What's it like to build an NHL team from scratch?
Current Golden Knights general manager George McPhee is the only NHL executive to have been given this opportunity since 2000.
Or looking at it from another perspective, McPhee is the only GM in history tasked with managing this sort of process in a salary cap era (2005-present).
McPhee began this process last July, when he was hired as the first GM in Vegas history. Since then, he's hired and deployed a hockey ops staff, relocated to Las Vegas and began shaping the on-ice identity of a franchise that will play its first regular-season game in October 2017.
Five Questions With George McPhee
The Golden Knights' general manager gave a wide-ranging interview with NHL.com's Dan Rosen
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