The Vegas Golden Knights Have Added an Entire 1st Line in Just 9 months

[Cousin Eddie]

People complain about their depth all the time and fans/media talk about how hard it is to acquire high end forwards.

Vegas has gone out and added 3 players who coincidently happen to be their 3 best forwards since July.

Props to GMGM.

Pacioretty - Stastny - Stone are absolutely fantastic to watch in all three zones.

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[Brownies]

People complain about their depth all the time and fans/media talk about how hard it is to acquire high end forwards.

Vegas has gone out and added 3 players who coincidently happen to be their 3 best forwards since July.

Props to GMGM.

Pacioretty - Stastny - Stone are absolutely fantastic to watch in all three zones.

Stone was a huge acquisition. He’s their best player now.

 

[topshelf15]

Its helps when you have an asshat owner like EM in Ottawa,any other team and a player like Stone is a core piece..And would be retained

 

[East Coast Icestyle]

Stone was a huge acquisition. He’s their best player now.

Is he far and away their best though? Every time I've watched Stastny this year he's been absolutely insane. A two way centre with the same passing ability he came into the league with.

 

[ViD]

They just added a guy who’s better than those three.

 

[MAHJ71]

While this is not a shot at them... it helps they don't have to worry about the salary cap right now.

 

[SI90]

Stone is a Game changer. He’s an awesome 2way player who is effective in all 3 zones. His style is built for playoff Hockey.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

They just added a guy who’s better than those three.

Gusev? That’s a pretty bold statement.

 

[ViD]

Gusev? That’s a pretty bold statement.

He’s a Panarin level talent

 

[NyQuil]

Gusev? That’s a pretty bold statement.

I just ignore anything he says about Russians.

 

[Amadeus]

I'm baffled as to how fast they play.

 

[Pirate Deadpool]

While this is not a shot at them... it helps they don't have to worry about the salary cap right now.

Vegas has a cap problem next season and will need to trade away 1 or 2 starters.

 

[bobholly39]

Its helps when you have an asshat owner like EM in Ottawa,any other team and a player like Stone is a core piece..And would be retained

Not really

29 other teams could have acquired Stone but they didn't. The merit is fully on Vegas for being the ones to land him

 

[Akrapovince]

So the team that went to the Stanley Cup finals previously added the current #1, #2 and #3 playoff scoring leaders to their runner-up roster from last year?

Ok.

 

[QcFlames12]

They are probably going to add Erik Karlsson in the offseason also..

Going to be a good team for a long time.

 

[WatchfulElm]

Not many teams have the kind of assets (draft picks and prospects) that Vegas has. I mean, they can even afford to overpay like they did in the Pacioretty deal, give a lot of prospect depth, and still keep a very deep prospect pool.

The NHL wanted them competitive from year 1 and they made the expansion draft rules in consequence. That doesn't make GMGM a genius though.

 

[HanSolo]

They are probably going to add Erik Karlsson in the offseason also..

Going to be a good team for a long time.

Given his obvious injury problems and Vegas' cap situation I really doubt it.

 

[Golden Puppers]

Max Paciorety has looked real good in the playoffs so far...looks fast and he's ripping the biscuit.

 

[RibFrabcus]

Stone was a huge acquisition. He’s their best player now.

Yep. He's the star power they've needed.

 

[JoelWarlord]

Lol at people still acting like the expansion draft was rigged for them. Deryk Engelland and Brayden McNabb are still in this team's top 4 and absolutely nobody predicted that William Karlsson, Erik Haula, and Cody Eakin were enough at center to take a team to the final. Sometimes thing just happened, and we shouldn't have expected Karlsson to be this good, nor should we have just expected Dale Tallon to hand them 2/3 of a top line because he hates computers.

They only had a deep draft in 2017 because teams used it as a way to get rid of contracts and galaxy-brained the expansion draft. The rules of the draft were "Vegas gets to take a 10 dollar bill from each team" and teams were tripping over themselves to pay $9 to get Vegas to take a 5 dollar bill instead.

 

[CauZuki]

Max Paciorety has looked real good in the playoffs so far...looks fast and he's ripping the biscuit.

Well he is a top goal scorer (top 10 since 2012) in this league. It's just unfortunate that Montreal fans turn agaisnt their players like it's nothing.

 

[57special]

Exactly. Most people thought that MN was one of the teams that got screwed the most in the ED by giving up Haula and Tuch. I can tell you at the time that NOBODY was complaing about giving those players up, and most thought Fletcher did a great job by doing that and not giving up more established players like Brodin, Staal, or Dumba.

VGK has done a spectacular job of ID'ing and developing talent. Just as impressive is their ability to execute on the ice.

Having said that, I wish the Wild could face them more. For some weird reason, we kick their ass on a regular basis.

 

[GOilers88]

I'm baffled as to how fast they play.

Same as last year.

 

[Heldig]

Crazy that they are exempt from the Seattle expansion. That was a masterful negotiation.

 

[weaponomega]

GMGM has done an amazing job in Vegas.