The way I would look at it is who can you swipe from Vegas in order to give them the room needed to sign Hague, or just make the move for Hague. Prime targets that Vegas could move instead (and would be stupid to do so) would be Roy and Whitecloud. I would start by asking if Hague is all that to Vegas, and assuming he is, start trying to undercut the price on one of Roy or Whitecloud.

Vegas clearly isn’t opposed to moving big players for cap space (Patches, Coghlan are prime examples of that), so if they are dead set on wanting to keep Hague, why wouldn’t they be willing to move Roy or Whitecloud to do so? That being said, it would all depend on the team specific needs, which if it is LD, then this scenario wouldn’t be as ideal.

That's a good point, I'm sure Jarmo is watching the VGK situation and I wouldn't be quite sure which player they'd fancy (if any) if Vegas was looking to make a move. Their cap situation is something, that's for sure.

I’m pretty sure every team is watching the Vegas situation by this point.