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Look at this, right over here.

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We have 100, 125 elks.

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I like having big herds of elk.

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This is Montana.
It's also the home
to billionaire Bill Foley.

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From West Point
to a law degree, to becoming

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one of the most successful
businessmen in the world.

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-Normally, you catch a lot
of fish right here.
-Yeah.

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The 70-year-old's
empire is impressive,

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but his portfolio lacks
one thing: a sports franchise.

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Bill Foley is a very influential businessman.

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He's like a shark
from that TV show, Shark Tank.

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Ooh, nice fish, Bill.

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-Yeah.

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Turns out that Bill Foley's
neighbor in Montana,

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down the lake,
is a former professional
hockey player, Murray Craven.

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I've known Bill for probably
20 years now. We met

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in Whitefish, Montana.
Bill lives down the lake.

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That was my offseason home
as a hockey player.

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One time I was going by Murray's
house and he was on his dock,

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he always sits out there,
and so I had pulled up--

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And we talked about, small talk,
I can't really even remember
exactly what we talked about.

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I said, "Okay, we'll see you
tomorrow," and was getting ready
to push the boat off the dock

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so he could continue
on his boat cruise.

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He says,
"Murray, I got this idea.

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We should put a professional
hockey team in Las Vegas."

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I'd already launched the boat
and I kind of look back
and I was just kind of...

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half yelled back like, you know,
"You're out of your mind."

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They'll never let you do that.

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An expansion,
hockey team in Las Vegas

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where it's 110 in the summer.

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Right now Las Vegas
is the largest market

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without a major sports
franchise in America.

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It seems the NHL may be trying
to find ice in the desert.

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I think it's a terrible move.
I think it's a dumb move.

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Las Vegas
doesn't make sense. It's
in the middle of the desert.

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- They have no other pro
sports teams for a reason.
- Why hockey?

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No one thought it would work.

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From my wife to my friends,

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all of my business associates,

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they told me I was crazy:

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"What are you doing?
How can this be?

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Why would you invest
in a hockey team in the desert?"

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I thought
it was gonna be a tough sell.
We had a long way to go

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before we established
Las Vegas as a hockey hotbed.

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And whenever
it was brought up on TV,
it was always frowned upon.

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Is it possible that people who
grow up playing in the sand

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-don't play ice hockey
very much or care?
-I wonder why that happens.

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In the '90s, the NHL expanded
in the southern region.

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Lowest teams
in terms of attendance.
Carolina's right there.

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Florida is right there.
Phoenix went bankrupt.

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Hockey's awesome. Bring it here.
Bring it to Las Vegas.

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Most people that have families
that live here and stuff,

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the casinos don't mean
anything for them.

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We want normal, we want--
a hockey team would be nice.

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It'd be a good thing to go to on a Friday or a Saturday night.

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Las Vegas has long been
the gambling capital of America

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but now it wants to be
something more.

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In your opinion,
is there hope for Las Vegas

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-getting an NHL team?
-I'm not in--

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I know this is the city
where there's a lot of wagering.

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I'm not in the prognostication
business.

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Once upon a time Las Vegas was a sunny place for shady people.

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Gangsters, mobsters,
illegal gamblers,

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people would come to do
what was illegal elsewhere.

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When I came here in 1959,

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the people
who ran the hotels,

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they didn't want their patrons
watching horse racing,

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watching boxing.
They wanted them

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in the hotels and gambling.

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Professional
sports leagues had a fear

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that because people can place
bets on their games

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that people would
get to the players

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and would change
the outcomes of the games.

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Not that long
ago the NFL would not
allow an advertisement

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for Las Vegas
on its Super Bowl telecast.

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So, Las Vegas
was persona non grata

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to major sports leagues
for a long time.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
the man who is going to bring

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NHL hockey to Las Vegas,

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Mr. Bill Foley.

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To really gauge the interest,
we had to run
a season ticket drive.

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We're going to demonstrate that
Las Vegas is a viable NHL city.

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They launched this ticket
drive to prove that Las Vegas

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can support
a major professional team.

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I heard the Commissioner
say that Mr. Foley felt

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that he could sell
the required number of tickets
in the required amount of time

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to have his franchise approved.

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And I thought,
"Let's see if this can happen."

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I know Las Vegas.
I've been here a long time.

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I was a non-believer.
And I know how fickle

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our community is
when it comes to sports.

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It's obviously
a big tourist town.
You can't run a professional

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sports team just based
on visitors.

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You have
to tap into the real city.

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Selling the tickets was
certainly a huge challenge.

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We got out in the community,
we pounded the pavement.

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-We had to really work for it.
- The league said
you just get in

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a bunch of casinos to buy
tickets. And we said no.

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We're getting
firefighters, policemen,

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lawyers, doctors, nurses.

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We had people
putting down real money

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on real season ticket deposits

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for a team that didn't exist,

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that didn't have a name
that barely had a building.

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And the arena was half built.

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That was a leap of faith for people to do that.

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But Bill was committed to going
out anywhere and everywhere

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to talk
to members of the community,
people that loved hockey.

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I was the marketing coordinator
at the biggest
ice rink in the city.

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Mr. Foley comes through the
office. And Bill was determined,

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Bill had a look in his eye
like he was gonna do this
no matter what.

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At times it was daunting but
we've got to the 10,000,
11,000 mark. It's for real now.

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Already they've reached 11,500 season ticket-holder commitments

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which exceeds the 10,000 initially asked for by the NHL.

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And then Bill
had been asked to attend
that meeting in June.

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I was supposed to go see the Board of Governors at noon, or so I thought.

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It's noon, 12:15,
12:30, quarter to 1:00.

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Like, did they
change their mind?

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There was no guarantee
that they were gonna give us
the franchise at that point.

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Are they gonna kick us to next
year? There was no guarantee
that that was gonna be the year.

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Good afternoon,
everyone and welcome.
The Board of Governors approve

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the plan of expansion that will
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franchise to Las Vegas.

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The expansion fee is
500 million dollars U.S.

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Five hundred. If you're writing
that check that doesn't roll off
your tongue.

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We are delighted that
Las Vegas will be a part
of our exciting future.

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Everybody agreed
that five 500 million dollars

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-for a professional hockey team is way too expensive.
-Well, thanks, everybody.

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Nothing had ever approached
half a billion dollars.

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For the last round of expansion,
Columbus and Minnesota
paid 80 million.

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Well, Las Vegas, we did it.

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It wasn't easy, was it?

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My obligation
is to hold this team
and trust for the community.

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I'm the owner, but I do it
on behalf of the community.

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It wasn't a regular
business deal for Bill.
He left the meeting.

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I went down the lobby
and we had a beverage over it

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and kind of talked about it.
But there was no high-fives.

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There was no, you know, slap on
the backs. There was "Now what?

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Now where do we go?"

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We had nothing.

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The boxes and the checklists
were so extensive.

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-Yeah.
- Where are we gonna
house our organization?

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Where is the team
gonna practice?

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So here's the first rink.

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So here's the rink
we will practice on.

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It's a gigantic facility.
-Yeah, it's huge.

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How many square feet
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-Hundred and forty-six thousand.
-Hundred and forty-six
thousand square feet.

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We also have to talk
about what personnel you need

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and who's the general manager
gonna be.

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We needed to have
that general manager in place.

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- There's so much
to do though. So much.
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I was helping my son move into Boston College.

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I was in a CVS drugstore
that night

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getting some supplies
for my son and Bill called.

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And I told my son I think
this one's gonna be a while.

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So I sat down
on the back of the store
and we talked for 45 minutes.

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And Bill said, "You are gonna
learn to trust me.

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And we're gonna work
real well together."

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Owner Bill Foley
has named George McPhee

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as the team's general manager.

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Well, I don't know,
you are the-- you're the GM.

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McPhee spent
17 years as a general manager
of the Washington Capitals.

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The Washington Capitals
were built by George McPhee.

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He drafted a majority
of the players, he traded
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He built that organization.

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I'm proud
to introduce him today.

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He was fired because the team

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was a perennial contender but couldn't get over the hump.

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Bill Foley saw experience.

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He saw him as kind of that
three-star general.

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We're gonna build
an organization and a team

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that people
in Nevada and Las Vegas
will be very, very proud of.

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And we're gonna do it
quickly and we're aiming
at the Stanley Cup.

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And it's that simple.

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My expectations for
our hockey team are very high.

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I intend to create
a dynasty here in Las Vegas.

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Mr. Foley said playoffs in three years, Stanley Cup in six.

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Okay, I have heard
other outlandish predictions
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that never came true,
maybe this is just another one.

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There's teams that have been
grinding away for so long.

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The Toronto Maple Leafs, their
drought is 50 years plus.

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Everybody in the hockey world,
being in it as long as I have,

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to say he's crazy.

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The Stanley Cup
is the hardest trophy to win.

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The regular season
is so darn hard. It's 82 games

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and then it is not
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it's eight weeks.
It's a war of attrition

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and how many
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by the time
you even get to the final.

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And all of that
collision, speed,

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and sacrifice
is to get your name

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on a trophy
you're not allowed to keep,

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but for the rest of your life

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you have that adjective
in front of your name,

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"Stanley Cup Champion."

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Welcome everybody to the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft

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for the Vegas Golden Knights.
You guys are finally
gonna get to learn your team.

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In the Expansion Draft, the
Golden Knights were to select

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one player off each team.

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Every team in the league
was allowed to protect
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Each team had to decide which
players they were willing

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to lose to the Golden Knights.

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For the Expansion Draft, Bill's mandate was get the best talent

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but they have
to have the right intangibles,
the right character.

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And that mandate was from Bill's experience at West Point.

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The Vegas Golden
Knights sign Vegas resident
Deryk Engelland.

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Las Vegas, one
of your own, Deryk Engelland!

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I first moved to Las Vegas

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with the Calgary Flames team
of Las Vegas Wranglers.

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Hi, bud.

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I met my wife
here on my first year.

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Got two young boys.
Better part of 15 years
we've called this home.

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As soon as they announced
the team, my wife made a shirt

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with number 5
and Engelland on it and hung
it in our closet for months.

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She wanted us to play
here and hopefully
finish my career here.

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You know if I were to say
I wasn't hoping this was gonna
happen, I'd be lying.

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So I was pretty excited
for being part of the expansion
draft and coming home.

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From the Pittsburgh Penguins,

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the Vegas Golden Knights'
goaltender,

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Marc-Andre Fleury.

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It stopped being told
you're not part of the plan
of your team

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and you're getting old
and stuff, you know. So it's...

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I don't know,
it hurts a bit, right?

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You look
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all-star goalie every year,

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wins back-to-back cups
with Pittsburgh

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and then, you know,
isn't kept by the team

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and, obviously, that stings.

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Feels a bit surreal,
you know, but I'm sure--

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Um-- I don't know,
the next few days I'm sure I'll
understand a little bit better.

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The Vegas Golden Knights select
Jonathan Marchessault.

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I definitely was
surprised not getting protected
at the Expansion Draft.

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Just couldn't believe it.

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Marchessault scores again!

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I had a good year,
I was a big part of that team.

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But it's just the toughness
of the business.

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The Vegas Golden Knights
select William Karlsson.

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To be one of the
guys who was exposed meant

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we weren't that valuable
to your former team.

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The Vegas Golden Knights
select James Neal.

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Imagine that from being
in Expansion Draft

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pick up and then you're
in Vegas. You are a discard.

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Outside of Marc-Andre
Fleury and James Neal,

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every single player was either
a player I had never heard of

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or a player that was just okay.

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There was not a bunch on that
page that you look at and say,

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"This is a great hockey team."

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We know where
the puck's going, the puck's
going up the ice quick.

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That's what we want in the game.

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We're gonna play fast hockey.

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It's going
from our D to our forwards.

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-Okay?
- Got it. Here we go.

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I got fired
from the Florida Panthers

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and the Knights
were looking for a coach.

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They wanted to know
what kind of person I was.

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They wanted people
with family background.

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They wanted people that's coming to work every day,

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but not a big ego,
just come to work
and do your job and have fun.

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The first meeting,
I hadn't yet met Bill Foley,
and I was a little nervous.

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They introduced him to me.
He came up

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and the first thing
he wanted to tell us

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was why he picked the Golden
Knights to be the symbol

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of Vegas' first
professional sports team.

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And there you go,
the Vegas Golden Knights!

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He was a black knight
from West Point.

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He wanted us to be a knight
to push forward

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and battle through adversity
and fight each and every day.

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I went to West Point
with not really understanding

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the reality of the world.

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The very immature
pretty spoilt kid.

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And, boy, you go in there
and they take everything away.

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Part of being
at West Point is going
through the crucible events

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of a 47-month experience.

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Sleeping outside,
sleeping in the rain,

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it doesn't matter. You know
no one's feeling sorry for you.

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Kind of stinks for yourself.

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But it stinks
for 1,200 other people.

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So it's a true breakdown
of everything

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that you brought with you.

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It was
a real maturing experience

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and really changed me.
Changed-- changed who I became.

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I think the formative years
that Bill spent at West Point

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is what's really led to the
type of leader that he is.

287
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We all come
from different places,

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we all have
different backgrounds.

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And if it's about you,
it's not gonna work.

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And the team aspect
is more about

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we than it is about me.

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It's about the name
on the front of the jersey,

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not the name
on the back of the jersey.

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I felt like if I could infuse
that West Point culture

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into this organization
then we could really be
a successful team.

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First game at T-Mobile.
You can't be more
excited than this.

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You know what, actually it
doesn't feel like
a preseason game.

298
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You know feels like
we got the season, so...

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I'm excited.
I'm excited to run.

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For 500 million dollars, which is what they paid for it,

301
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you know what,
I thought they would have a little better looking lineup.

302
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Come on, boys, come on, boys.

303
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After the draft, plenty
of people were suggesting that
George McPhee missed the mark.

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Go, go, go!

305
00:17:52,201 --> 00:17:54,812
Most people in the press thought that the team was awful.

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-The worst expansion draft
of all time.
-Come on boys, wake up here.

307
00:17:58,164 --> 00:18:01,123
It was a bunch of guys from a bunch of different teams

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that came to the desert
to play hockey.

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Nobody thought
they was gonna do nothing.

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Around the league, if you read
all the preseason predictions,

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it was not good.

312
00:18:12,439 --> 00:18:14,223
There's one particular
hockey pundit who picked

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the Golden Knights
to be 31st out of 31.

314
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Forget about being competitive,

315
00:18:19,576 --> 00:18:22,101
people were picking
the Knights to be dead last.

316
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If you have
all four of your lines

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being just second
or third line players,

318
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they're gonna be the worst
team in this division.

319
00:18:29,543 --> 00:18:31,588
Dear God,
they are looking to be

320
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-pretty awful next year.
- It's all right.

321
00:18:34,287 --> 00:18:37,681
It is a beautiful late Sunday
afternoon in the desert.

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00:18:37,725 --> 00:18:40,423
And inside T-Mobile Arena,
the exhibition season

323
00:18:40,467 --> 00:18:43,339
is just about
ready to come to a close.

324
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It is Knight time.

325
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This is cool.

326
00:18:50,564 --> 00:18:52,479
In previous jobs, I've worked for last place teams

327
00:18:52,522 --> 00:18:55,264
and the way you keep people
there, they're either gonna
love the sport

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or have a good time. So
it was important to us to create
an entertainment experience.

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The idea of starting something
brand new in Vegas,

330
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something they hadn't seen
before was equally
invigorating and inspiring

331
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and just so frightening.

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00:19:09,452 --> 00:19:12,194
So Bill mentioned to me
in my first meeting with him,

333
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"I've got this vision."

334
00:19:14,718 --> 00:19:16,720
This Golden Knight character
who's gonna come out,

335
00:19:16,764 --> 00:19:18,635
and a week before
we didn't have the costume

336
00:19:18,679 --> 00:19:21,116
nothing was ready,
because it's the first year.

337
00:19:22,335 --> 00:19:26,469
That was gonna be a catalyst
kind of for the show
open experience.

