Predicting the Roster for the Las Vegas Expansion Team in 2017-18

July 8th, 2016 by Adrian Dater Leave a reply »
This really did happen. This was not some hallucinogenic acid trip put in literary form from the archives of Hunter S. Thompson or anything. 

Las Vegas really will have an NHL team starting in the fall of 2017. Still seems hard to fathom. though, right? Las Vegas-hockey, Las Vegas-hockey...the word associations still don't go together too easily. But it's a done deal, and the expansion draft is right around the...oh yeah, it's still a little less than a year away from happening. 

So that gives us plenty of time to put together my projected initial Vegas team roster. This is going to be fun. The team still does not have an official name yet, though principal owner Bill Foley has publicly stated he's partial to Black Knights, to honor his U.S. Military Academy background. 

I'd call them the Sin City Gamblers myself, but, as the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, the NHL does not want the nickname to have any easy word association tied to gambling. Because people would be just too traumatized if they associated a Las Vegas team with any aspect of gambling, right? 

Anyway, the following slideshow represents my picks fo ...

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