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Golden Knights Decline Carrie Underwood’s Anthem Offer For Playoff Games

The Golden Knights respectfully declined Carrie Underwood's offer to sing the national anthem at home games. Here's Carnell Johnson who has been singing the anthem during the playoffs. Photo credit: Carnell Johnson/LVSportsBiz.com

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.

Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

 

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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Alan Snel: 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.
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