Golden Knights Lose 4-3 to Montreal in OT during Rare Saturday Afternoon Game
By ALAN SNEL
LVSportsBiz.com
He can’t make every save and carry the Vegas Golden Knights on his back to the finish line every game.
Golden Knights goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, under contract through 2022 and making $7 million a year on average, stopped 43 of 47 shots during a rare Saturday 1 p.m. game at T-Mobile Arena. But the visiting Montreal Canadiens defeated the Golden Knights, 4-3 in OT, as the VGK could not hold on to a 3-2 lead heading into the third period.
Montreal outplayed the Golden Knights, now 20-15-3 and prepping for a Sunday 5 p.m. face-off against the Los Angeles Kings at T-Mobile Arena.
The Montreal club outshot the VGK by 47-26 count and appeared to be the faster team on ice, controlling the flow of play.
Golden Knights fans did enjoy a performance by KA of Cirque du Soleil between periods one and two, and Blue Man Group between periods two and three. Even FlavorFlav got some air time in T-Mobile Arena, where he sounded the siren to start period three.
The Golden Knights drew an announced crowd of 18,173 Saturday.
For the 15 games leading up to Saturday’s game, the Golden Knights averaged 18,290 fans a game, filling T-Mobile Arena to 105.3 percent of capacity. The Golden Knights’ hockey capacity at T-Mobile Arena is 17,367 — far from the biggest in the National Hockey League. But even with the smaller arena, the Golden Knights’ attendance ranks 11th out of 31 teams in the NHL.
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Here’s two post game videos. First, there’s forward Jonathan Marchessault.
And here’s Brayden McNabb.
LVSportsBiz.com will be back at T-Mobile Arena Sunday for the VGK-Kings game. I will be at “The Top of the Escalator” at 4PM on Facebook Live for our usual chats with fans.
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