{"id":130672,"date":"2017-10-11T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=130672"},"modified":"2017-10-11T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:18:00","slug":"golden-knights-nhl-opener-dedicated-vegas-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=130672","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights NHL opener, dedicated, Vegas tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-130673\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/VegasKnights-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/VegasKnights-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/VegasKnights-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/VegasKnights-263x175.jpg 263w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/VegasKnights.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Las Vegas\u00a0 (AP)\u00a0\u00a0 The Vegas Golden Knights hosted their first-ever NHL regular-season home game on Tuesday, but the pregame festivities were tempered less than a mile from a makeshift memorial created for the 58 people killed in the Oct. 1 massacre.<\/p>\n<p>The team and the league kept the tragedy in the forefront while attempting to provide their own modicum of momentary relief to a healing city.<\/p>\n<p>Originally planned as a glamorous, Vegas-style debut, the Knights modified their plans and dedicated a quieter evening to the victims, the first responders and the survivors. After a stirring pregame video with stark images of Las Vegas and its heroes, the Golden Knights took the ice for pregame introductions, each accompanied by a member of the medical and law enforcement communities.<\/p>\n<p>The arena illuminated the victims&#8217; names on the ice in gold while counting 58 seconds of painful silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas\u00a0 (AP)\u00a0\u00a0 The Vegas Golden Knights hosted their first-ever NHL regular-season home game on Tuesday, but the pregame festivities were tempered less than a mile from a makeshift memorial created for the 58 people killed in the Oct. 1 massacre. The team and the league kept the tragedy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130675,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130672\/revisions\/130675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}