{"id":35948,"date":"2025-07-25T09:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35948\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:15:10","slug":"free-agent-profile-victor-olofsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35948\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Agent Profile: Victor Olofsson"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Victor Olofsson<\/a> struggled to stay healthy last season (a common theme for his career), the 29-year-old winger produced 15 goals and 29 points in 56 games for the Vegas Golden Knights. That put Olofsson on an 82-game pace for 22 goals and 42 points, which would have been his highest total since recording a career-best 49 points in the 2021-22 season. His plus-17 rating last season was also a career-high by a wide margin.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When healthy, Olofsson may be the most offensively gifted remaining free agent. He has produced three career 20-plus goal campaigns, including 28 with the Buffalo Sabres during the 2022-23 campaign. He could provide quality depth scoring and might even contribute in a top-six role. However, the Swedish winger has played 75 or more games just once in his NHL career and has averaged only 60 games per season over six full seasons.<\/p>\n

As a three-time 20-goal scorer, Olofsson should appeal to a range of teams, whether it\u2019s contenders looking to bolster their depth or rebuilding clubs eyeing a potential trade chip for next season\u2019s deadline.<\/p>\n

Stats<\/p>\n

2024-25: 56 GP, 15 G, 14 A, 29 PTS, +17, 16 PIMS, 109 shots, 14:30 ATOI, 57 CF%
Career: 370 GP, 105 G, 106 A, 211 PTS, -46, 44 PIMS, 777 shots, 15:18 ATOI, 55.5 CF%<\/p>\n

Potential Suitors<\/p>\n

As mentioned above, Olofsson may be the best offensive threat still available on the open market, making his services attractive to several potential suitors. His ability to produce 20-goal seasons, combined with his anticipated affordability, should land him a deal in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n

A reunion with the Golden Knights seemed like a logical fit at the start of free agency, but Vegas is now more than $7 million over the cap, according to PuckPedia<\/a>. However, a reunion with the Sabres, with whom he spent his first six seasons, could be a fit. The Sabres have more than enough cap space to sign Olofsson and could benefit from a veteran presence within its top-nine. Another team to monitor could be the Minnesota Wild, who despite making the playoffs last season, finished 25th in the league in goals for with 225. Signing Olofsson at a bargain price could help strengthen Minnesota\u2019s depth scoring. Prior to free agency, ProHockeyRumors identified<\/a> the Seattle Kraken as a potential destination as well.<\/p>\n

Projected Contract<\/p>\n

Olofsson is coming off a one-year, $1.075 million deal with the Golden Knights. While last season was seen as a \u201cprove-it\u201d year, he ironically proved what\u2019s been true all along: when healthy, he can produce, but injuries continued to limit his overall impact.<\/p>\n

The 5\u201911\u201d, 180-pound winger will likely have to settle for a similar deal this late into the process, although seven figures probably isn\u2019t a guaranteed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Victor Olofsson struggled to stay healthy last season (a common theme for his career), the 29-year-old winger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[7818,385,5627,99,14693],"class_list":["post-35948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-2025-free-agency","tag-nhl","tag-pro-hockey-rumors-originals","tag-sports","tag-victor-olofsson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35948","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=35948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}