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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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 two words to say to a Vegas Golden Knights’ player which are guaranteed to draw a blank stare are “last year.” The Knights made an incredible run to the Stanley Cup Final in their first season in the NHL, and it’s hard to forget that. But players like William Karlsson, Jonathan Marchessault and Reilly Smith, who shocked the hockey
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The Vegas Golden Knights went to the Stanley Cup finals in 2018 in their first year of existence, and were it not for an all-timer save by Braden Holtby on Alex Tuch in the waning moments of Game 2, the Knights could have paraded the Cup down Las Vegas Boulevard in their first year of existence. After signing Paul Stastny
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Here are the most important developments which led the Vegas Golden Knights to the Stanley Cup Finals in their first year of existence.
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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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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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