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Look at this, right over here.

We have 100, 125 elks.

I like having big herds of elk.

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

From West Point
to a law degree, to becoming

one of the most successful
businessmen in the world.

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

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

but his portfolio lacks
one thing: a sports franchise.

Bill Foley is a very influential businessman.

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

Ooh, nice fish, Bill.

-Yeah.

Turns out that Bill Foley's
neighbor in Montana,

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

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

in Whitefish, Montana.
Bill lives down the lake.

That was my offseason home
as a hockey player.

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

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

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

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

so he could continue
on his boat cruise.

He says,
"Murray, I got this idea.

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

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

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

They'll never let you do that.

An expansion,
hockey team in Las Vegas

where it's 110 in the summer.

Right now Las Vegas
is the largest market

without a major sports
franchise in America.

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

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

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

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

No one thought it would work.

From my wife to my friends,

all of my business associates,

they told me I was crazy:

"What are you doing?
How can this be?

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

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

before we established
Las Vegas as a hockey hotbed.

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

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

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

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

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

Florida is right there.
Phoenix went bankrupt.

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

Most people that have families
that live here and stuff,

the casinos don't mean
anything for them.

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

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

Las Vegas has long been
the gambling capital of America

but now it wants to be
something more.

In your opinion,
is there hope for Las Vegas

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

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

I'm not in the prognostication
business.

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

Gangsters, mobsters,
illegal gamblers,

people would come to do
what was illegal elsewhere.

When I came here in 1959,

the people
who ran the hotels,

they didn't want their patrons
watching horse racing,

watching boxing.
They wanted them

in the hotels and gambling.

Professional
sports leagues had a fear

that because people can place
bets on their games

that people would
get to the players

and would change
the outcomes of the games.

Not that long
ago the NFL would not
allow an advertisement

for Las Vegas
on its Super Bowl telecast.

So, Las Vegas
was persona non grata

to major sports leagues
for a long time.

Ladies and gentlemen,
the man who is going to bring

NHL hockey to Las Vegas,

Mr. Bill Foley.

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

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

They launched this ticket
drive to prove that Las Vegas

can support
a major professional team.

I heard the Commissioner
say that Mr. Foley felt

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

to have his franchise approved.

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

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

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

our community is
when it comes to sports.

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

sports team just based
on visitors.

You have
to tap into the real city.

Selling the tickets was
certainly a huge challenge.

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

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

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

We're getting
firefighters, policemen,

lawyers, doctors, nurses.

We had people
putting down real money

on real season ticket deposits

for a team that didn't exist,

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

And the arena was half built.

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

But Bill was committed to going
out anywhere and everywhere

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like, did they
change their mind?

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

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

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

the plan of expansion that will
bring a National Hockey League

franchise to Las Vegas.

The expansion fee is
500 million dollars U.S.

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

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

Everybody agreed
that five 500 million dollars

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

Nothing had ever approached
half a billion dollars.

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

Well, Las Vegas, we did it.

It wasn't easy, was it?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now where do we go?"

We had nothing.

The boxes and the checklists
were so extensive.

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

Where is the team
gonna practice?

So here's the first rink.

So here's the rink
we will practice on.

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

How many square feet
is top and bottom?

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

We also have to talk
about what personnel you need

and who's the general manager
gonna be.

We needed to have
that general manager in place.

- There's so much
to do though. So much.
-Yeah.

I was helping my son move into Boston College.

I was in a CVS drugstore
that night

getting some supplies
for my son and Bill called.

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

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

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

And we're gonna work
real well together."

Owner Bill Foley
has named George McPhee

as the team's general manager.

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

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

The Washington Capitals
were built by George McPhee.

He drafted a majority
of the players, he traded
for some of the players.

He built that organization.

I'm proud
to introduce him today.

He was fired because the team

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

Bill Foley saw experience.

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

We're gonna build
an organization and a team

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

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

And it's that simple.

My expectations for
our hockey team are very high.

I intend to create
a dynasty here in Las Vegas.

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

Okay, I have heard
other outlandish predictions
in my time

that never came true,
maybe this is just another one.

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

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

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

to say he's crazy.

The Stanley Cup
is the hardest trophy to win.

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

and then it is not
a short playoff system,

it's eight weeks.
It's a war of attrition

and how many
of your guys are left standing
and are left healthy

by the time
you even get to the final.

And all of that
collision, speed,

and sacrifice
is to get your name

on a trophy
you're not allowed to keep,

but for the rest of your life

you have that adjective
in front of your name,

"Stanley Cup Champion."

Welcome everybody to the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft

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

In the Expansion Draft, the
Golden Knights were to select

one player off each team.

Every team in the league
was allowed to protect
a certain number of players.

Each team had to decide which
players they were willing

to lose to the Golden Knights.

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

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

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

The Vegas Golden
Knights sign Vegas resident
Deryk Engelland.

Las Vegas, one
of your own, Deryk Engelland!

I first moved to Las Vegas

with the Calgary Flames team
of Las Vegas Wranglers.

Hi, bud.

I met my wife
here on my first year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

From the Pittsburgh Penguins,

the Vegas Golden Knights'
goaltender,

Marc-Andre Fleury.

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

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

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

You look
at Fleury, and he's an elite,

all-star goalie every year,

wins back-to-back cups
with Pittsburgh

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

and, obviously, that stings.

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

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

The Vegas Golden Knights select
Jonathan Marchessault.

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

Just couldn't believe it.

Marchessault scores again!

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

But it's just the toughness
of the business.

The Vegas Golden Knights
select William Karlsson.

To be one of the
guys who was exposed meant

we weren't that valuable
to your former team.

The Vegas Golden Knights
select James Neal.

Imagine that from being
in Expansion Draft

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

Outside of Marc-Andre
Fleury and James Neal,

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

or a player that was just okay.

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

"This is a great hockey team."

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

That's what we want in the game.

We're gonna play fast hockey.

It's going
from our D to our forwards.

-Okay?
- Got it. Here we go.

I got fired
from the Florida Panthers

and the Knights
were looking for a coach.

They wanted to know
what kind of person I was.

They wanted people
with family background.

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

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

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

They introduced him to me.
He came up

and the first thing
he wanted to tell us

was why he picked the Golden
Knights to be the symbol

of Vegas' first
professional sports team.

And there you go,
the Vegas Golden Knights!

He was a black knight
from West Point.

He wanted us to be a knight
to push forward

and battle through adversity
and fight each and every day.

I went to West Point
with not really understanding

the reality of the world.

The very immature
pretty spoilt kid.

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

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

of a 47-month experience.

Sleeping outside,
sleeping in the rain,

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

Kind of stinks for yourself.

But it stinks
for 1,200 other people.

So it's a true breakdown
of everything

that you brought with you.

It was
a real maturing experience

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

I think the formative years
that Bill spent at West Point

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

We all come
from different places,

we all have
different backgrounds.

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

And the team aspect
is more about

we than it is about me.

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

not the name
on the back of the jersey.

I felt like if I could infuse
that West Point culture

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Come on, boys, come on, boys.

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

Go, go, go!

Most people in the press thought that the team was awful.

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

It was a bunch of guys from a bunch of different teams

that came to the desert
to play hockey.

Nobody thought
they was gonna do nothing.

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

it was not good.

There's one particular
hockey pundit who picked

the Golden Knights
to be 31st out of 31.

Forget about being competitive,

people were picking
the Knights to be dead last.

If you have
all four of your lines

being just second
or third line players,

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

Dear God,
they are looking to be

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

It is a beautiful late Sunday
afternoon in the desert.

