LAS VEGAS – Maybe it’s puppy love that will fade once the first pro sports team in Las Vegas, the NHL’s Golden Knights, begin losing.
Maybe the sellouts at loud and energetic T-Mobile Arena will stop one day, and the adulation will lessen.
Then again, if the sturdy foundation is any indication, this franchise has a chance to be as lasting as slot machines, Elvis impersonators, and Wayne Newton performances on the Strip.
In their hard-to-fathom inaugural season, the Vegas Golden Knights have done more than establish themselves as one of the NHL’s elite teams.
They have uplifted an emotionally wrecked city that, shortly before the shiny new team’s highly anticipated season was about to begin, dealt with horror: 58 people killed at an outdoor concert in the deadliest mass shooting in U.