The Washington Capitals reportedly dealt left-wing Anthony Mantha to the Vegas Golden Knights for 2024 second-round pick and a 2026 fourth-round pick on Tuesday evening. The 28-year-old can become an unrestricted free agent on July 1 and carries a $5.7 million cap hit, which Washington will eat half of ($2.85 million), this season.
It sounds like it could be an hour before there’s a trade call on the Anthony Mantha to #VGK deal reported by @DarrenDreger. No reason to be alarmed by the lag before all of the trade details are made official.
— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) March 5, 2024
Mantha’s 20 goals in 56 games this season are just two behind center Dylan Strome’s for the team lead and his 34 points rank fourth. He has scored in three of Washington’s last four games.
Washington’s 5-2 loss to the Arizona Coyotes on Sunday pushed them seven points back of the Tampa Bay Lightning (who they have three games in hand on) for the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference and Philadelphia Flyers (three) for third place in Metropolitan Division. They collected points in six of their previous eight (4-2-2), including a five-game point-streak (4-0-1) where they defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning, New Jersey Devils, and Philadelphia (all teams they are fighting for positioning with), before Sunday’s setback.
In 174 career games with Washington after getting acquired in a blockbuster deal that sent left-wing Jakub Vrana, the 22nd overall pick in 2021, and 52nd overall pick in 2022 to the Detroit Red Wings on April 11, 2021, Mantha recorded 44 goals and 92 points. He was the first Capital ever to score in each of his first four games with the team.
Anthony Mantha, acquired by VGK, is a two-way scoring winger who’s put up goals at an absurdly efficient rate this year in fourth line minutes. A big player who notoriously does not play a physical game, but still pushes play in the right direction. #VegasBorn pic.twitter.com/VfziKNHDsj
— JFresh (@JFreshHockey) March 5, 2024
In 476 career NHL games with Washington and Detroit, Mantha has 139 goals and 286 points. He also recorded six assists in 11 postseason games with the Capitals in 2021 and 2022.
Washington reportedly shopped Mantha last offseason after he recorded 11 goals and 27 points in 67 games in 2022-23, where he was often a healthy scratch under head coach Peter Laviolette, but could not find a taker.
Hey, if it works it works, and with Mantha it has pretty much always worked. https://t.co/NCxhgCyTZd pic.twitter.com/pek5EuJaBo
— JFresh (@JFreshHockey) March 5, 2024
The NHL Trade Deadline is Friday at 3 PM ET. Defenseman Joel Edmundson, left-wing Max Pacioretty, goaltender Charlie Lindgren, left-wing Nicolas Aube-Kubel, right-wing Beck Malenstyn, and defenseman Nick Jensen have all garnered interest on the trade market. Edmundson, Pacioretty, and Aube-Kubel can also become unrestricted free agents after this season.
The Vegas Golden Knights have acquired Anthony Mantha from Washington.
— Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) March 5, 2024
With captain Mark Stone out for the remainder of the regular-season and is questionable for the postseason due to an upper-body injury, Vegas improves its offense, which is tied for 14th with an average of 3.18 goals-per-game and ranks 20th with a 19.5% power-play efficiency, after adding Mantha. The team is 22-22-6 since starting the season 11-0-1. They rank fourth in the Pacific Division with a 33-22-7 record and hold a six-point cushion in the Western Conference.
Mantha could make his Golden Knights debut against the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday (10 PM ET, ESPN+).
By Harrison Brown
how do we not know what we are getting in return???
Still hasn’t been officially announced yet
Good on BMac. Anything lower than a 2nd rounder and I will be disappointed.
Can we reacquire him the next time he hits a contract year?
Lol. You are not wrong. His two best seasons, statistically, have been contract years.
Well, I guess we will get more this year than we would have last year:). Fingers crossed Nic D is not traded!
WTF We get back?? The anticipation is killing me LOL
I feel ya. We are researching diligently. Stay tuned.
2nd and a 4th round picks
Disappointing return. Would have held him and crossed fingers for a playoff spot
What return did you expect for a 30 year old who only tries when his contract is coming up?
