Vegas Golden Knights Trivia
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50 free Vegas Golden Knights trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Vegas Golden Knights sold 10,000 season-ticket deposits before the NHL had even approved them, drafted a roster of castoffs called the Golden Misfits, and reached the Stanley Cup Final in their first season. This Golden Knights trivia quiz covers the whole run: the 1991 outdoor game outside Caesars Palace, Bill Foley and the Maloofs, the $500 million fee, why 'Black Knights' and 'Las' were dropped, the Army trademark dispute, George McPhee and Gerard Gallant, Marc-Andre Fleury and James Neal, the record 13 playoff wins in 2018, and the five-minute major that ended 2019. It then follows Mark Stone's captaincy, Alex Pietrangelo, the Fleury trade, Jack Eichel, Bruce Cassidy's hiring, five goalies and a 'cup in six' title over Florida in 2023, Jonathan Marchessault's Conn Smythe, the Winter Classic shutout, John Tortorella's late-season arrival and the 2026 Final against Carolina. There are questions on T-Mobile Arena, Chance the Gila monster, the barbute logo and the Manon Rheaume-inspired Reverse Retro too, from easy to expert. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedic and reference sources before publishing, and each question carries a citation. For more, try our NHL trivia and hockey trivia pages.
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Q 01Which division did the Golden Knights win in their debut 2017-18 season with an expansion-record 51 victories?
Pacific
Pacific Division: Vegas took it with 51 wins and 109 points, though oddsmakers had put its chances of winning the Stanley Cup at 500 to 1 when the season began.
Q 02Which two NHL teams played outdoors at Caesars Palace in 1991?
Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers
The Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers met in the first outdoor game between NHL clubs, on a rink in the Caesars Palace car park; the Kings won 5-2 as grasshoppers hopped onto the ice and froze.
Q 03Which billionaire led the consortium that founded the Golden Knights in 2017?
Bill Foley
Bill Foley, who made his fortune reviving the title insurer Fidelity National Financial and first played hockey as a boy in Ottawa, led the group, with the Maloof family, founders of the Palms, as minority partners.
Q 04Fans put over 13,000 deposits on what to land Las Vegas an NHL team?
Season tickets
Season tickets: the drive needed 10,000 deposits to show the league there was demand, took 5,000 in its first day and a half, and had passed 13,000 by June 2015, when the NHL said it would take expansion bids.
Q 05Which company's bid to revive the Nordiques competed with Las Vegas in the 2015 expansion process?
Quebecor
Quebecor, which manages Quebec City's Videotron Centre, was the only other applicant; in 2016 the NHL shelved its bid, citing the weak Canadian dollar and a league that already had more teams in the East than the West.
Q 06What expansion fee did the Golden Knights' owners pay the NHL?
$500 million
$500 million: only when the last instalment was paid, on March 1, 2017, was the NHL's first new club since 2000 allowed to sign players and sit in on league meetings.
Q 07Which former Capitals general manager became the Golden Knights' first GM?
George McPhee
George McPhee, who ran the Capitals from 1997 to 2014, was hired in July 2016 and turned the expansion draft into a market, taking picks and prospects from teams that wanted certain players left alone.
Q 08'Knights' honours the Black Knights of which institution, the team owner's alma mater?
United States Military Academy
The United States Military Academy at West Point calls its teams the Black Knights; the owner wanted that exact name for his hockey club too, but dropped it after federal officials objected.
Q 09Why did the owner leave 'Las' out of the Vegas Golden Knights' name?
Locals just say 'Vegas'
Locals just say 'Vegas', the owner explained at the November 2016 unveiling, and four words struck him as one too many; 'Golden' stayed because Nevada mines more gold than any other state.
Q 10Which military branch initially opposed the Golden Knights trademark because of its parachute team?
U.S. Army
The U.S. Army, whose parachute team is also called the Golden Knights, filed its opposition in January 2018, midway through the hockey team's first season; the two sides signed a coexistence agreement that July.
Q 11Who was the Golden Knights' first head coach?
Gerard Gallant
Gerard Gallant coached the inaugural 2017-18 team to the Final and won the Jack Adams Award; he was fired on January 15, 2020, during a four-game losing streak.
Q 12From which team did Vegas pluck goalie Marc-Andre Fleury in the 2017 expansion draft?
Pittsburgh Penguins
Pittsburgh Penguins: Fleury, a three-time Cup winner there, waived his no-movement clause to be exposed, and Pittsburgh added a second-round pick to make sure Vegas took him.
Q 13Who was the first player the Golden Knights ever signed, in March 2017?
Reid Duke
Q 21Whose cross-check on Joe Pavelski in Game 7 in 2019 drew the major penalty that sank Vegas?
Cody Eakin
Cody Eakin's cross-check injured Pavelski with Vegas up 3-0; San Jose scored four times on the five-minute major and won 5-4 in overtime, and the NHL later apologised to Vegas for the call.
