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Although Las Vegas failed to win the Stanley Cup, they still had an incredible season.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/golden-knights-season-wrap-1.4699264

With the Stanley Cup Finals tied at 1-1, Steve Simmons calls what the Las Vegas Golden Knights have done in their first year as an expansion team "unfathomable".
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http://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/weird-stuff-happens-in-the-nhl-how-to-explain-the-vegas-golden-knights-unlikely-rise/wcm/ae2706f0-e648-40cb-a463-1aff018414bb

Jim Matheson adds more on why the Knights have been so successful as an expansion team, even though they have only one player among the top 30 in NHL scoring - Jonathan Marchessault.


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Other reasons for the Knights success include:



https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/golden-knights-nhl/confidence-is-high-as-golden-knights-head-into-2018/

The Las Vegas Knights continue to have almost unparalleled success as an expansion team as the following article argues, noting that no expansion team in the modern era (since 1960) has come close to...

Ed Willes discusses below what helped the Knights get off to such a great start for an expansion team.
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The Knights continue to defy expectations and the historical record of expansion teams with seven wins in their first eight games.

The coaches and players also deserve great credit for their 4 wins in their first 5 games, quite a start for any team, let alone an expansion team.

Las Vegas Golden Knights have done very well in their first two games of the preseason, winning both of them 9-4 and 4-1 with Tyler Wong scoring a hat trick against Vancouver and Thomas Hyka scoring...