The N.H.L. Team That Is Surprising Everyone This Season

By Sean Gentille, Shayna Goldman, Jesse Granger, James Mirtle and The Athletic NHL Staff

In October, The Athletic’s NHL staff didn’t consider the Vegas Golden Knights a serious Stanley Cup contender. There’s no other way to put it — seven teams received preseason votes to win the Cup, and Vegas wasn’t one of them.

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A little more than three months later, though, they’re in the thick of the Presidents’ Trophy race and our new favorite to win the whole thing.

What else has changed? This week, we polled staffers on the same set of questions we asked in the preseason. Here’s how our expectations for 2024-25 have further evolved, with expert analysis

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