The crowd noise reached 114 decibels before puck drop, and the Winnipeg Jets wouldn't make them wait too long after puck drop to reach it again.
Dustin Byfuglien opened the scoring just 65 seconds in, and the Jets added two more before the game was eight minutes old, as they took Game One over the Vegas Golden Knights 4-2.
Patrik Laine, Joel Armia, and Mark Scheifele rounded out the scoring for the Jets. For the third time in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Jets drew first blood in the series.
"I thought we had a potential advantage and a potential disadvantage in this game. The advantage would be we're coming right off a very intense series, so our starting point would probably be there," said head coach Paul Maurice. "The disadvantage was it's seven games and some travel involved, so you wonder about the ability to sustain that through 60 (minutes).
"We had everybody going. We were really solid at the start… The start was very important. We took advantage of being game ready off our last series, and we weren't put in a position, because we had the lead, where I had to shorten the bench, where the stacking of games would have been a problem."
It was the ideal start for the Jets, who had eliminated the Nashville Predators just 48 hours earlier.
It was ideal in that it got the crowd involved, but also ideal because with the win, the Jets are now 8-1 when opening the scoring.
Our last two games against Nashville at home, we didn't get off to great starts," said Blake Wheeler, who finished with three assists. "It's been part of our identity of our team this year, is we've gotten off to good starts at home. That allows our crowd to be into it, it allows us to get rolling a little bit."
The scoring started before some members of the crowd sat down from the opening face-off.
Blake Wheeler broke up a Golden Knights rush, and sent a quick up to Mark Scheifele in full flight. Scheifele gained the zone, and dropped it back for Dustin Byfuglien, who hammered home his fifth of the playoffs just 65 seconds into the first.
"That's part of our team game. I got caught playing defence for Buff - and got lucky," Wheeler said with a grin. "A few of those this year have ended up in our net because I don't know what I'm doing back there. That's just allowing our guys to play their game. You give Buff a one-timer from the top of the circle, he's going to make you pay."
Byfuglien and Wheeler would factor in again before the midway mark of the period.
With the Jets on the power play, Byfuglien's hustle kept the puck in the Vegas zone, and seconds later, Wheeler threaded a beauty pass through the Golden Knights penalty killers on to the tape of Laine.
Laine made no mistake, beating Marc-Andre Fleury, and it was 2-0 Jets.
"We want to win every game. Now we're one win closer. We know the next one is going to be harder. It's just getting harder and harder," said Laine.
"It's huge to get the first goal. I think everybody feels a little looser. It's hard to say. It gives me a lot of confidence. We're in the lead, and it's easier to play."
Then, after Ben Chiarot pinched down the left side boards to keep the puck in, the Jets defenceman wrapped around the net and put a backhand in front that went in off Armia.
The play would be reviewed to see if it was kicked in, and goaltender interference, but it would stand.
"Prior to the contact, it had come off his stick and it was on its way in the direction of the empty net," said Maurice. "He didn't go in freely, I don't know if he was pushed in, but there was contact on him to keep him in the line he was going. The contact that happened would have been incidental. The puck was going in the net one way or the other."
With the score 3-0 Jets, Vegas would respond. Brayden McNabb's wrist shot from the top of the left circle beat Connor Hellebuyck high, putting the visitors on the board.
Winnipeg's power play would strike again in the second, when Scheifele tipped home his league-leading 12th of the playoffs off a Byfuglien wrist shot. Wheeler also picked up his 15th assist, which also puts him at the top of the league's list in that category.
Byfuglien also picked up an assist on the play, his fifth multi-point game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs - the most among defencemen.
"They were coming in and out, going inside and outside, and doing the right things. For us, it was just a matter of sticking to our game plan and moving it quickly and trying to get pucks toward the net," said Byfuglien.
"We didn't have much of a rest. We're still in game mode. It was just a matter of coming out and playing our game, keeping it simple. I felt that we got in moving our feet right away. The ice opened up, and we got to moving the puck easily and do simple things."
William Karlsson would net a power play marker of his own before the end of the second, a backdoor redirect off a pass from Jonathan Marchessault.
But that's as close as Vegas would get, as Hellebuyck made eight saves in the third period - the majority with Fleury pulled in the final few minutes of regulation.
Hellebuyck finished with 19 saves on 21 shots.
But as the Jets have done all season, and all playoffs, they'll move on from this game, and prepare for Game Two on Monday.