338
00:19:26,513 --> 00:19:32,171
The beginning
of every Golden Knights game
has this medieval times

339
00:19:32,214 --> 00:19:36,175
meets NHL meets Las Vegas
feel to it

340
00:19:36,218 --> 00:19:40,179
that is so ridiculous
and so over the top

341
00:19:40,222 --> 00:19:41,484
that it's awesome.

342
00:19:41,528 --> 00:19:43,834
Fire!

343
00:19:48,361 --> 00:19:51,842
So October 1, 2017,
is our last preseason game.

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00:19:51,886 --> 00:19:56,195
We're all excited,
you know, the season's
upcoming and we can't wait.

345
00:19:56,238 --> 00:19:58,501
We just know
big things are ahead.

346
00:19:58,545 --> 00:20:01,635
We had a fan fest
set up for October 3rd.

347
00:20:01,678 --> 00:20:04,464
We had everything ready. It
was gonna be a huge celebration.

348
00:20:04,507 --> 00:20:07,902
Lots of excitement to kick off
the start of the season.

349
00:20:07,945 --> 00:20:09,469
No, no, no, no.

350
00:20:10,252 --> 00:20:12,428
Well, that will do it.

351
00:20:12,472 --> 00:20:14,343
The thing that
everyone's gonna remember

352
00:20:14,387 --> 00:20:16,519
is that first home game.
We got to do that right.

353
00:20:16,563 --> 00:20:19,957
We were all hands on deck
for something really special.

354
00:20:20,001 --> 00:20:22,612
And I'm like, "Cool, next stop,
October 10th, opening night."

355
00:20:22,656 --> 00:20:24,527
The Vegas Golden Knights.

356
00:20:24,571 --> 00:20:26,834
First ever exhibition season
and it ends

357
00:20:26,877 --> 00:20:28,923
with a 5 to 3 loss.

358
00:20:34,581 --> 00:20:38,672
October 1st is the final day of the Route 91 Harvest festival

359
00:20:38,715 --> 00:20:41,892
that's a country music concert
right off the Strip.

360
00:20:41,936 --> 00:20:45,418
You know it's massive.
There's 21,000 people there.

361
00:20:45,461 --> 00:20:49,944
I know a lot of people at Route 91. I've seen pictures all weekend on social media.

362
00:20:49,987 --> 00:20:52,251
I actually
had tickets to the concert.

363
00:20:52,773 --> 00:20:56,603
With everything going on
with a big week leading
up to the opening night,

364
00:20:56,646 --> 00:20:58,605
I chose to go home.

365
00:21:00,563 --> 00:21:03,914
Jason Aldean's
the headliner for Route 91.

366
00:21:03,958 --> 00:21:06,656
And with my brother
and my friends and--

367
00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:09,616
we're doing the same thing
as everybody else, having
a couple drinks, relaxing.

368
00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,620
All of a sudden I hear cracks.

369
00:21:16,318 --> 00:21:20,888
It almost sounds like
a blown speaker, maybe
fireworks, maybe firecrackers.

370
00:21:20,931 --> 00:21:24,848
Everybody's kind of unaware
of what's going on and
Jason Aldean is still playing.

371
00:21:27,721 --> 00:21:29,026
And then it goes again.

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00:21:33,379 --> 00:21:34,858
That's when they realized
something's wrong.

373
00:21:34,902 --> 00:21:36,643
Something's happening over here.

374
00:21:36,686 --> 00:21:38,427
Jason stops playing

375
00:21:38,471 --> 00:21:41,300
and I'm looking around
and I see people

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00:21:41,343 --> 00:21:44,868
that are ducking, laying down.
I kind of slowly turn. Then--

377
00:21:49,699 --> 00:21:51,875
That's when
I feel it in my chest.

378
00:21:51,919 --> 00:21:53,790
I look down,
I have a hole in my chest.

379
00:21:56,576 --> 00:21:59,840
My brother grabs me.
I'm running the best I can,

380
00:22:02,408 --> 00:22:04,497
blood still coming out
of my mouth and that's--

381
00:22:04,540 --> 00:22:06,934
that's kind of when the fear
kind of set in a little bit,

382
00:22:06,977 --> 00:22:09,850
like, is this my last day. Like,
are these my last minutes?

383
00:22:13,201 --> 00:22:16,857
We got shots fired at the Route 91,apparently a firearm.

384
00:22:20,034 --> 00:22:22,428
Can you tell me
where it is coming from?

385
00:22:23,516 --> 00:22:26,910
I'm the captain of the Strip,
which is 6.1 square miles.

386
00:22:28,129 --> 00:22:31,524
My wife's phone rings
and it's one of her friends

387
00:22:31,567 --> 00:22:33,830
and she says
active shooter on the Strip.

388
00:22:37,704 --> 00:22:40,402
We have multiple causalities.
Multiple causalities.

389
00:22:40,446 --> 00:22:42,839
We need to stop the shooter
before we have more victims.

390
00:22:44,058 --> 00:22:46,626
There's reports that there
could be multiple shooters.

391
00:22:46,669 --> 00:22:51,108
And you also had
20-plus thousand people

392
00:22:51,152 --> 00:22:55,069
that are there
and they're spilling out
and where are they going.

393
00:22:55,112 --> 00:22:58,028
Oh my gosh, look at this.
There's got to be at least

394
00:22:58,072 --> 00:23:01,510
40 Henderson police SUVs
here.

395
00:23:01,554 --> 00:23:03,686
Sounds like it's coming
from Mandalay Bay.

396
00:23:04,470 --> 00:23:06,472
These are shot coming
from Mandalay Bay.
We need immediate medical aid.

397
00:23:06,515 --> 00:23:09,953
This way. This way.
Go, go, go, go. That way.

398
00:23:10,867 --> 00:23:14,567
The actual crime scene,
it's over three square miles.

399
00:23:14,610 --> 00:23:17,918
We had hundreds of people
that were shot.

400
00:23:17,961 --> 00:23:23,097
This is the nightmare
hat nobody was thinking about.

401
00:23:23,140 --> 00:23:29,582
There is a huge presence
of police and ambulances
and medical personnel.

402
00:23:41,507 --> 00:23:43,770
Probably about 11 o'clock, I got a call.

403
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,729
I didn't recognize the number.

404
00:23:48,122 --> 00:23:51,995
It was a co-worker of Neysha who
she was at the concert with.

405
00:23:53,127 --> 00:23:56,478
Neysa was the mother
of my children.

406
00:23:56,522 --> 00:23:59,786
She was my ex-wife. And...

407
00:24:01,701 --> 00:24:05,226
he said I have got something
to tell you...

408
00:24:06,009 --> 00:24:08,969
"I'm standing over Neysa
and she's dead."

409
00:24:14,104 --> 00:24:15,758
I-- I couldn't believe it.

410
00:24:16,890 --> 00:24:19,588
So, you need to tell the boys.

411
00:24:20,502 --> 00:24:24,071
I didn't know really what to do. You're never prepared for that scenario.

412
00:24:24,114 --> 00:24:27,857
Braxton asked what was
going on and I had to tell him

413
00:24:27,901 --> 00:24:31,600
that his mother was killed
at-- at the concert.

414
00:24:33,776 --> 00:24:37,954
He didn't process it for like
the first maybe 5 to 10 seconds

415
00:24:37,998 --> 00:24:40,827
and then he just started
punching his door.

416
00:24:43,830 --> 00:24:45,701
It's the darkest day of my life.

417
00:24:55,581 --> 00:24:59,019
I don't have very
much more to update you with.

418
00:25:00,020 --> 00:25:02,544
One thing in particular
that has changed

419
00:25:02,588 --> 00:25:04,677
the number of people that have
died

420
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,940
associated with this event
has increased.

421
00:25:06,983 --> 00:25:10,117
Right now we're using
the number of 58.

422
00:25:19,953 --> 00:25:24,000
We went to work the next day,
you could have heard a pin drop
in the office.

423
00:25:24,044 --> 00:25:27,743
It's like you don't know
what to say, you don't know
who is impacted.

424
00:25:29,571 --> 00:25:30,790
We wanted to--

425
00:25:36,622 --> 00:25:37,710
sorry.

426
00:25:40,582 --> 00:25:44,238
You'd come
into work and you want to cry
but you're just stunned

427
00:25:44,281 --> 00:25:48,155
and you don't really
know how to feel.
It's gut-wrenching.

428
00:25:52,202 --> 00:25:54,074
One of the things that--

429
00:25:56,250 --> 00:26:01,690
that gets lost in this
is there's an enormous amount
of human loss here.

430
00:26:01,734 --> 00:26:06,782
Fifty-eight people are dead,
58 families are torn apart.

431
00:26:06,826 --> 00:26:08,741
It's irreparable.

432
00:26:18,751 --> 00:26:21,188
That next day was crazy.

433
00:26:21,231 --> 00:26:24,017
You know, I've lived here
for a number of years now

434
00:26:24,060 --> 00:26:26,889
and I've done a charity hockey
game with firefighters
every summer,

435
00:26:26,933 --> 00:26:30,763
so I knew a lot of the first
responders and then we knew
a lot of people

436
00:26:30,806 --> 00:26:33,679
that were going down
to watch the concerts.

437
00:26:33,722 --> 00:26:37,291
And the first thing that runs
through mind is seeing
if they're okay.

438
00:26:39,075 --> 00:26:42,252
I remember Deryk texted us "I
think we should do something"

439
00:26:42,296 --> 00:26:44,341
and everybody
was willing to do it."

440
00:26:44,385 --> 00:26:46,256
We wanted to be there for Deryk

441
00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:48,868
and the city and everybody.

442
00:26:48,911 --> 00:26:52,045
Every single player
was like what can I do?

443
00:26:52,088 --> 00:26:54,613
I need to do something.
I want to do something.

444
00:26:55,744 --> 00:26:57,703
What can we do to help?

445
00:26:57,746 --> 00:27:00,183
-Welcome guys.
Please go on in.
-Thank you.

446
00:27:01,358 --> 00:27:03,622
-I'm Brendan.
-Nice to meet you.

447
00:27:03,665 --> 00:27:06,320
Thanks for coming out.
I really appreciate it.

448
00:27:06,363 --> 00:27:09,279
-Thank you so much guys
for coming out.
-Thank you, guys, really.

449
00:27:09,323 --> 00:27:13,675
I was at police headquarters
and I see two Knights players
standing over there

450
00:27:13,719 --> 00:27:18,811
and they're wearing their
jerseys and I was a little bit
taken back in the beginning.

451
00:27:18,854 --> 00:27:21,030
I was like we got a lot
of things going on here,
I don't have time

452
00:27:21,074 --> 00:27:23,642
to deal with a couple
of professional athletes.

453
00:27:25,426 --> 00:27:29,648
You know what it amazed me, one in particular, Deryk Engelland, introduced himself.

454
00:27:29,691 --> 00:27:32,738
I asked him what was he doing
here. He says, "No reason.

455
00:27:33,739 --> 00:27:35,958
Just wanted you to know that we're here supporting you.

456
00:27:36,002 --> 00:27:38,308
We're hoping the best for you
and we're here to help."

457
00:27:38,352 --> 00:27:40,833
I don't know anything
about hockey but I want
to thank you for coming.

458
00:27:40,876 --> 00:27:42,399
Thank you for everything
you guys do.

459
00:27:42,443 --> 00:27:44,663
It wasn't about hockey anymore,

460
00:27:44,706 --> 00:27:47,970
it was about the people
that were affected by it

461
00:27:48,710 --> 00:27:51,147
and doing whatever
we could to, you know,

462
00:27:51,191 --> 00:27:54,150
if it was just shake a hand,
give a hug,

463
00:27:54,194 --> 00:27:59,329
you know, maybe get them
to don't think about it
for a few minutes,

464
00:27:59,373 --> 00:28:02,158
just try to bring a smile
to someone's face.

465
00:28:02,202 --> 00:28:04,030
Oh, nice.

466
00:28:04,857 --> 00:28:07,686
I'll take one too, Deryk.

467
00:28:14,780 --> 00:28:18,174
We were so excited
about having our home opener,

468
00:28:18,218 --> 00:28:21,395
and it's the first home
game in franchise history.

469
00:28:22,396 --> 00:28:25,747
I mean it was something where
it was gonna be a celebration.

470
00:28:25,791 --> 00:28:28,402
And the rug was totally
pulled out from us.

471
00:28:29,969 --> 00:28:34,451
You've spent time rehearsing
and planning
for this three-hour window.

472
00:28:35,235 --> 00:28:37,411
And now we can't do what
we were planning.

473
00:28:38,847 --> 00:28:42,329
You guys have been phenomenal
in just reacting quickly.

474
00:28:42,372 --> 00:28:45,245
Obviously, we spent months
planning certain things.

475
00:28:46,768 --> 00:28:50,380
We are talking about
how to honor the victims.

476
00:28:54,820 --> 00:28:56,822
And how do you do that?
Like, how do you--

477
00:28:57,910 --> 00:29:01,087
how do you not sensationalize
that loss?

478
00:29:03,219 --> 00:29:06,788
So it's 58 names and I've got
side notes next to them, like

479
00:29:06,832 --> 00:29:09,878
some of them if they were there
with their daughter

480
00:29:09,922 --> 00:29:13,752
or just notes of who is local
and things like that.

481
00:29:13,795 --> 00:29:16,319
We're gonna acknowledge
the strength and resiliency

482
00:29:16,363 --> 00:29:18,800
during the pregame show.

483
00:29:18,844 --> 00:29:21,281
That's the way you honor them
is you just--

484
00:29:21,324 --> 00:29:25,459
you got those names and... yeah.

485
00:29:29,158 --> 00:29:32,335
It's not about you.
It's not about your show.
It's not about your team.

486
00:29:32,379 --> 00:29:35,425
It's about your city.
It's about loss, but also

487
00:29:35,469 --> 00:29:39,212
about you know what,
we're still here, there's
still a strength in that.

488
00:29:40,517 --> 00:29:43,912
We are suddenly
on a massive platform.

489
00:29:43,956 --> 00:29:45,871
We've got a couple
of games on the road.

490
00:29:47,133 --> 00:29:49,048
Not knowing what to expect.

491
00:29:49,962 --> 00:29:51,137
Score.

492
00:29:52,834 --> 00:29:55,358
The expansion
Vegas Golden Knights

493
00:29:55,402 --> 00:29:58,492
do what very few
expansion teams do,

494
00:29:58,535 --> 00:30:00,842
that is win in their debut.

495
00:30:00,886 --> 00:30:02,061
We win game one,

496
00:30:03,149 --> 00:30:05,499
and I'm sort of like,

497
00:30:06,239 --> 00:30:08,110
"What do you know?
We won game one."

498
00:30:10,460 --> 00:30:12,462
And my phone just goes off.

499
00:30:12,506 --> 00:30:14,987
You get a sense
of the incredible...

500
00:30:15,988 --> 00:30:19,034
civic pride that's welling up
in Vegas

501
00:30:19,078 --> 00:30:23,386
because everyone
is so happy that we won.

502
00:30:26,172 --> 00:30:31,177
I just can't forget that moment
'cause I wasn't expecting that.

503
00:30:33,353 --> 00:30:37,009
And then we win game two
and now we're coming home

504
00:30:37,052 --> 00:30:38,837
and we've got to get
this right.

505
00:30:41,187 --> 00:30:43,842
Okay, tonight, we know it's
gonna be tough open ceremony,

506
00:30:43,885 --> 00:30:45,191
okay? It's gonna be tough.

507
00:30:46,845 --> 00:30:49,325
First game at home, let's take
care of business. Here we go.

508
00:30:55,157 --> 00:30:57,420
The message to the players before opening night

509
00:30:57,464 --> 00:31:00,467
was this is much bigger
than any of us.

510
00:31:01,511 --> 00:31:03,122
I don't know
how the game is gonna go,

511
00:31:04,384 --> 00:31:06,429
but that's not what's
most important tonight.

