Vegas Golden Knights are your 2023 Stanley Cup Champions!

[TheRarestDangles]

Go Knights

 

[HanSolo]

Congrats Vegas fans!

Feels like just yesterday I was attending the first ever Golden Knights game/win which was in Dallas. Man time flies. Still have my ticket

Gotta say, y'all have been our conference opponents twice, but I'll never forget how the Stars stood behind the Knights after the Oct. 1 shooting.

 

[Hoek]

Grats Vegas! Thanks for keeping little brother off the scoreboard. Happy for JAM

 

[HanSolo]

Have so much love for the players on this roster. But gotta give major major love to Bruce Cassidy. What a story. Comes in and revamps the culture of this team, the systems, the approach. And it paid off huge.

 

[PuckFather]

Too bad there won’t be a post in the Leafs forum cheering on how they lost to the eventual SC champs.

 

[Ginger Papa]

Over the moon. Feels like 2018 is redeemed. So happy the Golden Knights did the cup handoff through the original 6 Misfits. Don't care whatever hate comes our way. This is a night I'll never forget.

Really happy for you and your group here, my friend.

As a fan of the game I want every fanbase to experience a championship in their lifetime.

 

[red devil]

Drone shot when the horn goes and the celebration starts.

 

[POVERTY]

Shame on the rest of the East for putting us through this. GG Vegas

 

[simon IC]

Congratulations, Golden Knights! Well deserved. And I am happy for Pietrangelo and Barbashev. Good on ya, boys!

 

[hangman005]

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

 

[Robert]

All due respect, but how storied is Buffalo really? They had some interesting teams in the mid 70s, a couple of noteworthy players in the early 90s, a Hasek Era, a couple of regular season wonders, then darkness.

It's not just that Vegas won a Cup first, they actually have as many Finals appearances in 6 tries as the Sabres have in 52. "Storied" is not the word that springs to mind.

The "French Connection" asked me to post..

 

[BelovedIsles]

William Karlsson should get recognition. He may not be a 40 goal scorer, he's insidious across that ice.

The Misfits deserve this Cup. Cassidy too; good coach needed the right situation.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

Congrats to the knights but it amazes me how a storied franchise as the Buffalo Sabres (1970) don't have a cup yet an expansion Knights team (2017) do... The NHL has expanded to the point of the USFL dumbness...

If the Knights and Kraken were never formed do you think the Sabres would have done any better?

 

[Thallis]

Vegas absolutely crushed their bracket. Well deserved cup, shoutouts to Edmonton for being their toughest matchup as well.

 

[mandiblesofdoom]

Congrats Vegas. Wonderful team. That stretch in the second was insane.

 

[nergish]

Damn, I hate the Knights, but they deserved this win

 

[End on a Hinote]

Congrats Vegas, well deserved!

 

[hangman005]

Still....

 

[fsanford]

Congrats to the knights but it amazes me how a storied franchise as the Buffalo Sabres (1970) don't have a cup yet an expansion Knights team (2017) do... The NHL has expanded to the point of the USFL dumbness...

maybe because the Sabre ownership sucks, and management sucks. I dont think its an expansion issue.

If the Sabres were given the same opportunity as Vegas or Seattle that group would still screw it up.

 

[Tofveve]

I do think the NHL has to upgrade the look of the keeper of the cup from 7-11 nightshift worker to more of a John Wick or James Bond look. Seriously. This hobo-looking dude has had this job for how long and looks like he could live for awhile yet, hairdo and all.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Tough series for the Florida Panthers but I don't think they have anything to hang their head about. Just ran out of gas against a better team. Much like Vegas did in 2018.

Still made it further than 30 other teams and I think if you said they'd be in the SCF halfway through their season most people would have laughed in your face.

 

[fsanford]

gotta love a GM who does not overate prospects and chooses to go for it.

Salary cap and age will catch up, but one fan base is gonna wait at least 31 years to see their team hoist the cup. Vegas got theirs so if there are some rough years ahead not a big deal.

Oh and either Oilers or Kings will play Vegas on banner raising day at T-Mobile.

 

[tarheelhockey]

The "French Connection" asked me to post..

Ok, but again... we're basically talking about having maybe the 5th or 6th best forward in the league for a few years, who never won meaningful hardware of any kind. That's great if your franchise has been around for 10 years, but we're talking about fifty two years and that's the best they're bringing to the table? It's not a franchise you point to and wonder how they never won a Cup... they never won because they were only good enough to win in maybe 3 or 4 of those 52 seasons.

 

[WhataKnight]

I mean they basically had to sit go through the motions for a whole hour after the game was already clearly over and their opponent was out there pulling the goalie down 4. The raw energy was probably burnt off in the locker room during 2nd intermission.

Earned it.

 

[Hockeyfrilla]

Congratulations.