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.
Read more/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/59969149/usa_today_10462947.0.jpg "The inevitable break-up of the inaugural Golden Knights team makes sense, but chokes one up a bit")
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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Rarely, if ever, has there been a successful, championship-level NHL team built largely through free agency. Even before the NHL instituted a salary cap, drafting and developing players was still the surefire way to build into a contender. As the Vegas Golden Knights head into their first offseason and the start of free agency looms, many in the team’s fan
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Modest success by the Las Vegas Thunder in the 1990s convinced some NHL hockey could work in Las Vegas.
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By Howard Stutz Special guest contributor My home office contains a small shrine to the Los Angeles Kings. Photos of me with Kings’ legends Luc Robitaille, Anze Kopitar, and Dave Taylor are displayed along with signed hockey cards from Jim Fox and Butch Goring. There are Robitaille and Fox bobbleheads, and other memorabilia. Two Stanley Cup Champion caps, from 2012
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On May 25, 1991, I sat in an oversized chair in a small room off of the Las Vegas Hilton SuperBook and wept uncontrollably. I was not quite 32 years old, but I saw something I’d never thought I would see in my lifetime. The Pittsburgh Penguins had won the Stanley Cup. I was born and raised in Pittsburgh
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The only thing that is wrong with the NHL is, well, the NHL. Hockey is great; playoff hockey is something you have to experience in order to understand it. But as great as hockey is, it’s not nearly as popular as it should be. It’s succeeded almost in spite of the Neanderthals who have run it forever and tried desperately
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