Here’s the thing about sports: Sometimes, it doesn’t matter the level or circumstance or skill of those athletes involved.
Some forms of strategy never change: When you have a bad, struggling team down, you step on its throat — in this case, with the blade of your skate — and never allow it a flicker of hope.
It’s a few weeks into February and the Golden Knights are back sitting atop the NHL, a feat reached Saturday when Tampa Bay lost and Vegas beat a Montreal Canadiens side in the process of shaming the league’s most successful and historic sweater.