🚨 TRADE ALERT 🚨 The Golden Knights have acquired a 2024 3rd round pick and a 2025 3rd round pick from the Washington Capitals in exchange for goalie Logan Thompson.
June 29, 2024
🚨 TRADE ALERT 🚨 The Golden Knights have acquired a 2024 3rd round pick and a 2025 3rd round pick from the Washington Capitals in exchange for goalie Logan Thompson.
34 comments
Huh?? We pretty much gave him away for two lottery tickets. He was already on a cheap contract. There must be a reason that we don’t know about
I guess they didn’t want to pay him next year. Sad to see him go, my Reverse Retro 2.0 is a Thompson.
Its gotta be to amass trade capital
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This seems dumb it’s not for cap space since his contract is low. I know his contract is up next year feels like could of waited and got more later in the year
This is such a massive fail it’s not even funny. 3rds are meaningless. It’s going to cost an extra 2 million MINIMUM to sign a worse goalie. Just makes no sense for a team with cap troubles to trade their best value contract for 3rd’s.
Curious as to the thought process behind this, whether it be Injury concerns, looking to extend Hill over LT, or faith in Patera. Compensation is fine but Thompson makes pennies on the dollar and cheap production is hard to come by.
Ultimately I think scheme and team defense is good enough to make any serviceable goalie play well in a tandem but it’s still sad to see him go. Forever a champion.
This fucking sucks and makes no sense. If you’re trying to clear cap space, why trade the cheapest player on the team. If you’re trying to amass draft picks, Adin Hill was being asked for too.
What the fuck Vegas
This trade doesn’t make sense. We traded a solid goalie peanuts and we really didn’t clear any cap space since we now have to replace him.
I have no fucking idea about what they are thinking. Thompson makes pennies and he’s a pretty decent goalie.
I trust our front office, but zero clues about what the fuck they’re thinking. Love Thompsy, sad to see him go.
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Honestly, he wasn’t very consistent this year so not surprising we moved him just thought we would get more.
They better give us capfriendly access for this trade WHAT THE FUCK MAN
Well dang.
Well damn… Good luck out there mate
what?? oh god this was like the main thing i didn’t want to happen ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
Drafted a racist and traded Logan. Quite a 24 hour span for the Knights. If the news hits that Marchy left comes in today it might kill someone.
I don’t get this at all. Major bummer.
Traded while in the building signing autographs for the fans. Never change, Kelly. Now we get to go find a backup who will more likely than not be worse and cost more. Win-win!
What an awful trade
God dammit
To be fair, there were goalie trade rumors for sometime now. I’m just surprised it’s for two 3rd round picks. Hopefully Hill can get up to speed and stay healthy throughout 2024/25 and we can find some good company for him too if the FO doesn’t put Patera in for back up
Don’t really get the goal here. He performed greatly against the Stars
I didn’t realize so many VGK fans were psychics. Very cool 🙄
I’m really trying to wrap my head around this. As other comments mentioned, it can’t be a cap space thing. Any replacement goalie will not provide the same value – they will either be crappy entry level or more expensive.
Completely unfounded, but I have read rumors that LT was kind of an arrogant douche, like hitting on other players/employees WAGs – getting rid of him because of potential organizational risk is the closest I can come to this making any sense, but that is quite a reach based on rumor
I do not like this trade at all
Yeah nah, I don’t get this one. Unless this is building goodwill with the Capitals for some future trade, I’m scratching my head here.
I mean McCrimmons expertise won us a cup but I don’t get it. This is up there with the Fleury trade in stupidity
Pretty weird move overall. Makes sense if they’re trying to trade for Askarov as he barely costs more than LT this year, but the Knights don’t have the assets for it unless they start trading out FRPs until Lake Mead dries up.
I thought Marchy might have told them he’s not coming back no matter what (and let’s be honest, tampering happens all the time), but you’re not replacing a top winger and a back up goalie for 7 milly.
I’m really struggling to believe that there wasn’t another team out there that would’ve paid more. Maybe it’s something about being in the same division, but I feel like the Oilers would give their left leg to get Thompson, he gets paid nothing and is a significant upgrade on what they have.
