
Jonathan Marchessault earns playoff MVP honors for leading Vegas Golden Knights to Stanley Cup This time, they were an integral part of the championship team that knocked off the Panthers in five games.
The original Knights fell in five games to the Washington Capitals in the final. The half-dozen Knights were on the 2017-18 team that dubbed itself the Golden Misfits because it was a collection of players from all over the NHL. Louis Blues when he coached the Boston Bruins. I know how that feels, so very happy for them.”Ĭassidy lost in Game 7 of the 2019 final to the St. The first building blocks started with them. “They’re the foundation of this hockey team. “They’re the original guys, right?” Cassidy said. So in the game that would win the Stanley Cup for Vegas, Cassidy started five of the original Knights and sent the sixth one in for the second shift Tuesday night in a 9-3 victory over the Florida Panthers. Just a few minutes from home, he was brutally attacked by several police officers, according to a lawsuit Nichols’ family filed against Memphis police.LAS VEGAS (AP) - Bruce Cassidy has been the Golden Knights’ coach for only a year, but he knows full well the history of the Misfits. 7, Memphis police pulled over Nichols on his way home from taking pictures of the sky. It expresses me in ways I cannot write down for people,” Nichols wrote on his website showcasing his photos. “Photography helps me look at the world in a more creative way. He enjoyed photography - especially taking photos of landscapes and sunsets. Nichols moved to Memphis, Tennessee, shortly before the coronavirus pandemic and lived there with his mother and stepfather. City officials and others held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated skate park now named for Nichols.

(AP) - Officials dedicated a California skate park Sunday in honor of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who spent much of his youth in the state and was killed last January in what prosecutors said was a fatal beating by police in Tennessee during a traffic stop.Īn avid skateboarder, Nichols spent much time as a youth at the park on the outskirts of Sacramento.
