{"id":41734,"date":"2025-07-05T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41734\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:38:08","slug":"golden-knights-looking-to-trade-ben-hutton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41734\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights Looking To Trade Ben Hutton"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Golden Knights will be without Alex Pietrangelo<\/a><\/strong> moving forward, it appears that another defender could be on the move as well.\u00a0 David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period reports<\/a> that Vegas is trying to move defenseman Ben Hutton<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old has spent the last four seasons with Vegas after signing with them as a depth option early in the 2021-22 season.\u00a0 After that first year, he has signed a pair of two-year contracts with his current deal having one year left at an affordable price tag of $975K.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Hutton, his role last season saw him become a sparingly used depth piece.\u00a0 While he did miss 16 games with an upper-body injury, he was a healthy scratch in 55 others as he played in just 11 games during the regular season.\u00a0 He had a pair of assists in those outings along with 19 blocks in a little over 13 minutes of ice time per game.\u00a0 Hutton also didn\u2019t see any action in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

For his career, Hutton has played in 520 career NHL games with five different teams, spanning over parts of ten seasons.\u00a0 The bulk of that came with Vancouver when he was used in a top-four role for good chunks of the four years he spent with them.\u00a0 He has 124 points and 670 blocks in those outings with an ATOI of over 18 minutes per game, largely skewed from his time with the Canucks.\u00a0 Over his four seasons in Vegas, Hutton has averaged 15:38 per game, more reflective of the sixth defender role he has held when he has been in the lineup.<\/p>\n

As things stand, Hutton figures to be the seventh defenseman once again for the Golden Knights heading into next season so it appears that Vegas is trying to find a new team that could give him a better opportunity.\u00a0 But there are several blueliners still in free agency that could conceivably take away some potential landing spots for Hutton in the coming weeks so it wouldn\u2019t be surprising if he ultimately makes it to training camp still with Vegas.<\/p>\n

At the moment, the Golden Knights are about $6.8MM over the cap, per PuckPedia<\/a>.\u00a0 That amount includes Pietrangelo\u2019s $8.8MM cap charge which will land on LTIR, meaning that they have around $2MM of flexibility to work with.\u00a0 Moving Hutton and replacing him with a player at the league minimum would only add $200K of extra room but every bit of cap wiggle room would help.\u00a0 Now, the only question is whether a team is willing to trade for Hutton or if he ultimately lands on waivers in the fall if they can\u2019t find a trade for him and want to create that small increase in cap space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Golden Knights will be without Alex Pietrangelo moving forward, it appears that another defender could be…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[32906,293,62,67,132,68,3116],"class_list":{"0":"post-41734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ben-hutton","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-vegas-golden-knights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114802793622381930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}