One hundred years later, a century after the Montreal Wanderers edged the Toronto Arenas, the biggest NHL game on a weeknight occurred between a team from Las Vegas and one from Florida.
Six months later, an expansion team born in June that has since turned the league on its collective head, spun its latest dose of enchantment.
It happened again.
This thing is beyond real.
The playoff atmosphere so many believe will touch T-Mobile Arena come spring arrived a bit early Tuesday night, when the Golden Knights continued their remarkable inaugural season by taking out the league’s best team in Tampa Bay.