There are miles and miles to go — think a car drive from here to Nebraska and back — before a rematch could become reality, before the Golden Knights and Winnipeg might again meet for the right to play for a Stanley Cup.
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Marc-Andre Fleury has been listed as day-to-day with a lower-body injury and was replaced in net on Sunday night by Malcolm Subban.
It’s a good thing Twitter wasn’t around during Clint Malarchuk’s day with the Las Vegas Thunder of the old International Hockey League. The “Cowboy Goalie” might have broken the internet.
If there is no such thing as playoff hockey, a close second might be the sort of playoff atmosphere in March that the Knights and Calgary offered Wednesday night before a raucous 18,422 at T-Mobile Arena.
The team is now 4-0 since trading for Stone, the latest win a 3-0 blanking of Vancouver on Sunday before an announced gathering of 18,303 at T-Mobile Arena.
Mark Stone made his Las Vegas debut a day after being traded from Ottawa and had an immediate impact on the team and the fans at T-Mobile.
The one delivered Monday from the Golden Knights was as clear as it was needed for a team trying to find itself in late February: The taste of reaching a Stanley Cup Final last season was far too delicious not to attempt a second straight helping.
The NHL trade deadline will arrive Monday, and we will see what, if anything, Knights general manager George McPhee has done to a roster that sits third in the Pacific Division.
Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant tinkered with his lineup in key spots and smartly chose to sit a familiar face in another, the moves leading to a 5-1 victory over Nashville at T-Mobile Arena.
The Knights have now dropped a franchise-record five straight at home, the latest a 6-3 final to the Maple Leafs, a score defined by a Toronto side that in no way is stressed by anything the Knights offer.
Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant used the word “soft” after a 5-2 loss to Arizona on Tuesday, the team’s fourth straight at T-Mobile Arena and one that definitely bothered Gallant in terms of how his team competed.
Gerard Gallant, last year’s runaway winner for the Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s Coach of the Year, has the Knights back in contention for a playoff spot.
Vegas reaches the All-Star break third in the Pacific Division at 62 points, just six fewer than it had at this time last year, a push made when Nate Schmidt returned from a 20-game suspension.
The Wild beat Vegas again Monday, this time by a 4-2 final before an announced gathering of 18,328, where the visitors forechecked any sort of raucous atmosphere right out of the Golden Knights home arena.
The Golden Knights began a three-game homestand before the All-Star break arrives, and in beating the Penguins 7-3, faced a team that would qualify for the playoffs if the postseason began today.
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