They lost in the first round and now have a huge cap crunch to deal with once again.
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Great analysis. As a Vegas fan and resident it is going to be a very interesting offseason. I certainly expect them to be competitive next year but it is going to be a very different team. I don't put anything past VGK management when it comes to roster moves.
all of them will be gone
We may not have a cup this year, but we still have the best fans and accountants in the league.
Quick's goaltender stats for the 2018 playoffs might stand the test of time. He's easily the best goaltender to be swept in a playoff series.
The Eakin Rule from that San Jose Playoff series is a positive outcome out of a bad situation.
In any case, we got the Cup in 2023. I'd like another one, but I've lived long enough to know that winning championships is hard. I've got the ring and the merch and the jersey with the number 23 and "Champions" on it (an OIler fan asked why the number 23, and felt pretty foolish he hadn't figured that out when I told him it was the year of our first Cup). So, this year's first round loss is disappointing, but I'm still content. I count myself lucky I was in the arena (in a good seat) for the entire 2022-2023 season and watched them win it all.
Stone will get injured before playoffs just to return for game 1.
The St. Louis Blues went through that expansion success but they are due for down years and it wil be within a year or two
I've accepted for awhile that Marcy is gone. Keeping him makes no sense from a cap perspective and someone will give him a crazy contract in free agency we cant come close to matching. The goal should be to bring back some combo of amadio/stephenson/carrier and fill out the rest of the roster with some young guys to see if we have anything and a ring chaser vet or 2. The real cap crunch is next offseason when Theodore, Hill, McNabb, Kolesar, and Logan Thompson all become UFA.
Would be shocked if Pietro waved his NMC and a buyout only gives about 2.5 in savings the next few seasons and then we would carry 1.9 cap hit till 2030 according to cap friendly
NHL 2019: Dear Vegas we are sorry you donāt know what a penalty kill is.
House of cards!
Letās go VGK!
I honestly think we will see a decline in their "dominance" in years to come. Not having those draft picks is unreal! there's teams in the WC that will definitely be much improved from this season. Good luck to Vegas, but it's going to be an interesting off-season for them.
Whatever they do next year, you know it'll be suspect.
I wonder how they are going to fit both Marner and Gentzel under the cap and still add Buchnevich at the deadline? Exspleen that to ne
wait question, doesnt the cap go up next year by 7 million?
Does anyone think LEHNER will ever return? Move on from him. Of the vegas players that may be moved; How money of those guys would you want on your team Shannon? Sure miss Fleury in net!
would be nice to see the Knights as bottom feeders and somehow get the #1 overall pick which is given to the Sharks giving them back to back #1 picks
Crazy it's already been 7 seasons. Feels like yesterday.
Stone has def faked injuries look at the last 3 years when he was put on the LTIR basically the same time each year and then magically returns for the playoffs after vegas has added additional pieces to help them.
I think Stone will start the season on LTIR.
I think Hertl wasn't on 100% either. I believe, he had hard time to adjust to Vegas system and he will be fine after training camp. He seems to be great fit to Vegas style-wise, he just need more time to adjust. Not every player is a world-beater right after trade…
This is what Iāve been telling gloating Vegas fans for the last few years. You could see them inching closer to disaster with every big splash made in the offseason or at the trade deadline. Eventually you have no more assets to trade and you have a team getting older with a lot of big contracts to be signed. That Hertl trade looks awful in hindsight as well. I think we see a fall from grace over the next few seasons, but honestly if my team won a cup I wouldnāt be too upset about going through some tough times.
Teams have lost draft picks for less. Time vegas pays the piper. Enough with the cap skirting, it's there for a reason.
I'm also concerned about Stone's longevity… Back is a very sensitive part, and at some point, it can start threatening his everyday life after hockey… I don't think he will play for long time maybe a year ?
I already didn't like it when DeBoer was the coach, I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with Hertl on the team, which will piss me off that much more if they have to cut/trade Pietrangelo.
