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

[JoeSakic13]

At least Hertl will get a cup :,)

Spangler?

 

[Bruce Granville]

Sharks owner getting paid in some shady side deals…
No way you retain for years and get only ONE 1st.

 

[Thallis]

They're still reaping the benefits of a advantageous expansion draft that brought in a boatload of additional picks. It's easy to score when you're immediately put on third base.

Seattle hasn't seemed to do it

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

Looks like they need to make the playoffs first lol

they will get in

 

[jetsforever]

Biggest trade of the day?
Of course Vegas has to be the one to do this

 

[GrumpyKoala]

Retaining for 7 years sound something the sharks would do.

 

[CanMerc]

Kelly McCrimmon and his team are giving a master class on team and cap management

 

[Kcb12345]

Honestly a very solid move for the Sharks. Retaining for that long is questionable but still

 

[Maukkis]

Enormous personal L taken here, after repeatedly calling Hertl practically valueless in a trade with his deal. That's not a lot of retention, and the assets aren't terrible either. Nice one, SJ.

 

[innitfam]

Man this is wild shit. I can't stand Vegas but you gotta respect the absolute brass balls on management. Having said that I hope they end up missing the playoffs somehow.

 

[weaponomega]

Good job Grier unloading this albatross contract. San Joe has the cap flexibility to get better quickly if they make the right moves.

 

[Frank Drebin]

Props to Grier, the hauls he's gotten for Hertl and Karlsson will set them up for years.

This is satire right

 

[Icarium]

If the leafs sent Tavares to Robidas Island next year right before the deadline, guaranteed we’d get fined our 1st rounder lol. Bettman has already warned the leafs about doing this before after the Riley Nash trade.

Unfortunately for the rest of the league only Vegas and the Florida teams seem to be allowed.

Yeah because the league is a dictatorship and 29 owners can't do shit to Bettman... oh wait.

The owners seem to be fine with abusing this loophole, so why are fans so worked up again?

 

[TheBeard]

Seattle hasn't seemed to do it

Teams learned and had more time to prepare in terms of the contracts they'd given out. Seattle was left with older, more expensive vets to sift through while none of the GMs were willing to part with picks in order to hang on to the young talent they spent the time to develop.

 

[nturn06]

It would be hilarious if Flames pass Vegas in standings

 

[Winston Wolf]

They're still reaping the benefits of an advantageous expansion draft that brought in a boatload of additional picks. It's easy to score when you're immediately put on third base.

You even made a thread crying about this and no one agreed with you.

Seeing you throw a fit in every Vegas thread is legitimately hilarious at this point.

 

[Conbon]

How could Trudeau do this?!?

 

[La Bamba]

Looks like it’s gonna be (Mc)David vs. Goliath in the 1st round

 

[Paper]

My hate Vegas so much for their blatant cap circumvention but my god do I ever respect them for their IDGAF attitude towards it.

 

[disgruntleddave]

Everyone complaining about the cap; it should be crystal clear to everyone that the cap has nothing to do with parity / financial competitiveness. It's exclusively to stop richer teams from spending more and is exclusively in the interest of the league financially.

 

[Little Psycho]

SJ helping out an another pacific team is wild. I get they are desperate for picks but man there’s 31 other teams.

 

[Chaos2k7]

If the leafs sent Tavares to Robidas Island next year right before the deadline, guaranteed we’d get fined our 1st rounder lol. Bettman has already warned the leafs about doing this before after the Riley Nash trade.

Unfortunately for the rest of the league only Vegas and the Florida teams seem to be allowed.

What has Florida ever done to circumvent the cap?

This will be brilliant

 

[Ducksforcup]

Fantastic move for San Jose honestly...retaining for that long is rough, but this gives them some real quality assets and more cap flexibility.

 

[stl76]

 

[Ledge And Dairy]

Vegas putting the rest of the league to shame with their cap maneuvers

They run their team like the NBA teams do. No idea how they've been doing this for 6 years now and no one else has even tried