512
00:31:07,343 --> 00:31:12,044
Ladies and gentlemen,
the heroes of Las Vegas,

513
00:31:12,087 --> 00:31:16,309
please welcome to the ice
firefighter Ben Kole.

514
00:31:19,225 --> 00:31:22,054
Accompanied
by number 3 Brayden McNabb.

515
00:31:23,664 --> 00:31:26,449
Firefighter Derek Sutherland,

516
00:31:27,363 --> 00:31:30,062
accompanied by number 5
Deryk Engelland.

517
00:31:32,325 --> 00:31:34,893
Nurse Destiny Umbrante.

518
00:31:36,982 --> 00:31:41,073
Ladies and gentlemen,
Deryk Engelland.

519
00:31:42,552 --> 00:31:45,947
I'm not a great speaker, so I
was a little hesitant at first

520
00:31:45,991 --> 00:31:50,386
trying
to prepare to say a speech in front of 18,000-plus people.

521
00:31:50,430 --> 00:31:53,476
It was three or four days of--
that's all that was going
through my head

522
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,393
was the speech
and just trying to memorize it
the best I could

523
00:31:57,437 --> 00:31:59,178
to not mess it up over there.

524
00:32:00,266 --> 00:32:03,965
Like all of you, I am proud
to call Las Vegas home.

525
00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:11,016
I met my wife here.
My kids were born here.

526
00:32:11,059 --> 00:32:12,626
And I know
how special this city is.

527
00:32:17,283 --> 00:32:20,329
To all the brave
first responders

528
00:32:20,373 --> 00:32:23,071
that have worked tirelessly
and courageously

529
00:32:23,115 --> 00:32:25,465
throughout this whole tragedy,
we thank you.

530
00:32:29,251 --> 00:32:31,514
To the families
and friends of the victims,

531
00:32:31,558 --> 00:32:34,387
know that we'll do
everything we can

532
00:32:34,430 --> 00:32:37,129
to help you in our city heal.

533
00:32:39,305 --> 00:32:41,307
We are Vegas Strong.

534
00:32:46,181 --> 00:32:49,315
When Deryk hit
the ice and gave the speech,

535
00:32:50,055 --> 00:32:51,230
he won my heart.

536
00:32:52,405 --> 00:32:53,493
And um...

537
00:32:55,364 --> 00:32:58,063
He won my heart and the Golden
Knights won a city.

538
00:33:00,021 --> 00:33:01,196
Las Vegas,

539
00:33:02,458 --> 00:33:07,986
please join us
in 58 seconds of silence

540
00:33:08,029 --> 00:33:11,554
for the 58 individuals
who lost their lives

541
00:33:11,598 --> 00:33:13,513
on 1 October.

542
00:33:58,775 --> 00:34:02,605
I hope I never have to hear
that kind of deafening silence
in my life again.

543
00:34:02,649 --> 00:34:04,346
Vegas Strong!

544
00:34:04,390 --> 00:34:05,608
These individuals--

545
00:34:11,092 --> 00:34:14,791
NHL hockey
has come home to Las Vegas!

546
00:34:14,835 --> 00:34:18,230
Let's tell Vegas and the world

547
00:34:18,273 --> 00:34:22,756
that we are ready for this!
Go Knights go!

548
00:34:22,799 --> 00:34:25,715
I can't imagine what it was like for the players on the ice

549
00:34:25,759 --> 00:34:28,675
because now a hockey game
needs to be played.

550
00:34:28,718 --> 00:34:32,809
You've got to turn
your attention to business,
to work, scoring goals.

551
00:34:32,853 --> 00:34:36,465
It's all
taken care of. All that's
left to do is drop the puck.

552
00:34:36,509 --> 00:34:38,598
And away we go.

553
00:34:39,338 --> 00:34:44,125
The game starts and there's a buzz in the crowd.

554
00:34:44,169 --> 00:34:49,652
It's a buzz of anticipation
and the team has to deliver.

555
00:34:49,696 --> 00:34:52,351
-Go, go.
- And that first game,
we all knew

556
00:34:52,394 --> 00:34:54,570
that'd mean a big one
right from the start.

557
00:34:54,614 --> 00:34:56,833
If there was a game that we
needed to win was that one.

558
00:34:56,877 --> 00:34:58,661
Right up, right up.

559
00:35:00,446 --> 00:35:04,624
There was no chance
for losing that game.
We're coming out firing.

560
00:35:07,192 --> 00:35:11,152
The Golden Knights
fourth line, Tomás Nosek,

561
00:35:11,196 --> 00:35:14,547
a player that I would say
95% of the crowd

562
00:35:14,590 --> 00:35:19,595
-doesn't even know, shoots...
- Nosek scores!

563
00:35:19,639 --> 00:35:22,250
...and slips one through
the goalie's legs.

564
00:35:22,294 --> 00:35:25,645
Tomás Nosek has put the Golden
Knights on the board.

565
00:35:25,688 --> 00:35:27,603
And the Golden Knights
have the early lead.

566
00:35:27,647 --> 00:35:32,130
Moments after
Tomás Nosek had scored,

567
00:35:32,173 --> 00:35:34,480
there was a pass back
out to the point

568
00:35:35,220 --> 00:35:38,179
and Deryk Engelland,
a guy who 12 minutes ago

569
00:35:38,223 --> 00:35:42,314
was just trying
to hold back tears
talking into the microphone,

570
00:35:44,229 --> 00:35:47,841
-the puck and drops his stick--- They score!

571
00:35:52,367 --> 00:35:55,544
And that was
the moment of euphoria.

572
00:36:10,820 --> 00:36:14,476
And just hearing the crowd erupt
was something special.

573
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:15,521
And I'll never forget.

574
00:36:16,217 --> 00:36:17,436
Go, go.

575
00:36:19,220 --> 00:36:22,180
Pops over the stick, perhaps an active stick,

576
00:36:22,223 --> 00:36:26,184
got it. Big handle shot.
Big rebound. And Neal scores!

577
00:36:26,227 --> 00:36:29,752
But then they scored the third
goal and the fourth goal.

578
00:36:29,796 --> 00:36:33,365
They scored four goals in the
first 11 minutes of the game.

579
00:36:37,891 --> 00:36:40,285
Could this truly be reality?

580
00:36:40,328 --> 00:36:42,678
Defied all expectations.

581
00:36:43,505 --> 00:36:44,637
It was like a dream.

582
00:36:51,818 --> 00:36:54,734
On the radio I said sometimes
there are tears of sadness,

583
00:36:54,777 --> 00:36:56,866
sometimes
there are tears of joy,

584
00:36:56,910 --> 00:36:59,608
and then there are tears of the kind we've just experienced.

585
00:36:59,652 --> 00:37:02,220
People were cheering
and crying at the same time.

586
00:37:08,574 --> 00:37:11,881
The Vegas Golden
Knights have made NHL history

587
00:37:11,925 --> 00:37:16,538
for first expansion club ever
to get to a 3-0 start.

588
00:37:17,757 --> 00:37:22,414
So the first just happened nine days ago, it's still fresh

589
00:37:23,893 --> 00:37:28,289
then all of a sudden kind of
the greatest first few minutes
in hockey history happens.

590
00:37:31,814 --> 00:37:34,295
Big City. Big City.

591
00:37:39,431 --> 00:37:40,954
That was a real win last night.

592
00:37:40,997 --> 00:37:44,262
The guys came out and that first
10 minutes or so

593
00:37:44,305 --> 00:37:47,656
and they were on fire. They wanted to win for the town.

594
00:37:52,444 --> 00:37:56,404
Marc-Andre Fleury, 31 saves in the victory here Tuesday night.

595
00:37:56,448 --> 00:38:00,278
He has started all the games
so far for the Golden Knights. He gets the call again tonight.

596
00:38:00,321 --> 00:38:03,542
So it's game four, the Detroit
Red Wings are in town.

597
00:38:03,585 --> 00:38:07,328
Smith steals it.
Smith leaves the middle, they score. And it's a tie game.

598
00:38:07,372 --> 00:38:10,288
And then it all went downhill.

599
00:38:10,331 --> 00:38:14,379
In the second period there was a collision in front of the goal.

600
00:38:14,422 --> 00:38:16,598
Fleury got run into. He's down.

601
00:38:16,642 --> 00:38:18,905
I dove for the puck
and the guy,

602
00:38:18,948 --> 00:38:21,908
his knee hit me in the forehead.
And that was it.

603
00:38:22,648 --> 00:38:24,954
Another Vegas Golden Knight
suffer their first loss

604
00:38:24,998 --> 00:38:26,869
in franchise history after
they started off

605
00:38:26,913 --> 00:38:28,828
perfect three and o.

606
00:38:28,871 --> 00:38:31,787
It turned out after the game
that Marc-Andre Fleury

607
00:38:31,831 --> 00:38:33,485
was diagnosed with a concussion.

608
00:38:36,662 --> 00:38:39,752
Marc-Andre Fleury, it was
supposed to be the safety net,

609
00:38:39,795 --> 00:38:41,841
the face of the franchise,
the player

610
00:38:41,884 --> 00:38:45,323
that we were all gonna
rally around and he's gone.

611
00:38:47,847 --> 00:38:52,721
You know, you fear the worst,
is this gonna be two days,

612
00:38:52,765 --> 00:38:55,985
two weeks, two months,
his career?

613
00:38:56,856 --> 00:38:58,684
You never know with concussions.

614
00:38:58,727 --> 00:39:00,773
It's the unknown that keeps
you up at night.

615
00:39:02,905 --> 00:39:05,430
The Golden
Knights lost the game,

616
00:39:05,473 --> 00:39:08,346
their first ever, in franchise
history here on Friday night.

617
00:39:08,389 --> 00:39:11,479
With Marc-Andre Fleury
unavailable for game five,

618
00:39:11,523 --> 00:39:13,742
entered Malcolm Subban.

619
00:39:15,483 --> 00:39:17,964
This isn't ideal. We didn't want
to throw him in this early.

620
00:39:18,007 --> 00:39:21,010
We wanted more time.
We thought on a home stand
where we're home for two weeks

621
00:39:21,054 --> 00:39:23,535
that Fleury
could have handled all of it.

622
00:39:23,578 --> 00:39:25,667
Going into the game, obviously
it was a lot of pressure.

623
00:39:25,711 --> 00:39:26,886
A little nerve-racking.

624
00:39:28,453 --> 00:39:30,759
You got 18,000 people
in the building.

625
00:39:30,803 --> 00:39:33,588
Is he gonna get up 10 goals
tonight? I don't know.

626
00:39:33,632 --> 00:39:38,114
The feeling
in the arena was this is
when it's all gonna fall apart.

627
00:39:38,158 --> 00:39:41,509
Here comes Heinen
throws on the attack,

628
00:39:41,553 --> 00:39:44,382
shoot and a save, Subban.

629
00:39:44,425 --> 00:39:48,516
- And it didn't.
- Malcolm Subban,
20 saves tonight

630
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,518
in his first win in the NHL.

631
00:39:50,562 --> 00:39:53,608
The Golden Knights have
dropped the four and one.

632
00:39:53,652 --> 00:39:57,612
Subban rose to the
occasion and some of the best
goaltending we saw all season

633
00:39:57,656 --> 00:40:00,572
were those games the first
handful played by Malcolm Subban

634
00:40:01,529 --> 00:40:04,402
and then the Golden Knights
are playing St. Louis,

635
00:40:04,445 --> 00:40:05,751
the tail end
of the opening home state.

636
00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:08,971
Marc-Andre Fleury
going down for injury

637
00:40:09,015 --> 00:40:12,540
was a road bump but Subban
has stepped up to the task.

638
00:40:13,802 --> 00:40:17,023
Subban a little slow to get up.

639
00:40:17,066 --> 00:40:18,938
That is not a good sign.

640
00:40:20,113 --> 00:40:23,072
Shot missed why to my right side

641
00:40:23,116 --> 00:40:25,597
and kind of stretch out
and felt something.

642
00:40:26,641 --> 00:40:30,732
Right away I kind of knew something's not right obviously.

643
00:40:30,776 --> 00:40:33,561
You know-- you know when you get
a pretty serious injury.

644
00:40:34,562 --> 00:40:36,651
You lose your goaltender,

645
00:40:36,695 --> 00:40:40,438
your backup goes in, Subban
goes in, plays really well.

646
00:40:40,481 --> 00:40:44,093
-And then he goes down.

647
00:40:44,137 --> 00:40:47,488
Well, up from the American
Hockey League was Oscar Dansk,

648
00:40:47,532 --> 00:40:49,838
who had never played
in an NHL game before.

649
00:40:49,882 --> 00:40:52,798
Now the puck
in the Vegas end.

650
00:40:52,841 --> 00:40:57,498
He scores just like that
and the Blues have tied it.

651
00:40:57,542 --> 00:41:01,154
Maybe not how he imagined his first play here in the NHL.

652
00:41:01,197 --> 00:41:03,939
Wide open shot send out.

653
00:41:03,983 --> 00:41:06,594
Biggest save for Oscar Dansk.

654
00:41:06,638 --> 00:41:08,683
Dansk played
the next couple of games

655
00:41:08,727 --> 00:41:11,207
and, in fact, recorded
the first shutout

656
00:41:11,251 --> 00:41:13,775
in Golden Knights
franchise history.

657
00:41:13,819 --> 00:41:16,517
They blow up
seven and o at T-Mobile.

658
00:41:16,561 --> 00:41:18,258
And then the Golden Knights
go on the rope.

659
00:41:20,434 --> 00:41:22,610
Zips it across,
shoots it there,
it's his shot, save Dansk.

660
00:41:22,654 --> 00:41:25,570
Take that shot. Some are a little slower here to get up.

661
00:41:26,222 --> 00:41:29,530
And then Oscar went down in the game against the Islanders.

662
00:41:29,574 --> 00:41:31,793
That was crazy,
crazy situation

663
00:41:31,837 --> 00:41:36,537
where you know, you never
expect that but it was my shot.

664
00:41:36,581 --> 00:41:39,975
Maxime Lagacé now will come
into net for Vegas.

665
00:41:40,019 --> 00:41:43,631
And all of a sudden you're
turning to the fourth goalie
in the organization

666
00:41:43,675 --> 00:41:48,984
who had just arrived earlier
that day from the American
League team in Chicago.

667
00:41:49,028 --> 00:41:51,639
First ever game
in the NHL for Lagacé.

668
00:41:51,683 --> 00:41:54,642
Drip shot, save Lagacé.

669
00:41:54,686 --> 00:41:58,951
Even though they lose
that game against the Islanders,
it was only their second loss

670
00:41:58,994 --> 00:42:00,996
through the first
month of the season.

671
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:02,998
That's kick
wide there by Lagacé.

672
00:42:03,042 --> 00:42:07,176
Maxime Lagacé was integral
part of them holding on

673
00:42:07,220 --> 00:42:10,223
during that period
when Fleury was out in
the lineup and played excellent.

674
00:42:10,266 --> 00:42:13,182
What a save, Lagacé.
- Yeah, the fourth

675
00:42:13,226 --> 00:42:18,231
string goalie winning games.
That just doesn't happen
unless you've got

676
00:42:18,274 --> 00:42:23,018
the entire team believing
that has a team they can
accomplish great things.

677
00:42:23,062 --> 00:42:25,847
Wait, he's closing, he scores!

678
00:42:25,891 --> 00:42:30,025
William Karlsson.
It's another overtime winner.

679
00:42:30,069 --> 00:42:32,027
Doesn't matter
who's in the lineup,

680
00:42:32,071 --> 00:42:34,552
doesn't matter who,
they need to score goals,

681
00:42:34,595 --> 00:42:36,684
someone steps up,
gets the job done.

682
00:42:39,078 --> 00:42:42,690
That for the October tragedy
that claimed 58 lives,

683
00:42:42,734 --> 00:42:45,824
this team is truly giving Vegas something to believe in.

