Players from nontraditional hockey markets are finding spots on the national team roster for USA Hockey, which is undefeated in the World Junior Championships entering Saturday’s final round-robin Group B game vs. Canada.
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General manager George McPhee and six members of the Golden Knights’ staff will be in Canada over the next 11 days to evaluate talent and possibly identify the team’s No. 1 amateur draft pick come June at the World Junior Hockey Championships that showcases the top under-20 age players.
Columbus has a 12-game win streak and Minnesota has won 10 straight, as the two teams from the NHL’s last expansion in 2000 are among the league’s best teams.
Sports in Las Vegas rose to a whole new level this year.
The Golden Knights are talking to two American Hockey League teams to partner with and are in discussions with several TV networks and local radio stations to broadcast their games.
The Golden Knights have sent preliminary date information to the NHL regarding the availability of T-Mobile for the 2017-18 season. The NHL is expected to open its centennial season Oct. 4.
Butch Goring, who is part of Las Vegas’ hockey history as the Thunder’s first coach in 1993, is glad the city finally has an NHL team. He believes the Golden Knights can be successful on and off the ice.
The Vegas Golden Knights added another member to its staff Friday.
The long and painstakingly slow process for the NHL and its Las Vegas team to unveil the nickname at a celebration outside T-Mobile Arena last month, added a new chapter to the saga when its trademark request was denied.
A representative for Las Vegas’ NHL team said Thursday the franchise will work quickly for appeal after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied its applications to register the name Vegas Golden Knights.
The Vegas Golden Knights’ trademark request was denied by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday because of a “likelihood of confusion” with the registered mark of The College of Saint Rose. The Albany, New York, school also uses the Golden Knights nickname.
Gerard Gallant, the successful coach of the Florida Panthers, was let go a week ago over philosophical differences. He appears to fit the bill for what Vegas Golden Knights general manager George McPhee is looking for in a head coach.
The Rebels are still a club program as they attempt to raise the funding to go Division I NCAA varsity, but they will move up from Division II to D-I in the American Collegiate Hockey Association beginning in 2017-18.
Bill Foley, the owner of the Vegas Golden Knights NHL expansion team, said he has the legal right to use the name that is also used by the Army’s parachute team.
With a decision on participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics looming come January, the NHL is still wavering on whether it wants to allow its players to participate. The owners will meet next month to discuss whether or not to allow the players to play in return for a three-year extension of the current Collective Bargaining Agreement.
A recent Wall Street Journal poll of leading economists put the probability of the United States going into recession over the next 12 months at 63 percent. Conventional wisdom is that the Federal Reserve Bank will continue raising interest rates to combat stubborn high inflation, thereby slowing the economy and causing gross domestic product to […]
The Golden Knights traded winger Nikita Gusev for a 2020 third round pick and a 2021 second pick.
The 37-year-old defenseman is excited to stay in Las Vegas after signing a one-year, $700,000 contract that can reach up to $1.5 million with incentives.
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The one-year deal for the 37-year-old has a base salary of $700,000 and can reach up to $1.5 million, his base salary last season, with incentives.
