the golden knights joined the nhl in 2017.
when did the golden knights join the nhl?
2017
the team's inaugural home game was played on october 10, 2017, hosting the arizona coyotes as the second game of a home-and-home series. in the aftermath of the october 1 mass shooting, the pre-game ceremonies honored the victims of the attack, and the team issued an appeal for donations to its charitable arm. with their 5–2 win, the golden knights increased their unbeaten streak to start the season to 3–0, an nhl record for an expansion team. the golden knights are the first team in nhl history to have started their inaugural season winning eight of their first nine games. during their tenth game, goaltender oscar dansk was injured becoming the third golden knights' goaltender to be injured during the season after losing starters fleury and the recently acquired malcolm subban, forcing the team to start a fourth goaltender in 11 games with maxime lagace. fifteen games into the season, vadim shipachyov became the first player to retire from the nhl as a golden knight when he decided to return to the kontinental hockey league. in december, the golden knights set another nhl expansion team record of six straight wins, a record they had previously missed when they lost their tenth game of the season, and established a new nhl record with eight straight wins. on february 1, 2018, the golden knights set the expansion team record for wins in a debut season with 34 wins after only 50 games, and then on february 21, 2018, set a record for most points by an expansion team in the inaugural season with 84. clinching a berth for the 2018 playoffs on march 26, the golden knights became the first team since the edmonton oilers and hartford whalers in the 1979–80 season to make the playoffs in their inaugural season in the league. on march 31, the knights clinched the pacific division title, becoming the first true expansion team in the four major sports to win its division in its inaugural season (not counting all-expansion divisions, as was the case in the 1967–68 season). they had led the pacific since december 23, 2017.
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golden knights may refer to:





























bullet::::- united states army parachute team, commonly known as the "golden knights"





























bullet::::- vegas golden knights, a national hockey league team





























bullet::::- golden knights (chess), the us's annual correspondence chess tournament





























bullet::::- "golden knights", pre-2007 name for the ucf knights





























bullet::::- "golden knights", clarkson university's athletics teams





























bullet::::- "golden knights", the college of saint rose's athletics teams





























bullet::::- "golden knights", james madison high school (brooklyn)'s athletics teams





























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bullet::::- golden (disambiguation)





























bullet::::- knight (disambiguation)





























bullet::::- gold coast "knights" sc, soccer team in gold coast, queensland, australia
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