forfeited by the NHL for what the league called “flagrant violations” of its playoff media regulations<\/a> during the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The organization appealed the decision, but the forfeiture remains in place.<\/p>\nGeneral manager Kelly McCrimmon declined to discuss the status of that process at a pre-draft press conference.<\/p>\n
“That’s business between the National Hockey League and ourselves,” McCrimmon said. “We’re not going to be able to comment on that.”<\/p>\n
Free agency opens Wednesday, and the Golden Knights have several key roster decisions ahead.<\/p>\n
Rasmus Andersson, who was acquired during the season, is also expected to become an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n
“The big thing will be to make our decisions on UFAs, work towards retaining the players that we want to retain,” McCrimmon said. “Pavel Dorofeyev is an RFA … clearly he’s a player that’s really blossomed.”<\/p>\n
McCrimmon said determining which players return will shape every other move the organization makes.<\/p>\n
“Clarity on all of those players then dictates what possibilities or what opportunities you may or may not have as you move forward,” he said.<\/p>\n
While the Golden Knights reached the Stanley Cup Final, McCrimmon acknowledged that change is inevitable in the NHL.<\/p>\n
“I really liked our team,” he said. “It’s going to look different. It just does every year. That’s our business.”<\/p>\n
Vegas could also be active on the trade market as it works through salary cap decisions and finalizes its roster before training camp.<\/p>\n
Around the league, the spotlight Friday was on the Toronto Maple Leafs, who selected Penn State forward Gavin McKenna with the No. 1 overall pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUMMERLIN (KTNV) \u2014 The NHL Draft began Friday in Buffalo, with the Golden Knights wasting no time making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[3504,3505,3506,149,5317,5,3507,3508,3509,3510,3511,285,4,3512,74,39,5316],"class_list":["post-614189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vegas-golden-knights","tag-13-action-news","tag-channel-13","tag-go-knights-go","tag-golden-knights","tag-goldenknights","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-in-las-vegas","tag-hockey-in-vegas","tag-ktnv-tv-channel-13","tag-las-vegas-hockey","tag-las-vegas-sports","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-in-las-vegas","tag-vegas","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-vegasgoldenknights"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116859737470456357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614189","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=614189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}