Before snow flurries fell on Las Vegas Tuesday, making it feel really like winter, Vegas Golden Knights fans paid $500 apiece to attend the annual VGK Gala at Resorts World Las Vegas to hob-nob with players, snap photos with the Knights and munch on tasty food.
It was a fundraising setting for people to wear semi-formal clothing while schmoozing in an informal way.
There were VGK and other sports items auctioned off to help raise money for the Vegas Golden Knights Foundation.
In all, $1.2 million was raised from the gala Monday night.
The Zouk Nightclub at Resorts World was the setting.
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.
