Golden Knights promotes travel service for VGK and hockey fans to receive VGK game tickets, flights and hotel rooms; VGK leads 5-2 after two periods against winless San Jose on Saturday

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By Alan Snel, Editor and Writer, LVSportsBiz.com

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – When the Vegas Golden Knights play away games, you know their fans are in the ice barns when the cry of “night” rings out during the U.S. national anthem.

And the fans of the visiting teams like to stop by the T-Mobile Arena of the VGK in Las Vegas.

Armed with the knowledge that VGK and NHL fans have the financial means to travel to follow their teams, the Golden Knights' business side promotes a travel platform through a Toronto-based company called BookSeats that provides fans with tickets and travel can pay for packages.

The Golden Knights introduced the travel service in early February of this year. The focus was on giving VGK and hockey fans the opportunity to create their own personalized travel package based on their budget and options for flights, hotels, game tickets and other experiences.

This week, the Knights sent out an email about the BookSeats travel program – the first stand-alone promotion of the partnership that BGK has done outside of the initial press release in February.

In that press release, the Knights quoted team president Kerry Bubolz as saying, “The freedom to choose hotels, dates and discounted rates for these customized travel packages provides our fans with another innovative way to attend games at T-Mobile Arena and on-site. ” Street.”

The Knights also described the travel program as the first of its kind in the National Hockey League.

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Tonight the Vegas Golden Knights host the San Jose Sharks here at the Big Ice House on the Strip. The two teams were bitter rivals during VGK's first two seasons in the league, as the teams competed in the playoffs during Vegas' first and second years.

Original outside hitter William Karlsson returned to action after injury and brought in Tanner Pearson for a shot and a goal less than two minutes into the game.

About two minutes later, Eichel fired a shot past San Jose goalkeeper Vitek Vannecek.

The VGK had a 2-0 lead against a team from San Jose that went into this game with six losses and two draws, but no wins.

The Knights piled up their goals with a third goal. Newly signed defenseman Shea Theodore did some great stickhandling to deny a San Jose player and passed the puck to Pavel Dorofeyev near center ice. Dorofeyev tipped the puck to Tomas Hertl, who passed it to Brett Howden on the right side and Howden pushed the puck up and over Sharks goaltender Vitek Vanacek.

VGK led San Jose 3-0 after one half and had 22 shots on goal to San Jose's four.

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After the Knights scored three even-strength goals in the first period, Vegas relied on a shorty and a power play goal in the second period, while San Jose also scored two goals in the middle stanza.

After the Sharks cut the VGK lead to 3-1, Karlsson added a shorthanded goal to go along with his assist to give Vegas a 4-1 lead midway through the second period. Dorofeyev scored his fourth goal of the young season on the power play to give San Jose a 5-1 lead before San Jose scored their second.

It was VGK 5 San Jose 2 after two periods.

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