There are myriad reasons the first regular-season home game in Golden Knights history, played Tuesday at T-Mobile Arena before a sellout crowd torn between reflection and acclamation, still will be considered monumental years from now.
It was an evening wrought with emotion that showed Las Vegas could mourn one minute and exalt the next.
It was OK to cry when the names of the 58 Route 91 Harvest festival shooting victims were superimposed on the ice just inside the blue line. And it was OK to go crazy when the Knights’ Tomas Nosek lit the red lamp just 2 minutes, 31 seconds into the team’s home ice baptism.