from David Schoen of the Las Vegas Review-Journal,

Take a hard left turn after entering the Golden Knights locker room at City National Arena and walk to the last stall along the wall. Then, look at the name plates.

From right to left: William Carrier, (Tomas Nosek), Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Jonathan Marchessault and David Perron.

“It’s not so often you have so many Francophone together,” Bellemare said, using a term for a person who speaks French. “Usually they try to make it so they don’t have them all together.”

In many ways, the Knights mirror the modern, multicultural NHL, with seven countries represented on their roster.

But upon deeper examination, the Knights feature one of the largest contingents of French-speaking players in the league.

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