All season long, the Vegas Golden Knights have been the league’s improbable success story. Major League on ice. A rag-tag team of cast-offs, spare parts, and young players coming together to take the NHL by storm. Against all odds, they entered tonight’s action sitting on top of the Western Conference, just one point behind Tampa Bay for the best record in the NHL.
But tonight, they looked like, well... an expansion team.
Instead, the Minnesota Wild looked like the West’s standard-bearer, as they dominated a tired Vegas team from the opening face-off in a 5-2 victory.