The Vegas Golden Knights don’t have an abundance of cap space, with just $1,949,170 left of house money to play with. However, the season is long, even longer this year with 84 games, meaning at some point the club will face adversity and need reinforcements.
The Vegas Golden Knights have signed forward Braeden Bowman to a six-year contract extension worth $3.4 million annually, the team announced Thursday. The deal will begin with the 2027-28 season and keep Bowman under contract through the 2032-33 campaign.
How many of the players to grace the cover of each EA NHL video game going back to 'NHL 2000?"
The Vegas Golden Knights, always willing to spend aggressively to acquire and retain top talent, are therefore also always on the lookout for opportunities to find surplus value on their roster to enable those big swings.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
The Vegas Golden Knights have announced that forward Braeden Bowman has been signed to a six-year contract extension carrying a $3.4MM AAV. Bowman, 23, has one season remaining on his entry-level deal carrying a $912.5K cap hit.
The Vegas Golden Knights enter the 2026–27 season saying goodbye to their leading goal scorer last year, Pavel Dorofeyev. They are hoping Victor Olofsson will replace some of that scoring, but he obviously won’t totally replace him.
Everyone knows that Vegas Golden Knights general manager Kelly McCrimmon loves to make a trade. He'll acquire Mitch Marner from the Toronto Maple Leafs for Nicolas Roy and sign him to an eight-year deal.
Ladies and gentlemen, Carter Hart is expected to enter the 2026-27 season as the No. 1 goaltender for the Vegas Golden Knights. After an exciting playoff run that ultimately ended in a total collapse, the former Philadelphia Flyer enters the new season with a fresh mindset.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Vegas Golden Knights are 21 days away from puck drop. Three weeks from now, fans will gather around the newly minted Paramount+ Plaza (can't say Toshiba Plaza anymore) and cheer on the incoming Golden Knights.
This deal offers Samsonov a return to the NHL after spending last season with HK Sochi of Russia’s KHL.
Some people aren't the biggest fans of Rasmus Andersson getting a seven-year, $59.5 million contract extension with the Vegas Golden Knights. They were disappointed in his lackluster playoff performance during the Stanley Cup Playoffs and weren't as amused when he underperformed during the regular season.
I'm going to be honest with you. I was going to put "Can Shea Theodore put it together and have a monster season for the Golden Knights?" in the caption.
Ladies and gentlemen, the 2026 Vegas Golden Knights Rookie Faceoff is happening this weekend. Finally, we're getting some hockey back, even if it means that more than half of the announced roster doesn't make the NHL.
It's well-known within the Vegas Golden Knights community that they've never had a single player score 100 or more points in a single season. Not Jack Eichel, not Mark Stone, not even Mitch Marner.
After falling two wins short of another Stanley Cup championship, the Vegas Golden Knights parted ways with interim head coach John Tortorella after just eight regular-season games and one playoff run.
Everyone knows what Mark Stone can do with the Vegas Golden Knights. Last season, the Golden Knights were 8-9-5 without their Captain. That partially explains why they didn't have the best record in franchise history, despite winning the Pacific Division.
Over the first nine seasons of Golden Knights hockey, 1,444 different NHL players have suited up against Vegas. While Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers often dominate the headlines, it's actually the Los Angeles Kings who have given the Golden Knights the most trouble, posting a 19-18-3 record through 40 meetings.
Sometimes, you just need a mental break from constantly working. You feel like your mind's made of jelly and you're so exhausted that you want to nap. It feels like you can't write any more Vegas Golden Knights articles that talk about the excessive heat.
If you're looking to the future and you see this exact image, don't be surprised if these two players are squaring off in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The
The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed forward Brendan Brisson to a one-year contract. The 24-year-old spent last season with the New York Rangers and their AHL affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack, tallying an assist in three NHL games and 37 points in 66 AHL games.
The Vegas Golden Knights are coming off their second appearance in the Stanley Cup Final in the past four seasons, following up their first championship in 2023 with a loss at the hands of the Carolina Hurricanes in June.
The Vegas Golden Knights entered the 2026 offseason coming off another deep playoff run, but reaching the Stanley Cup Final did not mean the roster would remain untouched.
Reilly Smith remains unsigned as NHL training camps approach, one of the last notable names on a thin 2026 free agent board. The 35-year-old winger, a two-time Stanley Cup champion, has yet to find a fit for the 2026-27 season despite a résumé built on 15 years of NHL experience.
The New York Rangers did not spend the offseason behaving like a team willing to wait. Chris Drury changed the roster, surrendered valuable draft capital and placed another bet on a quick return to contention.
The Edmonton Oilers hired Mike Babcock as their newest head coach, but before deciding to interview him and then get the NHL’s approval to bring him back, they were all over Bruce Cassidy of the Vegas Golden Knights.
Some have attributed the Leafs' struggles to the loss of Mitch Marner, who was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights.
The Vegas Golden Knights can be satisfied with reaching the Stanley Cup Final last season, where they ultimately fell to the Carolina Hurricanes. However, contrary to what many might expect, it appears the Sin City franchise is not treating this summer as a vacation, with trade activity still expected.
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