God I miss Fluery and Reaves
Looking at the jersey, I suddenly realized the shape of the helmet also has a V in it. Extremely slowpoke, I know.
Ah, their GM is from Boston, that explains it.
Will Carrier missed a bunch of games due to injury, as well.
Trade Theodore to the Hawks.
Stephenson & Martinez are already gone & been replaced. That's the point of the Hertl & Hanafin trades
dont' worry, the league will punish the VGK by taking away another first round pick from the sens
Honestly we ask these cap questions every year and it we will figure it out. Not worried about it.
As a Knights fan, I see the VGK doing as follows:
Let Martinez walk/retire, let Stephenson walk, let Mantha walk, and let Carrier walk. Letting all of them walk frees up a combined $12.25 million from the cap at a minimum, allowing Vegas to re-sign Marchessault at a $6M+AAV deal for a few seasons (prediction), then with the leftover space, re-sign Amadio & Dorofeyev, and then, maybe you think about trading Theodoreās $5.2M hit, and see what kind of return you can get for a defenseman that has high potential like he does. I think his development has plateaued in Vegas, but that doesnāt mean he canāt become something more somewhere else – I just think the Hanifin trade + extension means Shea is expendable, not to mention Vegas actually has some really good looking defenseman prospects coming up from Henderson. Any additional cap space following those walks & re-signings will go to bottom-6 free agents, as I think Vegasā top-6 is solidified.
Pietrangelo, even though IMO weāre hitting the point where that contract will begin to look bad, I believe stays at least for 1 more year, before Vegas will really begins to push for the full NMC to be waived.
All in all, I think this team is still incredibly talented, will still be incredibly talented after this offseason, and if they can just have a healthy season as a team next year, I have no doubt they will contend for the cup again.
Who cares about the Golden Showers? Good the cheaters are out.
Love me some Disneyland… but the crowds have gotten f*cking nuts!
That jersey looks like used toilet paper. Wipe till the streaks are gone š
Vegas will be a force to deal with if healthy next season.
They need to put the whole roster on LTIR, call up their farm team, and use the whole salary cap to field a brand new roster. Then everyone gets healthy for game 1 playoffs and problem solved.
Put the whole team on IR
As a vgk fan I think we trade pietranleo and give korczak more of a chance
SIGN Martinezā¦.Sad to have to let Theodore go
You mean cheat!!
Thank you Shannon.
If the salary cap goes up to 88 million, like projected, they'll have 10.5 million to work with. Marchessault and Stephenson are probably both gone regardless though.
The cap is working to increase parity in the league.
Stone will be on LTIR to start the year.
The time of reckoning for their salary cap sins may finally be at hand…
Had a weird thought watching your video. Fans are livid and hate Vegas for their LTIR ācheating within the rulesā but nothing is going to happen as other teams want that option.
BUT you have to think the insurance companies are tired of paying millions of dollars of Vegas cap every year for suspicious injuries.
What happens if the insurance companies call fraud on them?
I feel bad for Stone. People think he fakes injury but you could see when he took a cross check in the back in game 7, perhaps near his spleen, the rest of the game he couldn't even bend over. He was skating around upright the entire time in pain.
Flyers can give you Risto back for Petro if youād like š
At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, all Vegas needs to do to be a contender again is to put a sizeable contract on LTIR for almost the entire season. Whether it was strategic or not, it typically works. It didn't this season, but it worked last year, so it can work again when you have a team like VGK. If Hertl, who was a failure this season, gets hurt for a while, there's almost 7 million they can use to take a flyer on someone else. Vegas has almost been a revolving door of players since their first season. They know how to use the rules to their advantage, whether people like that or not. Even if they sign a guy for more than they're worth and they bomb, they seem to be able to get out of those contracts and stay competitive, except for the one year they missed the playoffs. I don't see any reason why, pending another down year, they can't figure something out. They seem to be able to accomplish things few others team can. I'm not saying there's any funny business going on, but things just work out for them.