Confirmed Trade: [VGK/WSH] Anthony Mantha (50% retained) for 2024 2nd round pick and 2026 4th round pick

[Hamilton Bulldogs]

20 goals and good size.

Like this pickup by Vegas

 

[Zirakzigil]

Seems like a good pick up for Vegas at that price.

 

[drede]

Anthony just ain't that good

He's got like 18 goals that's decent

 

[LaffyTaffy13]

Great price. As always every team/fan on HF is overvaluing what theyll get for their guys. Anaheim/hf fans think kakko wouldnt be enough for frank vatrano and that henrique is worth a 1st + top prospect LOL

 

[Chainshot]

We’ll see if it takes them out of the Guentzel thing, but Duclair would fit real nice with Vegas at a lower cost.. It’s just interesting they didn’t settle for Mantha. They went and got him.

Hanifin is the move that still makes them the most dangerous. To have all 3 pairings driving play would make them really hard to play against, in a 7 game series.

If nothing else, Vegas is proactive in how they make their moves. It never seems that they are trying to catch up to someone else - they identify what they want and then go get it.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

If I were a Vegas van I'd be a little underwhelmed by this, not even because he's not a good player because he is but Vegas always goes after the big fish, the Eichel's, Stones, AP's, even MAF although that was via expansion draft.

If I were a Vegas I'd be expecting Guntzle, or Buch out of St Louis, preferably Buch because of the extra year.

If Mantha is their big deadline add I think Vegas fans will be and should be unsatisfied.

They have been taught to expect more.

I'd be very surprised if McCrimmon is done when he still has some cards to play, but my guess is the next one will be equally unexpected whatever it is.

 

[Monsieur Miz]

Good trade because he plays for a contract otherwise, he's one of the laziest player in the game.

 

[DJN21]

I'd be very surprised if McCrimmon is done when he still has some cards to play, but my guess is the next one will be equally unexpected whatever it is.

cards to play and "dealers money" to burn.

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

Well if Vegas gets healthy for the playoffs, they can ice the same lineup as last year, just swap Smith for Mantha

 

[Double Dion]

It's an interesting bet. He certainly doesn't play the structured game they are known for. He's also very talented and has largely wasted that talent. Can their culture overcome his reluctance to do the little things? It'll be fun to watch.

 

[WhataKnight]

I’ve been digesting this one slow…..

The quality of this move depends on what happens between now and the deadline.

The solidity of my intent to see Mantha in the Knights’ top-6 is equal to my desire to import PCP, to be administered to “T-O-N-Y-give a damn?”.

He’s not even a Carrier replacement. Carrier tries….like….HARD…..I wouldn’t want a lack of inspiration in the top-6, and a healthy Knights bottom six will even have more inspired wingers.

If…..IF…..he puts his “big bodied goal scorer” helmet on and plays with a level of desire that doesn’t expose him as the deficient component of a line, I can like the move - depending on where he slots. Shit, how much of the hockey world doubted the compete level of Jack Eichel up until 9 months ago?

Maybe it works…..but my side-eye has it’s safety off. Let’s see the shape of the roster once the form of such has Mantha in a non-pivotal role. Platoon it all day, I suppose.

 

[Vegas07]

If I were a Vegas van I'd be a little underwhelmed by this, not even because he's not a good player because he is but Vegas always goes after the big fish, the Eichel's, Stones, AP's, even MAF although that was via expansion draft.

If I were a Vegas I'd be expecting Guntzle, or Buch out of St Louis, preferably Buch because of the extra year.

If Mantha is their big deadline add I think Vegas fans will be and should be unsatisfied.

They have been taught to expect more.

We didn’t really get any big fish last year though and that was the year the team won a cup. The Eichel trade was considered a huge risk at the time. True the team has made some big moves. The team that made the Finals in the first season didn’t pick up any big names either.

 

[Super Cake]

We didn’t really get any big fish last year though and that was the year the team won a cup. The Eichel trade was considered a huge risk at the time. True the team has made some big moves. The team that made the Finals in the first season didn’t pick up any big names either.

Wait a minute, 2 time stanley cup champion Jonathan quick wasn't a big fish?

 

[biturbo19]

This seems like a terrible acquisition. But it's Vegas, so he'll probably go on an absolute tear now for the rest of the year. And then sing some other catastrophic contract with someone else in the summer.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Mantha is better than Howden and Amadio, so he's an upgrade.

 

[Jeune Poulet]

Good deal for both teams.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

Wait a minute, 2 time stanley cup champion Jonathan quick wasn't a big fish?

Quick was big and Blueger was a fish, does that get us there?

 

[Super Cake]

Quick was big and Blueger was a fish, does that get us there?

Depends on what type of fish. If it was a salmon, then yes. Tuna on the other hand......

 

[VivaLasVegas]

Depends on what type of fish. If it was a salmon, then yes. Tuna on the other hand......

Blue Gar?

 

[Super Cake]

Blue Gar?

Honestly never heard of that. Lol

 

[vippe]

It's kind of funny because for the first time in his Caps stint I thought he was doing decent. So I guess.. selling high?

 

[VivaLasVegas]

I’ve been digesting this one slow…..

The quality of this move depends on what happens between now and the deadline.

The solidity of my intent to see Mantha in the Knights’ top-6 is equal to my desire to import PCP, to be administered to “T-O-N-Y-give a damn?”.

He’s not even a Carrier replacement. Carrier tries….like….HARD…..I wouldn’t want a lack of inspiration in the top-6, and a healthy Knights bottom six will even have more inspired wingers.

If…..IF…..he puts his “big bodied goal scorer” helmet on and plays with a level of desire that doesn’t expose him as the deficient component of a line, I can like the move - depending on where he slots. Shit, how much of the hockey world doubted the compete level of Jack Eichel up until 9 months ago?

Maybe it works…..but my side-eye has it’s safety off. Let’s see the shape of the roster once the form of such has Mantha in a non-pivotal role. Platoon it all day, I suppose.

If Mantha goes through prolonged periods of uninspired play, he'll fit right in with everybody else on the roster. Knights are by far the laziest most uninspired team in hockey during the regular season.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

It's kind of funny because for the first time in his Caps stint I thought he was doing decent. So I guess.. selling high?

Caps are smart enough not to get sucked in by a player's performance spike in a UFA season. Once they had decided not to re-sign him, anything they got at the TDL was simply found money.

 

[SoundAndFury]

Anaheim/hf fans think kakko wouldnt be enough for frank vatrano

Imagine thinking Kaapo "1 warm body away from being waived" Kakko is enough for a dude with 30 goals and using that to criticize someone else's evaluation..

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

This is Barbashev 2.0, they were in Timo last year before they bowed out to the Devils late and wound up getting a sick player at a cheaper rate than everyone else is going to get their guys who went ballistic come Spring en route to a Cup. Mantha is going to be animal there.

If I were a Vegas van I'd be a little underwhelmed by this, not even because he's not a good player because he is but Vegas always goes after the big fish, the Eichel's, Stones, AP's, even MAF although that was via expansion draft.

If I were a Vegas I'd be expecting Guntzle, or Buch out of St Louis, preferably Buch because of the extra year.

If Mantha is their big deadline add I think Vegas fans will be and should be unsatisfied.

They have been taught to expect more.

How are they gonna do that with how they've used said assets in those trades? They're arguably barren right now, they've traded them for mostly superstars to ice a competitive team for the foreseeable future because Vegas's pro personnel has done a perfect job in acquiring guys that fit their system to a bill and they aren't emotionally attached to players as some teams are.