And inside T-Mobile Arena,
the exhibition season

is just about
ready to come to a close.

It is Knight time.

This is cool.

In previous jobs, I've worked for last place teams

and the way you keep people
there, they're either gonna
love the sport

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

The idea of starting something
brand new in Vegas,

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

and just so frightening.

So Bill mentioned to me
in my first meeting with him,

"I've got this vision."

This Golden Knight character
who's gonna come out,

and a week before
we didn't have the costume

nothing was ready,
because it's the first year.

That was gonna be a catalyst
kind of for the show
open experience.

The beginning
of every Golden Knights game
has this medieval times

meets NHL meets Las Vegas
feel to it

that is so ridiculous
and so over the top

that it's awesome.

Fire!

So October 1, 2017,
is our last preseason game.

We're all excited,
you know, the season's
upcoming and we can't wait.

We just know
big things are ahead.

We had a fan fest
set up for October 3rd.

We had everything ready. It
was gonna be a huge celebration.

Lots of excitement to kick off
the start of the season.

No, no, no, no.

Well, that will do it.

The thing that
everyone's gonna remember

is that first home game.
We got to do that right.

We were all hands on deck
for something really special.

And I'm like, "Cool, next stop,
October 10th, opening night."

The Vegas Golden Knights.

First ever exhibition season
and it ends

with a 5 to 3 loss.

October 1st is the final day of the Route 91 Harvest festival

that's a country music concert
right off the Strip.

You know it's massive.
There's 21,000 people there.

I know a lot of people at Route 91. I've seen pictures all weekend on social media.

I actually
had tickets to the concert.

With everything going on
with a big week leading
up to the opening night,

I chose to go home.

Jason Aldean's
the headliner for Route 91.

And with my brother
and my friends and--

we're doing the same thing
as everybody else, having
a couple drinks, relaxing.

All of a sudden I hear cracks.

It almost sounds like
a blown speaker, maybe
fireworks, maybe firecrackers.

Everybody's kind of unaware
of what's going on and
Jason Aldean is still playing.

And then it goes again.

That's when they realized
something's wrong.

Something's happening over here.

Jason stops playing

and I'm looking around
and I see people

that are ducking, laying down.
I kind of slowly turn. Then--

That's when
I feel it in my chest.

I look down,
I have a hole in my chest.

My brother grabs me.
I'm running the best I can,

blood still coming out
of my mouth and that's--

that's kind of when the fear
kind of set in a little bit,

like, is this my last day. Like,
are these my last minutes?

We got shots fired at the Route 91,apparently a firearm.

Can you tell me
where it is coming from?

I'm the captain of the Strip,
which is 6.1 square miles.

My wife's phone rings
and it's one of her friends

and she says
active shooter on the Strip.

We have multiple causalities.
Multiple causalities.

We need to stop the shooter
before we have more victims.

There's reports that there
could be multiple shooters.

And you also had
20-plus thousand people

that are there
and they're spilling out
and where are they going.

Oh my gosh, look at this.
There's got to be at least

40 Henderson police SUVs
here.

Sounds like it's coming
from Mandalay Bay.

These are shot coming
from Mandalay Bay.
We need immediate medical aid.

This way. This way.
Go, go, go, go. That way.

The actual crime scene,
it's over three square miles.

We had hundreds of people
that were shot.

This is the nightmare
hat nobody was thinking about.

There is a huge presence
of police and ambulances
and medical personnel.

Probably about 11 o'clock, I got a call.

I didn't recognize the number.

It was a co-worker of Neysha who
she was at the concert with.

Neysa was the mother
of my children.

She was my ex-wife. And...

he said I have got something
to tell you...

"I'm standing over Neysa
and she's dead."

I-- I couldn't believe it.

So, you need to tell the boys.

I didn't know really what to do. You're never prepared for that scenario.

Braxton asked what was
going on and I had to tell him

that his mother was killed
at-- at the concert.

He didn't process it for like
the first maybe 5 to 10 seconds

and then he just started
punching his door.

It's the darkest day of my life.

I don't have very
much more to update you with.

One thing in particular
that has changed

the number of people that have
died

associated with this event
has increased.

Right now we're using
the number of 58.

We went to work the next day,
you could have heard a pin drop
in the office.

It's like you don't know
what to say, you don't know
who is impacted.

We wanted to--

sorry.

You'd come
into work and you want to cry
but you're just stunned

and you don't really
know how to feel.
It's gut-wrenching.

One of the things that--

that gets lost in this
is there's an enormous amount
of human loss here.

Fifty-eight people are dead,
58 families are torn apart.

It's irreparable.

That next day was crazy.

You know, I've lived here
for a number of years now

and I've done a charity hockey
game with firefighters
every summer,

so I knew a lot of the first
responders and then we knew
a lot of people

that were going down
to watch the concerts.

And the first thing that runs
through mind is seeing
if they're okay.

I remember Deryk texted us "I
think we should do something"

and everybody
was willing to do it."

We wanted to be there for Deryk

and the city and everybody.

Every single player
was like what can I do?

I need to do something.
I want to do something.

What can we do to help?

-Welcome guys.
Please go on in.
-Thank you.

-I'm Brendan.
-Nice to meet you.

Thanks for coming out.
I really appreciate it.

-Thank you so much guys
for coming out.
-Thank you, guys, really.

I was at police headquarters
and I see two Knights players
standing over there

and they're wearing their
jerseys and I was a little bit
taken back in the beginning.

I was like we got a lot
of things going on here,
I don't have time

to deal with a couple
of professional athletes.

You know what it amazed me, one in particular, Deryk Engelland, introduced himself.

I asked him what was he doing
here. He says, "No reason.

Just wanted you to know that we're here supporting you.

We're hoping the best for you
and we're here to help."

I don't know anything
about hockey but I want
to thank you for coming.

Thank you for everything
you guys do.

It wasn't about hockey anymore,

it was about the people
that were affected by it

and doing whatever
we could to, you know,

if it was just shake a hand,
give a hug,

you know, maybe get them
to don't think about it
for a few minutes,

just try to bring a smile
to someone's face.

Oh, nice.

I'll take one too, Deryk.

We were so excited
about having our home opener,

and it's the first home
game in franchise history.

I mean it was something where
it was gonna be a celebration.

And the rug was totally
pulled out from us.

You've spent time rehearsing
and planning
for this three-hour window.

And now we can't do what
we were planning.

You guys have been phenomenal
in just reacting quickly.

Obviously, we spent months
planning certain things.

We are talking about
how to honor the victims.

And how do you do that?
Like, how do you--

how do you not sensationalize
that loss?

So it's 58 names and I've got
side notes next to them, like

some of them if they were there
with their daughter

or just notes of who is local
and things like that.

We're gonna acknowledge
the strength and resiliency

during the pregame show.

That's the way you honor them
is you just--

you got those names and... yeah.

It's not about you.
It's not about your show.
It's not about your team.

It's about your city.
It's about loss, but also

about you know what,
we're still here, there's
still a strength in that.

We are suddenly
on a massive platform.

We've got a couple
of games on the road.

Not knowing what to expect.

Score.

The expansion
Vegas Golden Knights

do what very few
expansion teams do,

that is win in their debut.

We win game one,

and I'm sort of like,

"What do you know?
We won game one."

And my phone just goes off.

You get a sense
of the incredible...

civic pride that's welling up
in Vegas

because everyone
is so happy that we won.

I just can't forget that moment
'cause I wasn't expecting that.

