The Vegas Golden Knights, maybe liberating up some salary-cap room to take a run at free agent ahead Mitch Marner this week, dealt veteran defenseman Nicolas Hague to the Nashville Predators late Sunday evening, in alternate for blueliner Jeremy Lauzon and middle Colton Sissons, in response to a number of reviews.
Hague, a prototypical defensive defenseman, then signed a four-year cope with his new membership that may pay him $5.5 million per season, in response to TSN and SportsNet.
A 26-year previous who completed with 5 objectives and 12 factors final season in Vegas, Hague is a 2017 second-round decide who performed in 68 video games final season, averaging 17:33 time on the ice alongside the best way.
He has solely ever performed for the Golden Knights, and his career-best offensive season got here in 2022-23 there, when he performed in 81 video games and completed with 17 factors.
On Tuesday, Hague would have turn into a restricted free agent, however Vegas determined to ship him earlier than negotiations cranked up. In return, they add defensive depth in Lauzon, 28, who performed in simply 28 video games final season, and face-off assist in Sissons, 31, who had seven objectives and 21 factors in 72 video games with the Predators.
Hague will likely be considered upon to assist a leaky protection that allowed 274 objectives final season, the seventh-worst whole within the Central Division.