Confirmed Trade: [VGK/SJS] Adin Hill for 2024 4th-round

[TheKrebsCycle]

Seems like a decent contingency

 

[Jumptheshark]

Wasn't he a big shot prospect a few years ago?

not a big shot prospect--he had a few games where people lost their shit over him

 

[fasterthanlight]

lmao nice asset management by the sharks

hill seems like a good person, but a bad goalie since his injury. mature me hopes he turns his career around. But, if I'm being honest, I hope he turns it around just as much to help vegas to finish 1 spot out of the playoffs again.

 

[PainForShane]

AZ fan here, fmr goalie I've seen him live a bunch of times.

Adin Hill is bad. He's tall and extremely athletic, but his fundamental angles are off. Before Hill have literally never seen a goalie make the NHL (or even a good college program) without understanding basic angles / positioning, yet here is Adin Hill with stats that are somehow within band.

Obvi I hope I am wrong / Hill does well but I was happy we traded him for a 2nd to SJ (looks like he's only worth a 4th now). Either way imo Adin Hill is not the answer for Vegas (weirdly enough Domingue was also a fmr Coyote, imo he's not the answer either). Too bad MAF is gone, lotsa pressure on Thompson let's see what he can do this season

 

[Xirik]

It would be sort of funny if not having good goaltending tanked them and they ended up getting 1st OA and took Bedard.

*throws away the entire farm to stay in the cup hunt*

*A wild Bedard has appeared!*

Yoink!


It would really cement Vegas as the most hated team among hockey fans.

 

[stator]

DW's strategy for cup contending... buy high, sell low. lol.

 

[HanSolo]

In your haste to be first you forgot to put San Jose in the title

Lol you're right.

 

[Treb]

AZ fan here, fmr goalie I've seen him live a bunch of times.

Adin Hill is bad. He's tall and extremely athletic, but his fundamental angles are off. Before Hill have literally never seen a goalie make the NHL (or even a good college program) without understanding basic angles / positioning, yet here is Adin Hill with stats that are somehow within band.

Obvi I hope I am wrong / Hill does well but I was happy we traded him for a 2nd to SJ (looks like he's only worth a 4th now). Either way imo Adin Hill is not the answer for Vegas (weirdly enough Domingue was also a fmr Coyote, imo he's not the answer either). Too bad MAF is gone, lotsa pressure on Thompson let's see what he can do this season

So you started watching hockey after 2014?

 

[bleuetbio]

Look like a realy great trade for Vegas. If Hill is bad as people said, imagine when he'll be good!

 

[CanadienShark]

Trade actually helps San Jose’s cap as they clear 2.175mil and gain a 4th rounder.

I mean loss in terms of paying a 2nd for Hill a year ago. Sorry, I should've been more clear.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

SJ doing Vegas a favor and barely getting market value

Pretty much every single one of Grier’s moves has been questionable so far

Agree. A complete incompetent. A 4th is worthless. Should have told Vegas to get lost for less than a 2nd.

 

[c3po]

I beat @MMC

Well done… @MMC won’t be sleeping tonight after missing the most important transaction of the day lol

 

[BKarchitect]

Fair deal. It’s not a bad move for Vegas with their injury situation and he’s of no use to the Sharks so they get a middling pick for a guy they don’t need.

I suspect it is still Thompson’s net to lose but it gives Vegas another option to start the year.

 

[Riptide]

Wasn't he a big shot prospect a few years ago?

His final two seasons in Arizona were very good ones, stat wise. The issue was games played, where he played a total of 32 games. Things didn't really work out well in San Jose, however it's not like the Sharks were anything to write home about... the only teams they managed to out score was the Coyotes (7g) and Philly (3g).

LV needed someone and Hill has some potential to step in as a low cost option and hopefully allow them to win some games. I wouldn't bank on him being a legit #1, but he fits their cap situation and is cheap enough that once Lehner comes back (if he comes back this year) that he doesn't murder their cap situation. And it's hard to complain about the cost (a 4th). He's also only 26 and should likely still get a bit better. Hopefully with a better team in front of him and no real option behind him he can step up and things can go a bit better then they did in SJ. I know my keeper fantasy team won't complain if that's the case.

 

[PainForShane]

So you started watching hockey after 2014?

No I started watching hockey in the mid 90s. What's your point and what are you referencing in my post

 

[Schemp]

I mean loss in terms of paying a 2nd for Hill a year ago. Sorry, I should've been more clear.

...and a 4th in next year's draft! Coyotes should have offered that pick to bring back Hill.

 

[Lays]

Can’t believe Vegas paid significantly less for Hill from the Sharks than the Avs did for Georgiev from the Rangers. Even excluding value, he traded Hill below market value to his rival in dire need of an NHL caliber goalie

 

[crashthenet]

He's never been on a decent squad. May surprise

 

[FlyguyOX]

Hill was the 3rd best goalie on the sharks. Fine move by sharks

 

[Vancouver Canucks]

Yeah, he'll get Vegas the Cup, for sure.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

Who?

 

[Vancouver Canucks]

Who?

I thought he was Aaron Hill, but he's a baseball player.

 

[Kcoyote3]

I’m happy with this.

 

[Vancouver Canucks]

I’m happy with this.

He still sucks, though.

 

[CapSpace]

Lol clown management