Still some odd moves to make for Vegas- McPhee has a lot of work to do still. One of his top pickups from the KHL is making $4.5 mil to play in the minors because they don't have a way to call him up... that's due to their having TEN defensemen on the active roster (as opposed to the seven most teams carry)... they let a pretty promising young goaltender in Calvin Pickard (who you'll recall was the poor sap stuck behind the wet cardboard defense in Colorado during the latter half of last season, and really did quite well considering the circumstances) walk to Toronto for nothing, while picking up what at this point is considered to be a bust in Malcolm Subban as a replacement from the Bruins.
No idea what the long-term plan is in Vegas, but it's definitely odd for now. Winning three straight covers up a lot of issues, no doubt, but it's not going to be long before Neal is double-teamed all night long and someon eelse is going to have to reliably be able to score- defensemen won't do that for you, so time to make some deals to teams that could use defen- hey, that Avs defense still sucks outside of Barrie, I wonder if they'd be willing to make a deal for a grumpy star forward?