If the Vegas Golden Knights weren’t as good as they are at hockey, would we love them as much? Hell yes. Here’s why.

The Vegas Golden Knights didn’t just shred the expansion-franchise record book during their inaugural season, they wrote a second edition.

To this lifelong amateur player, hockey is much more than a sport.

Your Vegas Golden Knights Season 2 primer and the double-edged sword of high expectations.

How I became a Vegas Golden Knights fan, one ecstatic tribal cheer at a time.

How a knockabout hockey player from Canada found love, life, and a forever home in Las Vegas — just when the Golden Knights and the city needed him.

At one of our scrummy editorial meetings leading up to this issue, someone asked whether an upbeat Vegas Golden Knights season preview feature might be considered jarring, dissonant, or even tone-deaf appearing in the same month that marks the anniversary of the October 1 shooting.

Hockey season is over. What is there to distract, er entertain us.

Recalling the slap shot days and party-hearty nights of the Las Vegas Gamblers, this city’s first hockey team.

For a broken-hearted city, the Vegas Golden Knights’ unprecedented season was just what we needed, just when we needed it.