Vegas finds itself in an all-too-familiar situation: right up against the salary cap limit. The win-now mode from the Golden Knights is admirable — but they need to be better at asset management to become a sustainable contender. ✍️ jessegranger_
to Ottawa in exchange for the Russian winger. They paid dearly to clear that cap space, losing the face of the franchise and one of the best players on the team for no return, but spent the majority of that cap space less than 24 hours later. After a trade for
the following November, the club was back in the same position, needing to unload cap space just to become compliant., but the trade was eventually rescinded due to the no-movement clause in Dadonov’s contract. In that deal, the Golden Knights would have paid Anaheim a conditional second-round pick for the Ducks to take on Dadonov’s contract.
’s LTIR contract in return. It’s yet another example of Vegas buying a player at market value, then selling them for nothing.and second-line center Paul Stastny away in two separate trades. The combined return for those two key players was a 2022 third-round pick, a 2022 fourth-round pick and Carl Dahlstrom, who never played a game for Vegas.
In a vacuum, many of these deals aren’t bad. Trading Schmidt was necessary to make room for the Golden Knights to sign, and I don’t think anyone would argue that’s not a net gain for Vegas. The trade on Wednesday to send Pacioretty to Carolina was an after-effect of the Golden Knights’ trade to acquire Eichel – and his $10 million cap hit – last November.
McPhee and GM Kelly McCrimmon have shown the ability to negotiate a trade for good value plenty of times. The trade for
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