We have, for the moment, established a key priority for Nate Schmidt.
He really digs the white gloves.
“They’re a little flashy, but that’s what we are, right?” he said. “We’re the Vegas Golden Knights.
“We have to have some flash to our game.”
They also need a locker room for when those anticipated struggles arrive, when four or five losses surround each victory for an NHL expansion team and the chance an acceptance of failure might set in, voices who have known success communicate loudest.
Schmidt will play a major role in professing how winners act, prepare, attack each morning skate and game.