NHL Expansion
1967 NHL Expansion
June 14th, 2018 June 6, 1967. If you are an old-time hockey fan, or a purist, that date is a day of infamy. If you are of the more modern generation, you likely think of it as the day that the Original Six became 12. No matter how you view the date, it is the day on which the National...
Golden Knights Can Skip Next Expansion Draft
March 24th, 2018 The good news keeps coming for the Vegas Golden Knights. As the NHL’s 31st franchise closes in on capturing a Pacific Division crown in its first year of existence, it’s being reported that the Golden Knights will not be subjected to losing a player if and when a new...
Panthers May Want Expansion Redraft
February 22nd, 2018 One of the biggest hockey questions in South Florida last year was who the Florida Panthers were going to protect from Vegas in the expansion draft. Aleksander Barkov, Jonathan Huberdeau, Aaron Ekblad, Vincent Trocheck and James Reimer were all obvious and, aside from...
Why NHL Expansion Is Bad for Fans
December 18th, 2017 The National Hockey League’s salary cap is going up for next season, likely falling somewhere between $78 and $82 million (it currently sits at $75 million). Ostensibly, this is a good thing; a salary cap increase, especially one as big as this, seems to indicate the...
Golden Knights Storming Through Expansion Records
December 6th, 2017 Seventeen wins into their season, the Vegas Golden Knights are looking to climb higher on one particular record list. Since the beginning of the NHL, teams have had varying success in their first seasons. Some teams win single-digit games in a season. Others win upwards of...
Seattle Next on NHL's Expansion Wishlist
December 4th, 2017 The NHL may be coming to Seattle. According to a new report in The Seattle Times, the Seattle City Council approved the Memorandum of Understanding between the city and the Oak View Group that would allow the completion of renovation on KeyArena for the use of both an NHL...
Rockets Owner Wants to Bring NHL to Houston
November 16th, 2017 When he was announced as the owner of the Houston Rockets earlier this fall, Tilman Fertitta expressed his desire to bring an NHL team to town. The league added its 31st team this season with the Vegas Golden Knights, and relocation or further expansion are future...
Revisiting the Wild's 2000 Expansion Draft
August 17th, 2017 This article was originally written in September, 2016. As Las Vegas has been awarded a National Hockey League expansion team that will begin playing in the 2017-18 season, I thought it would be interesting to revisit the league's last expansion draft which saw the...
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...
