2025–26 Vegas Golden Knights season
| 2025–26 Vegas Golden Knights | |
|---|---|
| Division | Pacific |
| Conference | Western |
| Team information | |
| General manager | Kelly McCrimmon |
| Coach | Bruce Cassidy |
| Captain | Mark Stone |
| Alternate captains | Jack Eichel William Karlsson Alex Pietrangelo |
| Arena | T-Mobile Arena |
| Minor league affiliate(s) | Henderson Silver Knights (AHL) Tahoe Knight Monsters (ECHL) |
The 2025–26 Vegas Golden Knights season will be the ninth season for the National Hockey League franchise that started playing in the 2017–18 season.
Schedule and results
Preseason
The 2025 preseason schedule was published on June 20, 2025.[1]
| 2025 preseason game log: 0–0–0 (home: 0–0–0; road: 0–0–0) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Date | Visitor | Score | Home | OT | Decision | Attendance | Record | Recap | |
| 1 | September 21 | Vegas | – | San Jose | ||||||
| 2 | September 23 | Los Angeles | – | Vegas | ||||||
| 3 | September 25 | Utah | – | Vegas | ||||||
| 4 | September 26 | Vegas | – | San Jose | ||||||
| 5 | September 30 | Vegas | – | Colorado | ||||||
| 6 | October 1 | Colorado | – | Vegas | ||||||
| 7 | October 3 | San Jose | – | Vegas | ||||||
Roster
Transactions
The Golden Knights have been involved in the following transactions during the 2025–26 season.
Key:
† Contract is entry-level.
‡ Contract initially takes effect in the 2026–27 season.
Trades
* Retained Salary Transaction: Each team is allowed up to three contracts on their payroll where they have retained salary in a trade (i.e. the player no longer plays with Team A due to a trade to Team B, but Team A still retains some salary). Only up to 50% of a player's contract can be kept, and only up to 15% of a team's salary cap can be taken up by retained salary. A contract can only be involved in one of these trades twice.
| Date | Details | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 28, 2025 | To Nashville Predators 2nd-round pick in 2025 (#58 overall) 4th-round pick in 2025 (#122 overall) |
To Vegas Golden Knights TBL 2nd-round pick in 2025 (#55 overall) |
[4] |
| June 28, 2025 | To Pittsburgh Penguins WSH 3rd-round pick in 2025 (#91 overall) 5th-round pick in 2025 (#154 overall) |
To Vegas Golden Knights OTT 3rd-round pick in 2025 (#85 overall) |
[5] |
| June 30, 2025 | To Nashville Predators Nicolas Hague conditional 2nd-round pick in 2027 or 3rd-round pick in 2027 |
To Vegas Golden Knights Jeremy Lauzon Colton Sissons* |
[6] |
| July 1, 2025 | To Toronto Maple Leafs Nicolas Roy |
To Vegas Golden Knights Mitch Marner |
[7] |
Players acquired
| Date | Player | Former team | Term | Via | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1, 2025 | Dylan Coghlan | Winnipeg Jets | 1-year | Free agency | [8] |
| Jaycob Megna | Florida Panthers | 2-year | |||
| Cole Reinhardt | Ottawa Senators | ||||
| July 2, 2025 | Jeremy Davies | [9] | |||
| Legend: † Contract is entry-level. ‡ Contract begins in 2026–27 season. | |||||
Players lost
| Date | Player | New team | Term | Via | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1, 2025 | Mason Geertsen | Buffalo Sabres | 2-year | Free agency | [10] |
| July 1, 2025 | Tanner Pearson | Winnipeg Jets | 1-year | [11] |
Signings
| Date | Player | Term | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1, 2025 | Brandon Saad | 1-year | [8] | ||
| Reilly Smith | |||||
| July 2, 2025 | Kaedan Korczak | 4-year‡ | [9] | ||
| July 6, 2025 | Raphael Lavoie | 1-year | [12] | ||
| Jonas Rondbjerg | |||||
| Cole Schwindt | |||||
| July 8, 2025 | Lukas Cormier | [13] | |||
| Legend: † Contract is entry-level. ‡ Contract begins in 2026–27 season. | |||||
Draft picks
Below are the Vegas Golden Knights' selections at the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, which was held on June 27 to 28, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
| Round | # | Player | Pos. | Nationality | Team (League) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 55[A] | Jakob Ihs-Wozniak | C | Sweden | Lulea HF (J20 Nationell) |
| 3 | 85[B] | Mateo Nobert | C | Canada | Blainville-Boisbriand Armada (QMJHL) |
| 6 | 186 | Alexander Weiermair | C | United States | Portland Winterhawks (WHL) |
| 187[C] | Gustav Sjoqvist | D | Sweden | AIK IF (HockeyAllsvenskan) |
Notes:
- ^ The Tampa Bay Lightning's second-round pick went to the Vegas Golden Knights as the result of a trade on June 28, 2025, that sent a second and fifth-round pick both in 2025 (58th and 122nd overall) to Nashville in exchange for this pick.[4]
- ^ The Ottawa Senators' third-round pick went to the Golden Knights as the result of a trade on June 28, 2025, that sent Washington's third-round pick in 2025 (91st overall) and a fifth-round pick in 2025 (154th overall) to Pittsburgh in exchange for this pick.[5]
- ^ The Washington Capitals' sixth-round pick went to the Golden Knights as the result of a trade on June 29, 2024, that sent a seventh-round pick in 2024 to Washington in exchange for this pick.[14]
References
- ^ "Vegas Golden Knights Announce Game Schedule for 2025-26 Preseason". NHL.com. June 20, 2025. Retrieved June 20, 2025.
- ^ "Vegas Golden Knights Roster". National Hockey League. Retrieved July 6, 2025.
- ^ "Vegas Golden Knights Roster Transactions". CBS Sports. Retrieved July 6, 2025.
- ^ a b Ramirez, W.G. (June 28, 2025). "Golden Knights Trade Up To 55, Select Australian Winger Jakob Ihs Wozniak". The Hockey News. Retrieved June 29, 2025.
- ^ a b Ramirez, W.G. (June 28, 2025). "Golden Knights Trade Up To Select Mateo Norbert With 85th Overall Pick". The Hockey News. Retrieved June 29, 2025.
- ^ "Hague traded to Predators by Golden Knights, signs 4-year, $22 million contract". nhl.com. June 30, 2025. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
- ^ "Marner traded to Golden Knights by Maple Leafs, signs 8-year, $96 million contract". nhl.com. July 1, 2025. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
- ^ a b "Vegas Golden Knights Announce Roster Transactions". NHL.com. July 1, 2025. Retrieved July 1, 2025.
- ^ a b "Vegas Golden Knights Announce Roster Transactions | July 2, 2025". NHL.com. July 2, 2025. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
- ^ LaBarber, Jourdon (July 1, 2025). "Sabres sign Geertsen to 2-year contract". Buffalo Sabres.
- ^ "Jets sign forward Tanner Pearson to a one-year contract". Winnipeg Jets. July 1, 2025.
- ^ "Vegas Golden Knights Agree to Terms with Cole Schwindt, Jonas Rondbjerg and Raphael Lavoie to One-Year Contracts". NHL.com. July 6, 2025. Retrieved July 8, 2025.
- ^ "Vegas Golden Knights Sign Defenseman Lukas Cormier to One-Year Contract". nhl.com. July 8, 2025. Retrieved July 9, 2025.
- ^ "Capitals grab late pick from Golden Knights at NHL Draft". sportsnet.ca. June 29, 2024. Retrieved June 29, 2025.