You can only be motivated by sentiment for so long, and what the Knights did Saturday was about returning to hockey and moving beyond the drama of their coach being fired.
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Few in the Golden Knights room would have had similar thoughts as Reaves when it was announced that DeBoer would be replacing the fired Gerard Gallant this week.
Fans certainly will be content with first impressions, the Knights having snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Ottawa Senators 4-2 on Thursday.
Golden Knights forward Jonathan Marchessault, who played for Gerard Gallant in Florida and Las Vegas, called his dismissal “an awful situation, just terrible.”
Gerard Gallant was fired as coach of the Golden Knights on Wednesday morning. For such a seemingly rushed decision, be assured it wasn’t made in the previous 24 hours.
It wasn’t a disastrous start for the Golden Knights. It just wasn’t very good, an opening 20 minutes that was eventually followed by a 3-0 loss to end a seven-game homestand.
A reminder comes each time the Golden Knights play Pittsburgh, with Marc-Andre Fleury again in the opposite net of the team that drafted him No. 1 overall in 2003.
Tom Brady, Mr. Tuck Rule himself, ending his Hall of Fame career with the Raiders? Why the heck not?
After walking out of the news conference following the Golden Knights’ win Thursday, coach Gerard Gallant kept his cool after his team defeated the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.
Golden Knights owner Bill Foley, a member of the Army class of 1967, sat just off the ice at T-Mobile Arena on Friday, watching Army play Providence in the Fortress Invitational.
The Rebels bounced a defending Mountain West co-champion and unanimous preseason favorite to repeat right out of the Thomas Mack Center on Wednesday, beating Utah State 70-53.
The longtime NBA commissioner died Wednesday, but his changing views about Las Vegas could one day lead to it welcoming a franchise.
The line of William Carrier, Tomas Nosek and Ryan Reaves was again stellar Tuesday, when the Knights dismissed lowly Anaheim 5-2 before at T-Mobile Arena.
Two years and nine months after NFL owners approved the relocation of the Raiders to Southern Nevada, the team played its final game as an Oakland franchise on Sunday.
The future becomes a primary source of interest, specifically how close the team that fell to Denver 16-15 will be to the NFL’s better teams upon arriving in Las Vegas.