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Former Las Vegas, Winnipeg star Jim Kyte recalls 1st NHL whiteout

They soon will be headed back to Winnipeg, where another whiteout of “Ice Road Truckers” magnitude awaits the Golden Knights despite a Sunday Game 5 forecast of 74 degrees.

They say you hear the one at Bell MTS Place, home of the Winnipeg Jets, long before you see it.

Jim Kyte wouldn’t know a whole lot about that.

Before he served as captain for the inaugural Las Vegas Thunder of the International Hockey League that in 1993-94 posted a ledger of 52-18-1 — the best record in all of pro hockey, Kyte reminds you — he spent seven years manning the blue line for the first iteration of the Jets, before they moved to Phoenix and howled as Coyotes.