Golden Knights Transform Front Office With Original Staffers Gone And New Faces Installed; VGK Looking To Hire New Communications VP
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The Golden Knights have seen popular original players like Marc-Andre Fleury leave and now the NHL franchise has reached the ripe old age where the team’s foundational front office staffers have left as well.
They may not have the same name power as memorable Misfits Jonathan Marchessault, Nate Schmidt and Alex Tuch, but former Vegas Golden Knights team president Kerry Bubolz, communications and then marketing head Eric Tosi and, most recently, tickets sales chief Todd Pollock have all left the Fortress in the past half-year.
Meanwhile, the Golden Knights are looking to hire someone for a vice president of communications job, which has been posted on sites like LinkedIn.
VGK owner Bill Foley’s front office transition began last summer with the hiring of former Minnessota Vikings executive John Penhollow, who was hired to become the new Knights president.
In an interview with LVSportsBiz.com, Penhollow explained he wants to lead Foley’s sports organization into a new phase of adding new sheets of ice to continue growing hockey in Southern Nevada to improving the Golden Knights medical facilities.
Penhollow, in turn, enlisted new front office staffers like Chef Operating Officer Rich Wang, Chief Digital Officer Scott Kegley and Chief Marketing Officer Bryan Harper.
Wang will oversee ticket sales among other topics, while Harper replaced Tosi as CMO. Tosi, who came to the VGK from the Boston Bruins, moved on to the College Football Playoff (which holds its national chamoionship game in Allegiant Stadium in January).
The VGK also used the Olympic break to recruit future employees:
On the ice Sunday, the Golden Knights had a rough day in Pittsburgh where the VGK were shut out by the Penguins, 5-0, after the Knights lost to Washington, 3-2, in the second game of a five-game road tip. Vegas plays in Buffalo Tuesday and in Detroit Wednesday before returning to Las Vegas to play the Minnesota Wild Friday.
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