LAS VEGAS -- There are reminders everywhere you look before a Vegas Golden Knights game. Those "Vegas Strong" T-shirts and signs. Those hockey jerseys whose nameplates and numbers are personalized in memoriam of that unfathomably tragic day on Oct. 1, 2017, when a gunman fired 1,100 rounds from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel at a crowd of concertgoers, killing 58 people and injuring 851 more.
When Golden Knights fan Joseph Bruno sees these reminders around T-Mobile Arena, he smiles.
"They wear them in defiance of what happened," he said. "We're a strong city.