DONE DEAL: Vegas Golden Knights Signs $76 Million Stanley Cup CHAMPION Forward

Trade Pitch Has Rangers Acquiring $36 Million Stanley Cup Champion Defenseman.

The New York Rangers are in their Stanley Cup window and one trade pitch has them bolstering their defensive unit.

The website PuckPedia has a new tool called PuckGM that lets users create their own trades and one user proposed a deal that would see the Rangers acquire Shea Theodore as part of a package in a blockbuster deal with the Vegas Golden Knights.

Shea Theodore
Grigori Denisenko
Golden Knights get:

Reilly Smith
Braden Schneider
2025 first-round pick
The proposed deal is interesting as the Rangers go all-in to try and win the Stanley Cup, while Vegas gets younger and a first-round pick which is what the Golden Knights need.

Schneider, meanwhile, is 22 and was drafted in the first round of the 2020 NHL draft. The defenseman would replace Theodore, who is a solid second-pairing NHL defenseman.

Smith, meanwhile, was acquired this offseason by New York to add some offense, but the trade pitch already moves him back to Vegas where he helped the team win the Cup in 2022.

Theodore is entering the final year of his seven-year $36.4 million deal and has spent the last seven years with Vegas. He was a key part of the Golden Knights team that won the Stanley Cup in 2022. Last season, he skated in 47 games recording 5 goals and 37 assists for 42 points.

Denisenko, meanwhile, was a first-round pick in 2018 by the Florida Panthers. But, he has struggled to be a full-time NHL player. He’s skated in 32 NHL games recording 0 goals and 7 assists but he could add some depth to the bottom of the lineup.

The Rangers lost to the Florida Panthers in the Eastern Conference Finals in six games.

New York is a legit Stanley Cup contending team, but after falling short again, Rangers general manager Chris Drury hinted at making a major change this offseason.