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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer
“The Devils are in Sin City!”
With a lede like that, how can I not continue reading?
That was the opening of a text alert to my cell phone courtesy of Pogoseat, the the company used by the Vegas Golden Knights to try and sell last-minute tickets to fans. The VGK-Pogoseat partnership began in 2018.
The New Jersey Devils, a top Eastern Conference team with a new addition, former San Jose Sharks player Timo Meier, visit the Knights for a game on Friday. The Pogoseat text alert hyped the Golden Knights-Devils game, with “Very limited Upper Level seats for $55 and Mezzanine seats for $90. NO FEES!”
Savvy, price-conscious fans can choose the Pogoseat text alert option or check out the Golden Knights own ticket exchange website shortly before a game for good ticket buys that are sometimes less costly than what season ticket holders pay for VGK home game tickets.
The Golden Knights’ average attendance is 17,982 a game, good for 102.8 percent capacity — just behind the Boston Bruins’ 102.9 percent capacity.
The Golden Knights play another tough Eastern Conference team, the Carolina Hurricanes, at home Wednesday before the Devils visit Sin City for Friday’s VGK game at T-Mobile Arena.
On Monday, the Golden Knights lost to the Colorado Avalanche, 3-0.
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The new Las Vegas indoor lacrosse team, the Desert Dogs, are making history by playing lacrosse outdoors in a stadium game against the San Diego Seals at Snapdragon Stadium, the home venue of the San Diego State Aztecs football team of the Mountain West Conference. Saturday’s Dogs-Seals game is the first-ever outdoor game in National Lacrosse League history.
NBA Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai, who is part-owner of the Desert Dogs and owner of the Seals, can’t lose because he has ownership interests in both the Dogs and the Seals.
The stadium has 35,000 seats for college football, but will be scaled down to 10,100 for the lacrosse game. The new Desert Dogs got off to a slow start, but have won three games in a row for a 4-5 record.
The Desert Dogs’ next home game is March 11 for the team’s limited edition Wayne Gretzky jersey giveaway. The first 4,000 fans (previously 3500) the Dogs’ 7:30PM game against the Vancouver Warriors will receive the Gretzky number 99 jersey. Gretzky, like Tsai, is a Desert Dogs’ part-owner.
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It was big news when “hostile work environment” allegations by former interim Raiders team president Dan Ventrelle surfaced in May 2022.
The latest is that Ventrelle has settled with the Raiders, LVSportsBiz.com has learned.
Ventrelle, who served as interim president after former team president Marc Badain resigned in July 2021 because of financial irregularities, alleged he was fired last year because he had informed the NFL of owner Mark Davis’ “unacceptable response” to “multiple written complaints from employees that Mark created a hostile work environment and engaged in other potential misconduct (that) caused me grave concern.”
LVSportsBiz.com contacted Ventrelle, the Raiders and the NFL, but did not hear back.
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The new Vegas Vipers of the XFL play their third game of the season at Cashman Field in downtown Las Vegas on Saturday at 4 PM.