{"id":29232,"date":"2018-05-16T23:55:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T03:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=29232"},"modified":"2018-05-16T23:55:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T03:55:07","slug":"the-vegas-golden-knights-intros-are-weird-and-getting-weirder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/05\/16\/the-vegas-golden-knights-intros-are-weird-and-getting-weirder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vegas Golden Knights Intros Are Weird, and Getting Weirder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Vegas Golden Knights shocked the hockey world with their first ever Western Conference Final home opener. Not only did they come straight out of the gate with a goal just 35 seconds in scored by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/audymjo01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jonathan Marchessault<\/strong><\/a>, but they had an eccentric opening that screamed typical Las Vegas.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Viva Las Vegas<\/h1>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To begin their opener, as if in pure Vegas style, everything was bright, loud and the crowd was ready. Inside the castle (yes, the castle) was\u00a0a row of drummers along with their fluorescent drums; banging away to the beat of the crowd. The audience itself was deafening when their Golden Knight destroyed the holographic jet. They even incorporated\u00a0a sword fight between the Golden Knight and the Jet as if things couldn\u2019t have gotten any cheesier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o7gxt0427LY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Also included in the holographic light show was a barrage of hate comments reflected onto the ice. The broadcasters and other hockey big shots from around the league probably feel foolish now; judging the team before their season officially began and still criticizing the team even now. This team continuously embraced new challenges throughout the year and thrived off of adversity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite the cringe-factor at times, this team has defied all odds during their inaugural\u00a0season. Gary Bettman officially announced in June 2016 that Vegas was getting an NHL franchise.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Courtesy of the NHL, the Golden Knights became Las Vegas\u2019 first major professional sports league team. They began their inaugural year on October 6, 2017, a 2-1 win against the Dallas Stars. They\u2019ve been on a frightening tear ever since that moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"s1\">Marc-Andre Fleury, William Karlsson, and Jonathan Marchessault Stand Tall<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During the month of February, they broke the record for most wins and most points by an expansion team in their inaugural season. Late March, they became the first team to make the playoffs in their first season in the league since\u00a01979-80. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2018\/01\/09\/vegas-golden-knights-most-successful-expansion-franchise-in-nhl-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Success has followed this team<\/a> and its players all through the regular\u00a0season.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/fleurma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc-Andre Fleury<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/karlswi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Karlsson<\/a>, and\u00a0Marchessault have been difference makers all year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Throughout the playoffs, they\u2019ve easily taken down their Californian opponents; the Los Angeles Kings and the San Jose Sharks. The only thing <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2018\/05\/12\/vegas-golden-knights-vs-winnipeg-jets-western-conference-final-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">standing in the way<\/a> of their first Stanley Cup Final is the Winnipeg Jets. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If one thing is for certain, this year the Golden Knights along with the city of Las Vegas welcomed the impossible with open arms. It&#8217;s obvious they plan to carry this through to the end of their season; whenever that may be.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegas Golden Knights shocked the hockey world with their first ever Western Conference Final home opener. Not only did they come straight out of the gate with a goal just 35 seconds in scored by\u00a0Jonathan Marchessault, but they had an eccentric opening that screamed typical Las Vegas. Viva Las Vegas To begin their opener, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[807,2],"tags":[37,119,38,1109,961,357],"class_list":["post-29232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegas-golden-knights","category-featured","tag-hockey","tag-las-vegas","tag-nhl","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"modified_by":"Colton Praill","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}