NHL Expansion
Face of the Golden Knights: Nate Schmidt
August 3rd, 2017 The anticipation of the Vegas Golden Knights inaugural season is coming to a slow boil as the start of training camp is roughly seven weeks away. What started as a myth is going to become reality this fall - a professional sports franchise in Las Vegas. The roster has...
2017 NHL Expansion Draft: Golden Knights Forwards
June 25th, 2017 Finally, the Vegas Golden Knights have a semblance of an NHL roster. Knights owner Bill Foley and team GM George McPhee unveiled their expansion draft selections to the world at the NHL Awards Ceremony inside the T-Mobile Arena last Wednesday evening. This expansion...
2017 Expansion Draft: Golden Knights Goalies
June 24th, 2017 It's official. The Vegas Golden Knights are a real-life hockey team. With uniforms and everything. On a day when the high temperature in the Las Vegas Valley shot all the way up to 113, team owner Bill Foley and general manager George McPhee announced the 30 players that...
2017 Expansion Draft: Golden Knights Defense
June 23rd, 2017 General Manager George McPhee and the Vegas Golden Knights drafted 13 defensemen at the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft, in addition to the few blueliners acquired in subsequent trades. With the Golden Knights’ first NHL Entry Draft on the horizon, McPhee acknowledged how he has...
Maple Leafs Lose Leipsic in Expansion Draft
June 23rd, 2017 The 2017 NHL Expansion Draft is finally over and each team comes away with one less player. For teams like the Nashville Predators and the Pittsburgh Penguins, they lost a key part of their lineup in James Neal and Marc-Andre Fleury. Other teams had to trade draft picks to...
Avalanche Lose Pickard to Expansion
June 22nd, 2017 The Colorado Avalanche emerged from the expansion draft with one less goaltender when the Las Vegas Golden Knights selected Calvin Pickard. He was thrust into the spotlight this year when Semyon Varlamov went down for the season with injuries that required surgery on his...
