Golden Knights owner Bill Foley predicted a Stanley Cup in Vegas' first six seasons. People thought he was crazy. It turns out, he couldn't have been more ridiculously right, writes PierreVLeBrun. How Vegas built a champion:
Then Kelly McCrimmon got promoted to GM instead of going elsewhere.All of these events are intertwined and have now helped forge one of the sport’s most incredible championship paths.Foley will never forget the call he got from Gary Bettman in early December of 2014 when the NHL commissioner said he was greenlighting a ticket drive to feel out the Vegas market.
“We’ve never had a mandate from Bill,” McCrimmon said Tuesday night. “When Bill said that six years ago, I think everybody took it tongue-in-cheek. … It wasn’t something that hung over us.” “We want to win. I’m not going to lose. We want to win,” Foley said of all the moves over the past six years.“Give me a month or two ,” Foley smiled.McPhee was a free agent after his firing in Washington in April 2014. Just over two years later, in June 2016, he was Foley’s chosen one.
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