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Hockey
Golden Knights trade fan favorite Ryan Reaves to Rangers for draft pick
Thursday, July 29, 2021 For the second time this week, the Golden Knights have traded away a fan favorite. Vegas sent forward Ryan Reaves to the New York Rangers on Thursday night, picking up a third-round pick in next year’s draft ...
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Las Vegas
Golden Knights address offseason needs on first day of free agency
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 The Golden Knights were active on the first day of NHL free agency this morning, shoring up just about all of their obvious needs. Vegas traded for scoring winger Evgenii Dadonov from Ottawa, inked defenseman Alec Martinez and forward Mattias Janmark to extensions and signed ...
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Sports
After Fleury trade, eyes turn to Robin Lehner as Golden Knights starting goalie
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 Now that Fleury is gone. Lehner is both the goalie of the present and the future.
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Breaking News
Au revoir, ‘Flower’: Goalie leaves Vegas fans with trove of memories
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 There’s a certain love Golden Knights have for Marc-André Fleury that may never be replicated. And regardless of the reasons for Tuesday’s trade that sent him to Chicago, it’s going to be strange watching Vegas take the ice next season without ...
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Las Vegas
Golden Knights trade Marc-Andre Fleury to Chicago
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 A Marc-Andre Fleury trade has been rumored for two years and today, it finally happened. The Golden Knights sent their Vezina Trophy-winning, future Hall of Fame goaltender to Chicago and got almost nothing in return. The Golden Knights shipped Fleury away with the agreement Chicago would take on ...
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Sports
Vegas uses second-round NHL Draft pick on Daniil Chayka, a Golden Knights fan
Saturday, July 24, 2021 It’s the fourth time in five years the Golden Knights have used their first pick after the first round on a defenseman.
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Hockey
Golden Knights take forward Zach Dean in first round of NHL Draft
Friday, July 23, 2021 The Golden Knights selected forward Zach Dean with their first-round pick, 30th overall, in the NHL Draft. Dean, a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League player ...
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News
Golden Knights confident in unearthing gem at end of NHL Draft’s first round
Friday, July 23, 2021 When working at the back of the draft, the pickings for obvious future NHL stars get slim. Anyone can take a Marc-Andre Fleury first overall, but it takes some skill to pluck a Mark Stone in the sixth round.
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Sports
How Kraken expansion draft stacks up against Golden Knights' template
Thursday, July 22, 2021 The Vegas Golden Knights set an impossible standard to follow for an expansion team. The Kraken may not match that right away, but they did draft a team that looks like ...
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Sports
Golden Knights trade Cody Glass to Predators, acquire Nolan Patrick
Saturday, July 17, 2021 Cody Glass is on his way to Nashville as part of a series of moves between the Golden Knights, Predators and Flyers. In return, the Golden Knights will receive center Nolan Patrick ...
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Boxing
Muhammad Ali's grandson, a Las Vegas local, sets out to advance an imposing legacy
Saturday, July 17, 2021 Nico Ali Walsh sat in a parking lot in Reno six years ago and pleaded with the greatest boxer of all time to tell him to stop fighting. He was 14, months into his amateur career and full of doubt if this future was for him. Growing up he was always that kid who ...
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Sports
Which Vegas Golden Knights players will return?
Wednesday, July 14, 2021 Upgrading the lineup while staying within the salary cap will always be always a challenge. And it often comes with decisions that aren’t easy to make, like the Golden Knights last offseason parting with fan favorite Nate Schmidt to clear space for free agent Alex Pietrangelo ...
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Sports
Four years later, Misfit Line still producing for Golden Knights
Sunday, July 4, 2021 Left winger Jonathan Marchessault, center William Karlsson and right winger Reilly Smith took the hockey world by storm in 2017-18 in leading the Golden Knights to the Stanley Cup Final in their maiden season.
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Sports
Golden Knights have big decision to make on ‘warrior’ free agent Alec Martinez
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 If there were any questions about the extent Alec Martinez was willing to go to win this postseason, they were answered in his postgame exit interviews last weekend. ...
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Sports
Marc-Andre Fleury wins Vezina Trophy as league's best goalie
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 Marc-Andre Fleury checked the final box of his Hall of Fame resume Tuesday by winning the award that has long eluded him. The 36-year-old was named the winner of the Vezina Trophy as the league’s top goaltender during the NHL’s award show ...
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Sports
NHL All-Star Game coming to Las Vegas next season
Monday, June 28, 2021 The Entertainment Capital of the World is getting the NHL’s All-Star Game. League commissioner Gary Bettman said Monday during his annual press conference that T-Mobile Arena and the Golden Knights will ...
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Sports
Three key questions facing Golden Knights headed into the offseason
Monday, June 28, 2021 The Vegas Golden Knights have never had a boring offseason, and this summer doesn’t look like it will break the streak. Much of the team is under contract for next season with just ...
