Wayne Gretzky scored a goal during the Los Angeles Kings’ victory over the New York Rangers in the NHL’s first game played outdoors that attracted a grasshopper horde.
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The agreement was announced Tuesday at Encore during the NHL’s Advancing Equity Summit, at which commissioner Gary Bettman appeared with the tennis legend.
When the Columbus Blue Jackets finally won a Stanley Cup playoff series after nearly 20 years of trying, longtime Las Vegan and former Blue Jackets scout Bob Strumm was watching on TV with delight.
After the San Jose Sharks killed a four-minute penalty against Colorado on Friday, the team reminded Las Vegas hockey fans that it was possible to kill an extended penalty without allowing four goals.
Dramatic, controversial Knights-Sharks first-round NHL playoff series should be remembered as one for the ages.
When it comes to overtime in the postseason, nobody does it better than hockey.
Despite the teams’ recent struggles, NBC hockey broadcasters say Knights-Sharks first-round Stanley Cup playoff series has the makings of an instant classic.
It’s a good thing Twitter wasn’t around during Clint Malarchuk’s day with the Las Vegas Thunder of the old International Hockey League. The “Cowboy Goalie” might have broken the internet.
A look back at the people, places and things that made for a memorable sports year in Las Vegas.
It was the longest of long weekends for Las Vegas sports fans. But there’s a long way to go to catch Cleveland.
This summer Dan D’uva was back in the picturesque seaport village of Chatham, Massachusetts, taking roll at the Cape Cod Finishing School of Broadcasting.
For a few hours Monday, Kurt Busch and Deryk Engelland made like Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy in the movies to call attention to the Sept. 16 South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
According to the sports arrest database Arrest Nation, the NHL went the entire 2016-17 season without having one of its players, coaches or Zamboni drivers running afoul of the law.
Two were in wheelchairs. One had a jagged scar from his hairline to the bridge of his nose. The others bore emotional scars not easily seen. And yet the survivors of the Humboldt Broncos hockey bus crash said they were happy to be reunited in Las Vegas.
In Las Vegas, it’s Beer Man Bruce Reiner who gets the last word: “How ‘bout dem Knights?”
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