By ALAN SNEL
LVSportsBiz.com
LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell
They’re just a couple of guys from the town of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada who have adopted the Vegas Golden Knights as their hometown hockey team and who can hardly walk the concourses of T-Mobile Arena without sharing a selfie every few minutes or so.
Justin Reves, 33, and Greg Moore, 31, are Golden Knights superfans who made a splash in season one with a don’t-give-up video for Stanley Cup Finals Game 5 that was played before the VGK-Capitals game to stoke the Golden Knights faithful in early June. The Justin-and-Greg duo adopted the Golden Knights as their hockey team because Regina’s airport had only two direct flights to U.S. cities — Las Vegas was one and Phoenix was the other. Their jobs back home in Regina are producing content as “Justin and Greg.”
The duo with the mad video skills and music selection picks returned to Las Vegas this week for the first time since the Stanley Cup Finals Game 5 loss and delighted their fellow VGK fans Wednesday night when the Knights played their best all-around game of the season with a 5-0 whitewash of the Anaheim Ducks and their elite goalie, John Gibson.
The Justin-and-Greg pair pronounced, “the curse was broken,” after the Ducks game.
But then two days later on Friday night, the Golden Knights returned to their topsy turvy play in year two with a 4-1 defeat to the St. Louis Blues at T-Mobile Arena.
LVSportsBiz.com had a Facebook Live interview of Justin and Greg for its “Top of the Escalator” segment before the game. You can watch it here.
The Golden Knights are playing like a second-year expansion team — looking strong some games or in stretches of play and then getting outplayed in other games after a once-a-lifetime unicorn season in year one.
The huge crowd of 18,488 filled T-Mobile Arena, well above capacity Friday. The team is filling the ice house to more than 105 percent of capacity, third highest in the National Hockey League behind Chicago and Minnesota. The team is averaging 18,295 fans a game after nine home dates in an arena that has a hockey capacity of 17,367.
And tonight, popular goalie Marc-Andre Fleury was wearing his gold pads and even good luck charm national anthem performer Carnell “Golden Pipes” Johnson delivered his usual stirring rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner.
And of course, Justin and Greg were in the house, too.
But the St. Louis Blues still controlled play, winning by three goals and limiting the VGK offensive production to a single goal.
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On sponsorships: LVSportsBiz.com noticed Friday that the Golden Knights are selling more ad space on the ice surface with LIUNA872, The Valley Health System, NV Energy and City National Bank having their names and logos on ice behind the goal line. The four sponsor names at center ice are Toyota, Credit One Bank, Allegiant and City National Bank.
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