Golden Knights Head Back to the Cup Final After a Long Grind

Vegas has gone right back into the heavyweight bracket, and nobody in that organization is treating this as a fluke. Las Vegas Weekly frames the run as the end result of a long season, which is front-office code for surviving all the little land mines that usually blow up lesser teams. The Golden Knights are back in the Stanley Cup Final for the third time, and the only thing harder than getting there is assuming they will ever make it easy.