Las Vegas Sports-Biz News On A VGK Playoff Game 7 Friday
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
It’s not every day a Game 7 comes to Las Vegas. But this evening, the Vegas Golden Knights will play with their season in the balance.
A win against the Minnesota Wild at T-Mobile Arena tonight and it’s off to Denver and Round 2 of the Stanley Cup playoffs for a Best-of-7 matchup with the Colorado Avalanche. Lose before 12,156 fans tonight and it’s a disappointing season for a team that had a Cup Final in its sights during this pandemic year.
Look for our live VGK coverage later. In other sports-biz news:
The Oakland Athletics, hungry for free public money to pay for a $1 billion retractable-roof ballpark, visited with the cities of Las Vegas and Henderson this week.
Oakland Athletics President Dave Kaval also visited T-Mobile Arena Monday for the NHL Game 5 playoff matchup between the Vegas Golden Knights and Minnesota Wild.
For many Bay area fans, the tweet came off as tone deaf and slightly bizarre for the Athletics and NHL San Jose Sharks fan bases because here was the president of an MLB team in one market seemingly showing his good times in another market that he’s wooing for a subsidized ballpark.
Here are the statements from Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and the city of Henderson on the A’s baseball park visit and chat.
It should be noted that Goodman has been pushing the Cashman Center and stadium complex in downtown as a potential ballpark site. But keep in mind that the Athletics probably want a baseball stadium closer to the Strip’s sports/entertainment corridor, which already includes T-Mobile Arena for the Golden Knights and Allegiant Stadium for the Raiders.
Here’s the statement from Henderson, which has already met with representatives from the MLB Arizona Diamondbacks: “Henderson City Manager Richard Derrick and members of the City’s development team met with the Oakland A’s on Thursday to discuss the team’s interest in relocating. The City has developed great partnerships with the Raiders and Golden Knights organizations and would welcome an opportunity to work with an MLB team to bring more recreational opportunities to residents and spur economic vitality and job creation.”
The city of Henderson is already pouring $42 million into the $84 million, 6,000-seat Dollar Loan Center arena for the Henderson Silver Knights hockey team, more than $10 million into the Golden Knights’ Lifeguard Arena ice center on Water Street in downtown Henderson and gave a price break to the Raiders on a land deal for the NFL team’s headquarters across from the Henderson Executive Airport.
The Athletics are visiting other cities to see if they can get free public money to build a ballpark. They’re having conflicts with the city of Oakland on getting a waterfront ballpark project approved. So, the Lords of Baseball told the Oakland Athletics it was OK to shop other cities for a subsidized ballpark.
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Speaking of the Raiders and their Allegiant Stadium, MGM Resorts International’s hotel-casino properties on the other side of the interstate across from the 65,000-seat domed stadium have rolled out some tailgating and pre-game activity action for Raiders games this year.
MGM Resorts is calling it, “Stadium Walk.”
With hotel-casinos like Mandalay Bay and Luxor a 15-minute walk across Hacienda Avenue to the stadium, MGM Resorts has all kinds of Raiders weekend deals ready for customers as Las Vegas tries to rebound from a COVID-19 pandemic that devastated revenues in 2020. The Strip’s famed hotel-casinos were shuttered in April and May of 2020.
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How much do VGK tickets cost for today’s Game 7, Knights vs Wild at 6 PM? They start at $100. Take a look as of 10:45AM:
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