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Golden Knights establishing winning culture early in existence

There’s still more than half of their inaugural season left to play, but what the Golden Knights are doing now might have a greater impact in the long term.

The challenge for every new sports franchise, or, for that matter, any new business, is to lay down a culture of success. It was one of Golden Knights general manager George McPhee’s mandates when Bill Foley hired him in July 2016.

That extended to Kerry Bubolz a few months later when he was named the expansion’s team president of business operations.

While the Knights’ are one of the feel-good stories in all of sports, they’re accomplishing something more critical than amassing wins and sitting in first place in the Pacific Division heading into Sunday’s 12:30 p.