Pacific Peeks: Vegas will be bad, but that’s good

The Vegas Golden Knights will not be a good hockey team this season. There was some hope that the NHL’s newest team would be competitive right away, stemming largely from the league’s kinder procedures in this year’s Expansion Draft.

Vegas arguably had access to the best pool of players available to an expansion team in NHL history, but that didn’t translate into a strong roster. Here’s the Golden Knights’ projected starting depth chart, courtesy of Roster Resource:

Vegas is a team with some nice pieces sprinkled throughout (Shea Theodore, Nate Schmidt, and most of their top six forward group, in particular) and may even give some teams trouble.