Morons

Created by: Chrismurtagh

Team: 2020-21 Vegas Golden Knights

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 12, 2020

Published: Oct. 13, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Keeping Fleury and trading Schmidt hurts this team. They should have paid whatever price it took to keep Nate Schmidt. This defense is much better with Schmidt in it.

Trades

VGK

Schmidt, Nate

VAN

2022 3rd round pick (VAN)

VGK

CHI

Fleury, Marc-André
2021 1st round pick (VGK)
2021 2nd round pick (NJD)
2022 2nd round pick (VGK)

Additional Details:

Whoever

Retained Salary Transactions

Tomas Tatar: $500,000 (9.43%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$81,500,000	$81,274,105	$285,772	$850,000	$225,895

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Pacioretty, Max $7,000,000$7,000,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Glass, Cody $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) C, RW RFA - 2	Stone, Mark $9,500,000$9,500,000 RW NMC UFA - 7
Marchessault, Jonathan $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4	Karlsson, William $5,900,000$5,900,000 C M-NTC UFA - 7	Smith, Reilly $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2
Stephenson, Chandler $2,750,000$2,750,000 C, LW UFA - 4	Roy, Nicolas $750,000$750,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Tuch, Alex $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 6
	Nosek, Tomas $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Reaves, Ryan $1,750,000$1,750,000 RW UFA - 2
Carrier, William $1,400,000$1,400,000 LW UFA - 4

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Schmidt, Nate $5,950,000$5,950,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 5	Pietrangelo, Alex $8,800,000$8,800,000 RD NMC UFA - 7	Lehner, Robin $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 5
Martinez, Alec $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD UFA - 1	Theodore, Shea $5,200,000$5,200,000 LD/RD UFA - 5	Dansk, Oscar $700,000$700,000 G UFA - 1
McNabb, Brayden $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD UFA - 2	Whitecloud, Zach $725,000$725,000 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Holden, Nick $1,700,000$1,700,000 LD UFA - 2

Top Comments

Oct. 13, 2020 at 2:23 p.m.

Chopper02

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 6,470

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Vegas will be fine. Keeping Fleury didn't hurt at all. In fact, if anything you'll need both goalies for one of, if not the best NHL tandem

Oct. 13, 2020 at 2:25 p.m.

Chrismurtagh

Joined: Feb. 2019

Posts: 565

Likes: 113

Quoting: Chopper02

Vegas will be fine. Keeping Fleury didn't hurt at all. In fact, if anything you'll need both goalies for one of, if not the best NHL tandem

You don't need a tandem for the playoffs though. The best goalie plays, which Vegas showed they think Lehner is the best goalie. Leaving 7 million on the bench isn't what you want to do.

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Oct. 13, 2020 at 2:28 p.m.

Saskleaf

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Joined: Apr. 2020

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Quoting: Chrismurtagh

You don't need a tandem for the playoffs though. The best goalie plays, which Vegas showed they think Lehner is the best goalie. Leaving 7 million on the bench isn't what you want to do.

I see what you mean, but they might not have had the choice. Fleury has a NMC if I'm not mistaken.

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Oct. 13, 2020 at 2:30 p.m.

Chrismurtagh

Joined: Feb. 2019

Posts: 565

Likes: 113

Quoting: Saskleaf

I see what you mean, but they might not have had the choice. Fleury has a NMC if I'm not mistaken.

There had to have been one of the other 20 teams willing to take him on if Vegas sent them picks as well. It's possible, but I highly doubt none of the 20 others wouldn't have done this deal.

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Oct. 13, 2020 at 2:31 p.m.

alwaysnextyear

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 5,550

Likes: 1,580

I can see why you're frustrated, that's a lot of money to keep tied up in goaltending and the trade return on Schmidt was pretty low for what he provides. As a Canucks fan I was very happy to see the deal go down!

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