{"id":487161,"date":"2026-03-05T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487161\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:30:17","slug":"trade-capitals-golden-knights-completing-deal-for-top-defensive-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487161\/","title":{"rendered":"TRADE: Capitals &#038; Golden Knights Completing Deal For Top Defensive Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhP-nB0LN8Y-8pPWjoQy2RssFZE5jROXHp09YvLsg2jfVljAA8zP0LC-EHhQHirdmaQ1W137jycVEZ-QZFJ0eUfCG0w7T3Gfh6Kwvhi4DIUgclGeFYwsRddYf2cMrS1_5tZDq1h-F7mPhTNZGzrQtt3sUAsdPTD7XNYMR-b2jPE-e0sdJ3hODw9AVQzroTb\/s3513\/USATSI_28144207.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nic Dowd, NHL center\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2342\" data-original-width=\"3513\" height=\"266\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/USATSI_28144207.jpg\" title=\"Nic Dowd, NHL center\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><br \/>The Vegas Golden Knights are acquiring the fourth-line center they were looking for, in Nic Dowd from the Washington Capitals, per insider David Pagnotta.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Washington is trading Nic Dowd to Vegas<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Pagnotta (@TheFourthPeriod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFourthPeriod\/status\/2029556251537834027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fellow insider Darren Dreger says the deal is not finalized yet, but\u00a0is expected to be completed this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dowd, 35, is in his eighth year with the Caps, and has another season to run on his two-year deal with a $3 million cap hit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s\u00a0been one of the best defensive fourth-line centers in the league for many years. The 6&#8217;2&#8243; center provides physical play (averaging well over 100 hits per season), along with being a top\u00a0penalty killer and what teams like to refer to as a &#8220;glue guy&#8221;. He was a respected leader in the Washington locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Dowd usually also adds a little offense to boot. He had\u00a0been scoring anywhere from 10 to 14 goals a season the previous several campaigns. But that part has dried up in 2025-26, as he has only four goals and 16 points in 55 games along with a minus-6 rating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For his career, in 637 games, Dowd has 88 goals and 104 assists for 192 points. He also has 1,189 hits and 360 penalty minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Capitals are still in the playoff hunt, just four points back of a Wild Card spot in the East, but decided to pull the trigger nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Knights continue to cling to first place in the Pacific Division, but it&#8217;s been a slog of late. Their 72 points would not even be good enough for a Wild Card berth in the East.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Photo: \u00a9 Hannah Foslien-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights are acquiring the fourth-line center they were looking for, in Nic Dowd from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[149,5317,5,181,4,465,550,106,60,107,549,548,546,547,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-487161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-golden-knights","9":"tag-goldenknights","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-hockey-news","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-draft","14":"tag-nhl-free-agency","15":"tag-nhl-news","16":"tag-nhl-playoffs","17":"tag-nhl-rumors","18":"tag-nhl-teams","19":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","20":"tag-nhl-trade-rumors","21":"tag-nhl-trades","22":"tag-vegas","23":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","24":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116177287657728218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487161","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=487161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}