DALLAS — The green wristbands sparkled among the darkness like a wave of togetherness, American Airlines Center home to NHL history on Friday and yet also a building that remembered those lost and injured in the deadliest gun massacre in modern U.S. history.
In a week when fear and death and incomparable sorrow tested the faith and resolve of Las Vegas like never before, major league professional sports officially joined its ranks.
Everyone did their best here to honor those affected while the visitors also celebrated the latter.
The inaugural expansion season is underway for the Golden Knights, and future record books will tell generations they beat the Dallas Stars 2-1 before 18,532, a night of firsts for the franchise punctuated with a victory.