Why didn’t I bet on the Golden Knights at 500-1 odds to win the Stanley Cup? Or at 300-1? Or at 100-1?
Because, truth be told, I wouldn’t have wagered on a first-year expansion team to hoist the Cup if I’d seen it myself in Biff Tannen’s Sports Almanac.
Like countless other bettors in Las Vegas, I was kicking myself during the Knights’ astonishing run to the Stanley Cup Final for not taking them at long odds to win it all.
But in the summer of 2017, when we’d hardly heard of any of the players besides Marc-Andre Fleury and James Neal, I could scarcely fathom the idea that a team could contend for the Cup in its inaugural season.