With the Rangers heading into the Mojave to take on the Vegas Golden Knights on their upcoming road trip, now seems like a good time to take a look at how Vegas has defied the odds to become far and away the NHL’s best expansion team in the last 50 years. The 2017 Expansion Draft was set up unlike any of the previous eleven, as Golden Knights’ general manager George McPhee had an unprecedented number of quality players to choose from to construct Vegas’ initial roster.
In spite of some highly questionable choices, McPhee managed to assemble one of the better the rosters in the league from the other team’s scraps.