Not a GM so had no expectation of return. A low second in a supposedly weak draft is not much. Would rather keep him and see what happens with the playoff push. No illusions of going far but I would rather give the guys a chance than trade him for basically nothing.
Not a trades expert, either, but I wonder what message this sends about the rest of this season and what or who will replace him this year (and next, if he were to re-sign)… Given that this is unlikely to be the last of the deals (only the beginning), are we throwing this season out the window (again)?
As for Mantha personally, I feel he has really changed this year, and it was not just the contract year pushing him to excel. Thx for the effort, man… 😔
The Washington Capitals traded power forward Anthony Mantha to the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday for a second-round draft pick pick in 2024 and a fourth-round pick in 2026.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/capitals-trading-winger-anthony-mantha-to-golden-knights/
Not too shabby
TSN reporting the same
the Caps retaining 50% of his salary is the bad part
LOL since when are the Caps up against the cap? Not since Backstrom went on LTIR. Were you expecting them to add someone? Maybe a top notch D like Hanifin? Or Guentzel? Hey, we coulda been planning the Cup parade, if only they hadn’t retained on Mantha!
Go back to RMNB, your ignorance is less noticeable there.
Your time of the month?
and yours stands out here like a big toe with cheese! BTW, can’t even come up with a moniker?
4th pick is for retaining salary. they got way more for Orlov last year. Bad deal
They weren’t gonna get more. The market is soft. Calgary only got a 2nd and a mediocre prospect for Tanev. A right shooting, hard nosed shot blocking D should be worth waaaay more.
Anyone who thinks the Caps should’ve got more isn’t paying attention. Not to even mention the fact that Mantha brought his own value down by floating for most of the past three years.
isn’t Tanev quite a bit older than Mantha?
Four years. As long as he plays at a high level for two months, age isn’t a factor
Aren’t RHD a lot more in demand than Mantha?
What’s your point?
not a point, just thought Tanev was a lot older. What’s YOUR point?
My point, which I already wrote, but apparently you’re too lazy to find it, is that the market is soft. MacLellan got about what he was gonna get.
Did that sink in, or do I have to use hand puppets, and act it out?
hand puppets and you have to be naked!
Can’t do any better than a 2nd + 4th for Mantha + 50% salary retention.
Solid trade for BMac.
Agreed
Very solid trade…stop whining about the salary retention, he’s already been paid 75% of his salary this year (players only paid during regular season), so 50% of that is inconsequential..funny the folks who thought he should have brought us a first are same people who bitched last three years for how terrible he was “waive him” “I’ll take a bag of pucks” now it’s “why didn’t we get a first and prospect”? A 30yo who took five years to repeat as a 20 goal scorer and only did it in a contract year.
Having said that, I loved him as a player…people play too much into big guys need to bang, he was brutally snake bit last year, and he was never given any PP time after scoring 23 PPG in Detroit in three years (at least until last couple games and, oh, how did that go?)
Agreed. With all the Mantha disparaging around here, you’d think we’d have to give him away. BMac got what he could. He’s still the best GM since David Poille. I think he’s going to be buying us a better team next year. Wait and see.
VKG suckers lol Glad to be rid of Mantha, I’m sure GMBM has someone with more lack luster in mind to replace him with.
I heard the reason why the trade is talking so long is that VKG wants his mental coach as well now. That’s gonna cost them a 1st though.
Wait…we got more for Mantha (2nd and a 4th round picks) than Ottawa got for Tarasenko (a 4th this year and a 3rd next year)? Am I missing something?
You aren’t, Mantha brought in a higher return
This is a good (not great move). We had to make a deal and I am fine with the return. No doubt GMBM is moving his pending UFA’s. This was a good start.
Was hoping we would do more today than just Sandin before the Pittsburg game. Will be interesting to see if anyone is held out tomorrow (other than Dowd who certainly won’t play).
What are the details of the trade between the Washington Capitals and the Vegas Golden Knights involving Anthony Mantha?
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