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Golden Knights Claim Number One Seed In West With Tense 4-3 OT Win Over Colorado Saturday

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Alex Tuch when fans attended games.

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

Even in Edmonton, they played Viva Las Vegas.

So it meant only one thing.

A Vegas Golden Knights win.

The VGK allowed the Colorado Avalanche to tie the score at 3-3 with only 1:02 left in regulation.

But Golden Knights’ forward Alex Tuch scored the game-winner in overtime to deliver the dramatic win and a number one seed for the Knights in the NHL’s Western Conference playoffs.

Alex Tuch

The Knights won their three round-robin games against Dallas, St. Louis and Colorado to determine seeding and will play the Chicago Blackhawks in the first round of the playoffs.

VGK goalie Robin Lehner was the winning goaltender for the Golden Knights.

Coach Pete DeBoer said his team played the three round robin games as if they were elimination series games.

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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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