684
00:42:45,867 --> 00:42:49,567
There were a lot of people
that I met that had never
even watched a game,

685
00:42:49,610 --> 00:42:52,657
had never been to a game,
but they were from Las Vegas

686
00:42:52,700 --> 00:42:55,311
and they were just proud
that now they were
a major league city.

687
00:42:55,355 --> 00:42:59,968
Las Vegas is latched on to the shocking early success of the Golden Knights.

688
00:43:00,012 --> 00:43:03,102
Then winning early on has been
nothing but positive
for the hockey fans of Vegas.

689
00:43:05,365 --> 00:43:09,195
It was the coolest thing
to watch just win after win.

690
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:13,939
Nobody thought they'd win
those first games

691
00:43:13,982 --> 00:43:16,768
and nobody really
understands how big that was.

692
00:43:17,812 --> 00:43:22,208
But for the community, for the
fans, for Vegas, it was so big.

693
00:43:22,251 --> 00:43:25,733
Here is Smith
walking in center and score.

694
00:43:25,777 --> 00:43:29,084
The team wanted to win every
single game for the city.

695
00:43:29,128 --> 00:43:32,697
And it kind of just snowballed
and we kept going and going.

696
00:43:32,740 --> 00:43:38,093
I get on the bus after a game
and the fire chief's sent me
a text saying how many

697
00:43:38,137 --> 00:43:42,315
spirits were lifting
around the city and
how everyone's so proud of us.

698
00:43:43,185 --> 00:43:47,233
Karlson ...right
wing shot, glove save,
denied by
Lagacé.

699
00:43:48,887 --> 00:43:52,847
We try to watch as many games
as we could. Obviously,
when duty calls duty calls.

700
00:43:52,891 --> 00:43:55,850
But, typically,
we'll try and get done
with our duties a lot sooner,

701
00:43:55,894 --> 00:43:59,245
we'll try and cook dinner a lot sooner so that we're able to sit down and watch the games.

702
00:43:59,288 --> 00:44:03,031
It was camaraderie within the station that gave us something to watch together.

703
00:44:03,075 --> 00:44:06,644
It is a great bonding time.
It's game time after dinner.

704
00:44:06,687 --> 00:44:08,994
You know, game time is
announced on the RPA.

705
00:44:09,037 --> 00:44:11,736
Who's the bandwagon,
who's a real fan here?

706
00:44:12,867 --> 00:44:16,697
Put the game on the big screen
and, yeah, we'll just sit there

707
00:44:16,741 --> 00:44:19,004
as one big happy family
and cheer on the Knights.

708
00:44:19,874 --> 00:44:24,009
This ribbon right here
is for support of Jenice.
He's one of our firemen

709
00:44:24,052 --> 00:44:26,794
here at the station
on our platoon. His daughter
unfortunately was shot.

710
00:44:26,838 --> 00:44:30,102
Her name is Rylie.
Jenice was actually on duty

711
00:44:30,145 --> 00:44:33,235
at that time as well. He was
actually on our Engine 11.

712
00:44:35,063 --> 00:44:38,240
I called her and told her I was
outside trying to get in.

713
00:44:38,284 --> 00:44:41,113
And then she ended up
calling me back

714
00:44:41,156 --> 00:44:42,680
and said she was shot.

715
00:44:45,204 --> 00:44:48,120
She was struck in the back
in her spinal canal.

716
00:44:48,816 --> 00:44:51,036
Pretty much instantly paralyzed from the waist down.

717
00:44:53,168 --> 00:44:55,867
Luckily, she got out before...

718
00:44:56,737 --> 00:44:58,696
you know, as soon
as she could obviously,

719
00:44:58,739 --> 00:45:00,741
but, yeah, so luckily,
she got out

720
00:45:00,785 --> 00:45:02,177
and I just met her
at the hospital.

721
00:45:04,223 --> 00:45:07,095
- That's a bit rough?
-Very rough.

722
00:45:07,139 --> 00:45:09,794
-Very--
-Very emotional night.

723
00:45:11,404 --> 00:45:12,710
Yeah.

724
00:45:15,277 --> 00:45:20,282
You know that's something
that's gonna affect our life or
her life, you know, for forever.

725
00:45:22,763 --> 00:45:26,941
The Knights were kind
of that that light

726
00:45:26,985 --> 00:45:29,248
and, you know,
one of our darkest times

727
00:45:30,423 --> 00:45:32,207
and I think
people latched on to that.

728
00:45:33,295 --> 00:45:35,384
Every sport has its own soul,

729
00:45:35,428 --> 00:45:39,737
but hockey
is a very special soul.

730
00:45:40,302 --> 00:45:43,828
By winning all the time,
the Knights eased the pain

731
00:45:43,871 --> 00:45:45,090
of what was going on
in Las Vegas.

732
00:45:46,569 --> 00:45:49,050
They created this emotional
shield that protect

733
00:45:49,094 --> 00:45:51,226
our community from pain.

734
00:45:59,931 --> 00:46:02,063
I was pretty much in love
with the Knights for sure.

735
00:46:02,107 --> 00:46:04,979
It was tough not to be,
especially for us,

736
00:46:05,023 --> 00:46:07,808
for the Vegas locals,
who've never really had

737
00:46:07,852 --> 00:46:09,331
anything here to call your own.

738
00:46:10,028 --> 00:46:12,465
I'm a native, so the idea
of having a hockey team,

739
00:46:12,508 --> 00:46:16,425
a professional hockey team
for the first time
has been a dream come true.

740
00:46:17,949 --> 00:46:21,779
The Golden Knights
army has grown.

741
00:46:21,822 --> 00:46:24,346
Marc-Andre Fleury back
from the concussion.

742
00:46:25,260 --> 00:46:28,916
The Golden Knights keep winning but our visiting team

743
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,049
is coming down with a case
of Vegas flu.

744
00:46:31,876 --> 00:46:34,792
I think you're gonna have
to be careful if you're
a road team going to Vegas.

745
00:46:34,835 --> 00:46:38,926
A lot of teams
have spent time in Vegas and
haven't had a lot of success.

746
00:46:38,970 --> 00:46:42,147
Vegas flu became
a buzzword around the NHL.

747
00:46:42,190 --> 00:46:45,541
Perhaps some of the players were
indulging in the finer things

748
00:46:45,585 --> 00:46:49,197
that Las Vegas, aka Sin City,
has to offer.

749
00:46:49,241 --> 00:46:52,113
Vegas
is not like any other city.

750
00:46:52,853 --> 00:46:56,944
When you get off the airplane,
you walk into the airport

751
00:46:56,988 --> 00:47:00,905
which is full of slot machines
and loud noises
and ringing bells,

752
00:47:00,948 --> 00:47:03,124
there's an energy
to the Las Vegas Strip.

753
00:47:03,168 --> 00:47:07,868
Then you stay in a hotel
that has no clocks,

754
00:47:07,912 --> 00:47:11,829
the lobby doesn't look like
the Marriott in Buffalo,
it's different.

755
00:47:11,872 --> 00:47:17,399
Good teams go to Las Vegas
and play well while still
enjoying their visit.

756
00:47:17,443 --> 00:47:21,403
There's no question teams
came in here and they had more
than their fair share of fun.

757
00:47:22,187 --> 00:47:24,493
Everyone knows
Vegas is a party city.

758
00:47:24,537 --> 00:47:27,279
Part of being a professional
athlete, you have to know

759
00:47:27,322 --> 00:47:30,151
how to balance that kind
of lifestyle. And we'd teams,

760
00:47:30,195 --> 00:47:32,980
you're going out the night
before a game and stuff, maybe.

761
00:47:33,024 --> 00:47:36,331
We didn't care. We just came
out and played our game
and in our locking room

762
00:47:36,375 --> 00:47:40,509
we know that
it wasn't just because
of the Vegas flu, per se,

763
00:47:40,553 --> 00:47:43,382
it was because we
had a really good
team in our locker room.

764
00:47:48,953 --> 00:47:52,870
The Golden Knights have this
feeling that we're good.

765
00:47:54,001 --> 00:47:57,048
But everybody's kind of waiting for that one team

766
00:47:57,091 --> 00:48:00,138
to come in and punch him
in the mouth and send them back

767
00:48:00,181 --> 00:48:03,184
to the oblivion
that is an expansion team.

768
00:48:03,228 --> 00:48:05,883
And that team was
the Tampa Bay Lightning.

769
00:48:05,926 --> 00:48:09,060
Here is headman
Stamkos, and scores!

770
00:48:10,539 --> 00:48:13,194
Tampa Bay came in
here right before Christmas

771
00:48:13,238 --> 00:48:15,066
and they were the best team
in the league by far

772
00:48:15,109 --> 00:48:18,330
in every category.
Most wins, most points,

773
00:48:18,373 --> 00:48:20,636
most goals, top scorers
in the league.

774
00:48:22,334 --> 00:48:25,380
And I remember Tampa Bay jumped out with two-nothing lead
in the first period.

775
00:48:25,424 --> 00:48:28,253
Great example why they're
number one in the league.

776
00:48:28,296 --> 00:48:32,126
And we kind of thought
to yourself, "Well, not sure
this was gonna go very well."

777
00:48:32,170 --> 00:48:34,563
Now the Golden Knights has been rare they have trailed

778
00:48:34,607 --> 00:48:38,263
early in games in their old
building... Neal win a score.

779
00:48:39,220 --> 00:48:41,048
They make it a 2-1 game.

780
00:48:41,092 --> 00:48:43,094
Tampa Bay, it's a really good
test for us.

781
00:48:44,095 --> 00:48:47,141
Screwed down and managed
to crawl back, tie it up.

782
00:48:48,186 --> 00:48:50,928
Here is with wrist shot. Score!

783
00:48:50,971 --> 00:48:53,931
Then the Gold Knights
take it through two lead.

784
00:48:53,974 --> 00:48:58,631
And then Tampa Bay
tied the game at about
four minutes left three-three.

785
00:49:00,198 --> 00:49:02,417
The atmosphere was unbelievable.

786
00:49:02,461 --> 00:49:04,202
The clock's ticking down ten,

787
00:49:04,245 --> 00:49:06,291
nine, eight,
pucks in the corner.

788
00:49:06,334 --> 00:49:08,206
Battle fort
along the left corner.

789
00:49:08,249 --> 00:49:09,990
Time continuing
to tick off the clock.

790
00:49:10,034 --> 00:49:12,688
Not for Theodore. Score!

791
00:49:18,042 --> 00:49:20,392
I thought the roof was going
to come off that night.

792
00:49:25,005 --> 00:49:29,444
When that goal goes in,
everybody knows this isn't
just a goal to win a game,

793
00:49:29,488 --> 00:49:33,013
this is a goal for legitimacy.
This is a goal that will put
the Golden Knights

794
00:49:33,057 --> 00:49:35,320
in the conversation of the very best teams in the sport.

795
00:49:36,669 --> 00:49:39,498
It was almost
midway through the season
and you're playing

796
00:49:39,541 --> 00:49:42,501
the top team in the league.
To get that game really
turned a lot of heads

797
00:49:42,544 --> 00:49:45,156
in our locker room. Guys really
thought we were for real.

798
00:49:46,244 --> 00:49:48,681
Clear little
soccer style goal tending.

799
00:49:48,724 --> 00:49:52,990
It's actually unthinkable for a group of guys

800
00:49:53,033 --> 00:49:56,645
that are the castoffs
of other teams

801
00:49:56,689 --> 00:50:00,127
to win the first three games
in October.

802
00:50:00,171 --> 00:50:03,174
And then had
the setbacks injury.

803
00:50:04,088 --> 00:50:07,526
And then won six straight.
And then eight straight.

804
00:50:09,049 --> 00:50:10,181
Never happened before.

805
00:50:11,747 --> 00:50:13,097
Wouldn't even
say anymore about Vegas

806
00:50:13,140 --> 00:50:16,578
because the miracles continue.
I'm in awe.

807
00:50:16,622 --> 00:50:19,407
You had teams
then questioning it, "Well, they're gonna go on the road now

808
00:50:19,451 --> 00:50:21,366
we'll see what they're made
of when they go on the road."

809
00:50:21,409 --> 00:50:24,064
December was huge
and it set them up.

810
00:50:24,108 --> 00:50:26,545
Six wins in a row for Vegas.

811
00:50:28,460 --> 00:50:31,680
And then we're in
first place in their division

812
00:50:31,724 --> 00:50:36,033
before New Year's Day. Unheard
of for an expansion team.

813
00:50:36,076 --> 00:50:39,036
The improbable
journey continues.
- No one

814
00:50:39,079 --> 00:50:41,081
could have predicted that.
They're rolling
through the league,

815
00:50:41,125 --> 00:50:43,388
leading the Western Conference,
the Pacific Division.

816
00:50:43,431 --> 00:50:46,130
They continue to pace the Western Conference.

817
00:50:46,695 --> 00:50:49,046
The hat-trick, diving, scores!

818
00:50:49,089 --> 00:50:51,091
Now they are coming off
of the New Year and

819
00:50:51,135 --> 00:50:54,573
they didn't lose more
than three back-to-back games.

820
00:50:54,616 --> 00:50:57,706
Number one
of the Western Conference,
two overall in the NHL.

821
00:50:57,750 --> 00:51:01,797
Plenty of people felt when we're
gonna go into that slump? When
the wheels are gonna fall off?

822
00:51:01,841 --> 00:51:04,496
The Golden Knights trying to
take over the number one spot

823
00:51:04,539 --> 00:51:07,281
overall in the NHL. They
can do it with a win tonight.

824
00:51:07,325 --> 00:51:11,198
Here's Marchessault in one
of the offensive zone.
Marchessault scores!

825
00:51:11,242 --> 00:51:14,114
That's it.
And the Golden Knights

826
00:51:14,158 --> 00:51:17,596
have risen to number one
overall in the NHL.

827
00:51:17,639 --> 00:51:21,382
We're a good team,
but I wasn't going to relax

828
00:51:21,426 --> 00:51:24,124
until we were mathematically
into playoffs.

829
00:51:24,168 --> 00:51:25,734
The Golden
Knights have not lost a game

830
00:51:25,778 --> 00:51:27,736
in this building
in a month and a half.

831
00:51:27,780 --> 00:51:29,695
There was
a team years ago that was

832
00:51:29,738 --> 00:51:33,090
number one overall in the league in January, number one.

833
00:51:33,133 --> 00:51:35,701
-And didn't make the playoffs.

834
00:51:35,744 --> 00:51:38,138
he shot it, score!

835
00:51:38,791 --> 00:51:41,663
I keep thinking they've got
to the end of their road.

836
00:51:41,707 --> 00:51:44,275
They make me look like
an idiot every day.

837
00:51:47,843 --> 00:51:50,194
Every time that the Golden
Knights took the ice,

838
00:51:50,237 --> 00:51:53,240
they made it a point
to remember Vegas

839
00:51:54,154 --> 00:51:58,419
and to do a tribute to a Vegas Strong hero at every home game.

840
00:51:58,463 --> 00:52:01,422
Joining us at
center ice today are Las Vegas

841
00:52:01,466 --> 00:52:05,296
Metropolitan Police Department
Captain John Pelletier--

842
00:52:06,601 --> 00:52:11,258
Everybody in Vegas
knew that this team

843
00:52:11,302 --> 00:52:14,609
that said that they were a part
of the community, they meant it.

844
00:52:14,653 --> 00:52:17,395
Our first game,
we were hooked immediately.

845
00:52:17,438 --> 00:52:20,137
The energy, it was
just so uplifting that

846
00:52:20,180 --> 00:52:22,182
we got hooked and we wanted
to do it all the time.

847
00:52:22,226 --> 00:52:24,576
Everyone having
something to cheer for,

848
00:52:24,619 --> 00:52:26,360
it was exactly what we needed.

849
00:52:30,277 --> 00:52:33,280
The boys grabbed on to hockey.

850
00:52:33,802 --> 00:52:36,675
The common denominator
was the games.

