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Golden Knights Ride Fourth Line Hat Trick To Defeat Calgary Before 18,192 Saturday

William Carrier celebrates second period goal.

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

Photos by Steve Rosenthal

A fourth line hat trick helped the Vegas Golden Knights get back in the win column Saturday night as an announced crowd of 18,192 soaked up a VGK 6-2 win over the Calgary Flames.

Fourth liners Tomas Nosak, William Carrier and hitman/beerman Ryan Reaves each scored for the Knights.

Here’s Carrier post-game:

Rookie Cody Glass registered his second goal of the season to top off the 6-2 decision.

The win snapped a two-game losing streak for the Knights, which lost games to Boston at home Tuesday and to Arizona on the road Thursday.

Here’s Mark Stone post-game:

VGK goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 33 of 35 Calgary shots Saturday night.

After three home games, the Knights are averaging 18,334 fans a game — up slightly over the 18,319 a game from last season.

 

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It’s 5:45 p.m. and the Golden Knights fans are flooding into the T-Mobile Arena lobby.

Most pick up their game poster — tonight centerman Paul Stastny is the featured poster boy for tonight’s VGK-Calgary Flames game — follow the left escalator to the venue’s main concourse.

And it’s at the top of the escalator, where they hear the non-stop greetings of Arnold the usher who is rattling off salutations left and right to every fan who passes him.

“You da man,” he tells every boy.

“You’re a princess, ” he tell ever girl.

“C’mon, give me a high five,” he tells every adult.

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Fan photos tonight.

 

 

 

Come back later for more content and post-game player comments.

 

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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