They don’t throw chickens onto the ice at the RDV Sportsplex in Maitland, Florida, where Golden Knights forward Ryan Carpenter skated growing up. Not yet anyway.
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New hockey fan Dee Dravnieks traveled 9,538 miles from Perth, Australia, to spend most of the past three weeks with her favorite team, the Golden Knights.
One of the coolest stories about the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs is about a teenager who probably won’t get anywhere as close to the ice as the Zamboni drivers at T-Mobile Arena and Staples Center in Los Angeles.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman returned to Las Vegas to break some news on Wednesday, or at least to confirm the NHL Awards would be returning to Las Vegas for the 10th time on June 20.