And then we win game two
and now we're coming home

and we've got to get
this right.

Okay, tonight, we know it's
gonna be tough open ceremony,

okay? It's gonna be tough.

First game at home, let's take
care of business. Here we go.

The message to the players before opening night

was this is much bigger
than any of us.

I don't know
how the game is gonna go,

but that's not what's
most important tonight.

Ladies and gentlemen,
the heroes of Las Vegas,

please welcome to the ice
firefighter Ben Kole.

Accompanied
by number 3 Brayden McNabb.

Firefighter Derek Sutherland,

accompanied by number 5
Deryk Engelland.

Nurse Destiny Umbrante.

Ladies and gentlemen,
Deryk Engelland.

I'm not a great speaker, so I
was a little hesitant at first

trying
to prepare to say a speech in front of 18,000-plus people.

It was three or four days of--
that's all that was going
through my head

was the speech
and just trying to memorize it
the best I could

to not mess it up over there.

Like all of you, I am proud
to call Las Vegas home.

I met my wife here.
My kids were born here.

And I know
how special this city is.

To all the brave
first responders

that have worked tirelessly
and courageously

throughout this whole tragedy,
we thank you.

To the families
and friends of the victims,

know that we'll do
everything we can

to help you in our city heal.

We are Vegas Strong.

When Deryk hit
the ice and gave the speech,

he won my heart.

And um...

He won my heart and the Golden
Knights won a city.

Las Vegas,

please join us
in 58 seconds of silence

for the 58 individuals
who lost their lives

on 1 October.

I hope I never have to hear
that kind of deafening silence
in my life again.

Vegas Strong!

These individuals--

NHL hockey
has come home to Las Vegas!

Let's tell Vegas and the world

that we are ready for this!
Go Knights go!

I can't imagine what it was like for the players on the ice

because now a hockey game
needs to be played.

You've got to turn
your attention to business,
to work, scoring goals.

It's all
taken care of. All that's
left to do is drop the puck.

And away we go.

The game starts and there's a buzz in the crowd.

It's a buzz of anticipation
and the team has to deliver.

-Go, go.
- And that first game,
we all knew

that'd mean a big one
right from the start.

If there was a game that we
needed to win was that one.

Right up, right up.

There was no chance
for losing that game.
We're coming out firing.

The Golden Knights
fourth line, Tomás Nosek,

a player that I would say
95% of the crowd

-doesn't even know, shoots...
- Nosek scores!

...and slips one through
the goalie's legs.

Tomás Nosek has put the Golden
Knights on the board.

And the Golden Knights
have the early lead.

Moments after
Tomás Nosek had scored,

there was a pass back
out to the point

and Deryk Engelland,
a guy who 12 minutes ago

was just trying
to hold back tears
talking into the microphone,

-the puck and drops his stick--- They score!

And that was
the moment of euphoria.

And just hearing the crowd erupt
was something special.

And I'll never forget.

Go, go.

Pops over the stick, perhaps an active stick,

got it. Big handle shot.
Big rebound. And Neal scores!

But then they scored the third
goal and the fourth goal.

They scored four goals in the
first 11 minutes of the game.

Could this truly be reality?

Defied all expectations.

It was like a dream.

On the radio I said sometimes
there are tears of sadness,

sometimes
there are tears of joy,

and then there are tears of the kind we've just experienced.

People were cheering
and crying at the same time.

The Vegas Golden
Knights have made NHL history

for first expansion club ever
to get to a 3-0 start.

So the first just happened nine days ago, it's still fresh

then all of a sudden kind of
the greatest first few minutes
in hockey history happens.

Big City. Big City.

That was a real win last night.

The guys came out and that first
10 minutes or so

and they were on fire. They wanted to win for the town.

Marc-Andre Fleury, 31 saves in the victory here Tuesday night.

He has started all the games
so far for the Golden Knights. He gets the call again tonight.

So it's game four, the Detroit
Red Wings are in town.

Smith steals it.
Smith leaves the middle, they score. And it's a tie game.

And then it all went downhill.

In the second period there was a collision in front of the goal.

Fleury got run into. He's down.

I dove for the puck
and the guy,

his knee hit me in the forehead.
And that was it.

Another Vegas Golden Knight
suffer their first loss

in franchise history after
they started off

perfect three and o.

It turned out after the game
that Marc-Andre Fleury

was diagnosed with a concussion.

Marc-Andre Fleury, it was
supposed to be the safety net,

the face of the franchise,
the player

that we were all gonna
rally around and he's gone.

You know, you fear the worst,
is this gonna be two days,

two weeks, two months,
his career?

You never know with concussions.

It's the unknown that keeps
you up at night.

The Golden
Knights lost the game,

their first ever, in franchise
history here on Friday night.

With Marc-Andre Fleury
unavailable for game five,

entered Malcolm Subban.

This isn't ideal. We didn't want
to throw him in this early.

We wanted more time.
We thought on a home stand
where we're home for two weeks

that Fleury
could have handled all of it.

Going into the game, obviously
it was a lot of pressure.

A little nerve-racking.

You got 18,000 people
in the building.

Is he gonna get up 10 goals
tonight? I don't know.

The feeling
in the arena was this is
when it's all gonna fall apart.

Here comes Heinen
throws on the attack,

shoot and a save, Subban.

- And it didn't.
- Malcolm Subban,
20 saves tonight

in his first win in the NHL.

The Golden Knights have
dropped the four and one.

Subban rose to the
occasion and some of the best
goaltending we saw all season

were those games the first
handful played by Malcolm Subban

and then the Golden Knights
are playing St. Louis,

the tail end
of the opening home state.

Marc-Andre Fleury
going down for injury

was a road bump but Subban
has stepped up to the task.

Subban a little slow to get up.

That is not a good sign.

Shot missed why to my right side

and kind of stretch out
and felt something.

Right away I kind of knew something's not right obviously.

You know-- you know when you get
a pretty serious injury.

You lose your goaltender,

your backup goes in, Subban
goes in, plays really well.

-And then he goes down.

Well, up from the American
Hockey League was Oscar Dansk,

who had never played
in an NHL game before.

Now the puck
in the Vegas end.

He scores just like that
and the Blues have tied it.

Maybe not how he imagined his first play here in the NHL.

Wide open shot send out.

Biggest save for Oscar Dansk.

Dansk played
the next couple of games

and, in fact, recorded
the first shutout

in Golden Knights
franchise history.

They blow up
seven and o at T-Mobile.

And then the Golden Knights
go on the rope.

Zips it across,
shoots it there,
it's his shot, save Dansk.

Take that shot. Some are a little slower here to get up.

And then Oscar went down in the game against the Islanders.

That was crazy,
crazy situation

where you know, you never
expect that but it was my shot.

Maxime Lagacé now will come
into net for Vegas.

And all of a sudden you're
turning to the fourth goalie
in the organization

who had just arrived earlier
that day from the American
League team in Chicago.

First ever game
in the NHL for Lagacé.

Drip shot, save Lagacé.

Even though they lose
that game against the Islanders,
it was only their second loss

through the first
month of the season.

That's kick
wide there by Lagacé.

Maxime Lagacé was integral
part of them holding on

during that period
when Fleury was out in
the lineup and played excellent.

What a save, Lagacé.
- Yeah, the fourth

string goalie winning games.
That just doesn't happen
unless you've got

the entire team believing
that has a team they can
accomplish great things.

Wait, he's closing, he scores!

William Karlsson.
It's another overtime winner.