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Sports
Knights’ competitive window remains open despite another upset playoff exit
Saturday, June 26, 2021 After the Game 6 loss Thursday to the Montreal, Alec Martinez said this year’s Golden Knights were one of the best teams he’s ever played on. That’s particularly meaningful coming from the defenseman considering he was a part of two Stanley Cup-winning Kings’ teams.
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Sports
Down and Out: Golden Knights, Mark Stone come up empty as season ends
Thursday, June 24, 2021 The first question asked to Mark Stone in the postgame news conference Thursday night at Bell Centre was about the emotions he was feeling. “It’s a pretty terrible feeling.”
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Sports
Former Golden Knights prospect has come back to haunt them with Canadiens
Thursday, June 24, 2021 A pertinent, “This Day in Hockey History”-type tweet surfaced Wednesday featuring a beaming Nick Suzuki nestled between the two Vegas Golden Knights’ executives who drafted him. Almost exactly four years ago, Suzuki represented the future of the franchise, a player who would ...
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Hockey
Golden Knights' season in jeopardy after Game 5 home loss to Canadiens
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 T-Mobile Arena is often praised as one the loudest, most electric buildings in the NHL. The fans love their Golden Knights, and it’s a sign that things are going poorly when those fans start to turn. Very poorly.
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Sports
Golden Knights still searching for offense heading into Game 5 against Canadiens
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 The immediate takeaways from Game 4 were all positive for the Golden Knights. Robin Lehner was spectacular in a pinch-hit role with 27 saves, while hometown kid Nicolas Roy scored the winner in overtime. Vegas left Montreal with a split, setting up a three-game series for a trip to the Stanley Cup Final with two games at home. Lost in all the success was ...
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Sports
Jackpot: Goalie ‘gamble’ pays off as Lehner leads Golden Knights to victory
Sunday, June 20, 2021 The Golden Knights raised more than a few eyebrows Sunday when word of who was starting in goal for Game 4 started to trickle out. It wasn’t Marc-Andre Fleury ...
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Sports
Blog: Nicolas Roy's OT winner sends Golden Knights over Canadiens in Game 4
Sunday, June 20, 2021 Brayden McNabb very well may have saved the Golden Knights' season. For now. McNabb netted the only Vegas goal through regulation with 9:23 to go in the third period, tying Game 4 with the Montreal Canadiens ...
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Sports
Golden Knights looking for more out of top forwards, particularly on power play
Sunday, June 20, 2021 Neither Stone nor the rest of the Golden Knights’ top forwards are producing at their usual levels, which has the Golden Knights in a 2-1 series hole against the Canadiens going into Game 4 at 5 p.m. tonight in Montreal ...
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Hockey
Late mistake dooms Golden Knights in Game 3 loss to Canadiens
Friday, June 18, 2021 Game 3 will be remembered for a gaffe at the end, but the Golden Knights missed opportunities to put themselves up by more than one. Now, Vegas needs to win ...
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Hockey
French-Canadian Golden Knights happy to be back in Montreal for playoff series
Friday, June 18, 2021 The Golden Knights landed in Montreal on Thursday to become the first U.S.-based team to arrive in Canada since the postseason bubble last year. Arriving to face the Canadiens in Game 3 at 5 p.m. tonight of the Stanley Cup semifinals is of particular interest to a ...
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News
Golden Knights can't overcome latest sluggish start in Game 2 loss
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 The Golden Knights cautioned everyone that falling behind the Montreal Canadiens was a recipe for a tough night. They got out of it unscathed in Game 1, but when the same thing happened Wednesday, the Canadiens pounced.
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News
Fleury more focused on stopping shots than hyped goalie duel with Price
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 The moment the playoff matchup was decided, goalie fans were beside themselves. The Golden Knights and Canadiens meeting in the postseason was fun for all sorts of reasons, but a head-to-head matchup between two of the best netminders in a generation might be ...
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Sports
Defense leads way in Golden Knights’ Game 1 victory over Canadiens
Monday, June 14, 2021 There isn’t a perfect hockey parallel to a basketball alley-oop jam, but what Shea Theodore did in the second period came pretty close. Everyone in the building thought he was going to shoot ...
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News
Max Pacioretty, former Canadiens captain, leads Golden Knights into third-round series
Monday, June 14, 2021 Max Pacioretty insists that the third-round opponent doesn’t matter and that all the talk about him facing his old team is just outside noise that doesn’t affect how he plays on the ice. He’ll have to deal with the chatter all series long. Now a star forward for ...
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Sports
Golden Knights’ aggressive roster-building again has them in Stanley Cup semifinals
Sunday, June 13, 2021 The Golden Knights didn’t sit on their first-year laurels, and instead went out and acquired one big name after another to load up an already-strong roster.
