They soon will be headed back to Winnipeg, where another whiteout of “Ice Road Truckers” magnitude awaits the Golden Knights despite a Sunday Game 5 forecast of 74 degrees.
They say you hear the one at Bell MTS Place, home of the Winnipeg Jets, long before you see it.
Jim Kyte wouldn’t know a whole lot about that.
Before he served as captain for the inaugural Las Vegas Thunder of the International Hockey League that in 1993-94 posted a ledger of 52-18-1 — the best record in all of pro hockey, Kyte reminds you — he spent seven years manning the blue line for the first iteration of the Jets, before they moved to Phoenix and howled as Coyotes.