A tame trade deadline

Lately, trade deadlines have been wild, with flurries of major deals that make analysts from TSN to TNT lose their minds. Nowhere has that been more evident than Raleigh, where in previous years trades for Mikko Rantanen (to and from Carolina) and Jake Guentzel. This year, just like the rest of the league, the action was more muted. In response, the trade deadline has been downgraded to a tropical storm.

(This is a meteorology deep cut. My apologies if you are now thinking about Quiznos)

The Golden Touch

 :: In the Vegas Golden Knights locker room:: 

Laurent Brossoit: "I haven't been in the League for almost a year, I'm feeling the emotions, coach.:

Bruce Cassidy: I understand. We'll keep the pressure off as best we can and let you get settled in there.

LB: Thanks for saying that coach, I'm sure when I get in there I'll mellow a bit.

BC: You'll do great. Hey, I need to go do some press, I'll leave you with your thoughts.

{From the steam room, a robed figure emerges }

Robed Figure: Good day, newly christened Knight of Vegas.

LB: Um....It's the Golden Knights...

RF: NAY! You are merely the Knights, but it is I, King Midas who make you truly Golden.

LB: Have you... been here the whole time?

Midas: YES. How do you think that this team immediately played for championships? It was my Golden Touch!

LB: Uh huh. Didn't you kill people with all that gold? 

Midas: I've gotten very good at this. Pacioretty was only injured, I didn't kill him. Now, let me deign you a Golden Knight to make you greater than you have ever been! 

:Before Brossoit can move Midas taps him on the pads, turning them and his jersey a brilliant gold:

{2 games later}

BC: I don't know what it is, Laurent, you've come in and been sharp since you returned. You've really kept us in these two games. 

{Brossoit sits with a small smile on his face. Midas bursts forth from the steam room}

Midas: GOLDEN KNIGHT! I could see that before, you held doubt, but now do you see that I am the key to your success?

LB: I'm a believer now! But what's in it for you?

{Midas squints}

Midas: I need soldiers to help me overthrow Caesar. The time is coming nigh to storm his Palace.

LB: Wait.... you want to raid... Caesar's Palace? 

Midas: YES! 

LB: And if I said no?

Midas: Then I shall banish you to the hinterlands!

{Meanwhile, in Buffalo}

Midas!