Golden Knights Stumble To Final Seed In Conference Playoffs With Loss To Anaheim Thursday, So Vegas Draws Dallas Stars And Former Vegas Coach Pete DeBoer In First Round Of Postseason

April 18, 2024April 19, 2024 Alan Snel Bruce Cassidy, Pete DeBoer

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

The Vegas Golden Knights completed a topsy-turvy, uneven regular season Thursday with a 4-1 loss to the hapless Anaheim Ducks at T-Mobile Arena Thursday and has drawn the top-seeded Dallas Stars in the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

All class 🤝 @GoldenKnights pic.twitter.com/Qced0k66qY

— Anaheim Ducks (@AnaheimDucks) April 19, 2024

The Los Angeles Kings leapfrogged the Golden Knights into third place in their division and claimed a higher playoff seed in the Western Conference with a 5-4 comeback win against the Chicago Blackhawks in LA, so the Kings will play the Edmonton Oilers while the VGK will face their former coach, Pete DeBoer, and the Stars.

Dallas is seen as a very complete team with a deep roster and solid goaltending. They are favored to beat Vegas in the first round.

Dallas vs Vegas is also a rematch of the 2023 Western Conference Final, won by the Golden Knights en route to their Stanley Cup title.

Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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To contact LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel or buy his book, Bicycle Man: Life of Journeys, email him at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com

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