LAS VEGAS — An N.H.L. team in Las Vegas may seem like a marriage made in one of the city’s notorious wedding chapels, but the city has supported professional hockey before, with several minor league hockey teams having called it home as far back as 1968.
Las Vegas, a tourist haven in a growing region of more than two million residents, has long been shut out of major professional sports, largely because of its ties to legal gambling. But with an arena set to open in April and a committed ownership group that has sold roughly 13,500 season tickets for a prospective franchise, the only question left is whether the N.