Golden Knights Return To 100 Percent Attendance Capacity At T-Mobile Arena Starting With Colorado Vs Vegas Game 3 Next Week
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
All the way back.
A COVID-19 pandemic season that began with no fans at Vegas Golden Knights NHL games at T-Mobile Arena in mid-January will have 100 percent attendance capacity at the Golden Knights’ home venue for the Colorado vs Vegas Game 3 next week in early June.
Golden Knights General Manager Kelly McCrimmon broke the news while chatting with media on a remote video session Saturday morning.
We’re very pleased to win the series. We felt last night was a very special night for the organization: our first series victory on home ice. The energy the crowd gave our team was really helpful, special and made it a very memorable night — Golden Knights General Manager Kelly McCrimmon.
“Minnesota was everything we thought they’d be. It was an incredibly hard-fought series,” McCrimmon said.
The Golden Knights have been given permission to increase fan capacity throughout the amended 56-game pandemic season.
The Knights began with no fans in January, but had their first fans at T-Mobile Arena on March 1 when 2,605 were allowed in the venue that has 17,367 fixed seats for VGK games.
Most recently, the Knights were given permission by Clark County to have 12,165 fans (70 percent capacity) in the arena for home games against the Minnesota Wild in the NHL postseason round 1, which concluded Friday night with a VGK Game 7 win, 6-2.
The Golden Knights play the Colorado Avalanche Sunday evening in Game 1 of the Best-of-7 West Division playoff finals.
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