[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is satire and fictional]
It’s been 363 days since NHL Commissioner Gary “Mr. Bettman” Bettman announced that Las Vegas would gain a franchise and round out the NHL to a perfectly-symmetrical 31 teams.
But yesterday, it became real for many in the hockey community. That’s because on Monday, GM George McPhee announced when he’d be selecting his inaugural squad. That means today, somewhere in the Nevada desert, George McPhee sits in a room, sipping too-warm coffee and making decisions that will define his franchise for years to come.
Fans of the other 30 franchises already in the NHL know all too well that those decisions will also shape their own teams in the immediate future.