LAS VEGAS -- It's Saturday morning, a little over 48 hours before Monday's NHL trade deadline, and Vegas Golden Knights center Jonathan Marchessault is on the ice at the team's training facility 20 miles off The Strip in Summerlin, Nevada. He's holding his 2-year-old daughter, Victoria, in one hand and passing pucks to his 3-year-old son James, who's wearing a full Golden Knights uniform, with his other hand.
Back in June, when Vegas selected Marchessault in the NHL expansion draft from the Florida Panthers, it would have been easy to envision him getting ready to move to his next city.