San Jose has come to play in this best-of-seven Western Conference affair with the Golden Knights, and whichever team survives to advance will do so with plenty of black and blue to show for it after the Sharks’ 5-2 victory Wednesday night in Game 1.
For the second straight year, handicapper Dana Lane is going against popular public opinion in Las Vegas and siding with the Sharks as minus 105 series underdogs to the Knights (-115).
Of the three Western Conference opponents the Golden Knights eliminated on their way to a Stanley Cup final as an expansion team last year, San Jose extended things longest in a six-game series.
Erik Karlsson’s standing as one one of the world’s elite players has long been cemented, and there was a time when every report and rumor regarding his next destination included the Vegas Golden Knights.
It was the longest of long weekends for Las Vegas sports fans. But there’s a long way to go to catch Cleveland.
If any team appeared overly perturbed about how the Knights crashed the NHL’s party this season and produced a run to be etched in the game’s history books, it’s the Kings.
The chance of a fight breaking out at a Knights game was almost nonexistent during the 2017-18 season as fisticuffs continued to decline in the NHL.
Handicapper Dana Lane, who went 69-43-3 ATS (61.6 percent) making the Review-Journal’s daily Power Play pick, likes the Knights to beat the Kings in six games.
Because boys never outgrow their toys, I received a table hockey game for Christmas 2016. It came with the Maple Leafs and Red Wings. The Golden Knights still aren’t available.
William Karlsson and Jonathan Marchessault have the strongest Vegas cases for inclusion on Pacific Division team.