Doesn't matter
who's in the lineup,

doesn't matter who,
they need to score goals,

someone steps up,
gets the job done.

That for the October tragedy
that claimed 58 lives,

this team is truly giving Vegas something to believe in.

There were a lot of people
that I met that had never
even watched a game,

had never been to a game,
but they were from Las Vegas

and they were just proud
that now they were
a major league city.

Las Vegas is latched on to the shocking early success of the Golden Knights.

Then winning early on has been
nothing but positive
for the hockey fans of Vegas.

It was the coolest thing
to watch just win after win.

Nobody thought they'd win
those first games

and nobody really
understands how big that was.

But for the community, for the
fans, for Vegas, it was so big.

Here is Smith
walking in center and score.

The team wanted to win every
single game for the city.

And it kind of just snowballed
and we kept going and going.

I get on the bus after a game
and the fire chief's sent me
a text saying how many

spirits were lifting
around the city and
how everyone's so proud of us.

Karlson ...right
wing shot, glove save,
denied by
Lagacé.

We try to watch as many games
as we could. Obviously,
when duty calls duty calls.

But, typically,
we'll try and get done
with our duties a lot sooner,

we'll try and cook dinner a lot sooner so that we're able to sit down and watch the games.

It was camaraderie within the station that gave us something to watch together.

It is a great bonding time.
It's game time after dinner.

You know, game time is
announced on the RPA.

Who's the bandwagon,
who's a real fan here?

Put the game on the big screen
and, yeah, we'll just sit there

as one big happy family
and cheer on the Knights.

This ribbon right here
is for support of Jenice.
He's one of our firemen

here at the station
on our platoon. His daughter
unfortunately was shot.

Her name is Rylie.
Jenice was actually on duty

at that time as well. He was
actually on our Engine 11.

I called her and told her I was
outside trying to get in.

And then she ended up
calling me back

and said she was shot.

She was struck in the back
in her spinal canal.

Pretty much instantly paralyzed from the waist down.

Luckily, she got out before...

you know, as soon
as she could obviously,

but, yeah, so luckily,
she got out

and I just met her
at the hospital.

- That's a bit rough?
-Very rough.

-Very--
-Very emotional night.

Yeah.

You know that's something
that's gonna affect our life or
her life, you know, for forever.

The Knights were kind
of that that light

and, you know,
one of our darkest times

and I think
people latched on to that.

Every sport has its own soul,

but hockey
is a very special soul.

By winning all the time,
the Knights eased the pain

of what was going on
in Las Vegas.

They created this emotional
shield that protect

our community from pain.

I was pretty much in love
with the Knights for sure.

It was tough not to be,
especially for us,

for the Vegas locals,
who've never really had

anything here to call your own.

I'm a native, so the idea
of having a hockey team,

a professional hockey team
for the first time
has been a dream come true.

The Golden Knights
army has grown.

Marc-Andre Fleury back
from the concussion.

The Golden Knights keep winning but our visiting team

is coming down with a case
of Vegas flu.

I think you're gonna have
to be careful if you're
a road team going to Vegas.

A lot of teams
have spent time in Vegas and
haven't had a lot of success.

Vegas flu became
a buzzword around the NHL.

Perhaps some of the players were
indulging in the finer things

that Las Vegas, aka Sin City,
has to offer.

Vegas
is not like any other city.

When you get off the airplane,
you walk into the airport

which is full of slot machines
and loud noises
and ringing bells,

there's an energy
to the Las Vegas Strip.

Then you stay in a hotel
that has no clocks,

the lobby doesn't look like
the Marriott in Buffalo,
it's different.

Good teams go to Las Vegas
and play well while still
enjoying their visit.

There's no question teams
came in here and they had more
than their fair share of fun.

Everyone knows
Vegas is a party city.

Part of being a professional
athlete, you have to know

how to balance that kind
of lifestyle. And we'd teams,

you're going out the night
before a game and stuff, maybe.

We didn't care. We just came
out and played our game
and in our locking room

we know that
it wasn't just because
of the Vegas flu, per se,

it was because we
had a really good
team in our locker room.

The Golden Knights have this
feeling that we're good.

But everybody's kind of waiting for that one team

to come in and punch him
in the mouth and send them back

to the oblivion
that is an expansion team.

And that team was
the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Here is headman
Stamkos, and scores!

Tampa Bay came in
here right before Christmas

and they were the best team
in the league by far

in every category.
Most wins, most points,

most goals, top scorers
in the league.

And I remember Tampa Bay jumped out with two-nothing lead
in the first period.

Great example why they're
number one in the league.

And we kind of thought
to yourself, "Well, not sure
this was gonna go very well."

Now the Golden Knights has been rare they have trailed

early in games in their old
building... Neal win a score.

They make it a 2-1 game.

Tampa Bay, it's a really good
test for us.

Screwed down and managed
to crawl back, tie it up.

Here is with wrist shot. Score!

Then the Gold Knights
take it through two lead.

And then Tampa Bay
tied the game at about
four minutes left three-three.

The atmosphere was unbelievable.

The clock's ticking down ten,

nine, eight,
pucks in the corner.

Battle fort
along the left corner.

Time continuing
to tick off the clock.

Not for Theodore. Score!

I thought the roof was going
to come off that night.

When that goal goes in,
everybody knows this isn't
just a goal to win a game,

this is a goal for legitimacy.
This is a goal that will put
the Golden Knights

in the conversation of the very best teams in the sport.

It was almost
midway through the season
and you're playing

the top team in the league.
To get that game really
turned a lot of heads

in our locker room. Guys really
thought we were for real.

Clear little
soccer style goal tending.

It's actually unthinkable for a group of guys

that are the castoffs
of other teams

to win the first three games
in October.

And then had
the setbacks injury.

And then won six straight.
And then eight straight.

Never happened before.

Wouldn't even
say anymore about Vegas

because the miracles continue.
I'm in awe.

You had teams
then questioning it, "Well, they're gonna go on the road now

we'll see what they're made
of when they go on the road."

December was huge
and it set them up.

Six wins in a row for Vegas.

And then we're in
first place in their division

before New Year's Day. Unheard
of for an expansion team.

The improbable
journey continues.
- No one

could have predicted that.
They're rolling
through the league,

leading the Western Conference,
the Pacific Division.

They continue to pace the Western Conference.

The hat-trick, diving, scores!

Now they are coming off
of the New Year and

they didn't lose more
than three back-to-back games.

Number one
of the Western Conference,
two overall in the NHL.

Plenty of people felt when we're
gonna go into that slump? When
the wheels are gonna fall off?

The Golden Knights trying to
take over the number one spot

overall in the NHL. They
can do it with a win tonight.

Here's Marchessault in one
of the offensive zone.
Marchessault scores!

That's it.
And the Golden Knights

have risen to number one
overall in the NHL.

We're a good team,
but I wasn't going to relax

until we were mathematically
into playoffs.

The Golden
Knights have not lost a game

in this building
in a month and a half.

There was
a team years ago that was

number one overall in the league in January, number one.

-And didn't make the playoffs.

he shot it, score!

I keep thinking they've got
to the end of their road.

They make me look like
an idiot every day.

Every time that the Golden
Knights took the ice,

they made it a point
to remember Vegas

and to do a tribute to a Vegas Strong hero at every home game.

Joining us at
center ice today are Las Vegas

Metropolitan Police Department
Captain John Pelletier--

Everybody in Vegas
knew that this team

that said that they were a part
of the community, they meant it.

Our first game,
we were hooked immediately.

