Hockey in the morning is a weird thing. Watching hockey in Las Vegas at 10:00 AM in a sportsbook ratchets that weirdness up another level. The days of Vegas sportsbooks being smoke-filled rooms filled with gentlemen of dubious character watching grainy T.V. feeds from around the country are long in the past. Now, they are multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art living rooms, if the living room came with a literal wall of televisions.
As I am writing this, there are 22 screens playing a variety of hockey, college basketball, Premier League soccer games as well as horse racing from across the country on what the Westgate Superbook describes as the “largest LED video wall”.