851
00:52:38,242 --> 00:52:41,288
It was the only time that we
could enjoy and smile

852
00:52:41,332 --> 00:52:43,725
and laugh and high-five

853
00:52:43,769 --> 00:52:48,469
and do those things that you do without tragedy in its place.

854
00:52:48,513 --> 00:52:52,778
For us,
it was the only thing that
we will look forward to.

855
00:52:53,953 --> 00:52:58,523
And they were winning.
And it's fun to win.

856
00:53:02,657 --> 00:53:07,401
What George did
in assembling the team was

857
00:53:07,445 --> 00:53:11,318
to identify the desirable asset of those teams

858
00:53:11,362 --> 00:53:15,714
and uncover
any stone that we could
possibly think of to overturn.

859
00:53:17,368 --> 00:53:22,329
Find the gems, and that's what
we went into the draft

860
00:53:22,373 --> 00:53:26,246
trying to unearth.
Find the unknown surprises.

861
00:53:26,942 --> 00:53:29,554
They felt
like a lot of these players were
capable of a lot more

862
00:53:29,597 --> 00:53:31,860
if they were given
a new opportunity here.

863
00:53:32,861 --> 00:53:35,821
The best example
is William Karlsson.

864
00:53:36,691 --> 00:53:40,521
He was buried on the Columbus
Blue Jackets depth chart

865
00:53:40,565 --> 00:53:42,828
playing a very defensive role.

866
00:53:43,524 --> 00:53:47,224
But when he came to Vegas,
he was placed in the exact
opposite situation.

867
00:53:47,267 --> 00:53:49,530
William Karlsson looking
for a second shorthanded puck

868
00:53:49,574 --> 00:53:52,446
and is winning it
and shot. Scored!

869
00:53:52,490 --> 00:53:55,797
What a goal!
Through his own line.

870
00:53:55,841 --> 00:53:58,800
I came here and
the coach gave me the chance

871
00:53:58,844 --> 00:54:01,673
to play an offensive
role and score points.

872
00:54:01,716 --> 00:54:05,242
It is nice to get the
chance because I think I've
always had it in me.

873
00:54:05,285 --> 00:54:07,896
Slap shot
from the line... Loose puck.
Score.

874
00:54:07,940 --> 00:54:11,726
William Karlsson
is a guy who came from
his old team with a career-high

875
00:54:11,770 --> 00:54:15,295
at six goals.
And this season he scored 43.

876
00:54:15,339 --> 00:54:18,951
He's a breakout superstar
in every sense of the word.

877
00:54:18,994 --> 00:54:21,562
God, William Karlsson, tried the other side and score!

878
00:54:21,606 --> 00:54:26,350
There was some genius behind
what Gerard did this year.

879
00:54:26,393 --> 00:54:29,309
And the Golden Knights get five fresh bodies over the boards.

880
00:54:29,962 --> 00:54:33,879
Deploying them
in such an even-handed manner

881
00:54:33,922 --> 00:54:37,970
and keeping all 23 guys
on the roster involved.

882
00:54:38,013 --> 00:54:40,929
It's hard working for it.

883
00:54:40,973 --> 00:54:43,410
Golden Knights were
the best game team in hockey

884
00:54:43,454 --> 00:54:45,586
'cause there's a reason for
that. They were never tired.

885
00:54:47,196 --> 00:54:49,373
Well he goes right
o the middle of the ice, good
positioning

886
00:54:49,416 --> 00:54:53,290
Brad helped out allowing them to start to break out, come up the ice with speed.

887
00:54:53,333 --> 00:54:56,815
The speed
that we brought to the game,
that was our biggest asset.

888
00:54:56,858 --> 00:55:00,819
Every team, every building we
went to, the comment always is
exactly the same:

889
00:55:00,862 --> 00:55:04,823
"You guys are fast." We don't
see a team that is this fast

890
00:55:04,866 --> 00:55:07,434
that keeps coming at you shift
after shift after shift.

891
00:55:07,478 --> 00:55:09,654
He shoots. He scores!

892
00:55:10,394 --> 00:55:13,353
Gerard Gallant
has that ability to get
the best out of his players.

893
00:55:13,397 --> 00:55:15,790
I was just looking
for a group of guys that

894
00:55:15,834 --> 00:55:18,532
wanted to work for each other.
And they worked for each other.

895
00:55:18,576 --> 00:55:21,840
Vegas back into 1-1, Neal
to the right. Karlsson scores.

896
00:55:21,883 --> 00:55:24,321
Every time I took somebody out
and put somebody else in,

897
00:55:24,364 --> 00:55:26,453
they played really well.
So, we had 23 guys

898
00:55:26,497 --> 00:55:28,368
that were
really important to our group.

899
00:55:28,412 --> 00:55:30,327
Knights win it four to nothing.

900
00:55:30,370 --> 00:55:33,634
Vegas at 101 standings points.

901
00:55:33,678 --> 00:55:38,465
If the Knights to get a win,
they would clinch a playoff
berth. Score!

902
00:55:38,509 --> 00:55:40,902
Close to the end of
the season we're 10 points up.

903
00:55:40,946 --> 00:55:44,645
...offensive
end. Theodore. Scored.

904
00:55:44,689 --> 00:55:48,780
It was like,
you know what, we're good,
we-- we could finish first even.

905
00:55:49,868 --> 00:55:52,958
March 26,
big collection playoffs final.

906
00:55:53,001 --> 00:55:55,830
They've shattered every
expansion record there is

907
00:55:55,874 --> 00:55:59,791
and now they are
in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

908
00:55:59,834 --> 00:56:03,447
You had to pinch yourselves.
You know we might even win
a round in the playoffs.

909
00:56:04,578 --> 00:56:08,408
We had a great season.
But it doesn't mean anything

910
00:56:08,452 --> 00:56:11,019
until you make the playoffs,
and we made the playoffs

911
00:56:11,063 --> 00:56:15,372
and, you know, wow, we did
something really special.

912
00:56:16,068 --> 00:56:19,419
We watched the team, we watched the city really bond together.

913
00:56:19,463 --> 00:56:22,683
They fed off one other
at a difficult time.

914
00:56:22,727 --> 00:56:26,470
It has been a tremendous rise
in their inaugural year.

915
00:56:32,432 --> 00:56:35,392
The last home game
that the Knights
had in the regular season,

916
00:56:35,435 --> 00:56:38,482
they announced they were going to do a tribute

917
00:56:38,525 --> 00:56:41,789
to the victims
that we lost that night
in the events of 1 October.

918
00:56:45,445 --> 00:56:47,969
My heart was just breaking over my own daughter

919
00:56:48,013 --> 00:56:52,409
on the night that we got the phone call that she was killed.

920
00:56:52,452 --> 00:56:57,805
Honestly, it really did not
seem like more than a nightmare.

921
00:56:57,849 --> 00:57:00,460
There was nothing real about it.

922
00:57:00,504 --> 00:57:03,463
Tonight, as we close off
the regular season at home.

923
00:57:03,507 --> 00:57:08,076
The Knights
reached out to us and asked
if we would be in a family

924
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:10,949
that would represent
the 58th on the ice.

925
00:57:10,992 --> 00:57:13,517
Vegas Golden
Knights owner Bill Foley,

926
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,171
team general manager
George McPhee

927
00:57:16,215 --> 00:57:18,783
and defenseman Deryk Engelland

928
00:57:18,826 --> 00:57:22,177
are joined on the ice
by the parents,

929
00:57:22,221 --> 00:57:28,096
husband, and sons of 1 October
victim, Neysa Tonks

930
00:57:28,140 --> 00:57:31,883
representing all 58 families.

931
00:57:36,148 --> 00:57:40,108
At the ceremony, the Knights
chose to retire the number 58

932
00:57:40,761 --> 00:57:44,765
and they created a banner
and instead of having the number
58 and blazing down the banner,

933
00:57:44,809 --> 00:57:47,464
they would take 58 starbursts.

934
00:57:49,814 --> 00:57:53,600
The feeling of watching
the 58 names, the 58 angels

935
00:57:53,644 --> 00:57:56,821
being, you know, as they raised
to heaven almost,

936
00:57:56,864 --> 00:58:00,781
you know, up into the rafters
of the arena, very emotional.

937
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,920
You're on the ice and you're
standing there with them

938
00:58:08,963 --> 00:58:13,228
and people are emotional and you
want to just let them know that,

939
00:58:16,797 --> 00:58:18,233
you know,
we did everything we could.

940
00:58:21,193 --> 00:58:26,807
Those 58 lives
and their families will
never ever be forgotten.

941
00:58:28,243 --> 00:58:32,683
That's a small
piece of love that the Golden
Knights gave to our community

942
00:58:32,726 --> 00:58:35,990
and to those families
of the victims.

943
00:58:36,034 --> 00:58:39,037
And there couldn't have been
a more classy thing
that they could have done.

944
00:58:42,954 --> 00:58:45,565
Go Knights go! Go Knights go!

945
00:58:45,609 --> 00:58:48,742
Never have the critics been so
wrong predicting that hockey

946
00:58:48,786 --> 00:58:51,832
wouldn't work in the desert and locals wouldn't support it.

947
00:58:51,876 --> 00:58:56,054
It turns out the Vegas Golden
Knights were exactly
what this community needed.

948
00:58:56,097 --> 00:58:59,100
Knights fever
has taken over the city.

949
00:58:59,144 --> 00:59:01,886
Las Vegas
has become a hockey town.

950
00:59:01,929 --> 00:59:04,541
Our mantra has been
welcome to the impossible.

951
00:59:04,584 --> 00:59:07,282
And this right here
is the impossible.

952
00:59:07,326 --> 00:59:11,025
I've never been into hockey
until this year until the Golden
Knights. It's been amazing.

953
00:59:11,069 --> 00:59:13,724
After everything
the city's been through,
it's really a good thing.

954
00:59:13,767 --> 00:59:17,554
It's insane. Everybody I know
are completely obsessed.

955
00:59:18,250 --> 00:59:22,036
It was full-on. Now we've got the Statue of Liberty

956
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:25,605
in New York,
New York has a jersey on. You would be hard-pressed to go

957
00:59:25,649 --> 00:59:29,566
anywhere in town
and not see either a shirt,

958
00:59:29,609 --> 00:59:33,134
a hat on somebody, a bumper
sticker, it was everywhere.

959
00:59:34,309 --> 00:59:37,617
I even got one of those flags
in my garage right now.

960
00:59:37,661 --> 00:59:40,881
My wife made me put that up.
But I'm proud to put it up.

961
00:59:40,925 --> 00:59:43,754
Now she wants me to get
a license plate ring,

962
00:59:43,797 --> 00:59:46,104
go around her license plate
on her car.

963
00:59:46,147 --> 00:59:50,195
I can't keep up.
And then she just got a little
cover for her cell phone.

964
00:59:50,238 --> 00:59:53,285
I'm a little worried she might
be dating one of those players.

965
00:59:56,114 --> 01:00:00,118
Once the playoffs starts,
I know people
were lining up at 5:00 a.m.

966
01:00:00,161 --> 01:00:02,294
to be there for a practice
that starts at 10:00 a.m.

967
01:00:03,730 --> 01:00:08,169
This team
is hot and the drawback is
skyrocketing ticket prices.

968
01:00:08,213 --> 01:00:11,608
Going to a game
is borderline unaffordable.

969
01:00:11,651 --> 01:00:14,915
One solution several families
have found, head to practice.

970
01:00:14,959 --> 01:00:18,353
- Price tag, zero.
-You get to actually meet them,

971
01:00:18,397 --> 01:00:21,313
you can sign them. They're
not just trying to hurry up,

972
01:00:21,356 --> 01:00:23,794
get back to the game,
it's more personal.

973
01:00:24,359 --> 01:00:26,274
The first practice
before playoffs,

974
01:00:26,318 --> 01:00:28,886
we had over 500 people.

975
01:00:28,929 --> 01:00:33,151
The building was so full
that they actually

976
01:00:33,194 --> 01:00:36,720
exceeded fire capacity and had
to put security out there

977
01:00:36,763 --> 01:00:40,985
-and not let anyone else
in the building.
-Go Knights go!

978
01:00:41,028 --> 01:00:45,946
It was madness. Everyone
was like, "Jesus, this team

979
01:00:45,990 --> 01:00:48,688
just makes you feel really proud
of being from Vegas."

980
01:00:48,732 --> 01:00:51,125
You can see
the atmosphere outside

981
01:00:51,169 --> 01:00:54,912
and it was like one
big party. You could see
that the city was pumped.

982
01:00:56,304 --> 01:00:59,699
We're in Las Vegas
for the first time ever

983
01:00:59,743 --> 01:01:01,745
for the Stanley Cup playoffs.

984
01:01:01,788 --> 01:01:04,225
The Kings
and the Golden Knights.

985
01:01:04,965 --> 01:01:07,968
The playoffs begin
and all the critics come back.

986
01:01:08,012 --> 01:01:10,231
This is not going to continue.

987
01:01:10,275 --> 01:01:13,974
And then the opponent is
the big bad mighty Kings.

988
01:01:14,018 --> 01:01:17,151
The Los Angeles Kings
have won the Stanley Cup!

989
01:01:18,849 --> 01:01:21,808
The Vegas Golden Knights weren't
supposed to finish over 500,

990
01:01:21,852 --> 01:01:26,160
never mind make the postseason.
And here they are welcoming
playoffs hockey.

991
01:01:26,204 --> 01:01:29,163
Do they have what it takes
when it counts the most?

992
01:01:29,207 --> 01:01:31,688
Back in December,
Drew Doughty had this to say.

993
01:01:31,731 --> 01:01:34,429
There's no way they're
onna be a better team than us

994
01:01:34,473 --> 01:01:37,345
-by the end of the season.
- The Golden Knights
have projected that quote

995
01:01:37,389 --> 01:01:39,434
on the ice before the game.

996
01:01:40,218 --> 01:01:43,047
Everyone believes that this
team is gonna flare.

997
01:01:43,090 --> 01:01:46,833
It all sure it was a great story
in the regular season.

998
01:01:46,877 --> 01:01:49,053
But here we are in the playoffs.

999
01:01:49,096 --> 01:01:51,142
The Stanley Cup
playoffs is underway.

1000
01:01:51,882 --> 01:01:54,319
Huge hit by Carrier on Doughty.

1001
01:01:54,362 --> 01:01:56,887
The Golden Knights were here to play playoff hockey

1002
01:01:56,930 --> 01:02:00,934
and they were going out of their way to get in the head of Drew Doughty

1003
01:02:00,978 --> 01:02:04,329
to make sure that he knew
that he was a marked man.

1004
01:02:04,372 --> 01:02:06,810
Checks his
man Doughty on the end board.

1005
01:02:06,853 --> 01:02:09,987
Vegas coming back. He shoots.
Blocker save on the rebound.

1006
01:02:10,030 --> 01:02:13,381
-...Hard collision.
- In just a few minutes
into game one,

1007
01:02:13,425 --> 01:02:15,775
- there's a loose puck.

1008
01:02:15,819 --> 01:02:18,430
the net with the puck.
Bigger than that Nosek.

1009
01:02:19,779 --> 01:02:22,913
Blocks that, finds Theodore
shoots and scores!

1010
01:02:23,783 --> 01:02:28,005
Shea Theodore has scored
the first post-season goal

1011
01:02:28,048 --> 01:02:30,921
in Golden Knights' history.
He's gonna take all the shots.

1012
01:02:32,226 --> 01:02:36,927
It was back
and forth thrilling hockey. And Kings could take advantage.

1013
01:02:36,970 --> 01:02:39,407
They have the offensive
fire at the toughest...

1014
01:02:39,451 --> 01:02:41,801
Fleury jumps on that one.

1015
01:02:41,845 --> 01:02:45,022
...Fleury was sensational in
those pressure-packed moments.

1016
01:02:45,849 --> 01:02:48,808
Kempe gets his shot, oh!
Juggling again.

