Dave Poulin: How the Golden Knights fulfilled a promise to bring a Stanley Cup to Vegas
after setting the standard for expansion teams in every sport with their artful construction.
I had a special interest, after a unique inside look early in the process. One of my former Flyers teammates, good friend Murray Craven, was owner Bill Foley’s original hockey consultant and one of the principal architects of the organization. After looking closely at buying an existing franchise, Foley’s group swung to owning the first major pro sports team in Las Vegas.
It was at a dinner with a business partner in Vegas that we first heard Foley lay out his aggressive plan and — possibly the first time the owner had uttered those words in public. We smiled respectfully, knowing how hard a task winning a Stanley Cup would be. Foley would get the last laugh.that brash statement so accurately and emphatically.
Drilling down for the answer, I will lean on the famous words of one of my favourite boyhood TV characters, Detective Joe Friday of “Dragnet” — “All we want are the facts, ma’am.”They hired well from the beginning. George McPhee was put in the general manager’s chair, and the front office was built around him.
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