Fans and media love major trades and big-money free agent signings. Potential trades are speculated about daily and when one year’s free agent signings end, speculation immediately begins about who will sign where the following year. The Vegas Golden Knights have garnered more than their fair share of headlines in their brief existence for mega-trades and high-priced free agent signings.
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The Golden Knights’ management needs to explain why they just announced Robin Lehner will need surgery so close to the beginning of training camp.
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General manager Kelly McCrimmon stood at a podium at City National Arena on Monday afternoon, addressing a small group of reporters who had made their way to the Vegas Golden Knights’ headquarters to try to understand the firing of Pete DeBoer as the franchise’s head coach. Whoever McCrimmon, owner Bill Foley and the VGK’s Wizard of Oz, George McPhee, the
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The seeds of the epic collapse that saw the Golden Knights’ miss the playoffs after entering the season as a favorite for the Stanley Cup were sown long before that 4-3 shootout loss Wednesday to the Blackhawks at the United Center in Chicago. Oh, we could look at the NHL record of more than 500-man games lost to injuries to
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I feel great, and more than great, I am extraordinarily grateful. I’m thankful to my doctor for being so thorough and encouraging me to do the heart scan. I’m thankful to my cardiologist for getting me in to have the catheterization and I’m grateful to my surgeon for taking such good care of me.
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There is no dispute what Kelly McCrimmon’s job is: As the general manager of the Vegas Golden Knights, he’s charged with putting the best team possible on the ice. And given that his team has gone the Stanley Cup semifinals in three of its four years of existence, it’s been a job well done. And so the news, stunning as
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Thirty-six years ago today, Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns staged one of the most thrilling, breathtaking and, yes, violent fights in boxing history. All these years later, it’s still recalled fondly and on Anniversary Days, scores of memories of the bout fill social media. What isn’t so conveniently or fondly remembered is the deleterious impact those kinds of fights
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Perhaps it was obvious in the Western Conference finals, when the Vegas Golden Knights made Anton Khudobin look like a prime Marty Brodeur and were dumped from the Stanley Cup playoffs in five games after scoring just eight goals. Maybe it was obvious back in January, when Gerard Gallant was shockingly dumped as head coach and replaced by Peter DeBoer.
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It wasn’t until I read his obituary, decades after I’d moved from Pittsburgh and years after he retired, that I knew former Pittsburgh Press and Post-Gazette sports columnist Phil Musick lived in the small town, Harmar Township, where I grew up. When Musick died at 71 on Jan. 5, 2010, I was saddened. He was one of the major influences
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For those of us who are sports fans, I’d be willing to bet our most enduring memories occurred during our childhood, or at worst, early in adulthood. Four memories stand out for me: • In 1971, Roberto Clemente led the Pirates to the World Series championship with a fantastic performance, capped by a great game in Game 7. I’d just
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