McPhee says there's 'probably' another Golden Knights trade coming

There's been no shortage of activity from the Vegas Golden Knights in the early stages of the 2019 offseason.

The cap-strapped club already inked William Karlsson to an eight-year contract extension and shipped Erik Haula to the Carolina Hurricanes, but president of hockey operations George McPhee expects more transactions in the coming days.

"We have a little more work to do," McPhee told The Athletic's Jesse Granger on Thursday. "We'll see where things go in the next few days. We made a move yesterday and there's probably another one coming."

The Golden Knights face arguably the most undesirable salary cap situation of any team this summer. Vegas has a projected $86 million committed to its roster against a cap of $81.5 million.

"We have lots of good players and lots of good players on good contracts," McPhee said. "We're popular these days."

Vegas can get an additional $5.25 million in relief by storing David Clarkson's contract on LTIR, but the Knights still need to sort out the situations of restricted free agents Nikita Gusev and Malcolm Subban, as well as make decisions on a series of unrestricted free agents that includes Tomas Nosek, Deryk Engelland, and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare.

The Golden Knights qualified for the playoffs for the second year in a row in 2018-19, losing out to the San Jose Sharks in Round 1 after posting a regular-season record of 43-32-7.