Golden Knights Welcome Back Fans For Season 8; VGK Announce Attendance At 17,488 For Preseason Home-Opener Vs LA Kings
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Story by Alan Snel Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Is it really Year 8?
The Vegas Golden Knights don’t seem so young and fuzzy anymore.
After an inaugural season that saw the Golden Knights soar like a comet to the National Hockey League Final against Washington in 2018, the VGK realized owner Bill Foley’s prophecy of a Stanley Cup championship in six years in 2023.
After a title season that stretched into early June, the Knights were bounced by Dallas and the VGK’s former coach, Pete DeBoer, in the first round of the playoffs last year.
The Vegas franchise is the centerpiece of Foley’s vast business empire that stretches from wineries and lodges from the West Coast of the U.S. to a Premier League soccer team in England to an expansion soccer club in New Zealand.
It’s the home-opener of VGK’s preseason, the first season in Vegas without popular goal scorer Jonathan Marchessault, who plays for the Nashville Predators. Former VGKer Willam Carrier, another oriinal Misfit, is on the Carolina Hurricanes roster. Original Misfits still on club are down to Brayden McNabb, Shea Theodore and William Karlsson.
The Vegas franchise is also coming off a marketing field trip to Mexico City to expand the Golden Knights grand to the Latino demographic, building on the “LosVGK” program to reach out to Spanish-speaking fans who identify as Hispanic-Latino.
The team said 800 Mexicans in Mexico City attended a Golden Knights fanfest event
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Bruce is back selling beer on the main concourse, another sign that the VGK are back.
The Knights hand out sets of freebie promotions to fans in the preseasons like coins and player busts. For this year, it’s a pin set with defenseman Noah Hanifan featured tonight.
Hanifin even scored a goal against the Los Angeles Kings tonight.
Hanifan, acquired in a trade from Calgary last season, was the poster boy tonight.
The Knights announced attendance at 17,488 Wednesday night.
