Hi everyone, and welcome back to another exciting update from Golden Seals Hockey, your home for all things related to golden seals (the hockey kind only, sorry…) and, uh, hockey. I guess that part is pretty obvious.

Congratulations to the Washington Capitals for their excellent playoff and the capture of their very first Stanley Cup championship. Congratulations also to the Vegas Golden Knights for providing, in my opinion, the greatest story the NHL has seen in many a year. I absolutely loved following the Knights and seeing them knock off one expansion record after another. I think at this point they literally have every positive record for an expansion team, and I’m willing to bet they will never be broken. I also love the fact that these two teams have either a direct or indirect link to the book I’m now writing about the 1974 expansion that welcomed Kansas City and Washington to the fold. Washington, of course, is still the worst expansion team of all-time, and Kansas City wasn’t far off, whereas the Knights are the all-time best expansion team. How did the 1974 draft turn out so badly, yet the 2017 draft turned out so well? And why did it take the Capitals so long to finally win their first championship? I’m looking forward to diving deeper into these two questions.

Anyway, back to the subject of the website: the Seals. I came across a great article last weekend that had slipped under my radar for two years. I remember reading in Brad Kurtzberg’s Shorthanded: the Untold Story of the Seals, that Stan Gilbertson had seemingly vanished into thin air. No one seemed to know where he was, or what he was doing. A lot of people were worried about his well-being. Then, NHL Network Radio’s Mick Kern took it upon himself to find out what happened to Stan, and I’ve added his article to the site so you can all read about his search.

And there’s also a brand new induction to the Overexposed wing of the Hockey Hall of Shame, and it’s a real stinker. You’ll just have to go check it out for yourself to see what I mean.

Until next time, enjoy the NHL awards (which might be future induction material if they keep hauling out more D-list celebrities…), and enjoy the NHL draft as well, which with the current Mike Hoffman-Erik Karlsson saga, might be extremely interesting…

And stay gold!