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Vegas Golden Knights Add Depth Forward With Some Scoring Touch

There are a lot of teams loading up this 2024 NHL free agency period, and the Vegas Golden Knights are no exception. Today they announced that they have signed Victor Olofsson to a one-year contract, worth $1.1 million. Olofsson is a great depth pickup by the Golden Knights, who are trying to juggle their lineup with Jonathan Marchessault leaving to free agency.

Victor Olofsson Signs a One-Year Contract With the Vegas Golden Knights

For a seventh-round pick, the Buffalo Sabres had gotten decent value from Olofsson. After developing in the top-Swedish league, including a 27-goal season with Frolunda, Olofsson made his way to North America. In 2018-19, as a 23-year-old, he was nearly a point-per-game player with the AHL’s Rochester Americans. It was good enough to earn him a full-time spot on the Sabres roster in 2019-20. Moreover, since that time he has become a three-time 20-goal scorer in the NHL, including a career-high 28 goals in 2022-23. In total, he has played 314 career NHL games, with 90 goals and 92 assists for 182 points. Olofsson uses his excellent shot to be a valuable asset.

What Will Olofsson Bring to the Golden Knights

Bringing Victor Olofsson in on a one-year contract is just another great hockey move by Vegas General Manager Kelly McCrimmon. Being accountable and adding reliable depth is a very crucial part of success at the NHL level. That is exactly what Olofsson provides. Losing someone like Marchessault will hurt the Golden Knights top-end, but then again, they did just bring in Tomas Hertl at this year’s trade deadline. As a result, sometimes the economics don’t work out to keep star players. They also moved on from goaltender Logan Thompson. But again, they had a competent starter in Adin Hill. They have also added Ilya Samsonov as a reliable backup. However, the issue for Vegas remains, according to puckpedia, they are currently over $3.5 million over the salary cap threshold. Therefore, McCrimmon will need to continue to move his chess pieces around the board to keep the Golden Knights a playoff end game player.

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Levi Pike, Editor

Levi Pike, Editor

Levi Pike is an editor and writer here at Last Word on Hockey. He has lived all over Canada but grew up in Nanaimo, BC. Currently, he lives with his loving wife, three kids, and dog in the capital of the Easterly most province of Canada, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. He’s passionate about hockey, in particular, the Ottawa Senators and statistics. He received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Statistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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