This wasn’t the Stanley Cup Final, but instead a Tuesday night in early December that saw Vegas beat Washington 5-3 in the most dramatic of ways before a deafening 18,275 at T-Mobile Arena.
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Philadelphia wasn’t suffering from any sort of Vegas Flu but made the Golden Knights look ill, rolling to a 5-2 win Thursday night before a crowd of 18,555 at T-Mobile Arena.
It has been true all along that the Golden Knights could prove even better than last season and still not come close to advancing as far in the playoffs.
Teams with a 3-1 lead have won the Cup 31 straight times, an advantage Washington now owns following a 6-2 victory on Monday night at Capital One Arena.
Trailing 2-1 in the battle for Lord Stanley’s Cup, the Golden Knights tried to put political pressure on the Washington Capitals before Game 4 of the best-of-seven series at Capital One Arena on Monday night.
Vegas coach Gerard Gallant like to say he rolls out four lines indistinguishable of each other, but the Knights beat San Jose 5-3 on Friday night because the sort of secondary scoring that has been difficult to discover of late came through.
It has been 28 years — 27 if you count the Rebels’ return to the Final Four in 1991 when they lost to Duke — since a local sports team has captivated and galvanized Las Vegas in the manner of the Golden Knights.
Roll wasn’t called, but judging from the attire of the undergrads, those named Fleury and Neal and Vegas Strong were present and accounted for at Vegas Golden Knights University.
We are 48 hours from the Knights playing at Dallas and officially bringing Las Vegas its first major league professional sports franchise, and as things stood Wednesday, it won’t be seen on the valley’s largest cable provider.