Golden Knights-Edmonton Round 2 Schedule: Games In Las Vegas Set For Wednesday and Saturday

April 30, 2023May 2, 2023 Alan Snel Bruce Cassidy, Pete DeBoer

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By Alan Snel/LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

The National Hockey League’s topsy-turvy playoffs have the Vegas Golden Knights hosting the Edmonton Oilers at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Wednesday and Saturday in Games 1 and 2 of the Best-of-7 series in the conference semifinals.

On Thursday, the Golden Knights clinched their Round 1 series against Winnipeg in five games.

On Saturday, the Oilers knocked out the Los Angeles Kings for win their series in six games.

As is the practice in NHL playoffs, playoff ticket prices go up as a team advances through the postseason.

In four regular season games, the Knights defeated the Oilers once, lost to Edmonton twice and earned a point with a regulation tie before losing in OT.

The Stanley Cup playoffs have been unpredictable, with the Boston Bruins losing to the Florida Panthers in a Game 7 Sunday after setting NHL records for most wins and points during the regular season. VGK coach Bruce Cassidy was Boston’s coach last season before he was fired.

Meanwhile, the Colorado Avalanche, the defending Cup winner, lost to Seattle in a Game 7 in Denver Sunday, setting up the other Western Conference semifinals between the Kraken and the Dallas Stars, coached by former VGK coach Pete DeBoer.

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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Hirings and Firings:

Las Vegas Aces President Nikki Fargas said the Aces are not renewing the contract of General Manager Natalie Williams. The Aces hired Williams as the team’s general manager in April 2022.

Vegas Golden Knights said the NHL club has signed defenseman Shea Theodore to a seven-year contract extension worth an average annual value of $7,425,000.

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To contact LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel or buy his book, Bicycle Man: Life of Journeys, email him at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com

LVSportsBiz number for 2024: $1,178,161,041. That’s the amount of debt Las Vegas (actually, Clark County) owes for its public share of building the Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium.