One of the teams that has not been showing respect to their players are the Vegas Golden Knights. After going all the way to the Stanley Cup finals in their first season, they've almost completely replaced their inaugural ''golden misfits'' team with new players, and moving out some fan favourites in the process.
Fans and players alike were not impressed with how the Golden Knights handled the Marc-Andre Fleury situation last season, nor trading away some of the misfits to fit in the Alex Pietrangelo contract. Now the Knights have traded away another fan favourite in Max Pacioretty for absolutely nothing.
According to multiple NHL executives, Vegas takes its motto of ''its just a business'' to a whole new level and because of this, free agents have been hesitant to sign with the Golden Knights.
While it started as just rumours, has now been confirmed by an article in the Athletic, where a player agent said:
Really relevant right now https://t.co/xFkgfIPukx pic.twitter.com/T7SOiWWb1B� Sean Shapiro (@seanshapiro) July 13, 2022
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14 JUILLET | 473 ANSWERS Free Agents are refusing to sign with a certain team because of how they handle players Would you sign in Vegas? | ||
yes | 112 | 23.7 % |
no | 361 | 76.3 % |
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