Golden Knights backup goalie Malcolm Subban shook off a shaky start and ultimately stopped 36 shots in a 3-2 win against New Jersey on Sunday.
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Golden Knights forward Ryan Reaves pulled a small-time expansion move Thursday, even with his team more than a year removed from such a distinction.
The onus for the NHL’s drug program not being scrutinized on a deeper and more profound and specific level falls on all of us in my business. It’s a much bigger deal than the Golden Knights’ Nate Schmidt.
Just as LeBron James affected the NBA futures market when he signed with the Lakers, John Tavares did the same in the NHL when he moved to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
In the manner of Wonder Woman’s bracelets and ill-timed parade plans, hockey hot laps have become a thing during the Stanley Cup playoffs. But the ultimate ones probably transpired Wednesday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
History in no conceivable manner could have bestowed this truth on Vegas — having advanced Sunday night to the Western Conference finals of the Stanley Cup playoffs by beating San Jose 3-0 — without the play of a goaltender like Fleury.
A big round of applause for owner Bill Foley and the Golden Knights organization as they begin their quest for the Stanley Cup, which they are 6-1 to win. That’s a long way from 200-1 last fall.
It’s here, at the top of a long, winding road off one of those narrow streets, in a place where more than 35 percent of residents live in poverty, where Marc-Andre Fleury decided to make a difference.
In a week when fear and death and incomparable sorrow tested the faith and resolve of Las Vegas like never before, major league professional sports officially joined its ranks.
NHL preseason games, two minor league franchises indoctrinate local fans, pave way for arrival of Vegas Golden Knights.
Bill Foley had never before swam in this part of the ocean, near its floor or otherwise, before emerging as the man who would bring Las Vegas its first major league professional sports team in the form of an NHL expansion franchise.
Who would have believed even a decade ago that any of the professional leagues would land in Nevada for more than just an experiment in occasional scheduling?
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