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Wow The Golden Knights Are Going To Be Bad
There are two schools of thought when compiling an expansion team. One is to go get the very best players available, believing that the best way to build a foundation for a team and a fanbase is to be as competitive as you can and give fans a reason to get and stay invested. Another is to be as awfu...
Why Did The Red Wings Expose Petr Mrazek?<em></em>
While I’m still unenthused about the idea of the new Vegas Golden Knights actually playing their games, I’ve been giddy as hell about the drama surrounding the expansion draft. Nothing is more entertaining than watching a highly paid GM make a dumb move, and with 30 teams involved in a fairly comple...
For The Next Two Days, This Is The Most Powerful Man In Hockey
The list of players protected from Wednesday’s draft to stock the expansion Vegas Golden Knights is out, and conversely—and most importantly—the list of unprotected players. The Golden Knights could enter the NHL with a perfectly fine team, but from all indications, GM George McPhee won’t be satisfi...
Las Vegas NHL Team Is Going To Choose Some Bland-As-Hell Name
It’s probably time to accept that the name of the Las Vegas expansion NHL team will not be good. It will be boring, which at least is not actively bad, and then, within a few decades (if the team is still there), it will have the power of inertia behind it and you won’t even think about it anymore. ...
Report: Las Vegas NHL Team Will Be Boringly Named After Some Kind Of Hawk, Or Some Other Kind Of Hawk (IMPORTANT ORNITHOLOGICAL CORRECTION)
The Las Vegas NHL expansion team, set to begin play in 2017, still needs a name. Owner Bill Foley wanted “Black Knights;” West Point wasn’t cool with that. So Foley’s got some other ideas, and they’re varying degrees of uncreative....
Las Vegas Is Getting An NHL Team
It’s official: the NHL’s Board of Governors has voted unanimously to expand to Las Vegas for the 2017-18 season. They’ll play in the Pacific Division. Quebec City’s application for a team has been deferred. ...
The Las Vegas NHL Team Is Going To Be Not Terrible
As decided by the executive committee last week—but not leaked until yesterday—the NHL is prepared to expand to Las Vegas for the 2017-18 season, assuming billionaire prospective owner Bill Foley and friends can come up with the $500 million expansion fee. (They can.) ...
The NHL Has Decided Whether Las Vegas Will Get A Team, But Isn't Saying
The NHL’s executive committee met for more than four hours yesterday, with one big order of business on the table: expansion. Their decision on whether to award franchises to Las Vegas or Quebec City, or both, or neither, is functionally the final decision; the full Board of Governors is expected to...
An NHL Expansion Draft Could Be Pretty Fun
NHL expansion no longer seems as sure a thing as it did a few months ago, with Las Vegas waiting for the phone to ring and Quebec City reportedly out of the running because of the weak Canadian dollar. But if it happens, we’re going to know soon: expansion for the 2017-18 season would be made offici...
NHL Expansion Isn't Going As Smoothly As Everybody Hoped
The NHL was no doubt disappointed when only two potential ownership groups were able to submit realistic bids for expansion teams, because it meant there would be that much less margin for error: if Las Vegas or Quebec City couldn’t follow through or properly impress some skeptical owners, there wou...
Why Only Two Cities Submitted Bids For NHL Expansion Teams
Prospective ownership groups from Las Vegas and Quebec City were the only two to submit formal bids for NHL expansion teams by last night’s deadline. There was no anticipated bid for a second Toronto-area team, and even more surprisingly, nothing from Seattle....
NHL Approves 3-on-3 Overtime, Will Explore Expansion
As expected, the NHL’s Board of Governors officially approved the GMs’ recommendation to move to a 3-on-3 format for overtime. This is going to mean a lot more winners, and more importantly, a lot fewer shootouts....