Already over the $81.5 million salary cap for 2019-20 even before signing William Karlsson to an eight-year, $47.2 million deal earlier this week, the Vegas Golden Knights needed some relief under the cap.
And they have started that process after shedding Haula’s $2.75 million salary by sending the 28-year-old to Carolina.
Now, of course, there is still more work to do for Vegas who currently have a cap hit of $86,274,999 for next year.
After extending qualifying offers to restricted free agents Malcolm Subban, Nikita Gusev and Jimmy Schuldt and a deal expected to get done with Tomas Nosek in the coming days and weeks, the Golden Knights will have no choice but to line up more trades.