#Kelly McCrimmon

A five-game trip showed that the Golden Knights were falling apart eighth months ago. The one they just finished made them look better than ever. In hopping from Philadelphia to Winnipeg from March 8 to 15, the Knights went 0-5 in one of the most calamitous eight-day stretches in team history. They tumbled out of the playoff picture and never…

The Stanley Cup Playoffs bring out the best and most unpredictable hockey from the 16 teams that make it to the postseason and that's why we love them so much. The focus right now for the Vegas Golden Knights is simply making them for the fifth-straight season. Things are looking up after an overtime win against the Washington Capitals and the…

Fortune favors the bold, or so the saying goes. Even conservatively handicapping a sport as unpredictable as hockey - where seemingly every season, there are two or three jaw-dropping surprises in the standings based on the bounces of a frozen vulcanized rubber disk - can leave you looking foolish. We're throwing conservative selections out the…

From the time he was four years old, when September came around P.K. Subban knew what team he was going to be playing for. In his early years in the GTHL, there was annual demand for Subban's immense talents. The phone calls were many. The annual recruitment was heavy. And then he became an NHL player, a legend of sorts, a magazine cover waiting to…

This story appears in the Feb. 12, 2017, issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. To subscribe, The most spectacular show in Las Vegas features many apparent mysteries but only one obvious illusion. Exiting the home locker room before each period at T-Mobile Arena, the Golden Knights march down an entrance tunnel lined with looking glass. Viewed from the right…