Whether this news is related to a forthcoming trade for the Minnesota Wild is anyone’s guess. Having already made a swap deal with Carolina for Victor Rask and one with Anaheim for Pontus Aberg, you have to wonder whether there are players in the line-up that have strong appeal to other teams or whether they’re there to look at the Golden Knights.
There have been suggestions that it’s somewhat coincidental and that the Buffalo Sabres scouting team uses Las Vegas as a base for a group meeting. Now that there’s a hockey team there, it makes sense that they’d attend Golden Knights games as part of that meet-up.