Makes no sense to me.
Cya LT. Now let’s find us a real #1 goalie for the team and not just glorified back ups.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day has be ruined.
34 comments
Huh?? We pretty much gave him away for two lottery tickets. He was already on a cheap contract. There must be a reason that we don’t know about
I guess they didn’t want to pay him next year. Sad to see him go, my Reverse Retro 2.0 is a Thompson.
Its gotta be to amass trade capital
ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
This seems dumb it’s not for cap space since his contract is low. I know his contract is up next year feels like could of waited and got more later in the year
This is such a massive fail it’s not even funny. 3rds are meaningless. It’s going to cost an extra 2 million MINIMUM to sign a worse goalie. Just makes no sense for a team with cap troubles to trade their best value contract for 3rd’s.
Curious as to the thought process behind this, whether it be Injury concerns, looking to extend Hill over LT, or faith in Patera. Compensation is fine but Thompson makes pennies on the dollar and cheap production is hard to come by.
Ultimately I think scheme and team defense is good enough to make any serviceable goalie play well in a tandem but it’s still sad to see him go. Forever a champion.
This fucking sucks and makes no sense. If you’re trying to clear cap space, why trade the cheapest player on the team. If you’re trying to amass draft picks, Adin Hill was being asked for too.
What the fuck Vegas
This trade doesn’t make sense. We traded a solid goalie peanuts and we really didn’t clear any cap space since we now have to replace him.
I have no fucking idea about what they are thinking. Thompson makes pennies and he’s a pretty decent goalie.
I trust our front office, but zero clues about what the fuck they’re thinking. Love Thompsy, sad to see him go.
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Honestly, he wasn’t very consistent this year so not surprising we moved him just thought we would get more.
They better give us capfriendly access for this trade WHAT THE FUCK MAN
Well dang.
Well damn… Good luck out there mate
what?? oh god this was like the main thing i didn’t want to happen ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
Drafted a racist and traded Logan. Quite a 24 hour span for the Knights. If the news hits that Marchy left comes in today it might kill someone.
I don’t get this at all. Major bummer.
Traded while in the building signing autographs for the fans. Never change, Kelly. Now we get to go find a backup who will more likely than not be worse and cost more. Win-win!
What an awful trade
God dammit
To be fair, there were goalie trade rumors for sometime now. I’m just surprised it’s for two 3rd round picks. Hopefully Hill can get up to speed and stay healthy throughout 2024/25 and we can find some good company for him too if the FO doesn’t put Patera in for back up
Don’t really get the goal here. He performed greatly against the Stars
I didn’t realize so many VGK fans were psychics. Very cool 🙄
I’m really trying to wrap my head around this. As other comments mentioned, it can’t be a cap space thing. Any replacement goalie will not provide the same value – they will either be crappy entry level or more expensive.
Completely unfounded, but I have read rumors that LT was kind of an arrogant douche, like hitting on other players/employees WAGs – getting rid of him because of potential organizational risk is the closest I can come to this making any sense, but that is quite a reach based on rumor
I do not like this trade at all
Yeah nah, I don’t get this one. Unless this is building goodwill with the Capitals for some future trade, I’m scratching my head here.
day ruined
Damn. Traded the wrong goalie.
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I mean McCrimmons expertise won us a cup but I don’t get it. This is up there with the Fleury trade in stupidity
Pretty weird move overall. Makes sense if they’re trying to trade for Askarov as he barely costs more than LT this year, but the Knights don’t have the assets for it unless they start trading out FRPs until Lake Mead dries up.
I thought Marchy might have told them he’s not coming back no matter what (and let’s be honest, tampering happens all the time), but you’re not replacing a top winger and a back up goalie for 7 milly.
I’m really struggling to believe that there wasn’t another team out there that would’ve paid more. Maybe it’s something about being in the same division, but I feel like the Oilers would give their left leg to get Thompson, he gets paid nothing and is a significant upgrade on what they have.
Makes no sense to me.
Cya LT. Now let’s find us a real #1 goalie for the team and not just glorified back ups.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day has be ruined.