Golden Knights Welcome 1980 USA Olympic Team To Las Vegas To Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Miracle on Ice Gold Medal and Win over Soviet Union

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

LVSportsBiz.com photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell

The Vegas Golden Knights welcomed the miracle 1980 U.S. Olympic hockcy team to the VGK-Panthers game Saturday night.

The famed team even got a key to the Las Vegas Strip.

 

 

 


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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.