Las Vegas • Marc-Andre Fleury sat shirtless in front of his locker, staring blankly, his exhausted gaze fixed nowhere. Pads still strapped to his legs after another spectacular night's work, the Vegas Golden Knights goalie looked as if he were trying to gather his thoughts, trying somehow to make sense of it all.
The rest of the hockey world is, too, as the newly minted Knights play Sunday with the most improbable prize of all at stake — a chance to go to the Stanley Cup Final.
The story is well known by now, or at least it should be.