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Golden Knights: Is There About to Be an Unexpected Trade?………………
Vegas Kelly McCrimmon, general manager of the Golden Knights, has a flare for the theatrical. Nobody can ever predict what he will do. In Vegas, we’ve learned to anticipate the unexpected in terms of coaching and player changes.
At the last minute of the 2019 trade deadline, Mark Stone was acquired. At the 2024 trade deadline, nobody saw the big transaction for Tomas Hertl coming. Fans of the Golden Knights were taken aback when, just 11 days after the team’s Stanley Cup parade along Las Vegas Boulevard, day one misfit, Reilly Smith, was moved.
Fans of the Golden Knights are still upset about Marc Andre-Fleury’s 2021 move to the Chicago Blackhawks. In the 2022 trade for Max Pacioretty, did the Carolina Hurricanes give the Golden Knights their future considerations?
You understand.
The Vegas Golden Knights’ contract with Jonathan Marchessault is coming to an end. In six weeks, the 33-year-old will become a free agent unless he and the organisation can agree on an extension. It is in everyone’s best interests for Marchessault to stay in Vegas.
“I’ve made every effort to remain in this place. I’ve shown over the years that I’m a valuable member of this group and team. Marchessault at the exit interviews held last week. “I feel fairly secure. I wish I could say that it’s my home.
What is the opinion of McCrimmon?
“This morning’s appointment with Marchy went really well. We had a conversation with his delegates. Marchy is a mainstay, a pioneer, and he enjoyed a breakthrough year. McCrimmon stated in the departure interviews conducted last week. Thus, he has exerted every human effort to position himself favourably.
Both Marchessault and McCrimmon concur that every effort has been made to keep Marchessault in Vegas. What then stands in the way of the two parties coming to an understanding?
Every decision ultimately boils down to money. Which side, though, is more concerned with the money? Marchessault or the Golden Knights? Marchessault is deserving of the opportunity to bargain for his biggest contract to date. Prior to the 2018–19 season, Marchessault signed a six-year, $30 million contract deal with the Golden Knights.
Put simply, Marchessault is going to receive the largest bag of his professional life. In order to give Marchessault the largest contract of his career, what can McCrimmon do?
This is the point of complexity. McCrimmon will have approximately $7 million in salary cap space available to him for the 2024–2025 campaign. Unrestricted free agents include Marchessault, Anthony Mantha, Chandler Stephenson, William Carrier, Michael Amadio, and Alec Martinez. Jiri Patera, Pavel Dorofeyev, and restricted free agents.
There isn’t enough money to keep Marchessault and other people whose contracts are about to expire employed.
Everyone’s focusing on Shea Theodore. Theodore, whose salary cap hit is $5.2 million, has two seasons left. Theodore’s trade could free up enough salary cap room for McCrimmon to sign contracts with Marchessault and a few other players whose deals are about to expire.
Remember, folks, that this is Vegas. Seldom does the predicted occur. The NHL’s most unexpected front office may be McCrimmon and McPhee together.
We won’t witness something utterly absurd occur, such as the trade of Alex Pietrangelo, Mark Stone, or Jack Eichel. William Karlsson is a day one misfit who is unlikely to be traded while he is still under contract with the Golden Knights. But everybody else is involved.
With five points in the first round of the 2024 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, Brayden McNabb was the third-highest scorer for the club. The 33-year-old’s deal, which has a team-friendly salary cap hit of $2.85 million, is still in effect for the next year. Zach Whitecloud, a defenseman, has four seasons left on a deal that has a $2.75 million salary cap charge.
It is improbable, but not impossible, that Nicolas Roy or Ivan Barbashev will be persuaded to support Marchessault’s extension.
What Trade Would No One Have Imagined?
Excellent query. Logan Thompson’s deal, which has a $766,667 salary cap hit, is about to expire. It is reasonable to predict that Thompson will have a salary cap hit of more than $3 million on his next contract. Should McCrimmon not consider the 27-year-old to be the Golden Knights’ long-term goalie, Thompson might be traded, along with McNabb or Theodore, to free up cap space for Marchessault.
Recall that during the previous regular season, when Adin Hill was healthy, Thompson never made consecutive starts. Hill’s late-game struggles were necessary for Thompson to start the opening playoff game. Coach Bruce Cassidy gave Hill every chance to improve towards the end of the game. There was nothing Cassidy could do but start Thompson in the opening playoff game.