Red Wings, Seattle Expansion & Potential Lockout Tony Wolak | November 7, 2018 It’s not too early for the Detroit Red Wings to consider the outcome of the Seattle expansion draft. Though there has been no formal announcement that the City of Seattle will…
Golden Knights Can Skip Next Expansion Draft Keith Scheessele | March 24, 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…
Panthers May Want Expansion Redraft Packy Jones | February 22, 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,…
Why NHL Expansion Is Bad for Fans Peter Ferrell | December 18, 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…
Golden Knights Storming Through Expansion Records Eric Hall | December 6, 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…
Seattle Next on NHL’s Expansion Wishlist Brandon Share-Cohen | December 4, 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…
Rockets Owner Wants to Bring NHL to Houston The Hockey Writers | November 16, 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…
Revisiting the Wild’s 2000 Expansion Draft THW Archives | August 17, 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…
Face of the Golden Knights: Nate Schmidt Thomas Conroy | August 3, 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…
2017 NHL Expansion Draft: Golden Knights Forwards Thomas Conroy | June 25, 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…
2017 Expansion Draft: Golden Knights Goalies Keith Scheessele | June 24, 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…
2017 Expansion Draft: Golden Knights Defense Shayna Goldman | June 23, 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…
