That trade doesn’t save Vegas any cap space, so why would the Golden Knights trade the Vezina winner for a 2nd pair D and a backup goalie?

You're still missing $8,5M from the $18M lol

Also you need to provide a reason why Malkin is out. Kuch had hip surgery, so we need a medical operation leading to a 6 month break from the ice.

100 pts for the title

how about to cheat even with Zucker-Sugar boy
Tampa had Kucherov + Stamkos, Pittsburgh may keep Malkin & Zucker, ehm?

Malkin just had knee surgery. Will most likely miss the start of the season but should be back by December.

That a mistake. Should've had the surgery just before the start of the season.

What a joke, Pettersson makes $4,025,000 x 4 Jarry makes 2 x $3,500,000 plus Vegas is eating $3,000,000. That's $10,525,000 Vegas is eating and they only have $6,097,561 to sign like 5 players so this puts them over the cap by some $4,000,000 noway McCrimmon does this.

Malkin out -> reason: 3x facelift surgery ?

Somehow I doubt that's gonna fly with the league but it's worth trying.