Tag: Las Vegas Golden Knights

Ryan Reaves’ violent, dangerous actions result in a 9-minute Avalanche power play

An awful play leads to a long amount of PP time.

Vegas Golden Knights forward Ryan Reaves is once again in trouble for a reckless and dangerous incident he was at the center of.

In the middle of a Game 1 in which the Knights lost 7-1 to the Avalanche, Reaves punched Colorado defenseman Ryan Graves in the back of the head and took him down seemingly by his neck.

That ignited a brawl and a Reaves was given a match penalty, which could lead to a long suspension, especially when you consider he was suspended for Game 1 of last year’s Western Conference final for a brutal hit to the head of Tyler Motte. He also checked Ryan Suter from behind into the goal post in the Knights’ last series against the Minnesota Wild.

That led to a nine-minute power play for the Avalanche, who scored once.

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The NHL’s extremely late Lake Tahoe game created some haunting scenes

Playing hockey in the dead of night.

Everybody dunked on the NHL on Saturday when its plan to play a game on the shores of Lake Tahoe failed because the sun came out, reflected off all the white snow and made it both impossible to see and impossible for the ice to stay ice.

How was the league supposed to predict this well-understood and completely expected scientific phenomenon?!?!

Yes, the NHL probably should have had a better plan in place, but ultimately I think the league deserves some credit for trying something unique in the first place. Sports has been disrupted in so many ways over the past year. We’re accustomed to adapting by now, no?

Besides, the fact that the final two periods of the Avalanche-Golden Knights game was delayed until 12 p.m. ET (or 9 local in Tahoe) meant that we got interesting photos of a different sort.

There are no mountains rising in the background. No shimmering lake. Instead the game was played against a pitch-black backdrop — and won by Colorado, 3-2, in a contest that ended up taking 10 hours and 37 minutes to complete.

Here’s how it looked once it finally got going again.

The Golden Knights’ new shiny gold helmets are completely dividing NHL fans

Wow these are bright.

In the short time of their existence, the Las Vegas Golden Knights have had one of the best kits in sports. Their colors are incredible, their jerseys are always good and they always play with that same sort of flare.

Now, they’ve got it in their helmets, too. The Golden Knights debuted a new helmet on Thursday night when they took the ice against the Anaheim Ducks.

The only proper way to describe these things is that they were…golden. Like, seriously golden. The new helmets they debuted had a golden chrome paint job. Let’s just say they were extremely shiny.

NHL Twitter had jokes. So many jokes.

Someone did make a good point, though. These helmets are extremely fun and so totally Vegas. Yes, they’re wild. But they’re supposed to be.

It’s easy for fans to hate on new jerseys and team gear when they first release. They’re not the thing that they’re used to already.  It’ll take a while but people will get used to these as they see more of them.