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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My passion for the Pittsburgh Penguins persists, even as I’ve become a diehard Vegas Golden Knights fan. I get it when you look at me oddly when I say that. I know it’s hard to root for two teams in the same league, and I frequently would mock others who admitted to such bizarre behavior. But I now find myself
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Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Nate Schmidt has been a catalyst to the team’s turnaround after a slow start, and has become one of the NHL’s elite players. Nate Schmidt’s name was the last one announced during the NHL Expansion draft in 2017, and it caused next-to-no reaction among the faithful at T-Mobile Arena. The Golden Knights fans who showed up
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Some say the NHL favored the Vegas Golden Knights in expansion, but the facts don’t bear that out.
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