The team, in its first season in the NHL, destroys all the forecasts and the milestones of the debutantes franchises in the North American sport.Las Vegas Golden Knights do not get tired of making history. And they are already just a couple of steps from the most incredible campaign that has ever been seen in an expansion franchise, that is, from a team that makes its debut in one of the major leagues of North American sport.Let's start at the end: the Golden Knights won 0-3 yesterday at the San Jose Sharks in the sixth game of the Western Conference semifinals of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs. With this result they put 3-2 and, therefore, advance towards the final of the Western Conference. There they will play against the Nashville Predators or the Winnipeg Jets, whose serious goes 2-3 in favor of the second.The match became the usual monologue in which these Golden Knights have lived in the great nights of their very limited history in the NHL: take advantage of opportunities and Marc-Andre Fleury, its goalkeeper, stop everything. He did so. No less than 28 stops to leave his goal to zero, something he has done in four games of these playoffs, a monumental mark.The bustling public of San Jose could only witness, for the third consecutive season, the elimination of their team in their own pavilion. And they could not but end up surrendering to the superiority of the Golden Knights.What makes this issue so special is that Las Vegas did not exist, as a team, last year at this point in the calendar. Like any expansion franchise, he created himself as a true Frankenstein, taking the players from here and there who left them the rest of the NHL teams , always discounting the stars, who were protected.The work of selection was so impressive that already in the regular season Las Vegas Golden Knights became the debutante club in one of the four major American leagues with the highest percentage of victories.They won 51 of the 92 games and went into the playoffs. Needless to say, nobody expected this. In Las Vegas (je) the bettors placed them as the last team in the Pacific Division forecasts and even those who said that the players they had gotten were better than the general public thought, did not dare to place them among the players. that they would fight in the postseason.No team of expansion in the other leagues had ever reached this level . In fact, none had reached 50% of victories in the debut season. In the NFL the best were the Carolina Panthers (1995, 43% of wins), in the NBA the Chicago Bulls (1967, 41%) and the MLB Los Angeles Angels (1961, 43.5%). In the NHL, the top was represented by the Florida Panthers (1994, 49%). Las Vegas Golden Knights have destroyed those brands with 72.6% of points won in the regular season.But, of course, that is not much if we compare it with two rounds of playoffs , the first of them sweeping the map with a forceful 4-0 to the Los Angeles Kings and, right now, are four games away from playing for the Stanley Cup. That's the name of the trophy that is awarded to the NHL champion.It is important what the Golden Knights are doing because Las Vegas aspires to become a center of sport in the United States. After them will arrive the Raiders, who will leave Oakland to play in the capital of the game of Nevada from 2020, with a new and brand new stadium, and in the city they work so that the pavilion of the Golden Knights, the T- Mobile Arena, also be the home of a future NBA franchise. The plans with baseball are medium term, but it also exists.And what better way to attract investors, attention and the interest of the big leagues than with successful projects, as well as that there is no better way to attract fans than by offering victories. And much earlier than expected, the Golden Knights are getting it.
