Confirmed Trade: [VGK/SJS] Tomas Hertl (17.05% retained), 2025 and 2027 3rd round picks for David Edstrom, 2025 1st round pick

[CanMerc]

If Hertl can’t live up to the contract, Vegas will just take him for a drive to the dese…I mean retire him

 

[AcerComputer]

Surprised SJ would use another retention slot like this after the Karlsson trade. Very limiting going forward.

 

[Seanaconda]

Sharks are now paying $8,520,042 to guys not on their team for 2 more years and then 6 mill for 4 more years...

They were a terrible team and have now traded their 3 best players lol they won't need the cap for 6 years

 

[Avs2022]

not to mention that when this eventually catches up to vegas they'll just get a couple 1OAs, which we will never get

They made sure Chicago got your #1 last draft.

 

[Zwui21]

To anybody familiar with the VGK Salary cap situation going forward: does the Hertl acquisition by Vegas hinders their abilities to offer Hanifin a long term contract?

 

[AslanRH]

He misses an average of 20 games a season, and that was in his 20's. How many games will he miss a year for the next 6 seasons in his 30's after tearing both ACL's and having another knee surgery this season?

Enough to be on LTIR at the deadline. Perfect Vegas player

 

[Based Anime Fan]

WHAT THE f***?!

Vegas management is nuts. 110m dollar roster for the playoffs, I'm dead.

No cap in the playoffs, gotta take advantage

 

[GKJ]

I will burn this world to the ground down if we don't get Vegas/Colorado in the playoffs

 

[KovalchukFistPump]

Hertl won’t be an albatross for 3-4 years probably. The question is why this is allowed NOW when he is clearly due back for the first month of the playoffs. And whether the Devils or Senators will get fined a pick for this circumvention.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

VGK always thinks outside the box for who to acquire

 

[tarheelhockey]

Somehow Vegas seems to never be bothered with details like contracts and draft picks. It’s been, what, 7 years and they’ve been in “go for it” mode the entire time.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

I hate vegas but damn they think differently. The Sharks though, be better!

 

[WarriorofTime]

Vegas is a ponzy scheme, they'll trade their picks away every year until some of their contracts go busto and full unmovable albatross. It's interesting to see how long it lasts. At some point, they are going to have just an absolute desolute decade, but for now they are always going to be a high demand destination due to being a cool city and no state income tax so it can keep going for a bit at least.

 

[Icarium]

The question is why this is allowed NOW when he is clearly due back for the first month of the playoffs.

Probably because this is perfectly within the rules?

 

[Coach Parker]

Hertl good for game 1. Worry about trading him next year.

They simply ship him to Boston in a trade for Ullmark+ in the summer.

 

[TurboLemon]

Fans should be complaining why their team doesn't do it (assuming it can afford it), not concoct some grand conspiracy where the other 30 teams allow Vegas and whoever to do it but decide not to out of the goodness of their hearts or something.

Wait till Vancouver does it. The league will come out with a new rjle that retro actively punishes them.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

Somehow Vegas seems to never be bothered with details like contracts and draft picks. It’s been, what, 7 years and they’ve been in “go for it” mode the entire time.

Gotta respect that!!.. putting the best product they can on the ice every year

 

[VivaLasVegas]

To anybody familiar with the VGK Salary cap situation going forward: does the Hertl acquisition by Vegas hinders their abilities to offer Hanifin a long term contract?

Pretty sure that Hanifin is dead-set on signing with TB.

 

[Cynick]

For some reason I read this as Tomas Tatar (no idea what team he's currently on or if he's in the league) being traded to Vegas and I thought, "That's a good deal for the Sharks." And, now, I wonder if Mike Grier thought the same thing.

 

[Stony Curtis]

First day of the playoffs, their entire IR is activated. It's actually funny at this point.

They're doing their best to make sure that nobody ever gets to do this again.

 

[Whoot Whoot]

Was this approved by the NHL yet?

 

[Chet Manley]

David Edstrom must be worth an awful lot to the Sharks.

 

[OilersFanatics505]

Nah. It’s 1.38, and they’re not going to be competitive most of those years. Keeping Hertl around at 8+ limits their ability to make moves far more. I’m surprised they were able to get this much.

But you only get so many retention slots. Right?

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Somehow Vegas seems to never be bothered with details like contracts and draft picks. It’s been, what, 7 years and they’ve been in “go for it” mode the entire time.

All Vegas has done since coming into the league is show of most of all of our GMs have been full of shit with their platitudes.

From the initial expansion draft to today.

 

[GreatSaveEssensa]

What is Grier thinking? Hertl at $6.7M or whatever it is is an absolute steal and he only got back the equivalent of two late firsts and then threw in two 3rd rd picks of his own in the deal!!??

Not to mention all his retention slots are now gone.

Not sure why he didn't wait until draft day to make a move like this. He would have most likely gotten a way better haul and had a lot more teams interested. Baffling really