Regina has a strong tradition of extremely crazy opening nights. They have had tons of live music, stunts, it's always a huge production. This year it was decided that they should include actual elk with the Elk somehow. There were two ways that we planned to incorporated it. First as a joke they would have elk come out with jerseys on come out instead of the team when first announced. Unfortunately, we were told this might be considered animal cruelty and was shot down by the owners. They second was to have an elk do the ceremonial puck drop. Even this was met with skepticism by the upper management. However, the GM and players insisted it would be amazing. After a lot of planning they managed to get an elk and a well trained handler. Everyone loved it when the elk came out to do the puck drop. They put a piece of food on a puck on a pedestal and then he pushed it off. It was a huge success and will hopefully be a new tradition in elk history.