The energy, it was
just so uplifting that

we got hooked and we wanted
to do it all the time.

Everyone having
something to cheer for,

it was exactly what we needed.

The boys grabbed on to hockey.

The common denominator
was the games.

It was the only time that we
could enjoy and smile

and laugh and high-five

and do those things that you do without tragedy in its place.

For us,
it was the only thing that
we will look forward to.

And they were winning.
And it's fun to win.

What George did
in assembling the team was

to identify the desirable asset of those teams

and uncover
any stone that we could
possibly think of to overturn.

Find the gems, and that's what
we went into the draft

trying to unearth.
Find the unknown surprises.

They felt
like a lot of these players were
capable of a lot more

if they were given
a new opportunity here.

The best example
is William Karlsson.

He was buried on the Columbus
Blue Jackets depth chart

playing a very defensive role.

But when he came to Vegas,
he was placed in the exact
opposite situation.

William Karlsson looking
for a second shorthanded puck

and is winning it
and shot. Scored!

What a goal!
Through his own line.

I came here and
the coach gave me the chance

to play an offensive
role and score points.

It is nice to get the
chance because I think I've
always had it in me.

Slap shot
from the line... Loose puck.
Score.

William Karlsson
is a guy who came from
his old team with a career-high

at six goals.
And this season he scored 43.

He's a breakout superstar
in every sense of the word.

God, William Karlsson, tried the other side and score!

There was some genius behind
what Gerard did this year.

And the Golden Knights get five fresh bodies over the boards.

Deploying them
in such an even-handed manner

and keeping all 23 guys
on the roster involved.

It's hard working for it.

Golden Knights were
the best game team in hockey

'cause there's a reason for
that. They were never tired.

Well he goes right
o the middle of the ice, good
positioning

Brad helped out allowing them to start to break out, come up the ice with speed.

The speed
that we brought to the game,
that was our biggest asset.

Every team, every building we
went to, the comment always is
exactly the same:

"You guys are fast." We don't
see a team that is this fast

that keeps coming at you shift
after shift after shift.

He shoots. He scores!

Gerard Gallant
has that ability to get
the best out of his players.

I was just looking
for a group of guys that

wanted to work for each other.
And they worked for each other.

Vegas back into 1-1, Neal
to the right. Karlsson scores.

Every time I took somebody out
and put somebody else in,

they played really well.
So, we had 23 guys

that were
really important to our group.

Knights win it four to nothing.

Vegas at 101 standings points.

If the Knights to get a win,
they would clinch a playoff
berth. Score!

Close to the end of
the season we're 10 points up.

...offensive
end. Theodore. Scored.

It was like,
you know what, we're good,
we-- we could finish first even.

March 26,
big collection playoffs final.

They've shattered every
expansion record there is

and now they are
in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

You had to pinch yourselves.
You know we might even win
a round in the playoffs.

We had a great season.
But it doesn't mean anything

until you make the playoffs,
and we made the playoffs

and, you know, wow, we did
something really special.

We watched the team, we watched the city really bond together.

They fed off one other
at a difficult time.

It has been a tremendous rise
in their inaugural year.

The last home game
that the Knights
had in the regular season,

they announced they were going to do a tribute

to the victims
that we lost that night
in the events of 1 October.

My heart was just breaking over my own daughter

on the night that we got the phone call that she was killed.

Honestly, it really did not
seem like more than a nightmare.

There was nothing real about it.

Tonight, as we close off
the regular season at home.

The Knights
reached out to us and asked
if we would be in a family

that would represent
the 58th on the ice.

Vegas Golden
Knights owner Bill Foley,

team general manager
George McPhee

and defenseman Deryk Engelland

are joined on the ice
by the parents,

husband, and sons of 1 October
victim, Neysa Tonks

representing all 58 families.

At the ceremony, the Knights
chose to retire the number 58

and they created a banner
and instead of having the number
58 and blazing down the banner,

they would take 58 starbursts.

The feeling of watching
the 58 names, the 58 angels

being, you know, as they raised
to heaven almost,

you know, up into the rafters
of the arena, very emotional.

You're on the ice and you're
standing there with them

and people are emotional and you
want to just let them know that,

you know,
we did everything we could.

Those 58 lives
and their families will
never ever be forgotten.

That's a small
piece of love that the Golden
Knights gave to our community

and to those families
of the victims.

And there couldn't have been
a more classy thing
that they could have done.

Go Knights go! Go Knights go!

Never have the critics been so
wrong predicting that hockey

wouldn't work in the desert and locals wouldn't support it.

It turns out the Vegas Golden
Knights were exactly
what this community needed.

Knights fever
has taken over the city.

Las Vegas
has become a hockey town.

Our mantra has been
welcome to the impossible.

And this right here
is the impossible.

I've never been into hockey
until this year until the Golden
Knights. It's been amazing.

After everything
the city's been through,
it's really a good thing.

It's insane. Everybody I know
are completely obsessed.

It was full-on. Now we've got the Statue of Liberty

in New York,
New York has a jersey on. You would be hard-pressed to go

anywhere in town
and not see either a shirt,

a hat on somebody, a bumper
sticker, it was everywhere.

I even got one of those flags
in my garage right now.

My wife made me put that up.
But I'm proud to put it up.

Now she wants me to get
a license plate ring,

go around her license plate
on her car.

I can't keep up.
And then she just got a little
cover for her cell phone.

I'm a little worried she might
be dating one of those players.

Once the playoffs starts,
I know people
were lining up at 5:00 a.m.

to be there for a practice
that starts at 10:00 a.m.

This team
is hot and the drawback is
skyrocketing ticket prices.

Going to a game
is borderline unaffordable.

One solution several families
have found, head to practice.

- Price tag, zero.
-You get to actually meet them,

you can sign them. They're
not just trying to hurry up,

get back to the game,
it's more personal.

The first practice
before playoffs,

we had over 500 people.

The building was so full
that they actually

exceeded fire capacity and had
to put security out there

-and not let anyone else
in the building.
-Go Knights go!

It was madness. Everyone
was like, "Jesus, this team

just makes you feel really proud
of being from Vegas."

You can see
the atmosphere outside

and it was like one
big party. You could see
that the city was pumped.

We're in Las Vegas
for the first time ever

for the Stanley Cup playoffs.

The Kings
and the Golden Knights.

The playoffs begin
and all the critics come back.

This is not going to continue.

And then the opponent is
the big bad mighty Kings.

The Los Angeles Kings
have won the Stanley Cup!

The Vegas Golden Knights weren't
supposed to finish over 500,

never mind make the postseason.
And here they are welcoming
playoffs hockey.

Do they have what it takes
when it counts the most?

Back in December,
Drew Doughty had this to say.

There's no way they're
onna be a better team than us

-by the end of the season.
- The Golden Knights
have projected that quote

on the ice before the game.

Everyone believes that this
team is gonna flare.

It all sure it was a great story
in the regular season.

But here we are in the playoffs.

The Stanley Cup
playoffs is underway.

Huge hit by Carrier on Doughty.

The Golden Knights were here to play playoff hockey

and they were going out of their way to get in the head of Drew Doughty

to make sure that he knew
that he was a marked man.

Checks his
man Doughty on the end board.

Vegas coming back. He shoots.
Blocker save on the rebound.

-...Hard collision.
- In just a few minutes
into game one,

- there's a loose puck.

the net with the puck.
Bigger than that Nosek.

Blocks that, finds Theodore
shoots and scores!

Shea Theodore has scored
the first post-season goal

in Golden Knights' history.
He's gonna take all the shots.

