The Vegas Golden Knights had a ton of great games over the course of their inaugural season.
We all know the Vegas Golden Knights playoff run starts tomorrow against the Los Angeles Kings at T-Mobile Arena. It’s going to be a grueling series from start to finish, and I believe it’s going to take the the full seven games. However, let’s not forget how we got to this point.
The expansion franchise put on a show right from the opening puck drop of the regular season in Dallas. The regular season provided very few snoozers and lots of action for Vegas Golden Knights fans. I expect the same to carry over into the postseason.
We’re going to do a fun one today on the eve of the playoffs. We’re going to countdown the best regular season games from the Vegas Golden Knights inaugural campaign. But before we give our top five, let’s give an honorable mention:
Honorable mention: October 27th, 2017 Game #9 Vegas Golden Knights def Colorado Avalanche 7-0
No one ever forgets the first rout. And everyone remembers the first shutout in team history. The Golden Knights dominated this game, but it took them a little while to get going.
It took almost halfway through the entire game to get the games first goal, but when David Perron opened the scoring, and the floodgates opened. Oscar Lindberg also scored one of the more prettier goals of the year for the Golden Knights.
11 different players each registered at least one point and seven different goal scorers for Vegas en route to a 7-0 victory. Avalanche goaltender Semyon Varlamov gave up all seven goals and stopping only 14 shots on 21 attempts. Meanwhile, his unusual adversary was perfect throughout the game.
Third-string goaltender Oscar Dansk stopped all 32 shots and went down in the record books as the first Golden Knights goaltender to ever record a shutout. It was also the first shutout of his NHL career. He was appointed the team’s first star of the game and rightfully so.