Golden Knights Decline Carrie Underwood’s Anthem Offer For Playoff Games
By ALAN SNEL
LVSportsBiz.com
The Vegas Golden Knights appreciated Carrie Underwood’s surprise offer via Twitter after the Nashville Predators’ Game 7 loss Thursday to sing the national anthem at Golden Knights home playoff games.
But the first-year expansion club issued a statement Sunday saying the Golden Knights will respectfully decline the offer by the well-known country singer.
Here’s the entire statement: “We are very flattered by the offer but we do not plan on making any changes to our previously scheduled anthem singer lineup at this time. This lineup includes musicians who have previously performed at our home games as well as additional entertainers with residencies or ties to Las Vegas that we have been in touch with throughout the year.”
In the Stanley Cup playoffs — as in most big sports events — teams and athletes recording wins typically don’t like to “jinx” things and change routines before games.
The Golden Knights have reached the Western Conference Final with local bass singer and Las Vegas native Carnell Johnson singing the anthem before home games at T-Mobile Arena.
LVSportsBiz.com urged the Golden Knights to stick with Johnson and not switch anthem singers in the middle of the playoffs.
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