1017
01:02:48,852 --> 01:02:52,420
Juggling the puck with his
stick, having fun and smiling,

1018
01:02:52,464 --> 01:02:54,901
you could see the smile
through his goalie mask.

1019
01:02:54,945 --> 01:02:59,384
Some of his saves are
just like how did he do that.

1020
01:02:59,427 --> 01:03:02,039
He's like a Jedi
for a hockey puck,

1021
01:03:02,082 --> 01:03:05,172
like, bam.
He's an amazing player.

1022
01:03:05,216 --> 01:03:07,044
Puck to the right
corner, right behind the two.

1023
01:03:07,087 --> 01:03:09,307
They've won. It's over!
Knights win it

1024
01:03:09,350 --> 01:03:12,789
and history made
in Vegas tonight.

1025
01:03:12,832 --> 01:03:16,009
It's the 11th career
Stanley Cup playoff.

1026
01:03:16,053 --> 01:03:18,316
Shutout for Marc-Andre Fleury.

1027
01:03:18,359 --> 01:03:21,885
The Vegas Golden Knights make history once again.

1028
01:03:21,928 --> 01:03:25,802
And my goodness,
the crowd, the atmosphere,
lived up to the hype.

1029
01:03:25,845 --> 01:03:27,978
I've never seen it like this
before. It was incredible.

1030
01:03:28,021 --> 01:03:31,590
You still see that everybody is
just celebrating and cheering.

1031
01:03:33,287 --> 01:03:36,160
The Golden Knights
win game two and three

1032
01:03:36,203 --> 01:03:38,815
and they now have
a 3-0 series lead.

1033
01:03:38,858 --> 01:03:40,468
Game four,
the Vegas Golden Knights

1034
01:03:40,512 --> 01:03:42,557
and the Los Angeles Kings.

1035
01:03:42,601 --> 01:03:45,212
You could feel the energy
in this watch party.

1036
01:03:45,256 --> 01:03:48,389
Fans have been
energized by the success
of this team all season

1037
01:03:48,433 --> 01:03:53,351
and there's no way
these fans weren't
going to be a part of it.

1038
01:03:53,394 --> 01:03:56,484
Here's Karlsson, left wing, through the circle drop at Smith

1039
01:03:56,528 --> 01:03:58,399
to the backdoor. They score!

1040
01:04:01,228 --> 01:04:05,450
Here comes the horn. It's over. It's a sweep for Vegas.

1041
01:04:05,493 --> 01:04:10,934
And the Vegas jackpot history
made by the Golden Knights!

1042
01:04:10,977 --> 01:04:14,894
Brayden McNabb, the game-winning goal against his former club.

1043
01:04:15,895 --> 01:04:18,158
I was
a little bit in disbelief.

1044
01:04:18,202 --> 01:04:21,335
We swept the Kings.
We are zipped. Unbelievable.

1045
01:04:22,467 --> 01:04:26,297
Four straight
wins to start their inaugural
Stanley Cup playoffs.

1046
01:04:26,340 --> 01:04:28,386
The Vegas Golden Knights
advance.

1047
01:04:29,169 --> 01:04:31,998
The way we did it going
n their barn and stealing too,

1048
01:04:32,042 --> 01:04:35,175
that's tough to do. And, you
know, we leave that series

1049
01:04:35,219 --> 01:04:36,568
knowing we could do something.

1050
01:04:37,917 --> 01:04:39,440
Ladies and gentlemen,

1051
01:04:39,484 --> 01:04:42,530
are you ready
for second round hockey?

1052
01:04:42,574 --> 01:04:46,186
San Jose
came into that second round
and they had swept Anaheim.

1053
01:04:46,230 --> 01:04:50,364
And, frankly, they made it look easy. They outscored an 18 to 4.

1054
01:04:50,408 --> 01:04:53,541
There's a team that had gone
to the Stanley Cup final
two years previous.

1055
01:04:53,585 --> 01:04:58,024
The Sharks had more offensive
firepower. They were faster.

1056
01:04:58,068 --> 01:05:00,548
And you figured that it was not
going to be a low scoring

1057
01:05:00,592 --> 01:05:02,463
series in the way it had been
in the first round.

1058
01:05:05,162 --> 01:05:08,208
Drop of the puck.
Round two underway.

1059
01:05:08,252 --> 01:05:11,516
It has only happened
a couple of times
in the last couple of decades

1060
01:05:11,559 --> 01:05:15,302
that teams with sweeps in their first round go head to head
in the second.

1061
01:05:15,999 --> 01:05:17,957
Here comes the second unit on,

1062
01:05:18,001 --> 01:05:20,046
now it's McNabb at the left
point. He shoots.

1063
01:05:21,395 --> 01:05:23,354
-...parked at the side
of the cleats

1064
01:05:23,397 --> 01:05:26,139
and the Knights take
a one-nothing lead.

1065
01:05:26,183 --> 01:05:29,577
The Golden Knights
followed that recipe
that they used all year long:

1066
01:05:29,621 --> 01:05:33,538
get on teams right away wave
after wave after wave.

1067
01:05:33,581 --> 01:05:37,411
Tuch gets through the team,
he shoots and scores!

1068
01:05:37,455 --> 01:05:40,153
The Golden Knights blow
them out seven-nothing.

1069
01:05:40,197 --> 01:05:44,462
Marc-Andre Fleury, his third
shutout of these playoffs.

1070
01:05:46,507 --> 01:05:49,728
From Las Vegas,
Nevada, game two.

1071
01:05:51,034 --> 01:05:55,255
After winning the first game against San Jose, we probably thought the series

1072
01:05:55,299 --> 01:05:57,475
-is gonna be easy.
-Here is hurdle... scores!

1073
01:05:57,518 --> 01:06:01,435
Puts it up high over
the glove to tie the game.

1074
01:06:01,479 --> 01:06:05,091
Everyone
knew it wasn't going to be,
they're extremely talented

1075
01:06:05,135 --> 01:06:07,485
and gifted team with
a lot of weapons over there.

1076
01:06:07,528 --> 01:06:12,098
They go back and forth.
Game two goes to over tie.

1077
01:06:12,142 --> 01:06:13,621
San Jose
was a massive challenge.

1078
01:06:13,665 --> 01:06:15,275
Wild series.

1079
01:06:15,319 --> 01:06:17,103
Couture turns it over,

1080
01:06:17,147 --> 01:06:19,105
puck in but saved by Fleury.

1081
01:06:19,149 --> 01:06:20,628
Sharks will go deep with it.

1082
01:06:20,672 --> 01:06:23,327
He'll delay all
the way-- Score!

1083
01:06:23,370 --> 01:06:27,722
And the San Jose Sharks defeat
the Vegas Golden Knights.

1084
01:06:27,766 --> 01:06:30,682
The first time
in these playoffs the Golden
Knights have lost a game.

1085
01:06:30,725 --> 01:06:34,120
The Sharks have stolen home ice advantage in round two.

1086
01:06:34,164 --> 01:06:38,037
We knew San Jose was gonna be
tough. Sure enough, they come
back and made it a series.

1087
01:06:38,081 --> 01:06:44,174
This time the Sharks win it.
So now bit of adversity.

1088
01:06:45,044 --> 01:06:47,177
Now comes the test.

1089
01:06:48,091 --> 01:06:51,311
That game two loss
was an eye-opener for our team

1090
01:06:51,355 --> 01:06:55,011
that it wasn't gonna be an easy series after that game.

1091
01:06:56,490 --> 01:06:58,492
Round two
tied up one game apiece.

1092
01:06:58,536 --> 01:07:01,713
Game three underway
at SAP Center.

1093
01:07:03,106 --> 01:07:07,197
Game three
is probably the most important
game in franchise history

1094
01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:10,026
because if the Golden Knights
lose game three,

1095
01:07:10,069 --> 01:07:13,507
they are now on the road down
two to one playing

1096
01:07:13,551 --> 01:07:16,510
against a team that has beaten
them twice in a row.

1097
01:07:16,554 --> 01:07:19,513
We knew going into the barn it's
gonna be tough.

1098
01:07:19,557 --> 01:07:20,645
We just keep grinding.

1099
01:07:22,255 --> 01:07:23,822
Here wipe
of the tip. He scores

1100
01:07:23,865 --> 01:07:27,260
and the Vegas Golden Knights
have a three-to-one lead.

1101
01:07:27,304 --> 01:07:29,610
The whole
team played insane.

1102
01:07:29,654 --> 01:07:32,048
Two-o-three left in regulation.

1103
01:07:32,091 --> 01:07:36,182
Puck shut down by Fleury. Puck
along by Meier. They score!

1104
01:07:36,226 --> 01:07:38,358
Sharks have tied it.

1105
01:07:38,402 --> 01:07:41,753
San Jose tied the game with just
over a minute and a half left

1106
01:07:41,796 --> 01:07:44,538
to enforce overtime again.

1107
01:07:44,582 --> 01:07:48,716
Overtime starts, it is a
hostile environment for a team

1108
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:52,198
that has their season hanging
in the balance.

1109
01:07:52,242 --> 01:07:55,375
Here comes wild
out there. Shoots.

1110
01:07:55,419 --> 01:08:00,772
Scores! Karlsson wins it.
Vegas does it again!

1111
01:08:01,599 --> 01:08:04,602
It's going to game-winning goal, when it matters so much,

1112
01:08:04,645 --> 01:08:07,518
you're so pumped up.
It's a great feeling.

1113
01:08:08,388 --> 01:08:11,348
San Jose very impressive in
the fourth game of the series.

1114
01:08:12,175 --> 01:08:14,351
Shot taken, blocked
by Fleury. They score.

1115
01:08:14,394 --> 01:08:16,788
San Jose
has a four-nothing lead.

1116
01:08:16,831 --> 01:08:19,269
San Jose came back with a pretty convincing winning game

1117
01:08:19,312 --> 01:08:23,099
four to tie the series. Well,
then Vegas comes back home

1118
01:08:23,142 --> 01:08:25,231
and wins game five
and goes back to San Jose.

1119
01:08:25,275 --> 01:08:27,407
Game number six.

1120
01:08:27,451 --> 01:08:31,237
These are the Sharks,
and a team of experience,

1121
01:08:31,281 --> 01:08:37,548
of guys that have been all
the way to the end before.
And most of your guys have.

1122
01:08:37,591 --> 01:08:41,160
Here come the Sharks.
Off the goal post.

1123
01:08:41,204 --> 01:08:43,728
Get in behind their D. That's where they make mistakes.

1124
01:08:43,771 --> 01:08:46,470
Game six we went
into San Jose and knew

1125
01:08:46,513 --> 01:08:48,689
it was gonna be a tough game
and we tried to close them out.

1126
01:08:48,733 --> 01:08:50,778
Loose puck, Smith
finds it and Marchessault

1127
01:08:50,822 --> 01:08:52,563
shoots and scores.

1128
01:08:52,606 --> 01:08:55,131
Good job, boys.

1129
01:08:55,174 --> 01:08:57,568
Right back here.
Better team. Let's go!

1130
01:08:57,611 --> 01:08:59,613
Hertl pulls it
away, works in--

1131
01:08:59,657 --> 01:09:02,877
save Fleury. Another try
and the glove saves Fleury.

1132
01:09:02,921 --> 01:09:06,185
Rebound to the near--
Save Fleury.

1133
01:09:06,229 --> 01:09:09,319
It's not easy to win
in that building. We played
the best game of the series.

1134
01:09:09,362 --> 01:09:12,626
That's what made me proud of our
guys. They just kept battling,
kept working hard.

1135
01:09:12,670 --> 01:09:15,803
Carpenter waits
to the middle. Eakin scores.

1136
01:09:15,847 --> 01:09:20,373
This round is over.
Golden Knights shutout
the Sharks three-nothing.

1137
01:09:20,417 --> 01:09:22,854
Vegas on to the Western
Conference Finals.

1138
01:09:22,897 --> 01:09:25,335
My goodness, what a story.

1139
01:09:25,378 --> 01:09:28,903
I've been
in the league a long time and
after you win that second round,

1140
01:09:28,947 --> 01:09:32,385
it's the furthest I've ever
made it. So, to make it
to that third round,

1141
01:09:32,429 --> 01:09:35,649
it was a pretty great
accomplishment for our group.

1142
01:09:37,390 --> 01:09:40,567
Electric atmosphere
outside Bell MTS Place.

1143
01:09:40,611 --> 01:09:45,224
What effect cause
game one of the NHL's
Western Conference final.

1144
01:09:48,619 --> 01:09:50,751
Come on, now. No pucks now.

1145
01:09:51,404 --> 01:09:54,364
Next year's we play Winnipeg.
And that's my hometown.

1146
01:09:54,407 --> 01:09:56,496
And they have very passionate
fans there.

1147
01:09:57,715 --> 01:10:01,327
Winnipeg is like biggest and one
of the best place to play
hockey.

1148
01:10:01,371 --> 01:10:03,764
Really loud.
It was white everywhere.

1149
01:10:07,551 --> 01:10:10,902
Going into the Conference
finals against Winnipeg Jets,

1150
01:10:10,945 --> 01:10:15,689
obviously,
we knew they were going to be
extremely hard team to beat

1151
01:10:15,733 --> 01:10:18,866
and it was gonna be a long
battle of a series.

1152
01:10:23,393 --> 01:10:27,440
Here come
the Jets with speed,
the puck went shot, score.

1153
01:10:27,484 --> 01:10:30,835
Dustin Byfuglien
where they blast from
the top of the slot.

1154
01:10:30,878 --> 01:10:33,272
And it doesn't take
the Jets long,

1155
01:10:33,316 --> 01:10:37,494
just 105 into the game they
lead game one, one-nothing.

1156
01:10:39,931 --> 01:10:42,238
The building is buzzing
and it's one to nothing.

1157
01:10:42,281 --> 01:10:44,544
And then
everything that could go wrong

1158
01:10:44,588 --> 01:10:46,894
does go wrong
for the Golden Knights.

1159
01:10:46,938 --> 01:10:49,245
Wheeler again
along the right side.

1160
01:10:49,288 --> 01:10:51,377
Into the backdoor line,
and scores.

1161
01:10:51,421 --> 01:10:54,337
Back and the front scores.

1162
01:10:54,380 --> 01:10:56,295
All of a sudden,
it's three to nothing.

1163
01:10:56,339 --> 01:10:58,297
Winnipeg is the quicker team.

1164
01:10:58,341 --> 01:11:01,996
It looks like reality has
set in for the Golden Knights.

1165
01:11:02,693 --> 01:11:04,695
Some big
adversity here, three-nothing,

1166
01:11:04,738 --> 01:11:06,740
and we're not even
eight minutes into this game.

1167
01:11:06,784 --> 01:11:08,873
Playoff game.

1168
01:11:08,916 --> 01:11:11,397
Gerard Gallant
can't believe it.

1169
01:11:11,441 --> 01:11:15,706
Game one against Winnipeg really
disappointed in ourselves.

1170
01:11:15,749 --> 01:11:19,492
The start we had to that game
was not the way you should play
in the playoffs.

1171
01:11:19,536 --> 01:11:23,975
Winnipeg,
they are on a roll, they had
the most explosive fan base,

1172
01:11:24,018 --> 01:11:27,413
they jumped on
the Golden Knights in game one

1173
01:11:27,457 --> 01:11:29,894
and people said
the bubble had burst.

1174
01:11:31,504 --> 01:11:33,767
Vegas has a little panic
in their game here.

1175
01:11:34,812 --> 01:11:37,336
Winberg has lost his helmet.

1176
01:11:37,380 --> 01:11:39,773
And now we've really got
a mess here.

1177
01:11:39,817 --> 01:11:43,821
You're thinking,
have the Golden Knights met
their match?

1178
01:11:43,864 --> 01:11:45,997
-...Score!

1179
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:47,651
Exactly on the tip.

1180
01:11:48,956 --> 01:11:51,872
The Winnipeg Jets take game one.

1181
01:11:51,916 --> 01:11:56,312
Golden Knights trail in
a series for the first time.

