Golden Knights Promoting Travel Service For VGK And Hockey Fans To Get VGK Game Tickets, Flights, Hotel Rooms; VGK Bury Winless San Jose, 7-3, Saturday
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — When the Vegas Golden Knights play games on the road, you know their fans are in the ice barns by the scream of “night” during the U.S. national anthem.
And visiting teams’ fans like to swing by the VGK’s T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
So armed with the knowledge that VGK and NHL fans have the financial resources to travel to follow their teams, the Golden Knights’ business side is promoting a travel platform through a Toronto-based company called, BookSeats, for fans to pay for ticket and travel packages.
The Golden Knights unveiled the travel service earlier this year in February. The focus was allowing VGK and hockey fans to create their own personalized travel package based on their budgets and options for flights, hotels, game tickets, and any other experiences.
This week the Knights sent out an email on the BookSeats travel program — the first standalone promotion of the partnership that the BGK have done outside of that initial press release back in February.
In that release, the Knights quoted team team president Kerry Bubolz as saying, “Providing freedom of choice on hotels, dates, and discounted rates for these custom travel packages gives our fans another innovative way to attend games at T-Mobile Arena and on the road.”
The Knights also billed the travel program as the first of its kind in the National Hockey League.
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Tonight the Vegas Golden Knights are hosting the San Jose Sharks here at the Big Ice House by the Strip. The two teams were bitter rivals in the VGK’s first two seasons in the league as the teams faced each in other in the playoffs in Vegas’ Year 1 and 2.
Original Misfit William Karlsson returned to action after an injury and fed Tanner Pearson in the slot for a shot and goal less than two minutes into the game.
About two minutes later, Eichel ripped a shot past San Jose goalie Vitek Vannecek.
The VGK were off to a 2-0 lead against a San Jose squad that entered this game with six losses and two ties, but no wins.
The Knights kept piling on the goals with a third tally. Newly-signed defenseman Shea Theodore made a sweet stick-handling move to deke a San Jose player and passed the puck to Pavel Dorofeyev near center ice. Dorofeyev tapped the puck to Tomas Hertl, who fed a streaking Brett Howden down the right side and Howden put the puck up and over Sharks goalie Vitek Vanacek.
VGK led San Jose, 3-0, after one period and had 22 shots on goal to San Jose’s four.
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After the Knights notched a trio of even-strength goals in period one, Vegas relied on a shorty and a power-play goal in period two while San Jose also scored twice in the middle stanza.
After the Sharks cut the VGK lead to 3-1, Karlsson added a short-handed goal to his assist for a 4-1 Vegas lead midway through the second period. Dorofeyev scored his fourth of the young season on the power play for a 5-1 lead before San Jose tallied for its second goal.
It was VGK 5 San Jose 2 after two periods.
Mark Stone and Howden added goals in the third period, while San Jose also scored.
Final: Vegas 7 San Jose 3
The VGK improved to 6-2-1 after nine points, including six-for-six at home. The Knights were 0-2-1 on a recent road trip to Washington, Tampa Bay and Florida.