It was back
and forth thrilling hockey. And Kings could take advantage.

They have the offensive
fire at the toughest...

Fleury jumps on that one.

...Fleury was sensational in
those pressure-packed moments.

Kempe gets his shot, oh!
Juggling again.

Juggling the puck with his
stick, having fun and smiling,

you could see the smile
through his goalie mask.

Some of his saves are
just like how did he do that.

He's like a Jedi
for a hockey puck,

like, bam.
He's an amazing player.

Puck to the right
corner, right behind the two.

They've won. It's over!
Knights win it

and history made
in Vegas tonight.

It's the 11th career
Stanley Cup playoff.

Shutout for Marc-Andre Fleury.

The Vegas Golden Knights make history once again.

And my goodness,
the crowd, the atmosphere,
lived up to the hype.

I've never seen it like this
before. It was incredible.

You still see that everybody is
just celebrating and cheering.

The Golden Knights
win game two and three

and they now have
a 3-0 series lead.

Game four,
the Vegas Golden Knights

and the Los Angeles Kings.

You could feel the energy
in this watch party.

Fans have been
energized by the success
of this team all season

and there's no way
these fans weren't
going to be a part of it.

Here's Karlsson, left wing, through the circle drop at Smith

to the backdoor. They score!

Here comes the horn. It's over. It's a sweep for Vegas.

And the Vegas jackpot history
made by the Golden Knights!

Brayden McNabb, the game-winning goal against his former club.

I was
a little bit in disbelief.

We swept the Kings.
We are zipped. Unbelievable.

Four straight
wins to start their inaugural
Stanley Cup playoffs.

The Vegas Golden Knights
advance.

The way we did it going
n their barn and stealing too,

that's tough to do. And, you
know, we leave that series

knowing we could do something.

Ladies and gentlemen,

are you ready
for second round hockey?

San Jose
came into that second round
and they had swept Anaheim.

And, frankly, they made it look easy. They outscored an 18 to 4.

There's a team that had gone
to the Stanley Cup final
two years previous.

The Sharks had more offensive
firepower. They were faster.

And you figured that it was not
going to be a low scoring

series in the way it had been
in the first round.

Drop of the puck.
Round two underway.

It has only happened
a couple of times
in the last couple of decades

that teams with sweeps in their first round go head to head
in the second.

Here comes the second unit on,

now it's McNabb at the left
point. He shoots.

-...parked at the side
of the cleats

and the Knights take
a one-nothing lead.

The Golden Knights
followed that recipe
that they used all year long:

get on teams right away wave
after wave after wave.

Tuch gets through the team,
he shoots and scores!

The Golden Knights blow
them out seven-nothing.

Marc-Andre Fleury, his third
shutout of these playoffs.

From Las Vegas,
Nevada, game two.

After winning the first game against San Jose, we probably thought the series

-is gonna be easy.
-Here is hurdle... scores!

Puts it up high over
the glove to tie the game.

Everyone
knew it wasn't going to be,
they're extremely talented

and gifted team with
a lot of weapons over there.

They go back and forth.
Game two goes to over tie.

San Jose
was a massive challenge.

Wild series.

Couture turns it over,

puck in but saved by Fleury.

Sharks will go deep with it.

He'll delay all
the way-- Score!

And the San Jose Sharks defeat
the Vegas Golden Knights.

The first time
in these playoffs the Golden
Knights have lost a game.

The Sharks have stolen home ice advantage in round two.

We knew San Jose was gonna be
tough. Sure enough, they come
back and made it a series.

This time the Sharks win it.
So now bit of adversity.

Now comes the test.

That game two loss
was an eye-opener for our team

that it wasn't gonna be an easy series after that game.

Round two
tied up one game apiece.

Game three underway
at SAP Center.

Game three
is probably the most important
game in franchise history

because if the Golden Knights
lose game three,

they are now on the road down
two to one playing

against a team that has beaten
them twice in a row.

We knew going into the barn it's
gonna be tough.

We just keep grinding.

Here wipe
of the tip. He scores

and the Vegas Golden Knights
have a three-to-one lead.

The whole
team played insane.

Two-o-three left in regulation.

Puck shut down by Fleury. Puck
along by Meier. They score!

Sharks have tied it.

San Jose tied the game with just
over a minute and a half left

to enforce overtime again.

Overtime starts, it is a
hostile environment for a team

that has their season hanging
in the balance.

Here comes wild
out there. Shoots.

Scores! Karlsson wins it.
Vegas does it again!

It's going to game-winning goal, when it matters so much,

you're so pumped up.
It's a great feeling.

San Jose very impressive in
the fourth game of the series.

Shot taken, blocked
by Fleury. They score.

San Jose
has a four-nothing lead.

San Jose came back with a pretty convincing winning game

four to tie the series. Well,
then Vegas comes back home

and wins game five
and goes back to San Jose.

Game number six.

These are the Sharks,
and a team of experience,

of guys that have been all
the way to the end before.
And most of your guys have.

Here come the Sharks.
Off the goal post.

Get in behind their D. That's where they make mistakes.

Game six we went
into San Jose and knew

it was gonna be a tough game
and we tried to close them out.

Loose puck, Smith
finds it and Marchessault

shoots and scores.

Good job, boys.

Right back here.
Better team. Let's go!

Hertl pulls it
away, works in--

save Fleury. Another try
and the glove saves Fleury.

Rebound to the near--
Save Fleury.

It's not easy to win
in that building. We played
the best game of the series.

That's what made me proud of our
guys. They just kept battling,
kept working hard.

Carpenter waits
to the middle. Eakin scores.

This round is over.
Golden Knights shutout
the Sharks three-nothing.

Vegas on to the Western
Conference Finals.

My goodness, what a story.

I've been
in the league a long time and
after you win that second round,

it's the furthest I've ever
made it. So, to make it
to that third round,

it was a pretty great
accomplishment for our group.

Electric atmosphere
outside Bell MTS Place.

What effect cause
game one of the NHL's
Western Conference final.

Come on, now. No pucks now.

Next year's we play Winnipeg.
And that's my hometown.

And they have very passionate
fans there.

Winnipeg is like biggest and one
of the best place to play
hockey.

Really loud.
It was white everywhere.

Going into the Conference
finals against Winnipeg Jets,

obviously,
we knew they were going to be
extremely hard team to beat

and it was gonna be a long
battle of a series.

Here come
the Jets with speed,
the puck went shot, score.

Dustin Byfuglien
where they blast from
the top of the slot.

And it doesn't take
the Jets long,

just 105 into the game they
lead game one, one-nothing.

The building is buzzing
and it's one to nothing.

And then
everything that could go wrong

does go wrong
for the Golden Knights.

Wheeler again
along the right side.

Into the backdoor line,
and scores.

Back and the front scores.

All of a sudden,
it's three to nothing.

Winnipeg is the quicker team.

It looks like reality has
set in for the Golden Knights.

Some big
adversity here, three-nothing,

and we're not even
eight minutes into this game.

Playoff game.

Gerard Gallant
can't believe it.

Game one against Winnipeg really
disappointed in ourselves.

The start we had to that game
was not the way you should play
in the playoffs.

Winnipeg,
they are on a roll, they had
the most explosive fan base,

they jumped on
the Golden Knights in game one

and people said
the bubble had burst.

Vegas has a little panic
in their game here.

Winberg has lost his helmet.

And now we've really got
a mess here.

You're thinking,
have the Golden Knights met
their match?

-...Score!

Exactly on the tip.

