Game On Magazine - April 2017 Game on Preview Edition | Page 64

At the NHL’s expansion
draft, the first
player selected by
the brand new Vegas
Golden Knights was
Colorado Avalanche
goalie Calvin Pickard,
a Winnipegger
Later, the Knights selected
two more Winnipeggers, Cody
Eakin and Brendan Leipsic.
Three days later, at the NHL
Entry Draft, the Knights’
first choice, at No. 6, was
Winnipegger Cody Glass.
Later that day, they made
a trade to acquire Keegan
Kolesar from Columbus. The
newest NHL franchise has
NHL’s
New
Manitoba
Golden
Knights
are
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pretty much started out as the
Manitoba Golden Knights.
It should be an interesting
inaugural season.
It’s hard to imagine that
anyone could be more excited
to throw on the new Vegas
Golden Knights jersey than
Winnipeg’s Cody Eakin.
The former Dallas
Stars’ 26-year-old centre
was coming off an injury-
plagued, non-playoff season
in which he scored three
goals and 12 points in just
60 games. However, the
former Winnipeg Monarchs
bantam and Winnipeg Wild
midget, who played his WHL
hockey with the Swift Current
Broncos and Kootenay Ice
and played on Canada’s 2011