TAMPA, Fla. -- Ron Hextall is making moves.
The Penguins on Wednesday traded Teddy Blueger to the Golden Knights in exchange for a 2024 third-round draft pick and defense prospect Peter DiLiberatore. Liberatore, 22, was the Golden Knights' sixth-round pick in 2018. He has split this season between Vegas' AHL and ECHL affiliates.
Shedding Blueger's $2.2 million cap hit gives the Penguins' $4.2 million in cap space, a figure that could increase to $4.4M by the March 3 trade deadline day by banking unused cap space, per PuckPedia math. That figure also still includes the cap hits of Brock McGinn ($2.