1182
01:12:06,365 --> 01:12:09,716
The Jets are
too big and bold and powerful.

1183
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:13,720
This is the series that
I don't think Vegas can win.

1184
01:12:14,547 --> 01:12:18,769
Winnipeg will burst Vegas'
bubble with all their offense.

1185
01:12:22,686 --> 01:12:26,472
Welcome to Winnipeg, it's game
two of the West Final.

1186
01:12:27,647 --> 01:12:30,955
When we first got
pucks, we're committed to
winning those battles.

1187
01:12:30,998 --> 01:12:34,088
That's when we play our best
hockey, okay. Commitment.
Everybody, ready to go.

1188
01:12:34,132 --> 01:12:36,569
Here we go. Let's go boys.
Here we go.

1189
01:12:45,926 --> 01:12:50,888
Game two now is a game
that Vegas has to play better
and a lot better.

1190
01:12:50,931 --> 01:12:54,021
- Puck kept alive
by the Golden Knights...
- They play tremendous.

1191
01:12:54,065 --> 01:12:56,850
...Golden opportunity for Tatar Now he scores!

1192
01:12:56,894 --> 01:12:59,549
One-nothing Vegas.

1193
01:13:01,942 --> 01:13:04,989
Retains it along but it's
stolen. Marchessault has
got a great one.

1194
01:13:05,032 --> 01:13:07,992
All by himself.
He shoots. He scores.

1195
01:13:08,035 --> 01:13:10,908
Marchessault slams it home
on the backhand.

1196
01:13:10,951 --> 01:13:15,521
There is nothing like playoff
hockey. It's what you live for
when you are a hockey player

1197
01:13:15,565 --> 01:13:18,045
and there's no excuses
when it comes to playoffs.

1198
01:13:18,089 --> 01:13:21,875
A return to Smith, left circle, center Marchessault,

1199
01:13:21,919 --> 01:13:25,705
he scores on the backhand.
Three to one, Vegas.

1200
01:13:25,749 --> 01:13:28,404
Marchessault 's second
goal of the game.

1201
01:13:28,447 --> 01:13:32,016
The Vegas Golden Knights win
game two in Winnipeg.

1202
01:13:32,059 --> 01:13:33,757
Looked like a different
team, don't they?

1203
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:35,411
Completely
and utterly different.

1204
01:13:35,454 --> 01:13:38,414
Winnipeg,
they were the best team

1205
01:13:38,457 --> 01:13:40,590
left in the NHL, in my mind.

1206
01:13:41,591 --> 01:13:44,811
Friday night
in Las Vegas, game four.

1207
01:13:44,855 --> 01:13:48,119
Vegas Golden Knights lead
the series two games to one.

1208
01:13:48,162 --> 01:13:52,079
We always had good start in Vegas and we took advantage of it almost.

1209
01:13:52,123 --> 01:13:54,604
Smith shoots. He scores!

1210
01:13:54,647 --> 01:13:59,435
The Vegas Golden Knights take
a three games to one lead.

1211
01:14:04,135 --> 01:14:10,707
Another whiteout in Winnipeg,
game five of the NHL's Western
Conference Final.

1212
01:14:10,750 --> 01:14:13,710
Game five
is a very tight game.

1213
01:14:15,102 --> 01:14:19,716
Big shot score.
Josh Morrissey beats Fleury
and we've got a tie game.

1214
01:14:19,759 --> 01:14:22,980
It spins to the lefty, shuffles left, he shoots, scores.

1215
01:14:23,023 --> 01:14:26,592
Ryan Reaves attempted his first Golden Knights goal

1216
01:14:26,636 --> 01:14:28,855
and the Knights take
a two to one lead.

1217
01:14:28,899 --> 01:14:30,944
He couldn't be happier
for a guy like Ryan Reaves,

1218
01:14:30,988 --> 01:14:33,469
he gets his first goal
for the Knights, and guys,

1219
01:14:33,512 --> 01:14:36,123
we're gonna talk
about this later but we've seen him work on that

1220
01:14:36,167 --> 01:14:38,648
all season long
since he's arrived.

1221
01:14:38,691 --> 01:14:41,955
Being part of a storybook
run like that, it's special.

1222
01:14:41,999 --> 01:14:45,219
That is something
I'll never forget for sure.

1223
01:14:46,177 --> 01:14:50,703
And that's it,
it's over! The Knights are going to the Stanley Cup final!

1224
01:14:50,747 --> 01:14:53,663
You can try to pinch yourself.
You're not going to wake up.

1225
01:14:53,706 --> 01:14:54,707
It's actually happening.

1226
01:14:57,231 --> 01:14:59,756
The Vegas Golden Knights are
going to the Stanley Cup final

1227
01:14:59,799 --> 01:15:00,974
in their inaugural season.

1228
01:15:02,715 --> 01:15:05,805
It was unbelievable to work
hard all year

1229
01:15:05,849 --> 01:15:09,548
and to know that you're gonna
have a chance to win the trophy

1230
01:15:09,592 --> 01:15:11,507
that you've been
dreaming all your life.

1231
01:15:11,550 --> 01:15:13,596
-Tremendous accomplishment.
-Thank you very much.

1232
01:15:13,639 --> 01:15:15,162
In your wildest dreams you
didn't think about that.

1233
01:15:15,206 --> 01:15:17,208
-Oh, I wasn't.
-Congratulations.

1234
01:15:17,251 --> 01:15:19,123
Vegas claims
the Campbell Bowl

1235
01:15:19,166 --> 01:15:21,604
for the Western Conference
Championship.

1236
01:15:21,647 --> 01:15:23,780
If we look
at all of our hockey players,

1237
01:15:23,823 --> 01:15:26,826
they were all exposed
in the expansion draft.

1238
01:15:26,870 --> 01:15:30,221
And so every one of them got
a second chance with us.

1239
01:15:31,091 --> 01:15:34,617
George McPhee
getting fired by Washington,

1240
01:15:34,660 --> 01:15:36,836
Tuch getting fired by Florida,

1241
01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:40,013
all of us getting left open
for the expansion draft,

1242
01:15:40,057 --> 01:15:44,540
traded, it was something
that we all had in common.

1243
01:15:44,583 --> 01:15:48,718
Deryk Engelland
sensing the moment will
skate alongside David Perron

1244
01:15:48,761 --> 01:15:51,851
and Marc-Andre Fleury
and skate it off the ice.

1245
01:15:51,895 --> 01:15:54,593
Western Conference champions.

1246
01:15:54,637 --> 01:15:58,815
They were all players
that another organization
deemed expendable.

1247
01:15:59,293 --> 01:16:03,210
So we're all in the same
situation and really didn't
have anything to lose.

1248
01:16:03,254 --> 01:16:05,038
Everyone said
we were gonna suck.

1249
01:16:05,778 --> 01:16:08,825
I think every guy came in with
a chip on their shoulder,

1250
01:16:08,868 --> 01:16:12,089
every single guy came in
with something to prove and

1251
01:16:12,132 --> 01:16:15,614
wanted to show their old teams
what they lost out on.

1252
01:16:15,658 --> 01:16:19,618
James Neal started a group chat called the Golden Misfits

1253
01:16:19,662 --> 01:16:21,577
and kind of ran all season long.

1254
01:16:23,753 --> 01:16:26,756
This castaway team had this
edge and started calling
themselves the Golden Misfits.

1255
01:16:26,799 --> 01:16:29,933
A phrase that actually was
hatched out of the locker room,

1256
01:16:29,976 --> 01:16:33,632
something that they rallied
behind from the start
of the season.

1257
01:16:34,764 --> 01:16:37,636
Misfits, Golden Misfits.

1258
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:39,856
To think
about another franchise

1259
01:16:39,899 --> 01:16:41,945
that sees you left on the scrap

1260
01:16:41,988 --> 01:16:45,035
and perhaps a project,
some sort of reclamation,

1261
01:16:45,078 --> 01:16:47,733
nobody else wanted
you, but we'll take you.

1262
01:16:47,777 --> 01:16:49,909
That's what
made this team so special.

1263
01:16:49,953 --> 01:16:52,129
And the fact that everybody
continued to doubt us

1264
01:16:52,172 --> 01:16:53,652
was extra motivation.

1265
01:16:56,307 --> 01:17:00,920
Go Knights, go! Go Knights, go!

1266
01:17:00,964 --> 01:17:04,794
The city was crazy. The city just got more and more amped up.

1267
01:17:04,837 --> 01:17:07,797
We want Cup. We want Cup.

1268
01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:10,234
I mean I'm performing
at a Stanley Cup game

1269
01:17:10,277 --> 01:17:12,715
and keyboards is going crazy.

1270
01:17:12,758 --> 01:17:15,152
I love you Las Vegas.

1271
01:17:16,066 --> 01:17:20,113
It took all season long
and three rounds in the Stanley
Cup playoffs

1272
01:17:20,157 --> 01:17:24,074
for Vegas to finally earn
the respect from everybody.

1273
01:17:24,117 --> 01:17:27,381
But now I don't think anybody
is underestimating
the Vegas Golden Knights.

1274
01:17:27,425 --> 01:17:29,949
They've only lost three
games in these playoffs.

1275
01:17:29,993 --> 01:17:32,778
They got to be the favorite
going into the cup final.

1276
01:17:32,822 --> 01:17:34,301
I would label them that.

1277
01:17:36,173 --> 01:17:39,655
Everyone is so pumped up,
full of confidence and--

1278
01:17:40,307 --> 01:17:45,095
and everyone is thinking,
"Okay, we're gonna win this.
This is our time."

1279
01:17:45,138 --> 01:17:49,360
The capitals have
been in business since 1974.

1280
01:17:49,403 --> 01:17:54,974
And for the first time
in 20 years, they are
in the Stanley Cup final.

1281
01:17:55,018 --> 01:17:59,892
The Golden Knights going to the Staley Cup final is the ultimate underdog story,

1282
01:17:59,936 --> 01:18:03,330
and here they are playing
a team that never

1283
01:18:03,374 --> 01:18:06,725
can seem to get over the hump
in the Washington Capitals,

1284
01:18:06,769 --> 01:18:10,990
a team that has very close ties to the Vegas Golden Knight's

1285
01:18:11,034 --> 01:18:13,036
general manager George McPhee.

1286
01:18:13,079 --> 01:18:15,342
Washington team in the final.

1287
01:18:15,386 --> 01:18:18,041
Maybe it's-- I don't know
how to explain that.

1288
01:18:18,084 --> 01:18:21,827
Who in the world would think
that you'd built this team

1289
01:18:21,871 --> 01:18:26,049
and you'd get to the finals and
you're playing your former team.

1290
01:18:26,092 --> 01:18:30,401
With the first selection 2004,
NHL Entry Draft,

1291
01:18:30,444 --> 01:18:34,013
Washington Capital is please
to select Alexander Ovechkin.

1292
01:18:36,102 --> 01:18:38,452
He was projected in the first

1293
01:18:38,496 --> 01:18:40,716
overall at the age of 14.

1294
01:18:41,238 --> 01:18:46,069
All the players he drafted was
kids, they're now grown men.

1295
01:18:46,112 --> 01:18:48,071
You know, some ways
they're like your own kids.

1296
01:18:49,072 --> 01:18:54,338
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to game one.

1297
01:18:54,381 --> 01:19:00,170
Let's get ready to rumble!

1298
01:19:01,127 --> 01:19:04,304
The Golden
Knights trying to take
advantage of this atmosphere

1299
01:19:04,348 --> 01:19:06,480
and get started early
as they've often done.

1300
01:19:06,524 --> 01:19:08,918
Miller, he wants, he shoots,
he scores!

1301
01:19:10,049 --> 01:19:12,748
Collin Miller!
It's a powerplay goal.

1302
01:19:12,791 --> 01:19:15,359
And the Knights take a one-nothing lead in game one.

1303
01:19:16,882 --> 01:19:18,797
On the far boards, Evegeny gets
it again and

1304
01:19:18,841 --> 01:19:21,234
Shoots off the pipe and in.

1305
01:19:21,278 --> 01:19:24,890
And it's a tie game with 519
to go in the first period.

1306
01:19:24,934 --> 01:19:28,111
Here is the drop of the puck.
Underway of the second period.

1307
01:19:28,154 --> 01:19:31,505
Another tie in puck.
That's Reaves! Goal.

1308
01:19:31,549 --> 01:19:34,900
With every series
the Golden Knights won,

1309
01:19:34,944 --> 01:19:37,903
there was an excuse,
there was some reason

1310
01:19:37,947 --> 01:19:40,776
why the Knights
overcame being home.

1311
01:19:41,559 --> 01:19:45,041
It was a matter of what
excuse could be next.

1312
01:19:45,084 --> 01:19:48,435
Game one,
the Vegas Golden Knights.

1313
01:19:48,479 --> 01:19:51,874
This team destroys
the paradigm of how you put
a hockey team together.

1314
01:19:51,917 --> 01:19:54,441
I don't know anybody who did
not pick them for last place.

1315
01:19:54,485 --> 01:19:57,401
They were offered essentially
second liners.

1316
01:19:57,444 --> 01:20:01,274
It's an insulting term in hockey. It means you're not good enough to be a first liner.

1317
01:20:01,318 --> 01:20:04,800
That's all they got.
When their third line is out,

1318
01:20:04,843 --> 01:20:08,151
it's actually second line
quality, it's better than
the other team's third line.

1319
01:20:08,194 --> 01:20:11,154
The fourth one
is even better than the fourth
one of the other team.

1320
01:20:11,197 --> 01:20:14,157
And it just becomes
the question of how well your first line that you've developed

1321
01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:17,421
does against
the other first line teams.
Essentially, 50, 60 percent

1322
01:20:17,464 --> 01:20:20,337
of the time
they're stepping onto
the ice with better players.

1323
01:20:20,380 --> 01:20:23,470
-That's one. Three more.
- Not until
the Golden Knights won

1324
01:20:23,514 --> 01:20:26,952
the first game of the Stanley
Cup final did I have the opinion

1325
01:20:26,996 --> 01:20:30,913
that this could actually happen,
they could actually win
the Stanley Cup.

1326
01:20:32,871 --> 01:20:37,136
Vegas,
welcome to our fortress.

1327
01:20:38,137 --> 01:20:39,965
Who's ready for game two?

1328
01:20:41,401 --> 01:20:45,101
As we enter game two...
-...short-handed from Wilson.

1329
01:20:45,144 --> 01:20:48,278
I didn't know
what was going to happen
because we usually expect

1330
01:20:48,321 --> 01:20:50,889
that the Golden Knights are gonna score the first goal.

1331
01:20:50,933 --> 01:20:53,631
And it comes to Neal,
he shoots, he scores!

1332
01:20:54,980 --> 01:20:58,592
James Neal scores and now
you're thinking, all right,
they are three wins away

1333
01:20:58,636 --> 01:21:01,073
from a Stanley Cup and they've
got the lead in game two.

1334
01:21:01,117 --> 01:21:02,901
Up the right side
it's Nate Schmidt.

1335
01:21:02,945 --> 01:21:05,861
Puck comes back
up for a feed. Score!

1336
01:21:05,904 --> 01:21:09,168
Eller. He's tied it up.

1337
01:21:09,212 --> 01:21:11,867
Despite being
somewhat silent in game one,

1338
01:21:11,910 --> 01:21:14,521
Ovechkin started
to come out to play.

1339
01:21:14,565 --> 01:21:17,176
Down to the goal line.
Backdoor feed. Score.

1340
01:21:17,220 --> 01:21:19,396
And Washington takes the lead.

1341
01:21:20,571 --> 01:21:23,922
Then the player that has the longest current active goal

1342
01:21:23,966 --> 01:21:27,273
scoring drought in the entire
NHL fires a shot.

1343
01:21:27,317 --> 01:21:30,363
Puck has right side and shot.
On the pipe, it's in.

1344
01:21:30,407 --> 01:21:37,370
Brooks Orpik, who had gone 220
games without scoring a goal,
scored.

