Golden Knights Fans By the Photos and the Numbers
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
They shape their daily schedules around the Golden Knights home game, carefully choosing what to wear and what time to arrive.
When the doors open at T-Mobile Arena on game day, the first few Vegas Golden Knights fans are young girls racing up the main escalators. Others are more casual in their gait, but just as excited inside.
They bring signs and look to secure the best pre-game standing positions along the glass as the music blares inside the Big Ice House by the Strip.
VGK fans. The team’s management with staffers who have worked in other major league sports markets know the fans in this town are a cut apart other fan bases in other markets.
The Golden Knights and their fans have a connection born in Year 1 and evolving through Seasons 2 and 3. Here is our look at the Golden Knights fan base by the numbers and by the photos.
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2018-19 attendance
751,067
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2018-19 average attendance per game
18,319
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2018-19 attendance percentage of arena hockey capacity
105.5 percent
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2019-20 VGK per game attendance rank out of 31 teams
11th
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2019-20 total game attendance through 21 games
383,549
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2019-20 average game attendance
18,264
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2019-20 attendance percentage of arena hockey capacity
105.2
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VGK arena capacity
17,367
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2018-19 average NHL game attendance
17,377
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2019-20 VGK overall percentage of attendance capacity for all 42 games so far
100.2
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