Flames forward James Neal looked around at an unfamiliar part of a building he got to know very well last season and noted the oddity of the situation.
“Everything just feels kind of backward out there,” the original member of the Golden Knights said in the visitors’ locker room after his new team suffered a 2-0 loss at T-Mobile Arena on Friday night. “It’s hard to explain unless you go through it.
“When you change teams and you go back, you’re going in the wrong way and you’re doing all the things that you’re not used to, especially here.