The roster has 42 names on it, hockey players from the Medicine Hat Tigers and Mississauga Steelheads and Kamloops Blazers and other sorts of teams with nicknames you might confuse with your kid’s AYSO league.
They won’t all one day wear a Golden Knights sweater while skating for the home team at T-Mobile Arena, those players on the white and grey teams who opened a weeklong Development Camp on Tuesday, but there are a handful who are sure to eventually play significant roles for the franchise.
It’s those more well-known Vegas players that have most interested.
Offers have been made, both qualifying and to those Knights who own unrestricted free agent status, and now it’s time for the business side of major league professional sports to exist for Vegas.