The Winnipeg Jets take game one.

Golden Knights trail in
a series for the first time.

The Jets are
too big and bold and powerful.

This is the series that
I don't think Vegas can win.

Winnipeg will burst Vegas'
bubble with all their offense.

Welcome to Winnipeg, it's game
two of the West Final.

When we first got
pucks, we're committed to
winning those battles.

That's when we play our best
hockey, okay. Commitment.
Everybody, ready to go.

Here we go. Let's go boys.
Here we go.

Game two now is a game
that Vegas has to play better
and a lot better.

- Puck kept alive
by the Golden Knights...
- They play tremendous.

...Golden opportunity for Tatar Now he scores!

One-nothing Vegas.

Retains it along but it's
stolen. Marchessault has
got a great one.

All by himself.
He shoots. He scores.

Marchessault slams it home
on the backhand.

There is nothing like playoff
hockey. It's what you live for
when you are a hockey player

and there's no excuses
when it comes to playoffs.

A return to Smith, left circle, center Marchessault,

he scores on the backhand.
Three to one, Vegas.

Marchessault 's second
goal of the game.

The Vegas Golden Knights win
game two in Winnipeg.

Looked like a different
team, don't they?

Completely
and utterly different.

Winnipeg,
they were the best team

left in the NHL, in my mind.

Friday night
in Las Vegas, game four.

Vegas Golden Knights lead
the series two games to one.

We always had good start in Vegas and we took advantage of it almost.

Smith shoots. He scores!

The Vegas Golden Knights take
a three games to one lead.

Another whiteout in Winnipeg,
game five of the NHL's Western
Conference Final.

Game five
is a very tight game.

Big shot score.
Josh Morrissey beats Fleury
and we've got a tie game.

It spins to the lefty, shuffles left, he shoots, scores.

Ryan Reaves attempted his first Golden Knights goal

and the Knights take
a two to one lead.

He couldn't be happier
for a guy like Ryan Reaves,

he gets his first goal
for the Knights, and guys,

we're gonna talk
about this later but we've seen him work on that

all season long
since he's arrived.

Being part of a storybook
run like that, it's special.

That is something
I'll never forget for sure.

And that's it,
it's over! The Knights are going to the Stanley Cup final!

You can try to pinch yourself.
You're not going to wake up.

It's actually happening.

The Vegas Golden Knights are
going to the Stanley Cup final

in their inaugural season.

It was unbelievable to work
hard all year

and to know that you're gonna
have a chance to win the trophy

that you've been
dreaming all your life.

-Tremendous accomplishment.
-Thank you very much.

In your wildest dreams you
didn't think about that.

-Oh, I wasn't.
-Congratulations.

Vegas claims
the Campbell Bowl

for the Western Conference
Championship.

If we look
at all of our hockey players,

they were all exposed
in the expansion draft.

And so every one of them got
a second chance with us.

George McPhee
getting fired by Washington,

Tuch getting fired by Florida,

all of us getting left open
for the expansion draft,

traded, it was something
that we all had in common.

Deryk Engelland
sensing the moment will
skate alongside David Perron

and Marc-Andre Fleury
and skate it off the ice.

Western Conference champions.

They were all players
that another organization
deemed expendable.

So we're all in the same
situation and really didn't
have anything to lose.

Everyone said
we were gonna suck.

I think every guy came in with
a chip on their shoulder,

every single guy came in
with something to prove and

wanted to show their old teams
what they lost out on.

James Neal started a group chat called the Golden Misfits

and kind of ran all season long.

This castaway team had this
edge and started calling
themselves the Golden Misfits.

A phrase that actually was
hatched out of the locker room,

something that they rallied
behind from the start
of the season.

Misfits, Golden Misfits.

To think
about another franchise

that sees you left on the scrap

and perhaps a project,
some sort of reclamation,

nobody else wanted
you, but we'll take you.

That's what
made this team so special.

And the fact that everybody
continued to doubt us

was extra motivation.

Go Knights, go! Go Knights, go!

The city was crazy. The city just got more and more amped up.

We want Cup. We want Cup.

I mean I'm performing
at a Stanley Cup game

and keyboards is going crazy.

I love you Las Vegas.

It took all season long
and three rounds in the Stanley
Cup playoffs

for Vegas to finally earn
the respect from everybody.

But now I don't think anybody
is underestimating
the Vegas Golden Knights.

They've only lost three
games in these playoffs.

They got to be the favorite
going into the cup final.

I would label them that.

Everyone is so pumped up,
full of confidence and--

and everyone is thinking,
"Okay, we're gonna win this.
This is our time."

The capitals have
been in business since 1974.

And for the first time
in 20 years, they are
in the Stanley Cup final.

The Golden Knights going to the Staley Cup final is the ultimate underdog story,

and here they are playing
a team that never

can seem to get over the hump
in the Washington Capitals,

a team that has very close ties to the Vegas Golden Knight's

general manager George McPhee.

Washington team in the final.

Maybe it's-- I don't know
how to explain that.

Who in the world would think
that you'd built this team

and you'd get to the finals and
you're playing your former team.

With the first selection 2004,
NHL Entry Draft,

Washington Capital is please
to select Alexander Ovechkin.

He was projected in the first

overall at the age of 14.

All the players he drafted was
kids, they're now grown men.

You know, some ways
they're like your own kids.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to game one.

Let's get ready to rumble!

The Golden
Knights trying to take
advantage of this atmosphere

and get started early
as they've often done.

Miller, he wants, he shoots,
he scores!

Collin Miller!
It's a powerplay goal.

And the Knights take a one-nothing lead in game one.

On the far boards, Evegeny gets
it again and

Shoots off the pipe and in.

And it's a tie game with 519
to go in the first period.

Here is the drop of the puck.
Underway of the second period.

Another tie in puck.
That's Reaves! Goal.

With every series
the Golden Knights won,

there was an excuse,
there was some reason

why the Knights
overcame being home.

It was a matter of what
excuse could be next.

Game one,
the Vegas Golden Knights.

This team destroys
the paradigm of how you put
a hockey team together.

I don't know anybody who did
not pick them for last place.

They were offered essentially
second liners.

It's an insulting term in hockey. It means you're not good enough to be a first liner.

That's all they got.
When their third line is out,

it's actually second line
quality, it's better than
the other team's third line.

The fourth one
is even better than the fourth
one of the other team.

And it just becomes
the question of how well your first line that you've developed

does against
the other first line teams.
Essentially, 50, 60 percent

of the time
they're stepping onto
the ice with better players.

-That's one. Three more.
- Not until
the Golden Knights won

the first game of the Stanley
Cup final did I have the opinion

that this could actually happen,
they could actually win
the Stanley Cup.

Vegas,
welcome to our fortress.

Who's ready for game two?

As we enter game two...
-...short-handed from Wilson.

I didn't know
what was going to happen
because we usually expect

that the Golden Knights are gonna score the first goal.

And it comes to Neal,
he shoots, he scores!

James Neal scores and now
you're thinking, all right,
they are three wins away

from a Stanley Cup and they've
got the lead in game two.

Up the right side
it's Nate Schmidt.

Puck comes back
up for a feed. Score!

Eller. He's tied it up.

Despite being
somewhat silent in game one,

Ovechkin started
to come out to play.

Down to the goal line.
Backdoor feed. Score.

And Washington takes the lead.

Then the player that has the longest current active goal

scoring drought in the entire
NHL fires a shot.

Puck has right side and shot.
On the pipe, it's in.

