Vegas Golden Knights forward Jonathan Marchessault, who scored a career-high 42 goals this season, and is now participating in the World Series of Poker, said on Tuesday that the veteran has not spoken with the club about a new contract.
The rebuilding of the Montreal Canadiens is progressing slowly, as the seasons go by and the club improves. Some are impatient, and feel that time is long in the basement of the NHL standings, but we must think long-term and see the team’s progress.
There’s no bigger question mark for the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2024 offseason than the future of franchise cornerstone Jonathan Marchessault. One of the original ‘Golden Misfits’ now has a Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe Trophy under his belt — and the 33-year-old is going to get paid this summer.
Then there were four. We're down to the Conference Finals in the Stanley Cup playoffs, and there are a few unique ways you can add some futures bets that pay out better than simply backing one of these four teams to win it all.
The Vegas Golden Knights appear to be defying the long-held axiom about failed hockey teams. Tradition is that losing clubs hit the links once their season hits the skids.
(Photo Credit: SinBin.vegas Photographer Brandon Andreasen) We’ve been very open with our feelings about getting a deal done with unrestricted free agent Jonathan Marchessault.
The Vegas Golden Knights reality is they may not have the cap space to keep UFA Jonathan Marchessault this summer. Even if the Golden Knights trade a significant player to double their available cap space, there’s no guarantee they can get a deal done.
The winner of the Conn Smythe Award at the end of the Stanley Cup Final is always a bit subjective. So perhaps it's not surprising that the odds lists for who could win this year's Stanley Cup playoffs MVP follows that same trend.
Ed Graney of Las Vegas Review-Journal: Graney writes the Vegas Golden Knights have decisions to make regarding several of their pending unrestricted free agents.
Jesse Granger: Vegas Golden Knights forward Jonathan Marchessault is a pending UFA and he admitted that he thought about it all year long. He thought while he left the rink after Game 6 in Vegas that it could be last night playing at home in a Golden Knights jersey.
Jonathan Marchessault has lived in Vegas for seven years. In that time, he has become a proven Golden Knights goal scorer. Now, he’s hoping that the talent developed in Vegas can stay in Vegas.
The contenders for Lord Stanley’s cup have been culled by half, eight teams left to sift through the rubble as they head into the offseason after a tantalizing two-week taste of the playoffs.
Make no mistake about it, the heartbeat of the Vegas Golden Knights is Jonathan Marchessault. The soon to be unrestricted free agent might just be entering the prime of his career at age 33.
Jonathan Marchessault would have liked nothing more than to be thinking about his future after winning back-to-back Stanley Cups with the Vegas Golden Knights.
As you know, Jonathan Marchessault played the last game of his contract when the Golden Knights were eliminated in the first round. The Vegas player will be a free agent in two months, and we’ll see how much money he gets.
The Stars advanced to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a 2-1 Game 7 win over the Golden Knights on Sunday night at American Airlines Center in Dallas.
Jonathan Marchessault is in the midst of helping the Vegas Golden Knights in their quest to win back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2024. After staving off elimination on Friday night, the Knights will be looking to once again silence an excellent Dallas Stars team in Game 7 on Sunday.
Last night, the Vegas Golden Knights were facing elimination, while the Dallas Stars could advance to the next round with a win in Game 6. Fortunately for the Knights, Noah Hanifin saved the day with the winning goal (and only goal of the game, aside from an empty netter) in the third period.
We have a pair of Game 6s tonight on the ice, and we think both home teams can find a few goals.
Every time Jonathan Marchessault takes the ice he reminds the Vegas Golden Knights how much they need him and why they may not be able to afford to keep him.
The Vegas Golden Knights have the tools to repeat as Stanley Cup champions this season, but they might not have a chance to defend their title with the way the champs are playing as of late.
Last January, L’Antichambre contacted all 61 NHL players from Quebec to ask them to rank the league’s best players from La Belle Province. As my colleague Charles-Alexis Brisebois mentioned this morning, Patrice Bergeron was succeeded by Jonathan Marchessault.
Back in August, Golden Knights winger Jonathan Marchessault noted that there had yet to be any discussions about a possible contract extension. However, his agent Pat Brisson told Mark Anderson of the Associated Press that there have been several discussions throughout the year.
Marchessault received five second-place votes on top of his 13 first-place votes for a total of 80 points to win the award.
Marchessault finished second in playoff scoring to teammate Jack Eichel with 25 points. He led the postseason with 13 goals along with Leon Draisaitl as the Knights stormed through the field to win their first Cup in franchise history.
The NHL began awarding the Conn Smythe Trophy to the most valuable player of the postseason beginning in the 1965 season. How many of the past winners can you name in six minutes?
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