{"id":208881,"date":"2025-10-08T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208881\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T10:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:44:09","slug":"vegas-golden-knights-alexander-holtz-agree-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208881\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights, Alexander Holtz agree on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS &#8212; A day before they open the regular season, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/vgk\/vegas-golden-knights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> on Tuesday signed veteran forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4697388\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Holtz<\/a> to a two-year, $1.675 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>Holtz, traded to Vegas last offseason from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/nj\/new-jersey-devils\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a>, was on a professional tryout agreement with the Golden Knights this fall after a topsy-turvy first season.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old played in 53 games last season for the Golden Knights, recording just four goals and eight assists. The former first-round selection split his time between Vegas and its AHL affiliate, the Henderson Silver Knights.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>Where Holtz settles this season remains to be seen, but he could wind up as one of Bruce Cassidy&#8217;s 12 active forwards, a group the coach has been impressed with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This could be the best group in terms of player one to 12 that I could ever coach just because of the depth and how it&#8217;s lining up for the Vegas Golden Knights,&#8221; Cassidy said. &#8220;Other teams have ways they access and that&#8217;s not disrespect. &#8230; Now we&#8217;ve got to get it off the paper and onto the rink looking like it&#8217;s supposed to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For his career, Holtz has garnered 23 goals and 46 points.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas opens up at home Wednesday night against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/la\/los-angeles-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS &#8212; A day before they open the regular season, the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-208881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}