MCL injury that caused him to miss the last seven games of the 2015-16 campaign. "I'm pushing to be ready to go for the start of the season," Stone said. "Whether that happens or not, I guess in some way it's in my control. But you have to see how everything responds. It's something where your legs are what you're using 100 percent of the time on the ice. You gotta be ready to go, so we'll see what happens with that."