Brooks Orpik, who had gone 220
games without scoring a goal,
scored.

Brooks Orpik,
and it's three to one.

It was his first goal since
February of 2016.

Theodore dumps
it in, puck right in front.
Theodore in front.

Goal. What a step! Holtby denies Tuch at point blank range.

Braden Holtby is
able to get his stick on the puck and everyone sinks.

And it is a moment that
some immediately thought
was series changing.

And that was a game-changer.
All the good bounce that we had
in the three previous rounds

-just didn't happen.

This is a joke.

And the game is over.
Capitals win it three to two.

And the series
is tied one and one.

And now game three.

Everybody's mind was
in the right place, they all
know what we're playing for.

We grew up dreaming
about the Stanley Cup.

So, we are trying to get ready
for the next thing.

Ovechkin got into it.
Oh, and a remarkable save.

And he shoots. Wide left.
Well, we haven't had

a scoreless first period
until now in this series.

We got to get pucks by them,
okay. Keep moving your feet,

keep working hard, we'll have
a great second period.

Here we go, go to
work. Now let's go.

Kuznetsov holds the shot
hits Fleury.

rebounds behind him and it's
Fleury and makes a save,

get out the side of the pipe,
another shot, another safe,
Fleury. This time they score.

The Capitals take the lead.
It's Alexander Ovechkin.

Alexander Ovechkin,
he's blocking shots.

He's hitting guys. He's playing strong in the defensive zone.

For Alexander Ovechkin to put
the team on his shoulders,

it seemed to be too much for the Golden Knights to handle.

And the Capitals are gonna take it two to one lead

winning it.
The Vegas Golden Knights

have suffered back to back
losses for the first time

in this amazing playoff season.

They're finding ways to win.
They are beating us.

Game four through
40 minutes it is four-zip.

The home team.
Tucks it in, on the pipe.

Holtby never saw it. Here's how the right side back and puck,

wide open net, the shot.
No! And it didn't go.

There's a randomness
to the game sometimes,
there's a little puck luck.

Puck luck
is part of this game.
Just unfortunate.

Puck lock has been referred
to as the unseen hand

that can cause
things to shift.

Off the pipe on a deflection.

I could feel it as
the series was progressing

and Washington
finally got the puck luck

that they hadn't had
in previous years.

On over here in
game four. Washington Capitals

defeat the Golden Knights
six to two.

So the Knights are down
three-one in the Cup final.

They're coming back to Las Vegas for game five.

The team has never had
a four-game losing streak

-in franchise history.
-Game five on that ice could be

-the last game to this series.
-It appears like it should be.

But what is the one thing that
Vegas has done all year long?
Prove people wrong.

From the moment this
franchise started, this team
was not supposed to be good.

I think they're gonna come out and play their best game of the series.

We play whistle to whistle.
Hey, nothing but our best
tonight, okay?

Dominating performance
from everybody, work hard,
complete, compete.

It's okay, let's go to work.
Let's have some fun.
Play the game. Here we go.

Playing on the
ponds firing pucks at garage
doors.

This is what you dream of.

The Golden Knights
had a chance

and their chance came there
in game five.

Tuch to the left
and a shot, they score.

And the Knights take
the lead three to two.

Golden Knights get a three
to two lead in game five at home

after two periods
with a chance to extend
the series back to a game six.

Toward the right circle, now left wing, and he shoots. He scores!

Capitals come out and score
twice in the third period of
game five and that was all.

And it's all for Washington Capitals. Stanley Cup Champions.

All the players
from the Washington Capitals
swarm Braden Holtby.

They played their hearts out
it was a tough fought battle.

But I was just happy that I was
able to be a part of this.

Thank you Golden Knights
and thank you Las Vegas

for the best first year
any team has ever had.

We just lost our swag,
we just lost our confidence.

For me, personally,
I think we blew it.

Fifty-one wins
in the regular season.

No expansion team ever
even came close to that.

After the game I think everybody
was just quiet. I don't think
there was one word said.

It was just
pretty disappointing, very--
very tough, you know, once--

all your life you try to get
there as a hockey player.

Then by the end of the game you see the other team celebrating

with the cup
in their hand, I think
it's a tough thing to watch.

It didn't sink in until the next
day that we had gotten that far

and that we were not going
to win the Stanley Cup.

And then I realized we
didn't have a plan for a final
event to thank the community.

And I said, "You know we've
got to do something."

What's it like to be fan
to the best expansion team
in the history of the sport?

I've been
here 22 years and I've always
felt like it wasn't a real city,

it was a place in the desert.
They have done so much to bring
our community together.

Give it up for your Vegas
Golden Knights!

This was a hard year.
This year took so much
out of us.

It was hard on every single
level. And you'd like to win

but define success, define
winning, like connections,
relationships, love,

making something that
is way bigger than you,
being a part of something

that will live on
for so long, we did that.

Bill Foley built a professional
sports team in the desert

in Las Vegas when people
told him he was crazy.

This changed people's lives.

It goes so beyond
the guys playing hockey.

It truly transformed the city.

We came here in 1968.
I was raised here on
the southeast side of town.

I think there was an ice rink
here when I was growing up but I
couldn't told you where it was.

When you're younger
and it's hot, it doesn't seem
to be that big of a deal

but when you get older,
heat is the worst.

And when I know that I'm
gonna go skate, I'm excited.

I don't think there's too many
people that are female
that are 50 years old

that have two knee surgeries
on each knee under their belt

that have decided
to play hockey.

I grabbed my bag,
I stuffed it in my car

and every time I go skate, I'm doing about 80 miles an hour

probably to get to the rink
because I love it.

Once I get past the double doors and into that cool air

and then once I go on
to the rink, that first blast

you feel that icy coldness,
it's the most awesome feeling.

It's kind of like walking
into a Slurpee.

It just kind of envelops you

I swear if I could live
at City National Arena

inside the ice rink area, I
would 'cause it's just awesome.

One time
I was having a hamburger
with my wife and my daughter

and this young man,
11, 12 years old, walked by

and kind of came back
and looked at me and he said,

"Mr. Foley." I said, "Yeah."

He said,
"I want to thank you for working
so hard to get a team here."

Boy, that was meaningful.

This is not just the feel-good
story of sports,

it really transcends
so much more than that.

It's lives you're dealing with,
it's your community,

people trying
to pick up the pieces.

And when you look at the symbol for the Vegas Golden Knights,

now in that V emblazoned
on that helmet,

it has so much more of a meaning
for the community.

I don't think really
people understand

because it doesn't
just represent the team.

The symbol to a lot of people
here means Vegas Strong.

Being a Knight represents
bravery, honor, courage,

but most of all it means
that you're a hero to somebody

and that you're valiant.

Not everybody can be valiant.

♪ Breaking through ♪

♪ This city
I wanna wake up to ♪

Gonna beat that steady drum ♪

♪ Moving you to
Keep marching on ♪

♪ It's coming from the
pulse in our hearts ♪

♪ You brought back
To life with love ♪

♪ You've been so bright ♪

♪ So keep shining that light ♪

♪ Tomorrow is never promised ♪

♪ But you are the promise
Of a dawn ♪

♪ Breaking through ♪

♪ This city
I wanna wake up to ♪

♪ Let that sunrise
To open my eyes ♪

♪ Let that sunrise
To open my eyes ♪

♪ Let your lights shine
To open my eyes ♪

♪ Tomorrow is never promised ♪

♪ But you are the promise
Of a dawn ♪

♪ Breaking through ♪

♪ This city we get
To wake up to ♪