{"id":487228,"date":"2026-03-05T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487228\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:16:11","slug":"washington-capitals-golden-knights-discussing-trade-that-would-send-nic-dowd-to-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487228\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals, Golden Knights discussing trade that would send Nic Dowd to Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> and <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> are in ongoing discussions that would send forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nic-dowd\/8475343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nic-dowd\/8475343\" target=\"_blank\">Nic Dowd<\/a> to Vegas, according to TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal is not yet done, but is expected to be completed this morning, Dreger adds.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The VGK and Washington Capitals are in ongoing discussions on a deal sending Nic Dowd to Vegas. It\u2019s not done yet, but is expected to be completed this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/2029563081521516945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dowd has four goals and 16 points in 55 games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 35-year-old centre is signed through next season at a cap hit of $3 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A veteran of 11 NHL seasons, Dowd has 88 goals and 104 assists for 192 points in 637 career regular season games. He had spent time with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/los-angeles-kings\/26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/los-angeles-kings\/26\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> prior to his time in D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vegas made their first move ahead of the deadline earlier this week, adding 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 Nasvhville Predators for defenceman Christian Sedoff and a 2028 third-round pick.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals and Vegas Golden Knights are in ongoing discussions that would send forward Nic Dowd to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,4,34585,35805],"class_list":{"0":"post-487228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-vegas-golden-knights-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-54","12":"tag-washington-capitals-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-15"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116177468357176639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487228","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=487228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}