They ridiculed Chance, but the team mascot has the last laugh with the franchise's first bobblehead. Photo credit: Erik John Ricardo/LVSportsBiz.com

Chance’s Sweet Revenge: VGK Mascot Was Once Ridiculed But His BobbleHead Tonight Will Be A Hot eBay Item

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com   Bet you didn't know that Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Nate Schmidt has bobblehead designing skills.   In fact, when Schmidt finished Monday morning's practice, he took a seat at his locker and had an idea for a bobblehead for fellow defenseman Colin Miller, who was relaxing only two lockers down at City National Arena.   "I'd give him the sloppy hair flip," said Schmidt, sporting his signature wide smile.   When LVSportsBiz.com suggested that the Miller bobblehead could also sport a Miller slapshot windup pose, Schmidt also liked that idea.   Well, neither Schmidt nor Miller will be featured in tonight's inaugural bobblehead giveaway at the Golden Knights-Anaheim Ducks game at T-Mobile Arena just off the Strip.   The expansion franchise's bobblehead debut will be none other than Chance, the gila monster mascot who took quite a few verbal shots when he was first debuted after the seas
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Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.