VGK goalie Marc-Andre Fleury gets banged up in this collision.

Golden Knights’ Losing Ways Continue With 5-3 Loss To Chicago Before 18,324 Wednesday

November 13, 2019November 14, 2019 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell

The Golden Knights drew a big crowd of 18,324 fans, but the Knights blew a 2-1 lead after the first period and lost to the Chicago Blackhawks, 5-3, at T-Mobile Arena Wednesday evening.

The Golden Knights lost more than just a hockey game. The expansion franchise lost its’s off-ice entertainment chief Jonny Greco, who worked his final game for the VGK and is off to New York City to work for Madison Square Garden.

Greco came by LVSportsBiz.com’s Top of the Escalator pregame segment during the team’s drummer-mascot-cheerleader march. “Keep in touch,” Greco said.

After 10 home games, the Knights are averaging 18,252 in attendance per game, which is ninth out of 31 NHL teams. But the VGK is filling the Big Ice House by the Strip to 105.1 percent of capacity, which is second highest in the NHL.

The Knights are now 9-8-3 after 20 games, good for fifth place in the eight-team Pacific Division.

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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