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Las Vegas Becomes A St. Louis Blues Town

Last Blues hat sold at Lids store in Downtown Summerlin Wednesday.

By Alan Snel

LVSportsBiz.com

 

The local market might be Las Vegas — Golden Knights country — but retail sales of St. Louis Blues merchandise are strong.

 

In fact, the day after the Blues knocked out the San Jose Sharks from the 2019 Western Conference Finals — San Jose defeated the VGK in seven games in Round 1 a month ago — the last Blues cap at a Lids store in Downtown Summerlin was sold.

 

In fact, the Las Vegas woman called ahead to inquire about the St. Louis Blues cap at Lids and the merchant put aside the final Blues hat.

 

Fifteen minutes leader, the woman walked in and asked about the hat.

 

The $10 hat — $10.83 with sales tax — was out the door.

Last Blues cap sold at a Lids store in Downtown Summerlin Wednesday.

 

“My kid’s teacher is a big Blues fan,” she explained.

 

Randy the retailer said the Blues hat was only 10 bucks because it was last year’s model.

 

No matter.

 

There’s going to be a Las Vegas teacher sporting a St. Louis Blues cap in Sin City tomorrow.

 

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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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