Quoting: hazard
Lets mention firstly how VGK are first in the whole league right now and probably wont do anything dumb. Secondly Weber is still Quality regardless of contract. Still a top 10 man in the league, so that trade was horrendous.
Heck, without the above deals, Weber wouldn't be top ten in scoring on Vegas (
https://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/VEG/2018.html):
1 Jon Marchessault 27 C 43 17 26 43 20 24 14 3 0 1 22 4 0 155 11.0 740 17:12 4.3 1.4 5.7 14 47 152 171 47.1
2 William Karlsson 25 C 46 25 15 40 23 8 20 3 2 5 12 3 0 97 25.8 843 18:20 4.5 1.6 6.2 26 20 205 236 46.5
3 David Perron 29 LW 40 11 27 38 10 34 10 1 0 3 21 6 0 72 15.3 708 17:42 3.2 1.0 4.2 10 74 45 76 37.2
4 Reilly Smith 26 RW 46 12 25 37 22 18 8 4 0 3 21 3 1 102 11.8 828 18:00 2.9 1.6 4.5 16 28 3 7 30.0
5 James Neal 30 LW 46 21 11 32 3 20 16 5 0 4 9 2 0 137 15.3 804 17:28 3.4 0.8 4.2 17 26 0 2 0.0
6 Erik Haula 26 LW 42 15 17 32 4 19 11 4 0 4 12 5 0 92 16.3 731 17:24 2.9 0.8 3.7 26 39 277 265 51.1
7 Colin Miller 25 D 46 6 18 24 2 26 3 3 0 1 12 6 0 108 5.6 863 18:45 2.1 1.6 3.8 33 87 1 0 100.0
8 Alex Tuch 21 RW 42 9 13 22 9 12 7 2 0 1 9 4 0 97 9.3 621 14:47 1.5 0.9 2.4 30 50 38 47 44.7
9 Nate Schmidt 26 D 46 3 17 20 13 8 3 0 0 1 13 4 0 65 4.6 1034 22:29 1.2 2.8 4.0 71 25 0 1 0.0
10 Cody Eakin 26 C 45 6 12 18 -1 16 6 0 0 1 11 0 1 53 11.3 679 15:05 0.6 0.5 1.2 26 30 321 292 52.4
11 Shea Theodore 22 D 31 4 11 15 7 2 3 1 0 1 6 5 0 60 6.7 607 19:35 1.3 1.6 2.9 42 11 0 0
12 Deryk Engelland 35 D 45 3 12 15 14 16 3 0 0 0 12 0 0 63 4.8 887 19:43 0.8 2.6 3.4 90 63 0 0
13 Brendan Leipsic 23 LW 35 2 11 13 4 4 2 0 0 0 11 0 0 58 3.4 432 12:20 0.4 0.5 0.9 13 25 5 3 62.5
14 Brayden McNabb 27 D 43 2 8 10 15 40 2 0 0 1 8 0 0 53 3.8 866 20:08 0.2 2.7 2.9 108 127 0 0
15 Luca Sbisa 28 D 24 1 9 10 6 13 1 0 0 0 8 0 1 22 4.5 478 19:56 0.6 1.3 1.9 45 35 0 0
16 Brad Hunt 29 D 23 0 9 9 1 4 0 0 0 0 3 6 0 42 0.0 396 17:12 0.5 0.8 1.2 17 9 0 1 0.0
17 Oscar Lindberg 26 C 42 7 1 8 -6 10 7 0 0 0 1 0 0 57 12.3 526 12:31 0.1 0.2 0.3 21 41 64 65 49.6
18 Tomas Nosek 25 LW 41 3 5 8 0 6 2 0 1 0 5 0 0 56 5.4 443 10:48 -0.1 0.4 0.3 12 31 16 15 51.6
19 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare 32 LW 44 5 2 7 4 8 5 0 0 1 2 0 0 54 9.3 537 12:12 -0.2 0.6 0.4 40 20 258 235 52.3
20 William Carrier 23 LW 28 1 2 3 -3 17 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 35 2.9 247 8:50 -0.3 0.1 -0.2 10 75 0 0
21 Jonathon Merrill 25 D 14 1 1 2 5 8 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 12 8.3 227 16:15 0.0 0.8 0.8 18 12 0 0
22 Vadim Shipachyov 30 LW 3 1 0 1 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 33.3 32 10:35 0.1 0.1 0.3 0 1 12 9 57.1
23 Jason Garrison 33 D 4 0 1 1 -2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0.0 76 18:54 0.0 0.0 0.0 15 4 0 0
24 Stefan Matteau 23 C 5 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 8 0.0 42 8:24 0.0 0.1 0.1 1 6 0 0
25 Ryan Carpenter 27 C 4 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0.0 44 11:01 -0.1 0.0 -0.2 2 2 10 14 41.7
26 Oscar Dansk 23 G 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 169 42:09 0.0 0.0 0.9 0
27 Dylan Ferguson 19 G 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 9:14 0.0 0.0 -0.1 0
28 Marc-Andre Fleury 33 G 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 967 60:26 0.0 0.0 4.6 0 1 0 0
29 Maxime Lagace 25 G 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 776 55:26 0.0 0.0 0.4 0 0 0 0
30 Malcolm Subban 24 G 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 868 57:52 0.0 0.0 2.4 0 0 0 0
Maybe he's injured? Maybe he's depressed. I hope he gets better, but I'm keeping it real. Paying another sixty million dollars to someone with one more point than Deryk Engelland, but fewer hits, in more minutes.... that's not something Vegas is going to just volunteer for.