"Everyone is so obsessed with looking fast and looking like you're working hard," Pacioretty said. "That's kind of the stuff for the outside, but when you're on the ice and you realize who has the hockey sense, he just kind of goes out there and makes it look easy making the right play shift after shift."
The question entering training camp was if Glass would be one of the Vegas' top nine forwards or be better off developing with Chicago of the American Hockey League, where he finished last season and had five points (three goals, two assists) in six regular-season games and 15 points (seven goals, eight assists) in 22 playoff games.
With third-line center Cody Eakin injured, the Golden Knights moved center Paul Stastny to the third line and put Glass between Pacioretty and Mark Stone on the second line. Stastny could help Valentin Zykov and Brandon Pirri; Pacioretty and Stone could help Glass. But Glass could think with Pacioretty and Stone too.
"Man, I love watching him play," defenseman Nate Schmidt said with a laugh. "He's got better vision and playmaking ability than I could ever have. I just think the way that he sees the game, and he can slow it down and understand how the play's going to happen.
"He's got two great linemates he can learn from and understand what it means to be a pro. .... Excellent players in our league. It can only shoot him into another level."
Glass is smart enough to know he needs to adjust, like when he joined Chicago of the AHL.
"That's when I start using my mind and kind of just reading plays that are usually what I'm used to," Glass said.
But it's only a matter of time.
"I think you say one thing, he kind of digests it and knows," Stastny said. "He's always asking, 'Why?' He knows we do things for a reason. So in that sense, for us smarter players that play with him, he's easy to play with because you can talk to him and know he's going to make adjustments.
"The team we have with the depth we have, we'll put him in different situations. The more games he plays, the more comfortable he will be. You saw it from preseason to now. After 10 games, after 20 games, he's just going to find his niche more."