Los Angeles Kings vs. Vegas Golden Knights

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Season-ticket holders can tell you precisely how many home games are left, and by April the number is small enough that people say it out loud to each other in the concourse. That gives the last handful of nights a quality the rest of the calendar never has: a crowd aware it is running out of these. Vegas is the opponent, a division rival built entirely in the last decade and already thoroughly disliked here, which is a remarkable achievement for a club younger than most of the sweaters in the building. Late-season games against them carry a genuine edge whatever the standings say. Go to one of the last ones. The thing about a season is that it only feels like a whole once you have been there at both ends of it, and the April version of this room is nothing like the October one. Arrive early enough to see the warmup. In April it is noticeably different - shorter, sharper, played by people who know precisely how many of these they have left.