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News
Storylines abound when Golden Knights meet Canadiens in Stanley Cup semifinals
Saturday, June 12, 2021 Despite a lack of history together — just six all-time meetings — there are countless narratives to follow in this series.
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News
Golden Knights cap series of thrills with victory over Colorado
Thursday, June 10, 2021 You likely could watch hockey for a hundred years and maybe never again see flamingos — plastic or inflatable, they were both there — shower the home team on the ice after a victory.
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Hockey
Production from top players has Golden Knights in position to eliminate Avs
Thursday, June 10, 2021 Golden Knights coach Pete DeBoer has a saying about playoff hockey: At this time of the season, a team’s best players need to be their best players.
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Hockey
Golden Knights counter Colorado’s best punch in Game 5, send Avs to brink
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 What the Golden Knights did Tuesday at Ball Arena will go down in Vegas hockey history regardless of how the series finishes. If they end up advancing beyond this round ...
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News
Back from injury, Pacioretty regains goal-scoring touch for Golden Knights
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 Admittedly, Max Pacioretty wasn’t himself when he returned two weeks ago for Game 7 against the Minnesota Wild in the last round of the playoffs.
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Sports
Jonathan Marchessault’s hat trick, 'Misfit Line’ carry Golden Knights past Avalanche
Sunday, June 6, 2021 Marchessault scored his first playoff hat trick, the Golden Knights shut down the Avalanche and the biggest crowd of the season ...
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Sports
Blog: Golden Knights overpower Avalanche, even series in Game 4
Sunday, June 6, 2021 And just like that, the Golden Knights have tied the series. Jonathan Marchessault recorded his first playoff hat trick, the third in Golden Knights history and second this postseason, as Vegas beat up on the Avalanche on Sunday en route to a ...
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Sports
Marc-Andre Fleury enjoys rock star status with Golden Knights fans back at T-Mobile Arena
Sunday, June 6, 2021 Marc-Andre Fleury has been a fan favorite in Vegas since the moment he walked through the curtain at the expansion draft nearly four years ago.
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Hockey
Marchessault delivers in clutch again as Golden Knights save season with Game 3 win
Friday, June 4, 2021 For the second time this postseason, Jonathan Marchessault scored a game-tying goal that turned a series on its head. His goal sparked the Golden Knights to three straight wins over the Minnesota Wild in the first round.
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News
Golden Knights hoping home-ice magic swings series against Avalanche
Friday, June 4, 2021 There’s an adage in hockey, and sports in general — you aren’t in trouble until you lose at home. The Golden Knights better hope that’s true. After starting their second-round series with two road losses to the Colorado Avalanche, Vegas returns to T-Mobile Arena for Games 3 and 4 in front of ...
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Hockey
Golden Knights fall into 2-0 series hole after painful loss to Avalanche
Thursday, June 3, 2021 It took about four periods for the Golden Knights to arrive in the series. After a whooping in Game 1 and a so-so first period Wednesday, Vegas became ...
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Sports
Rested Golden Knights looking for better effort in Game 2 against Avs
Wednesday, June 2, 2021 There was an extra pep in the Golden Knights’ step at practice Tuesday. The rare off day in the postseason appeared to have done wonders.
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Sports
Golden Knights’ Marc-Andre Fleury named Vezina Trophy finalist
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Marc-Andre Fleury has already won the Jennings Trophy for backstopping the best defensive team in hockey. More hardware could be on the way ...
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Sports
Golden Knights youngsters contributing, gaining valuable experience in postseason
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Nicolas Hague clutched his fists, squatted his knees and unleashed a double-barreled fist pump — and then another for good measure. Hague had just scored a go ahead goal last week in the Golden Knights’ do-or-die Game 7 against the Wild, and couldn’t contain ...
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Sports
Golden Knights’ Ryan Reaves suspended two games
Monday, May 31, 2021 Golden Knights forward Ryan Reaves was handed a two-game suspension by the NHL’s Department of Player Safety on Monday following the match penalty ...
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News
'Can’t get down like that': Vegas falls by 6 goals to Colorado in historic defeat
Sunday, May 30, 2021 Colorado’s best players showed up in Game 1. It will be crucial for the Golden Knights to make sure they don’t in Game 2.
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Sports
Blog: Golden Knights drop Game 1 in rout to Avalanche
Sunday, May 30, 2021 It's hard to find things that went right for the Golden Knights on Sunday. They trailed fewer than five minutes into the game, and things just got worse from there ...
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Sports
Winner of the Vegas, Colorado playoff series will be the Stanley Cup favorites
Sunday, May 30, 2021 Fans have been salivating over this matchup for months and for good reason — the winner of this series will be one of the favorites for the Stanley Cup.