It just might be the best sports story of the year. The Vegas Golden Knights, a first-year franchise assembled from the spare parts of the league's 30 other rosters in an expansion draft, are four wins away from doing what many thought was improbable, if not impossible: winning the Stanley Cup in year No. 1.
Only the Washington Capitals stand in their way, a team that is also looking for its first Stanley Cup. Except for them, it's Year No. 34. They have found plenty of regular-season success in the Alexander Ovechkin-era, only to come up agonizingly short in the playoffs recently finally breaking a string of second-round exits this year.