Why Vegas Keeps Lurking In The NHL Expansion Conversation

Vegas is getting another look as one of the greatest NHL expansion franchises ever, which tells you how fast the Golden Knights rewrote the usual expansion script. The league has seen enough slow-burn starts to know how rare it is for a new team to crash the party this hard, this quickly. Any conversation about expansion now has to wrestle with what Vegas has already done and why so many other franchises never found that gear.