When the music stopped and all the partygoers finally went home after celebrating a historic first season, the Golden Knights were left with a yard full of beer cans and rolls of toilet paper hanging from the trees.
It was a rager, to be sure. But it took a while to recover.
Once they did, injuries, a suspension, a brutal road schedule and 30 angry franchises looking for revenge against the expansion team that was three victories away from hoisting the Stanley Cup … it all conspired against the Knights to begin their second season.
The result was a head-pounding hangover that lasted well into November.