The Vegas Golden Knights made history on Sunday with their 2-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets in Game 5 to reach the Stanley Cup Final in their inaugural season.

It was an accomplishment that nobody saw coming — not even Golden Knights owner Bill Foley.

Speaking to ESPN.com back in August of 2017, Foley was excited about his team’s roster, but he tempered expectations with a reasonable explanation of the club’s outlook. It’s probably safe to assume that Foley is thrilled to be wrong about this one.

Foley said when asked, “What is a win for you this year?” Via ESPN:

We don’t have high expectations for this year. We’re going to be competitive. If we’re going to lose a game, we’d like to lose by a goal or two, not lose by five or six. We don’t want to be a walkover team. We want to be competitive, we want to be entertaining on the ice, we want to score some goals. We have some really good players, but we’re not deep like a lot of teams are in terms of four lines of forwards and two or three lines of defensemen. But we got some really good players in the expansion draft. So we just need do well for a couple years, then make the playoffs in three years as we start transitioning in some of these younger guys — like Shea Theodore and Alex Tuch and Jake Bischoff. We’ll be pretty good in three years and we’ll make a run in five or six.

As they’ve done since the expansion announcement, the Golden Knight have proved so many people wrong.

Now, they’re four wins away from a championship.