The Vegas Golden Knights finally did it on their six year road to the Stanley Cup. Led by the likes of Jack Eichel, Jonathan Marchessault, Mark Stone, and Adin Hill, the Golden Knights have tried a variety of different methods in efforts to break through to their first Stanley Cup. What stands out more than anything else though is the way in which they’ve sought out and acquired star players, whenever they become available. With the tendency among organizations to copy the latest winners of the Stanley Cup, today we explore how Vegas’s stanley cup victory could play a role in changing the NHL forever.
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0:00 Intro
0:50 Gaming The Expansion Draft
3:22 Blockbuster Deals
7:37 Sacrificing Useful Pieces
9:15 Unsung Heroes
10:20 The Golden Knights Process
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As a pens fan i was pissed we let Fleury go we could've had a chance at 3 cups š¢ we lost Fleury and 2/3rds of the HBK line
Alreday done! The day Lord Bettman took control of the NHL, it Changed The NHL Forever. R.I.P NHL
There are 6 original members still. other than that great video.
I try and be nice but this video has some huge inaccuracies. Overall high effort video. There are SIX original players left, not four. Eichel was not ācoming off of a surgery,ā he had the surgery after he was traded, and Vegas took on his ENTIRE $10M contract, his trade value was not āgreatly reducedā and he remains one of the highest paid players in the NHL.
You tainted the video by showing Tkachuk and Buttman. Up until then it wasn't a villain piece.
I don't know how easy it is to replicate the string of great signings and decisions made by Vegas. Nor is it easy to develop a team with this sort of chemistry. I was also struck during the Finals and during these highlights at the level of patience and hockey sense everyone on the team seems to possess. They had a Florida team which had killed teams on the forecheck running around in circles. It often looked as if Florida was two men short much of the time.
Just so you know. There are six original golden knights not Four.
Bettman must be very happy now. Stanley Cup won by a team playing in a desert.
Kinda cool how you got Kip from Napoleon Dynamite to narrate your video
I think that the draft rules are very generous these days, hence the immediate success of Seattle and Las Vegas. Only being able to protect 3 defenders means that they are guaranteed to have an entire squad of 2nd liners, while every other team has to have 3rd liners. They did not have any flashy D-men, just solid D from shift to shift. From this solid core, it was easier to build and improve from there.
Sabres traded away two elite players to cup winning teams. Poverty franchise
6 remain on the team
Championship hockey isn't about making friends, it's about winning Cups. There's no doubt if the Leaf's core four were on Vegas they would have been broken up two or three years ago for better potential cup-winning assets. Vegas management understands this is professional hockey, not high school.
I've watched every Stanley Cup Final since 1988
i missed this entire finals š¢
Karlsson hadn't done much at all before getting to Vegas. Marshy scored 30 goals on the Panthers the year before, but he was not protected in the expansion draft.
There's no secret, have 4 lines that work hard and can score. Team's like Toronto still don't get it. The playoffs are much more physical. 50 goal scorers during the regular season that can't take any abuse just won't cut it.
I love the Vegas Golden Knights!
what a load of horse poo.
what other league in sports history have expansion teams done so well? name one.
its happening because the suits know hockey fans are extremely loyal and will spend money no matter what. so the NHL takes advantage of legacy teams and lets thrm rot while they reap in the millions in new markets.
the only other explanation is that is a huge profitable coincidence.
the only way to fix this is for Canadian fans to strike. stop buying tickets. stop watching the games.
As a knights fan I am very disappointed how people reacted when they won the cup
I'm sorry man but the results speak for themselves…when an expansion team is consistently leading its division/conference, has the assets to endure a coaching/GM change, shed quality players and a future HOFer, and see the SCF TWICE in 6 years…you've got an issue. This new iteration of expansion teams leaves this Preds fan indignant. They've never had to sell off pieces and tell a Balsillie to go fk himself or build/develop a team from a true motley assortment of proverbial nobodies. Using the Preds as a template, nobody remembers a Sergei Krivokrasov, for instance, and only within the past few years has the franchise seen a player score 40 goals or more in a season let alone 30+. So, no…I vehemently disagree.
