{"id":444643,"date":"2024-07-02T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=444643"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:57:22","slug":"vegas-golden-knights-add-depth-forward-with-some-scoring-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/07\/02\/vegas-golden-knights-add-depth-forward-with-some-scoring-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights Add Depth Forward With Some Scoring Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/olofsvi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Olofsson<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/audymjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Marchessault<\/a> leaving to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/07\/01\/former-golden-knights-forward-signs-new-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">free agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VegasBorn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#VegasBorn<\/a> signed 28 y\/o UFA F Victor Olofsson to 1 year $1.075M Deal<\/p>\n<p>15P in 51 GP<\/p>\n<p>Rep&#39;d by Claude Lemieux <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/4sportshockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@4sportshockey<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R3zCgAb296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/R3zCgAb296<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PuckPedia (@PuckPedia) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PuckPedia\/status\/1808178153283899609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victor Olofsson Signs a One-Year Contract With the Vegas Golden Knights<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Will Olofsson Bring to the Golden Knights<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hertlto01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tomas Hertl<\/a> at this year\u2019s trade deadline. As a result, sometimes the economics don\u2019t work out to keep star players. They also <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/06\/29\/vegas-trades-logan-thompson-to-washington\/\" target=\"_self\">moved<\/a> on from goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomplo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Logan Thompson<\/a>. But again, they had a competent starter in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hillad01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adin Hill<\/a>. They have also added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/samsoil01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ilya Samsonov<\/a> as a reliable backup. However, the issue for Vegas remains, according to <a  href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">puckpedia<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo: Timothy T. Ludwig-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":444645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[807,4547,34,4548],"tags":[662,955,3532],"class_list":["post-444643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vegas-golden-knights","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-nhl-news","tag-victor-olofsson"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}