Forward Paul Stastny, who signed a three-year, $19.5 million contract, said learning everyone’s names on his new team has been his biggest challenge this offseason.
Ben Gotz
Golden Knights backup reporter
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Ben Gotz came to the Review-Journal in May 2016 after graduating from the University of Minnesota. He covers the Lights FC, high school sports and anything else sports-related that comes into town. He also hosts segments in the video studio on soccer and high school sports. Before coming to Las Vegas, he wrote about college hockey, college football and high school sports during stops at the Star Tribune, Pioneer Press and Minnesota Daily back home in Minnesota.
The NHL reduced the size of goaltender chest protectors this season.
Reno forward Antoine Hoppenot scored near the end of stoppage time to lead 1868 FC to a 2-1 win over the Lights on Tuesday.
The Lights are limiting the event to only 200 fans but everyone who attends their Sept. 8 home game against LA Galaxy II at Cashman Field will have a chance to get on the field.
Sharing the stadium required 14 total changeovers, the last of which will come after the 51s’ season ends Sept. 3.
The Foxes scored in the fourth minute of stoppage time at Cashman Field on Saturday to draw 2-2 with the Lights.
The Knights’ three first-round draft picks from 2017 will be in town to compete in the team’s rookie camp, which begins Sept. 6.
Jeffries is one of only five female head athletic trainers in the USL and one of only a handful in male professional sports.
The event will take place from 5-8 p.m. at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center and is free and open to the public.
Engelland, along with Golden Knights teammates Jon Merrill and Nick Holden, will take part in the sixth annual Las Vegas Firefighters Youth Hockey charity game at 5 p.m. Saturday at City National Arena.
The club is dropping money from above Cashman Field as part of the festivities surrounding its match with LA Galaxy II on Sept. 8, and 200 fans will have a chance to go after it.
After using 22 lineup combinations in their first 22 games the Lights started the same 11 in their two games last week.
Tickets for the tournament, which features rookies from six NHL teams, including the Golden Knights, can be purchased through the team’s website at vegasgoldenknights.com/rookie-faceoff.
General manager George McPhee announced Tuesday that the Fort Wayne Komets are now the ECHL affiliate of the Knights. The team will now be able to send players to and from the Komets in Fort Wayne, Indiana next season.
The Lights lost 2-0 to Phoenix in front of an announced crowd of 6,720 at Cashman Field on Saturday.
