Knights Prez Tells LV Economic Alliance Breakfast Crowd That If VGK Win Cup, Maybe There Will Be ‘Multiple Parades’

 

By ALAN SNEL

LVSportsBiz.com

 

It was an inevitable question posed to Vegas Golden Knights President Kerry Bubolz at the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance (LVGEA) Perspective breakfast Tuesday.

 

If the Golden Knights win the Stanley Cup, would the championship parade be staged down the Strip?

 

Bubolz answered the question this way” “Maybe there will be multiple parades.”

 

Staging a victory parade down the Strip seems like a natural because the four-mile long corridor is Las Vegas’ Broadway or Main Street, kind of Southern Nevada’s Canyon of Champions.

 

But Bubolz opened the door to the idea that the parade could be held in other places besides Las Vegas Boulevard.

 

The question, though, was jumping ahead. The Golden Knights play Game 3 of the Western Conference Final at T-Mobile Arena at 6 p.m. Wednesday and Game 4 at the same arena at 5 p.m. Friday. It’s only Round 3 and let’s not jink anything.

 

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Golden Knights games have received lots of media publicity about the high cost of secondary market tickets at T-Mobile Arena during the playoffs.

 

But there are some tickets on StubHub at 1:17 p.m. Wednesday that are comparable to face value.

 

And Upper End section 213 row R seat is going for $199.99.

 

 

Generally speaking, Golden Knights season ticket holders who took the “Knight’s Vow” to not re-sell their tickets under a team playoff ticket program are paying about three times the cost of their regular season ticket to attend a game during the Western Conference Final.

 

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Fans are saying that a $240 face value upper bowl ticket for Game 3 Wednesday can probably attract a $400 buying price on the open market. But the Golden Knights are watching you if you’re a season ticket holder who took the no re-sell vow and you try to unload your ticket.

 

Not only is it buyer beware in Las Vegas. It’s seller beware, too, when it comes to the Golden Knights.

 

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Bubolz explained to the LVGEA breakfast crowd of 650 local business leaders Tuesday that the Golden Knights’ licensed merchandise is flying off the shelves at the team’s two team stores at the practice facility and at T-Mobile Arena and online. The Golden Knights’ jersey has become the number one selling NHL jersey. People in 90 nations have purchased Golden Knights licensed logo gear.

 

Wednesday morning, the crowd inside the team store at the Summerlin practice facility was so crammed with VGK customers that security used a metal gate to keep fans from overwhelming the store.

 

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