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June 9 Special Day For Las Vegas Sports Industry: VGK Play Stanley Cup Final Game 4 While A’s Host Brewers In MLB Game At Las Vegas Ballpark
It’s Vegas Vs Carolina For Stanley Cup Title; VGK Visit Raleigh June 2 and 4; Vegas Hosts Game 3 on June 6 and Game 4 on June 9
Golden Knights Will Start Stanley Cup Final On Road Either June 2 or June 4; VGK Will Host Games 3 and 4 either June 6, 9 Or June 9, 11
VGK Melt No.1 Seed Avalanche’s Season In Four-Game Sweep, Off To Stanley Cup Final For Third Time In Franchise’s Nine-Year History
VGK Storm Back Against Avalanche, Scoring Five Straight Goals In 5-3 Comeback Win Over Stunned Colorado For 3-0 Lead In Series Sunday

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VGK Storm Back Against Avalanche, Scoring Five Straight Goals In 5-3 Comeback Win Over Stunned Colorado For 3-0 Lead In Series Sunday

May 24, 2026May 27, 2026 Alan Snel A'ja Wilson, Brett Howden, Bruce Cassidy, Cale Makar, Carter Hart, Gabriel Landeskog, Jack Drury, Jared Bednar, John Tortorella, Keegan Kolesar, Kelly McCrimmon, Mark Shunock, Mark Stone, Nathan MacKinnon, Nazem Kadri, Pavel Dorofeyev, Tomas Hertl

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VGK Game Emcee Mark Shunock Moves From Top Rank Boxing To WWE’s Friday Night SmackDown; Shunock Will Continue As VGK Game Emcee

March 29, 2025March 29, 2025 Alan Snel Dana White, Mark Shunock

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Golden Stroll To Arena: Golden Knights Launch Home Season Thursday; Vegas Blanks Chicago Thanks To Thompson’s Stellar Goaltending, 1-0

October 13, 2022October 13, 2022 Alan Snel Brayden McNabb, Brett Howden, Jonathan Marchessault, Logan Thompson, Mark Shunock, Paul Cotter, Reilly Smith

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Some fans just will not wear masks.

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With COVID Knocking Out NHL Games, Golden Knights Arena Announcers Implore Fans In Venue To Wear Masks; Lightning’s Stamkos Goal Gives Tampa Bay 4-3 Win Over VGK Tuesday

December 21, 2021December 22, 2021 Alan Snel Alex Pietrangelo, Andrei Vasilevskiy, Anthony Cirelli, Bill Foley, Bruce Cusick, Daniil Miromanov, Evgenii Dadonov, Kelly McCrimmon, Laurent Brossoit, Mark Shunock, Mark Stone, Nic Roy, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare

Story by Alan Snel Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell The Great Mask Blowoff is usually at work at Vegas Golden

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Golden Knights Wrap Up Home Preseason Schedule With 3-1 Loss To Arizona Thursday; Games Count For Real In Five Days With Season-Opener Against Seattle Kraken

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Alan Snel Katie Marie Jones, Mark Shunock, Pete DeBoer, Robin Lehner, William Karlsson

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Raider Nation welcomes Mark Shunock, Sibley Scoles as in-game hosts. Photo: Raiders

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Raiders Enlist Sibley Scoles, Mark Shunock As In-Game Hosts Starting With Monday Night Football At Allegiant Stadium

September 10, 2021 Alan Snel Brian Sandoval, Gladys Knight, Mark Shunock, Sibley Scoles

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Former Broadway Performer Transitions To Sports Entertainment As Las Vegas Market Grows Its Sports Options

June 19, 2021June 19, 2021 Alan Snel Mark Shunock, Phil Esposito, Tony Esposito, Wayne Gretzky

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com He’s part-fan, part-Broadway entertainer and part-former hockey player. This unique blend results in his go-with-the-flow

COVID-19 Golden Knights T-Mobile Arena

How T-Mobile Arena Got Its VGK Fan Groove Back Thanks To Attendance That Went From 0 Jan 14 To 17,504 June 4

June 5, 2021July 1, 2021 Alan Snel Jonathan Marchessault, Mark Shunock, Max Pacioretty

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The first home games for the Vegas Golden Knights in mid-January were surreal when the

Golden Knights Send Fans Attending VGK vs Minnesota Game Monday COVID-19 Instructions For T-Mobile Arena

February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 Alan Snel Bruce Cusick, Carnell Johnson, Clint McComb, Katie Marie Jones, Lee Orchard, Mark Shunock

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com The Vegas Golden Knights have specific instructions for fans attending Monday’s VGK home game against

NHL, Golden Knights Return To Las Vegas Minus Fans Thursday Night: VGK 5 Anaheim 2

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 Alan Snel Alex Tuch, Carnell Johnson, Jonathan Marchessault, Lee Orchard, Marc Andre-Fleury, Mark Shunock, Mark Stone, Max Pacioretty, Pete DeBoer, Robin Lehner, Tomas Nosek

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com They cranked the arena’s famed powerful sound system full throttle like in the good ol’

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July 5, 2021

Alan Snel, veteran journalist and LVSportsBiz.com publisher. ASnel@LVSportsBiz.com.

LVSPORTSBIZ.COM, launched June 2017: We are a digital magazine providing market-leading news, intelligence, enterprise and breaking news on Las Vegas’ sports/stadium industry. Our stories are quoted nationally and we set the sportsbiz news agenda in Las Vegas. Publisher Alan Snel has reported on the business of sports and stadiums in Denver, South Florida, New York, Seattle and Tampa besides Las Vegas and is considered a national authority on the topic.

Click here for Alan’s recent appearance on KNPR radio in Las Vegas.

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LVSportsBiz.com coverage of Athletics stadium project on Strip in Las Vegas.

A’s owner John Fisher in Las Vegas

New A’s team president Marc Badain

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LVCVA spends $8.25 million on A’s sponsorship

Big League Sports With Small Town Politics

Man of Many Hats

Athletics’ long, strange journey for new ballpark

How Deal Was Made For A’s Ballpark On Strip

May 24, 2021

LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel is a nationally-known bicycle rights leader and bicycle travel writer.

Alan focuses on reducing road violence and has asked government to enforce road safety laws, design better roads for bicyclists and walkers not just motorists, educate drivers, install more penalties for reckless motorists and lower speed limits.

Here are Alan’s travel story samples, literary adventures based on Alan’s expansive and curious approach to reporting sports-business news and a bicycle life:

Let’s Pedal Zion National Park

Bicycling Bristlecone Trail At 9,000 Feet

Biking magical Seattle and the Northwest

Bicycling the Tour de Stadiums of Las Vegas

Las Vegas bicyclist struck by bullet during memorial ride

Incomparable Grand Canyon by bike

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LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel has also written two books: Long Road Back To Las Vegas and Bicycle Man. Purchase Long Road Back To Las Vegas on Amazon and contact Alan to buy Bicycle Man at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com.

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