For the past two years, they traveled to Southern California, competed in their blue and silver jerseys and then returned home.
In the Anaheim Ducks High School Hockey League, they were known as the Las Vegas Storm. These days, the same team is more recognizable thanks to the uniforms they wear.
The Vegas Jr. Golden Knights are no longer incognito. They wear the same sweater the NHL expansion team does and there are almost 300 kids in six age groups playing on the 13 travel teams being sponsored.
“We feel we’re representing the NHL team,” said defenseman Emily Kline, an 11th-grader from Odyssey High School who plays on the Jr.