Q 22Which future captain did Vegas acquire from Ottawa at the 2019 trade deadline?
Mark Stone
Mark Stone came from Ottawa at the 2019 deadline for Erik Brannstrom, Oscar Lindberg and a second-round pick; Vegas, which had played without a captain since its debut, made him its first in January 2021.
Q 23Which recently fired Sharks coach became the Golden Knights' second head coach in January 2020?
Peter DeBoer
Reid Duke, a Brandon Wheat Kings centre once drafted by Minnesota, signed on March 6, 2017, yet the first Golden Knight never played an NHL game, spending his Vegas years in the minors.
Q 14Who scored the Golden Knights' first two goals in the October 2017 opener at Dallas?
James Neal
James Neal scored twice in the third period to turn a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 win at Dallas on October 6, 2017, and Vegas went on to win eight of its first nine games.
Q 15At their first home game in October 2017, the Golden Knights replaced every advertisement on the boards with which message?
Vegas Strong
Vegas Strong ran around the boards in place of the usual advertising on October 10, 2017, nine days after the Route 91 festival shooting, while the team raised money for the victims.
Q 16Which fourth-string goalie was pressed into action after Fleury, Subban and Dansk were all hurt?
Maxime Lagace
Maxime Lagace, a free-agent signing who began the season in the minors, debuted on October 30, 2017, when Dansk was hurt, and kept the net until December; Vegas even had to use a fifth goalie, Dylan Ferguson.
Q 17What nickname was given to the expansion-draft castoffs who starred in Vegas's first season?
The Golden Misfits
The Golden Misfits: players their old teams had left unprotected in the expansion draft won their division and reached the Stanley Cup Final in the franchise's first season.
Q 18Whom did the Golden Knights sweep for their first playoff series win in 2018?
Los Angeles Kings
The Los Angeles Kings, Cup winners in 2012 and 2014, scored only three goals in four straight one-goal losses: 1-0, 2-1 in double overtime, 3-2 and 1-0.
Q 19Which two teams before Vegas reached the Stanley Cup Final in their first season?
Toronto Arenas and St. Louis Blues
The Toronto Arenas and St. Louis Blues: Toronto won the 1918 Cup in the NHL's first season, and the 1968 Blues came out of a division made up only of new teams, so one of them had to reach the Final.
Q 20Which team beat the Golden Knights in the 2018 Stanley Cup Final?
Washington Capitals
The Washington Capitals lost the opener 6-4 in Las Vegas, then won four straight, clinching 4-3 on June 7, 2018, for the first Stanley Cup in their history.
Peter DeBoer, fired by San Jose in December 2019, took over on January 15, 2020, reached the 2020 conference final and 2021 semifinal, and was fired in May 2022 after Vegas missed the playoffs.
Q 24Which defenseman signed a seven-year deal with Vegas in the 2020 offseason?
Alex Pietrangelo
Alex Pietrangelo, who had captained his previous team to the 2019 Cup, signed for seven years and $61.6 million on October 12, 2020, and Vegas traded Nate Schmidt to Vancouver that same day.
Q 25Which award did Fleury win with Vegas in 2021, sharing the Jennings with Robin Lehner the same year?
Vezina Trophy
The Vezina Trophy went to Fleury in 2021 for a 1.98 goals-against average and .928 save percentage; weeks later Vegas dealt him to the Blackhawks for minor-leaguer Mikael Hakkarainen to clear cap space.
Q 26Which star center came from Buffalo in November 2021 for Alex Tuch, Peyton Krebs and two picks?
Jack Eichel
Jack Eichel arrived on November 4, 2021, had the artificial-disc neck surgery Buffalo had refused, and debuted for Vegas on February 16, 2022; the team missed the playoffs that spring anyway.
Q 27Which former Bruins coach was hired in 2022 and won the Cup in his first Vegas season?
Bruce Cassidy
Bruce Cassidy was hired on June 14, 2022, eight days after Boston fired him, and won the Cup in his first Vegas season; Vegas fired him in turn in March 2026 with eight games left in the season.
Q 28Which goalie took over in the second round and backstopped Vegas to the 2023 Stanley Cup?
Adin Hill
Adin Hill, acquired from San Jose in August 2022, replaced the injured Laurent Brossoit during the second round against Edmonton and went 11-4 the rest of the way, including the Game 5 clincher.
Q 29Whom did Vegas beat in five games to win the 2023 Stanley Cup?
Florida Panthers
The Florida Panthers, the East's last seed, had knocked out the record-setting Bruins in round one but lost the Final in five games, the last a 9-3 rout in Las Vegas.
Q 30Who won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2023?
Jonathan Marchessault
Jonathan Marchessault, never drafted and left unprotected by his old club in the 2017 expansion draft, won the Conn Smythe with 13 goals and 25 points in the 2023 playoffs.