1345
01:21:37,414 --> 01:21:40,547
Brooks Orpik,
and it's three to one.

1346
01:21:40,591 --> 01:21:44,377
It was his first goal since
February of 2016.

1347
01:21:45,422 --> 01:21:49,295
Theodore dumps
it in, puck right in front.
Theodore in front.

1348
01:21:49,339 --> 01:21:55,911
Goal. What a step! Holtby denies Tuch at point blank range.

1349
01:21:55,954 --> 01:22:01,960
Braden Holtby is
able to get his stick on the puck and everyone sinks.

1350
01:22:04,615 --> 01:22:10,621
And it is a moment that
some immediately thought
was series changing.

1351
01:22:11,448 --> 01:22:17,280
And that was a game-changer.
All the good bounce that we had
in the three previous rounds

1352
01:22:19,021 --> 01:22:22,415
-just didn't happen.

1353
01:22:22,459 --> 01:22:23,460
This is a  joke.

1354
01:22:25,418 --> 01:22:28,987
And the game is over.
Capitals win it three to two.

1355
01:22:29,031 --> 01:22:31,642
And the series
is tied one and one.

1356
01:22:33,122 --> 01:22:34,645
And now game three.

1357
01:22:36,734 --> 01:22:39,476
Everybody's mind was
in the right place, they all
know what we're playing for.

1358
01:22:39,519 --> 01:22:42,261
We grew up dreaming
about the Stanley Cup.

1359
01:22:42,305 --> 01:22:44,698
So, we are trying to get ready
for the next thing.

1360
01:22:44,742 --> 01:22:48,528
Ovechkin got into it.
Oh, and a remarkable save.

1361
01:22:48,572 --> 01:22:51,314
And he shoots. Wide left.
Well, we haven't had

1362
01:22:51,357 --> 01:22:54,970
a scoreless first period
until now in this series.

1363
01:22:55,013 --> 01:22:57,233
We got to get pucks by them,
okay. Keep moving your feet,

1364
01:22:57,276 --> 01:22:59,322
keep working hard, we'll have
a great second period.

1365
01:22:59,365 --> 01:23:00,976
Here we go, go to
work. Now let's go.

1366
01:23:02,064 --> 01:23:05,284
Kuznetsov holds the shot
hits Fleury.

1367
01:23:05,328 --> 01:23:08,679
rebounds behind him and it's
Fleury and makes a save,

1368
01:23:08,722 --> 01:23:13,162
get out the side of the pipe,
another shot, another safe,
Fleury. This time they score.

1369
01:23:15,555 --> 01:23:19,298
The Capitals take the lead.
It's Alexander Ovechkin.

1370
01:23:19,342 --> 01:23:22,214
Alexander Ovechkin,
he's blocking shots.

1371
01:23:22,258 --> 01:23:25,043
He's hitting guys. He's playing strong in the defensive zone.

1372
01:23:25,087 --> 01:23:28,090
For Alexander Ovechkin to put
the team on his shoulders,

1373
01:23:28,133 --> 01:23:30,396
it seemed to be too much for the Golden Knights to handle.

1374
01:23:30,440 --> 01:23:33,182
And the Capitals are gonna take it two to one lead

1375
01:23:33,225 --> 01:23:35,314
winning it.
The Vegas Golden Knights

1376
01:23:35,358 --> 01:23:37,664
have suffered back to back
losses for the first time

1377
01:23:37,708 --> 01:23:39,710
in this amazing playoff season.

1378
01:23:40,537 --> 01:23:44,671
They're finding ways to win.
They are beating us.

1379
01:23:44,715 --> 01:23:48,588
Game four through
40 minutes it is four-zip.

1380
01:23:48,632 --> 01:23:51,026
The home team.
Tucks it in, on the pipe.

1381
01:23:51,069 --> 01:23:54,159
Holtby never saw it. Here's how the right side back and puck,

1382
01:23:54,203 --> 01:23:58,207
wide open net, the shot.
No! And it didn't go.

1383
01:23:59,121 --> 01:24:02,167
There's a randomness
to the game sometimes,
there's a little puck luck.

1384
01:24:02,211 --> 01:24:05,170
Puck luck
is part of this game.
Just unfortunate.

1385
01:24:05,214 --> 01:24:08,304
Puck lock has been referred
to as the unseen hand

1386
01:24:08,347 --> 01:24:11,133
that can cause
things to shift.

1387
01:24:11,176 --> 01:24:13,700
Off the pipe on a deflection.

1388
01:24:13,744 --> 01:24:16,399
I could feel it as
the series was progressing

1389
01:24:16,442 --> 01:24:19,750
and Washington
finally got the puck luck

1390
01:24:19,793 --> 01:24:21,578
that they hadn't had
in previous years.

1391
01:24:22,448 --> 01:24:25,538
On over here in
game four. Washington Capitals

1392
01:24:25,582 --> 01:24:27,758
defeat the Golden Knights
six to two.

1393
01:24:30,717 --> 01:24:33,807
So the Knights are down
three-one in the Cup final.

1394
01:24:33,851 --> 01:24:36,245
They're coming back to Las Vegas for game five.

1395
01:24:36,288 --> 01:24:39,074
The team has never had
a four-game losing streak

1396
01:24:39,117 --> 01:24:43,121
-in franchise history.
-Game five on that ice could be

1397
01:24:43,165 --> 01:24:46,516
-the last game to this series.
-It appears like it should be.

1398
01:24:46,559 --> 01:24:50,389
But what is the one thing that
Vegas has done all year long?
Prove people wrong.

1399
01:24:50,433 --> 01:24:53,653
From the moment this
franchise started, this team
was not supposed to be good.

1400
01:24:53,697 --> 01:24:56,482
I think they're gonna come out and play their best game of the series.

1401
01:24:56,526 --> 01:25:00,182
We play whistle to whistle.
Hey, nothing but our best
tonight, okay?

1402
01:25:00,225 --> 01:25:03,446
Dominating performance
from everybody, work hard,
complete, compete.

1403
01:25:03,489 --> 01:25:06,231
It's okay, let's go to work.
Let's have some fun.
Play the game. Here we go.

1404
01:25:06,275 --> 01:25:10,279
Playing on the
ponds firing pucks at garage
doors.

1405
01:25:10,322 --> 01:25:11,671
This is what you dream of.

1406
01:25:12,672 --> 01:25:15,197
The Golden Knights
had a chance

1407
01:25:15,240 --> 01:25:17,677
and their chance came there
in game five.

1408
01:25:17,721 --> 01:25:20,680
Tuch to the left
and a shot, they score.

1409
01:25:20,724 --> 01:25:23,118
And the Knights take
the lead three to two.

1410
01:25:23,161 --> 01:25:25,598
Golden Knights get a three
to two lead in game five at home

1411
01:25:25,642 --> 01:25:28,775
after two periods
with a chance to extend
the series back to a game six.

1412
01:25:29,559 --> 01:25:33,476
Toward the right circle, now left wing, and he shoots. He scores!

1413
01:25:34,651 --> 01:25:39,264
Capitals come out and score
twice in the third period of
game five and that was all.

1414
01:25:39,308 --> 01:25:44,704
And it's all for Washington Capitals. Stanley Cup Champions.

1415
01:25:48,578 --> 01:25:53,278
All the players
from the Washington Capitals
swarm Braden Holtby.

1416
01:25:53,322 --> 01:25:56,542
They played their hearts out
it was a tough fought battle.

1417
01:25:56,586 --> 01:26:01,199
But I was just happy that I was
able to be a part of this.

1418
01:26:01,243 --> 01:26:05,377
Thank you Golden Knights
and thank you Las Vegas

1419
01:26:05,421 --> 01:26:09,729
for the best first year
any team has ever had.

1420
01:26:12,645 --> 01:26:16,432
We just lost our swag,
we just lost our confidence.

1421
01:26:16,475 --> 01:26:19,217
For me, personally,
I think we blew it.

1422
01:26:19,261 --> 01:26:22,612
Fifty-one wins
in the regular season.

1423
01:26:22,655 --> 01:26:26,529
No expansion team ever
even came close to that.

1424
01:26:28,835 --> 01:26:34,537
After the game I think everybody
was just quiet. I don't think
there was one word said.

1425
01:26:35,625 --> 01:26:39,585
It was just
pretty disappointing, very--
very tough, you know, once--

1426
01:26:41,239 --> 01:26:43,937
all your life you try to get
there as a hockey player.

1427
01:26:44,590 --> 01:26:47,245
Then by the end of the game you see the other team celebrating

1428
01:26:47,289 --> 01:26:50,292
with the cup
in their hand, I think
it's a tough thing to watch.

1429
01:26:58,517 --> 01:27:02,913
It didn't sink in until the next
day that we had gotten that far

1430
01:27:02,956 --> 01:27:06,221
and that we were not going
to win the Stanley Cup.

1431
01:27:07,265 --> 01:27:12,923
And then I realized we
didn't have a plan for a final
event to thank the community.

1432
01:27:13,750 --> 01:27:15,578
And I said, "You know we've
got to do something."

1433
01:27:17,667 --> 01:27:21,975
What's it like to be fan
to the best expansion team
in the history of the sport?

1434
01:27:23,281 --> 01:27:27,590
I've been
here 22 years and I've always
felt like it wasn't a real city,

1435
01:27:27,633 --> 01:27:33,422
it was a place in the desert.
They have done so much to bring
our community together.

1436
01:27:33,465 --> 01:27:37,861
Give it up for your Vegas
Golden Knights!

1437
01:27:37,904 --> 01:27:42,953
This was a hard year.
This year took so much
out of us.

1438
01:27:42,996 --> 01:27:46,783
It was hard on every single
level. And you'd like to win

1439
01:27:46,826 --> 01:27:52,615
but define success, define
winning, like connections,
relationships, love,

1440
01:27:53,355 --> 01:27:56,575
making something that
is way bigger than you,
being a part of something

1441
01:27:56,619 --> 01:28:00,579
that will live on
for so long, we did that.

1442
01:28:05,454 --> 01:28:09,675
Bill Foley built a professional
sports team in the desert

1443
01:28:09,719 --> 01:28:12,287
in Las Vegas when people
told him he was crazy.

1444
01:28:13,331 --> 01:28:14,811
This changed people's lives.

1445
01:28:15,899 --> 01:28:19,468
It goes so beyond
the guys playing hockey.

1446
01:28:19,511 --> 01:28:21,774
It truly transformed the city.

1447
01:28:22,819 --> 01:28:27,302
We came here in 1968.
I was raised here on
the southeast side of town.

1448
01:28:27,345 --> 01:28:31,654
I think there was an ice rink
here when I was growing up but I
couldn't told you where it was.

1449
01:28:32,394 --> 01:28:35,614
When you're younger
and it's hot, it doesn't seem
to be that big of a deal

1450
01:28:35,658 --> 01:28:38,008
but when you get older,
heat is the worst.

1451
01:28:38,704 --> 01:28:41,838
And when I know that I'm
gonna go skate, I'm excited.

1452
01:28:44,449 --> 01:28:48,061
I don't think there's too many
people that are female
that are 50 years old

1453
01:28:48,105 --> 01:28:51,064
that have two knee surgeries
on each knee under their belt

1454
01:28:51,108 --> 01:28:53,110
that have decided
to play hockey.

1455
01:28:54,416 --> 01:28:56,940
I grabbed my bag,
I stuffed it in my car

1456
01:28:56,983 --> 01:29:00,944
and every time I go skate, I'm doing about 80 miles an hour

1457
01:29:00,987 --> 01:29:03,816
probably to get to the rink
because I love it.

1458
01:29:05,383 --> 01:29:08,691
Once I get past the double doors and into that cool air

1459
01:29:08,734 --> 01:29:11,998
and then once I go on
to the rink, that first blast

1460
01:29:12,042 --> 01:29:15,872
you feel that icy coldness,
it's the most awesome feeling.

1461
01:29:15,915 --> 01:29:18,614
It's kind of like walking
into a Slurpee.

1462
01:29:18,657 --> 01:29:20,659
It just kind of envelops you

1463
01:29:20,703 --> 01:29:22,966
I swear if I could live
at City National Arena

1464
01:29:23,009 --> 01:29:26,709
inside the ice rink area, I
would 'cause it's just awesome.

1465
01:29:29,712 --> 01:29:33,411
One time
I was having a hamburger
with my wife and my daughter

1466
01:29:33,455 --> 01:29:36,893
and this young man,
11, 12 years old, walked by

1467
01:29:36,936 --> 01:29:39,678
and kind of came back
and looked at me and he said,

1468
01:29:39,722 --> 01:29:42,115
"Mr. Foley." I said, "Yeah."

1469
01:29:42,159 --> 01:29:45,989
He said,
"I want to thank you for working
so hard to get a team here."

1470
01:29:48,905 --> 01:29:50,515
Boy, that was meaningful.

1471
01:29:53,518 --> 01:29:56,042
This is not just the feel-good
story of sports,

1472
01:29:56,086 --> 01:29:58,393
it really transcends
so much more than that.

1473
01:29:58,436 --> 01:30:01,787
It's lives you're dealing with,
it's your community,

1474
01:30:02,701 --> 01:30:04,529
people trying
to pick up the pieces.

1475
01:30:05,574 --> 01:30:08,751
And when you look at the symbol for the Vegas Golden Knights,

1476
01:30:08,794 --> 01:30:11,884
now in that V emblazoned
on that helmet,

1477
01:30:11,928 --> 01:30:14,104
it has so much more of a meaning
for the community.

1478
01:30:14,147 --> 01:30:17,063
I don't think really
people understand

1479
01:30:17,107 --> 01:30:20,676
because it doesn't
just represent the team.

1480
01:30:20,719 --> 01:30:25,071
The symbol to a lot of people
here means Vegas Strong.

1481
01:30:25,942 --> 01:30:31,643
Being a Knight represents
bravery, honor, courage,

1482
01:30:32,862 --> 01:30:37,432
but most of all it means
that you're a hero to somebody

1483
01:30:37,475 --> 01:30:38,650
and that you're valiant.

1484
01:30:39,782 --> 01:30:42,480
Not everybody can be valiant.

1485
01:30:43,873 --> 01:30:46,745
♪ Breaking through ♪

1486
01:30:46,789 --> 01:30:51,620
♪ This city
I wanna wake up to ♪

1487
01:31:07,070 --> 01:31:09,681
Gonna beat that steady drum ♪

1488
01:31:11,814 --> 01:31:14,904
♪ Moving you to
Keep marching on ♪

1489
01:31:15,600 --> 01:31:19,604
♪ It's coming from the
pulse in our hearts ♪

1490
01:31:19,648 --> 01:31:23,173
♪ You brought back
To life with love ♪

1491
01:31:23,216 --> 01:31:25,958
♪ You've been so bright ♪

1492
01:31:27,177 --> 01:31:35,838
♪ So keep shining that light ♪

1493
01:31:38,275 --> 01:31:43,236
♪ Tomorrow is never promised ♪

1494
01:31:43,280 --> 01:31:47,719
♪ But you are the promise
Of a dawn ♪

1495
01:31:47,763 --> 01:31:50,156
♪ Breaking through ♪

1496
01:31:50,766 --> 01:31:57,120
♪ This city
I wanna wake up to ♪

1497
01:32:00,123 --> 01:32:06,912
♪ Let that sunrise
To open my eyes ♪

1498
01:32:10,916 --> 01:32:17,575
♪ Let that sunrise
To open my eyes ♪

1499
01:32:21,840 --> 01:32:28,064
♪ Let your lights shine
To open my eyes ♪

1500
01:32:31,720 --> 01:32:35,724
♪ Tomorrow is never promised ♪

1501
01:32:37,029 --> 01:32:40,903
♪ But you are the promise
Of a dawn ♪

1502
01:32:40,946 --> 01:32:43,862
♪ Breaking through ♪

1503
01:32:44,602 --> 01:32:50,695
♪ This city we get
To wake up to ♪