Sure glad the NHL and the Refs handed the Stanley Cup to Vegas.
Wasn't Vegas like at least 10 million over the cap in these playoffs? I understand u can do this in the playoffs but I give the Avalanche full credit last year for staying within the cap and winning it all last season. Go Avs!
Vegas was disrespected by everyone and they played determined and boy were the golden knights were pissed
I never bought into this narrative that the Golden Knights started with a superteam. Not even the most optimistic Golden Knights fan saw that 2018 playoff run coming.
Phil Kessel deserved MVP. NHL tweakin
Just has a little addition, as a Vegas fan. This team completely changed under Cassidy. So much more discipline and it was tested with Florida. Marchessault is a completely different player. He used to take so many penalties, along with the rest of the team. It's great to see the team mature.
Itās actually 6 that still remains
Just say you know nothing about hockey.
There are three main reasons for Vegas' success and two cannot be imitated, one is the highly generous expansion draft gifted to them by the NHL, the second is the league's best tax rate which draws every free agent (alongside Tampa and Florida), and the third is picking the very best choice for coach out of the gate, and then Cassidy who happens to be the best coach in the league. There is no doubt that having a 17 year gap between expansion drafts had given Vegas a competitive edge over other expansion teams, there's no debate about that at all, it was a clear advantage.
It has changed hockey forever for me, I'm done!
Hard to believe it's legit when teams just gave potential stars to a huge hockey market for nothing basically. Even if it wasn't completely rigged in order to promote hockey, the expansion draft is too strong. The amount of assets these new teams get make them better than 10 other teams immediately, if not a playoff team.
If the 2 guys running this VGK outfit had been in EDM over the years, they might still be winning Cups.
How many Top 3 picks did EDM have over , forever it seems, while Vegas had what by comparison? A lot less.
Why Vegas won IMO: Players stepped up, very smartly built roster, Cassidy, Awesome management & AWESOME fans!
It's so funny how some people are so sour over the win, but it is well deserved. This coming from a bruins fan.
Well done video.
Can you imagine how many Canadian teams we'd have in the playoffs if they adopted the cut throat , emotionless management style that Vegas is using ?
Nobody gets gifted a Cup winner
I like Vegas, but the shots of all those fans stupidly holding up their smartphones, recording shit they won't actually watch, was too much to bear. Wow, their fans suck, not as much as shitty florida, but they suck nonetheless.
Thereās 6 misfits
They were never gifted a team. People saw Karlson and say a 20 point player. In the panthers nobody cared for MS. They took misfits and people didnt give ice time and we gave em the chance. People saying they were GIFTED no other teams so no value in the players and didnt protect them from being picked. So they weren't gifted anything. lol
Don't forget that Mark Stone had the most take aways in the playoffs, something he's always been great at.
Crowd barely reacted.. made me feel weird.
Wasnāt that first round pick they traded to Buffalo for Eichel the same pick that became Tage Thompson
Great analysis. Iāve been a VGK fan since 2018 and watched most of my favorite players be sent off time and time again. I admit that I was critical of the front office many time throughout the last 6 years. It all seems to have been intentional in order to win a championship.
I would say that all the moves that Vegas made could have easily gone the other way. Also, there is no guarantee if they act that aggressively in the future that it will all work out. I think the more established teams in the NHL have their own cultures and the level of risk they are willing to accept.
So this is just a video trying to come to grips with what the NHL did to help Vegas win a cup right away?
You are aware that the NHL altered the expansion draft rules for Vegasā draft, right?
Seriously, cut the crap.
Nhl new expansion draft rules greatly benefit modern expansion teams while weaken those teams that lost key players to expansion teams. Proof was Vegas Marchessault taken from Florida Panthers. Nhl should allow 10 players to be protected from nhl expansion team drafts.
Nothing is going to change
Ohh. Everyone can have the refs cheat for them at the behest of bettman?
When they make it past the first round next year, we can talk.