The Vegas Golden Knights generate tens of millions of dollars in revenue each year. And the third-year NHL team also generates a lot of money for their non-profit foundation, too.
On Tuesday night, the VGK fundraiser dubbed, “Knight to Remember,” was projected to make about $1 million at a swanky event at the Wynn XS nighclub where players and fans left their Golden Knights jerseys at home and donned fancy suits and dresses for the gala money-maker.
LVSportsBiz.com’s favorite auction item was this electric low-rider bicycle signed by the VGK players, including signatures by goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury and Mark Stone on the two-wheeler’s headlamp.
It cost a fan $500 to get into the swanky fund-raiser. They posed for photos with players and drank champagne.
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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.
