The Vegas Golden Knights were progressive successful the astir astonishing infinitesimal during the archetypal time of the NHL Draft, sending apical extremity scorer Pavel Dorofeyev to the New York Rangers connected Friday.
Trade details
Rangers receive: RW Pavel Dorofeyev
Knights receive: No. 26 pick, No. 92 pick, 2028 first-round prime (top-10 protected)
Reaction to the trade
The NHL Draft wasn’t 30 minutes aged erstwhile the Knights made their biggest determination of the summertime to this point.
Moving connected from your starring extremity scorer — 72 implicit the past 2 seasons — is simply a bold choice, until you spot that the Rangers are reportedly signing Dorofeyev to a seven-year, $77 cardinal declaration successful the process.
The Knights were not going to interaction $11 cardinal per twelvemonth connected the restricted escaped agent. New York is making Dorofeyev their second-highest paid player, trailing lone goaltender Igor Shesterkin.
To crook Dorofeyev’s signing rights into 2 first-round picks and a 3rd was a bully spot of concern for wide manager Kelly McCrimmon. He added a fourth-round prime connected Saturday, and added a third-round prime adjacent twelvemonth successful the process.
There’s a glaring request to regenerate a top-six extremity scorer and apical power-play option, but the Knights tin present absorption connected different areas of request heading into escaped bureau connected Wednesday. That includes a caller declaration for defenseman Rasmus Andersson.
Grade: A-
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