How to Bet on Vegas Golden Knights

There was no more compelling story in sports than what the Vegas Golden Knights, a first-year expansion team, accomplished during the 2017-18 National Hockey League season. They rewrote the record book for first-year franchises, and not only won their division but reached the Stanley Cup final, joining the 1967-68 St. Louis Blues as the only first-year expansion teams to do so. And Vegas also won a game in the final series, something no first-year team had ever done, before falling in five games to the Washington Capitals.

The Golden Knights have cemented themselves as an NHL powerhouse in short order. Just five seasons after their astonishing inaugural campaign, Vegas won the 2022-23 Stanley Cup championship led by Marchessault.

Behind new coach Bruce Cassidy and deadline additions, the Knights overcame myriad goaltending injuries to catch fire down the stretch. Their Cup victory in year six validated Vegas as a burgeoning dynasty in record time.

Anchored by stars like Mark Stone, Alex Pietrangelo and Jack Eichel, the Golden Knights enter the 2023-2024 among the top championship threats once more. With a title under their belt, Vegas looks to further cement their supremacy going forward.

They say what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, but what happened in Vegas during the 2023 season in Golden Knights history will be talked about in hockey circles for years to come. The Golden Knights won their first Stanley Cup!

What happened with the Vegas Golden Knights in their inaugural 2017-18 campaign set NHL expansion records and captivated hockey. Five years later, the Golden Knights culminated their rapid rise by capturing the 2022–23 Stanley Cup, defeating the Florida Panthers in five games to win the first championship by a major professional Las Vegas sports team.

They were the first expansion team to make the Stanley Cup playoffs in their initial NHL season since the Hartford Whalers and Edmonton Oilers did it in 1979-80. And the Golden Knights were just the third first-year team in NHL history to win multiple playoff rounds. They were also the first NHL team to sweep their first-ever postseason series since the Pittsbugh Penguins took out the Oakland Seals in four games in the 1970 Stanley Cup quarter finals.

In just their sixth campaign, the Golden Knights claimed hockey’s ultimate prize led by playoff MVP Jonathan Marchessault. With owner Bill Foley’s brash “Cup in six” prediction vindicated, Vegas cemented themselves as a preeminent NHL organization here to stay.

This is where you will find all the details of the Vegas Golden Knights schedule. Vegas may hold the most distracting home-ice advantage in the NHL, and it has nothing to do with what takes place between the boards on game night. T-Mobile Arena, home to the Golden Knights, is situated right in the heart of the Las Vegas strip, a place engulfed 24/7 in every form of debauchery known to mankind.

That couldn’t possibly be of any interest at all to a group of verile, testosterone-charged 20-something althetes, now could it? NHL teams actually sought to put governors on their players when on Vegas. Some teams even tried to ban their players fron venturing out on the strip. Okay, good luck with that mission. It didn’t have any effect. Social media posts of NHL players enjoying themselves at a Vegas casino were commonplace.

Situated in the ultra-competitive Pacific Division, that only made the division title won by the Golden Knights all the more impressive. In the playoffs, they knocked off the 2012 and 2014 Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings and the 2016 Stanley Cup finalist San Jose Sharks. Outside of the Golden Knights and Arizona Coyotes, every team in the Pacific Division has appeared in the Stanley Cup final at some point in their history.

The Anaheim Ducks won the Cup in 2006-07, while the Calgary Flames won it all in 1988-89. The Edmonton Oilers own five Stanley Cup crowns, the most recent title coming in 1989-90. Although they’ve never won the Cup, the Vancouver Canucks have reached the Stanley Cup final three times, and twice lost in Game 7 – in 2010-11 and 1993-94.

The Golden Knights remain situated in the ultra-competitive Pacific alongside recent champions and hungry contenders. But just five seasons into their existence, Vegas captured the 2022-23 Stanley Cup to shed their expansion label for good.

Led by new coach Bruce Cassidy and deadline stars, the Knights overcame myriad injuries to find their championship form when it mattered most. Their Cup victory places Vegas among the NHL’s elite rather than just a flukey upstart.

The Golden Knights enter the next season ready to defend their title and cement a burgeoning dynasty. With a championship under their belt already, Vegas looks to rule the Pacific going forward.