WINNIPEG, Manitoba — He told them that he was proud to call Las Vegas home, that he met his wife there, that his kids were born there, that it was a special place.
That he and his teammates would do everything in their power to help the city heal.
Deryk Engelland stood with a microphone in one hand and a hockey stick in the other on Oct. 10 at T-Mobile Arena, the voice by which the expansion Golden Knights chose to address both a crowd of more than 18,000 and a town broken and grieving from a mass shooting on 1 October.