The Vegas Golden Knights players now have numbers to go with those jerseys.
The team unveiled the numbers for all players signed to NHL contracts Wednesday. Some were unsurprising, like Marc-Andre Fleury keeping his No. 29 sweater. Jonathan Marchessault is also keeping his No. 81 that he wore with the Florida Panthers, and Vadim Shipachyov will don No. 87.
James Neal (No. 18) and Nate Schmidt (No. 88) carry the same numbers from their prior stomping grounds, as well.
Here’s the full list.
Numerical by position
Forwards
13 Brendan Leipsic
18 James Neal
19 Reilly Smith
20 Paul Thompson
21 Cody Eakin
24 Oscar Lindberg
25 Stefan Matteau
28 William Carrier
37 Reid Duke
38 Tomas Hyka
41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare
55 Keegan Kolesar
56 Erik Haula
57 David Perron
67 Teemu Pulkkinen
68 TJ Tynan
71 William Karlsson
81 Jonathan Marchessault
84 Mikhail Grabovski
87 Vadim Shipachyov
89 Alex Tuch
92 Tomas Nosek
97 David Clarkson
Defensemen
3 Brayden McNabb
4 Clayton Stoner
5 Deryk Engelland
6 Colin Miller
7 Jason Garrison
8 Griffin Reinhart
15 Jon Merrill
27 Shea Theodore
45 Jake Bischoff
47 Luca Sbisa
76 Chris Casto
77 Brad Hunt
88 Nate Schmidt
Goaltenders
29 Marc-Andre Fleury
31 Calvin Pickard
33 Maxime Lagace
35 Oscar Dansk
A couple of observations: Cody Eakin is wearing 21, my favorite number. That’s another reason to hope the former Dallas Star does well in Sin City. Shea Theodore, meanwhile, is rocking No. 27, which is a bad-ass number for a defenseman, for some reason.
Reilly Smith is now No. 19 after being 18 in Florida. Nice of him to be a good Samaritan toward Neal. And I dig Alex Tuch going way against the grain with the No. 89, because why not?