{"id":232291,"date":"2026-06-30T23:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232291\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T23:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:11:24","slug":"vegas-golden-knights-trade-kaedan-korczak-to-pittsburgh-for-parker-wortherspoon-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232291\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights trade Kaedan Korczak to Pittsburgh for Parker Wortherspoon | Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> traded defenseman Kaedan Korczak to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It is a one-for-one swap, as the Knights acquire 28-year-old defenseman Parker Wotherspoon. Pittsburgh is retaining 50 percent of his $1 million cap hit.<\/p>\n

Wotherspoon scored a career-high 30 points for Pittsburgh last season and blocked a team-high 112 shots. He\u2019s played 188 NHL games with three different teams<\/p>\n

Korczak, 25, was a second-round pick of the Knights in 2019 who had 16 points in 78 games this season.<\/p>\n

He signed a four-year, $13 million contract last July that was set to begin next season ($3.25 million average annual value).<\/p>\n

It was Korczak\u2019s first year as a full-time NHL player after playing 77 games the past four seasons. While there were signs of promise, Korczak fell out of the rotation during the playoffs.<\/p>\n

He was benched for Dylan Coghlan during the second round against Anaheim. Coghlan never relinquished his hold on the third-pairing spot.<\/p>\n

Korczak had two assists in Game 3 of the Western Conference Final and also played in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n

Wotherspoon fills an area of need and comes at a cheaper cost. The 28-year-old from Surrey, British Columbia, posted career-highs in goals and points while playing to the left of Erik Karlsson.<\/p>\n

A fourth-round pick of the New York Islanders in 2015, Wotherspoon played a career-high 80 games last season.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s not being brought in for his offense. Wotherspoon slides in as a third-pairing defenseman on the left side of the blue line. That will likely end any chance that Jeremy Lauzon is brought back when free agency opens at 9 a.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

More importantly on the financial front, the Knights cleared $2.75 million in cap space. That gives them $7.375 million in room prior to defenseman Alex Pietrangelo going on season-ending long-term injured reserve.<\/p>\n

That will give the Knights $16.175 million in room with nine forwards, four defensemen and two goaltenders under contract.<\/p>\n

The re-signing of Rasmus Andersson will cover roughly half of that \u2014 between $8 million and $9 million on his new contract \u2014 and still gives the Knights flexibility to fill out the rest of the roster.<\/p>\n

Contact Danny Webster at dwebster@reviewjournal.com.<\/a> Follow @DannyWebster21<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights traded defenseman Kaedan Korczak to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday. It is a one-for-one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-232291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}