The Golden Misfits Still Run the Knights’ Room Nearly a Decade Later

Nearly a decade on, the original Vegas cast still has its fingerprints all over the franchise. The Golden Knights have added plenty of talent since that wild expansion ride, but the old core still carries the kind of credibility you cannot buy in free agency. Teams talk constantly about culture, yet very few can point to the players who actually built theirs from scratch. Vegas can, and that is why this story still matters.