{"id":484297,"date":"2026-03-04T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/484297\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:06:12","slug":"vegas-golden-knights-acquire-forward-cole-smith-from-nashville-predators-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/484297\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights acquire forward Cole Smith from Nashville Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> have added some forward depth, acquiring winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cole-smith\/8482062\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cole-smith\/8482062\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Smith<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a> in exchange for defence prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/christoffer-sedoff\/8482138\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/christoffer-sedoff\/8482138\" target=\"_blank\">Christoffer Sedoff<\/a> and a 2028 third-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 30-year-old has tallied six goals and four assists over 42 games with the Predators in 2025-26, his sixth season in Nashville. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Smith is in the final season of a two-year contract, featuring an average annual value of $1 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Brainerd, Minnesota, Smith has 23 goals and 39 assists over 271 career games in the NHL, all with the Preds. He\u2019s played in five playoff games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sedoff, a 24-year-old from Finland, has recorded four assists over 38 games with the AHL\u2019s Henderson Silver Knights this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Golden Knights sit first in the Pacific Division with a 28-19-14 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/report-predators-send-mccarron-to-wild-for-second-round-pick\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/report-predators-send-mccarron-to-wild-for-second-round-pick\/\">Earlier Tuesday<\/a>, the Predators sent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/michael-mccarron\/8477446\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/michael-mccarron\/8477446\" target=\"_blank\">Michael McCarron<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> in exchange for a 2028 second-round draft pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights have added some forward depth, acquiring winger Cole Smith from the Nashville Predators in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,57963,5,33451,4,34585],"class_list":{"0":"post-484297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-cole-smith-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482062","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nashville-predators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-18","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-vegas-golden-knights-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-54"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116169407501673468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}