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Golden Knights To Reveal Henderson Minor League Team Name, Logo On Live TV Thursday

Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

With the city of Henderson on board to provide $42 million to rebuild a venue to house the Vegas Golden Knights’ new minor league team, now the VGK will be revealing its American Hockey League team name and logo Thursday on a local TV station.

Most fans believe the Knights’ Triple A minor league team will be called the Henderson Silver Knights, but the team wants to make it official with the announcement on KSNV-NBC News 3 Las Vegas at 7 p.m. Thursday.

It goes to show the popularity of the Golden Knights — they’re unveiling a minor league team name and logo on a local TV station. The press release did not say whether Channel 3 is paying the Knights to have the minor league team announcement on its Las Vegas station.

The Henderson City Council voted, 4-1, a week ago to approve spending $42 million on rehabbing the Henderson Pavilion into a 6,000-seat arena to house the American Hockey League club and local community, cultural and music events.

Here’s the location and details:

The Golden Knights bought the AHL franchise in San Antonio and want to use the minor league club as its Triple A team. Some players were ping-ponging between Las Vegas and Chicago as the Knights were sending players back and forth to their AHL Chicago Wolves team. Now, players can drive a half-hour between the VGK headquarters and training center in Summerlin and the new Henderson training center being built in that city’s downtown area.

While the Henderson Pavilion gets rehabbed into a small arena, the Henderson minor league team will play its AHL games at Orleans Arena, which used to host the East Coast Hockey League Las Vegas Wranglers.

Here are more details on the lease agreement between the Golden Knights and the city of Henderson on the Henderson Pavilion $84 millin arena rehab project. The Knights will match the city’s $42 million contribution.

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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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