The shiny, new contracts handed out to the Golden Knights’ free agents this summer brought back memories of the famous Oprah car giveaway.
William Karlsson got a contract. Colin Miller got a contract. William Carrier, Tomas Nosek and Ryan Reaves got a contract. Everybody gets a contract!
OK, not everybody.
Restricted free agent Shea Theodore remains unsigned less than three weeks from the start of training camp on Sept. 13, and the situation is inching toward the danger zone for a possible holdout by the 23-year-old defenseman.
“We’ll hopefully have Shea under contract soon, and we’ll see how that goes over the next few weeks,” general manager George McPhee said Aug.