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Story by Alan Snel Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell
LAS VEGAS. Nevada — When you think about a pro game ticket going for 13 bucks, maybe it’s a minor league ballgame or perhaps a university contest.
But a Vegas Golden Knights preseason game?
Yes. VividSeats had a $13 ticket for Thursday’s Utah Mammoth at VGK game.
Let’s face it, it’s NHL preseason when players are skating and playing as if the priority is not to hurt each other.
In the first period, we saw Utah’s three shots on goal (zero in the first 15 minutes) matched by the Golden Knights’ three shots i the first period.
Even with the lack of riveting, high-flying ice action, it’s hard to argue against spending $13 to see the famed Golden Knights parade of characters snake its way through T-Mobile Arena before the game and Carnell Johnson sing his flawless rendition of the national anthem.
And let’s not forget preseason debut of the Golden Knights’ golden acquisition, winger Mitch Marner, who signed an eight-year, $96 million extension deal with Vegas July 1.
It was nice for VGK fans to see that number 88 on the back of former Original Misfit, Nate Schmidt, who was on the ice for the Utah Mammoth fresh off his Stanley Cup championship win with the Florida Panthers. After Vegas, Schmidt played for Vancouver and Winnipeg before he landed in South Florida and on a Cup. Schmidt played on the Miracle-on-Ice VGK team that went to the Cup Final in 2018.
Seat Geek, another online ticket re-seller, had tonight’s get-in ticket price at $15.
The VGK announced attendance at 17,383, which is a helluva number of that was the actual number of fans in the building,
They enjoyed Jack Eichel’s goal. And then another Eichel goal. It will be interesting to see if Eichel, who was a masterful playmaker in 2024-25, focuses more on scoring goals this season with Marner as his winger.
After a sluggish start to the game, te exhibition contest ended with some juice.
Eichel’s two goals in the third sent the game into overtime where Shea Theodore made a nice deke to slide the puck into an empty net and VGK skated off with a 3-2 preseason game.
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