Pete DeBoer, VGK coach
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LVSportsBiz.com Minute With Golden Knights Coach Pete DeBoer

Alan Snel , ,

We asked VGK coach Pete DeBoer about his own personal wild ride from coaching the San Jose Sharks against the Vegas Golden Knights and Gerard Gallant one season in 2019, to coaching for the Vegas Golden Knights in the NHL playoff bubble in Edmonton the next season in 2020 to leading the VGK to the NHL semis again against one of the league’s standard bearer franchises, the Montreal Canadiens, in 2021.

The highlights:

Yes, he was surprised to get a call from VGK General Manager Kelly McCrimmon about coaching the Golden Knights.

Yes, he was happy to take the job.

He hears from VGK fans who tell him they have “love-hate” feelings toward him.

He’s happy Gallant got the coaching job with the New York Rangers.

There’s more.

Here’s the DeBoer response to our question about the crazy past two years for him.

We will be at the big arena off the Strip for Knights vs Montreal, Game 2 later. Our Game 1 coverage.

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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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