Golden Knights Superfan’s Advice For VGK Fans Tonight In LA: Watch Out For Angry LA Kings Supporters

 

By ALAN SNEL

LVSportsBiz.com 

 

Downtown Los Angeles — Vegas Golden Knights superfan Jason Griego has a word of advice for VGK fans who attend the Golden Knights’ potential series-clinching Game 4 with the Los Angeles Kings here at Staples Center Tuesday night.

 

Watch your back.

 

Griego, the popular Golden Knights fan who looks like the Wolverine character, was among hundreds of VGK fans at Knights-Kings Game 3 Sunday night at Staples Center and he said Kings fans were lobbing f-bombs left and right to Golden Knights fans after the Knights defeated the Kings, 3-2, two days ago.

 

In a few hours, the Golden Knights could close out the first rounds series with the Kings — and things could get ugly between Knights and Kings supporters.

 

“It’s fun to banter and it’s fun to chirp. But fans need to learn there’s a line and a lot of fans were crossing the line Sunday night,” Griego told LVSportsBiz.com Tuesday. The Golden Knights in-game entertainment staff typically shows Griego in full Wolverine facial expression mode at least once a game at T-Mobile Arena.

 

 

Griego said as he and other Golden Knights were leaving Staples Center after the Knights’ third consecutive one-goal victory over the Kings, he heard LA fans saying, ‘Get the f— out and go home to Vegas.’ ”

 

“It got real nasty,” Griego said of the Kings’ fans’ cursing at the Golden Knights fans Sunday night. He’s back in Las Vegas for Game 4 and will be watching the game with his Vegas Click Facebook pals.

 

If the Kings lose Tuesday night and are eliminated, they could very testy and take out their frustrations on any Golden Knights fans at the venue, Griego pointed out.

 

“They were calling us, ‘rejects,’ and yes the players were rejected from their former teams. And they said we’re bandwagon fans and yes, it’s our team’s first year so everyone is on the bandwagon. And they said they won the Stanley Cup in 2012 and 2014 and yep we don’t have a Cup because this is our first year,” Griego said, recounting the Kings’ fans conversations from Sunday. “They were right on all counts.”

 

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LVSportsBiz.com attended the Golden Knights’ 11 a.m. practice at Staples Center and had a nice chat with sports radio producer Chris Chapman of FOX radio in Las Vegas. Please check out the LVSportsBiz.com interview with Chris near the rink Tuesday morning.

 

LVSportsBiz.com also interviewed Knights’ defenseman Brayden McNabb, who channeled coach Gerard Gallant “one-game-at-a-time” mantra and crammed in quite a few sports lines into this chat after practice a few hours ago.

It’s quiet at 12:30 p.m. inside Staples Center. But at 7:30 p.m., it’s going to be crazy inside the downtown LA ice house at LA Live.

 

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