{"id":628697,"date":"2026-07-22T17:19:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/628697\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:19:05","slug":"golden-knights-announce-signings-trades-as-nhl-free-agency-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/628697\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights announce signings, trades as NHL free agency begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KTNV) \u2014 The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktnv.com\/sports\/golden-knights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Knights<\/a> continue to make moves this offseason, announcing Wednesday free agent signings and a trade sending forward Keegan Kolesar to the Detroit Red Wings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">WATCH | Who&#8217;s on the VGK roster so far?<\/p>\n<p>Golden Knights announce signings, trades as NHL free agency begins<\/p>\n<p>In return for the Kolesar trade, Vegas is receiving a 2027 seventh-round pick and a 2029 third-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>In his 439 career games in Vegas, Kolesar has 44 goals and 76 assists. The 29-year-old played in all 82 games the past two seasons for the Golden Knights.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Knights general manager Kelly McCrimmon announced at a press conference Wednesday afternoon that the organization has also re-signed defenseman Rasmus Andersson with a reported seven-year deal and defenseman Dylan Coghlan.<\/p>\n<p>VGK also agreed to terms with forwards Jakub Demek, Joe Fleming, Tanner Laczynski and Jonas Rondbjerg, who were already with the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">WATCH | Taylor Rocha breaks down the latest after the opening of free agency on Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p>Golden Knights announce signings, trades as NHL free agency begins<\/p>\n<p>On the forward side, Vegas signed Marc Gatcomb from the New York Islanders and Victor Olofsson from the Calgary Flames, who was previously with Vegas during the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman signings include Adam Ginning from the Philadelphia Flyers organization, Ville Heinola from the Winnipeg Jets organization and Antti Tuimisto from the Detroit Red Wings organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">WATCH | General manager Kelly McCrimmon addresses free agency signings and trades:<\/p>\n<p>Golden Knights GM addresses signings, trades as free agency opens<\/p>\n<p>Vegas began its offseason moves with a splash on the opening night of the NHL draft, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktnv.com\/sports\/golden-knights\/golden-knights-trade-pavel-dorofeyev-to-new-york-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trading leading goal-scorer Pavel Dorofeyev to the New York Rangers<\/a> for a first-round and third-round pick in this year&#8217;s draft. <\/p>\n<p>They used those picks to select <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktnv.com\/sports\/golden-knights\/golden-knights-first-round-pick-juho-piiparinen-embraces-first-taste-of-las-vegas-at-development-camp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defenseman Juho Piiparinen<\/a> and center Benjamin Wilmott. They also received a 2028 first-round pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">WATCH | Piiparinen gets first taste of Vegas at NHL development camp:<\/p>\n<p>Golden Knights first-round pick Piiparinen embraces first taste of Las Vegas at development camp<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Golden Knights <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktnv.com\/sports\/golden-knights\/golden-knights-acquire-pittsburgh-defenseman-parker-wotherspoon-in-trade-for-kaedan-korczak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traded defenseman Kaedan Korczak<\/a> to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for defenseman Parker Wotherspoon. Vegas also acquired a 2028 third-round pick from the Florida Panthers for goaltender Akira Schmid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KTNV) \u2014 The Golden Knights continue to make moves this offseason, announcing Wednesday free agent signings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628698,"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-628697","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\/116964777212330772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628697","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=628697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}