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The unprecedented Cup run of the Vegas Golden Knights in their inaugural season is a story for the ages: A team no one expected to even make the playoffs won an entire conference. Despite this incredible fortune, there is plenty of risk involved in such an enterprise: Greatly accelerating your window due to heightened expectations, juggling between new blood and loyalty to the old core, and straddling a line between competitiveness and outright desperation.
Vegas, in these past five years, have done everything in their power to get to another Cup final, but has their eagerness to do so damaged them? Has going all-in every single year been to their detriment? Was the insane Cup run in their first year more of a curse than a blessing?
With the way the Golden Knights have managed their success, it may have been more of a curse than once let on.
Now watch as this becomes hideously out of date next year as they go deep in the playoffs again.