After outbidding a handful of other NHL teams and signing Russian free-agent center Vadim Shipachyov to a two-year, $9 million contract last week, Las Vegas Golden Knights general manager George McPhee told ESPN.com that he hopes negotiating the first one-way NHL contract in team history "is the start of a lot of good things."
Given that he has $68.5 million in salary-cap space (and $49.5 million to spend to get to the cap floor), McPhee will need to keep his cell phone fully charged between now and June 17, when the league's 30 other teams must turn in their list of protected players for the June 21 expansion draft.