Empoleon8771
Registered User
Until the other day, Vegas had Shipachev, Tuch, and Theodore in the minors because GMGM didn't want to lose any of the plethora of young defenseman he hoarded on waivers. Theodore is still there because he isn't waiver-eligible yet. GMGM is not going to do us a favor and put himself further in a bind by taking back one of our waiver-eligible bottom-six forwards in a deal.
Taking back Wilson in a Haula trade has absolutely no impact on McPhee's other roster issues. I don't see how those are related. In that trade, they'd just be replacing Haula with Wilson. They're still going to have their issues with too many waiver eligible D. How does that put him further behind the bind? At worst, he's in no different of a position before the trade than after the trade in terms of players on the roster. At best, it has no impact, because they have too many defenseman and that's a separate issue.