Chance is Watching Schindler's List on Repeat
The Vegas Golden Knights mascot has been in his basement since Sunday night. Sources close to Chance describe the scene with some difficulty. Nobody has gone down there.
LAS VEGAS, NV — Chance, the Gila Monster mascot of the Vegas Golden Knights, has been in his basement since Sunday night. The film has been running for approximately forty-one hours.
Schindler’s List. The 1993 Spielberg.
Sources close to Chance describe the scene with some difficulty. Blackout curtains. No food that anyone is aware of. He binge-drank water before. A text sent to one contact Monday afternoon that read: “I think I understand something now.” The contact did not ask a follow-up question.
The Golden Knights lost the Stanley Cup on Sunday. That part is easy to explain.
The rest of it is not.
Chance has been the mascot of the Vegas Golden Knights since 2017. The question has never fully gone away: why a Gila Monster for a team called the Knights. Who decided? What was the connection? He arrived, they groomed him, and nobody said much else. He smiled. He performed. He won the NHL Mascot Community Award in 2025.
Sunday night, something gave.
He found something in the film, sources say. He hasn’t said what.
He’s starting it again.
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