The chance doesn’t always come this soon, so Nicolas Hague and Erik Brannstrom figure, what the heck, why not them?
Polite folks might knock on the door when opportunity exists beyond it.
Competitive ones bust the thing down.
Youth seems to be serving the Golden Knights well in terms of how future seasons might appear, but that’s not stopping players like Hague and Brannstrom from forcing management to pause before relegating them elsewhere when training camp ends.
At worst, make those in charge think twice.
The depth of defensemen that was so obvious over the summer has taken a few noticeable hits as Vegas prepares for its second season, given Nate Schmidt’s 20-game suspension for violating the NHL’s performance enhancing drug policy and the fact Shea Theodore has yet to report.