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Title: Vegas Golden Knights Post by: BuccaneerBrad on May 20, 2018, 11:45:58 pm Big big moment of history. The first expansion team to make it to the finals in their first year in the NHL. Nobody saw this coming
And the irony is if my Bolts win their series, you'll have the latest expansion team playing against one of the second latest for the Stanley Cup Title: Re: Vegas Golden Knights Post by: Phishfan on May 21, 2018, 11:07:36 am You need to recheck that. Florida, Atlanta (Winnipeg), Minnesota, Columbus and probably a few others were all expansion teams between those two.
Also, I just found out St. Louis went to the finals their first season. Title: Re: Vegas Golden Knights Post by: BuccaneerBrad on May 21, 2018, 03:14:57 pm You need to recheck that. Florida, Atlanta (Winnipeg), Minnesota, Columbus and probably a few others were all expansion teams between those two. Also, I just found out St. Louis went to the finals their first season. They did, but they were in a division with all other expansion teams. Easier path. As for the other stuff you're right except that Florida and Tampa came in the league in the same year Title: Re: Vegas Golden Knights Post by: Phishfan on May 21, 2018, 03:59:28 pm Tampa is a year older. They were the first team in Florida.
Title: Re: Vegas Golden Knights Post by: BuccaneerBrad on May 29, 2018, 08:54:39 am The Vegas arena went nuts after their game 1 win. And thousands were packed outside watching on Jumbotron screens. I'll bet they'll open the arena for games 3 and 4 in Washington.
Title: Re: Vegas Golden Knights Post by: Phishfan on May 29, 2018, 10:59:01 am Huge crowd for the game last night.
At first I thought the pregame theatrics were going to be cool but I felt the cheesiness kick in rather quickly. Title: Re: Vegas Golden Knights Post by: masterfins on May 29, 2018, 01:09:42 pm And the Raiders are licking their chops, as well as the entire NFL, looking forward to big paydays when the move is complete.
Title: Re: Vegas Golden Knights Post by: EDGECRUSHER on May 30, 2018, 11:04:30 am I want Ovechkin to have his cup because he deserves it, but Vegas is such a great story. Literally a bunch of castoffs that no one wanted, in some cases their old teams bribed the Knights to even take them and their contracts.
Really makes me hate my Rangers even more for not being able to build a consistent contender when these guys did it in one year. Title: Re: Vegas Golden Knights Post by: BuccaneerBrad on May 30, 2018, 02:35:13 pm I want Ovechkin to have his cup because he deserves it, but Vegas is such a great story. Literally a bunch of castoffs that no one wanted, in some cases their old teams bribed the Knights to even take them and their contracts. Really makes me hate my Rangers even more for not being able to build a consistent contender when these guys did it in one year. At least they fired their coach. He had them going downhill every year. I'm still pissed that the Bolts blew it in the conference finals and I hope Ovechkin gets his ass handed to him by a bunch of castoffs. Title: Re: Vegas Golden Knights Post by: EDGECRUSHER on May 31, 2018, 10:12:00 am I've actually barely watched the Rangers since they no showed a Game 7 at home against the Lightning. Not a coincidence that Tampa loads up on Rangers and then no shows their own Game 7.
Title: Re: Vegas Golden Knights Post by: DZA on October 03, 2018, 02:14:46 pm You need to recheck that. Florida, Atlanta (Winnipeg), Minnesota, Columbus and probably a few others were all expansion teams between those two. Also, I just found out St. Louis went to the finals their first season. Florida did not make it in their 1st year... Title: Re: Vegas Golden Knights Post by: Phishfan on October 03, 2018, 11:38:24 pm Florida did not make it in their 1st year... No one said they did. |