Isabelle Khurshudyan of the Washington Post: The Washington Capitals had hoped they would be able to retain defenseman Nate Schmidt and not lose him in the expansion draft. They made an offer to Vegas to not select him, but it obviously wasn’t accepted.
“We made a couple good offers, I think,” MacLellan said. “I think they just like Schmidt.”
MacLellan said that asking price for Schmidt was the same as all the other asking prices. That appeared to a be a first round pick, a prospect or both.
The Capitals now have a hole on their blueline and are without a plan.