Inside the NHL's Expansion Blueprint From Vegas to Nashville

The NHL’s modern expansion story is really a study in fast starts, identity, and the very different ways new franchises can find traction. Vegas set the gold standard by arriving with a bang, while Nashville’s path has looked more like the grind every old-school pro wants to romanticize after the fact. This kind of rundown usually reveals which moments actually mattered and which ones just sounded important at the time.