Vegas Golden Knights
A six-year-old franchise won the Stanley Cup in 2023. T-Mobile Arena on the Strip has a pre-game show with a knight on a horse. Las Vegas hockey is the most Vegas thing Vegas has ever done.
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T-Mobile Arena holds about 17,500 for hockey and sits between New York-New York and Park MGM on the Las Vegas Strip. The Golden Knights launched in 2017 as an expansion franchise and immediately went to the Stanley Cup Final - the greatest expansion team debut in professional sports history. They won the Cup in 2023, six years in. The pregame show involves a knight in full armor riding a horse across the ice while pyrotechnics go off. It is exactly as Las Vegas as it sounds and the crowd loves every second of it.
The Park on the Strip between T-Mobile Arena and Park MGM is the purpose-built entertainment district directly adjacent to the arena. Restaurants and bars within The Park and inside the connected hotel casinos handle the pregame crowd without requiring you to go anywhere - you can walk from your hotel room to your seat without leaving climate-controlled buildings if you plan it right. The Strip itself has enough dining options in every direction that the challenge is choosing, not finding.
Golden Knights games have become one of the consistent entertainment draws in Las Vegas alongside the Raiders. The fan base is real and the building is genuinely loud for playoff games. The expansion narrative keeps drawing new fans who want to see what everyone was talking about.
Find Golden Knights tickets through Evil Tickets and see what home games are on the T-Mobile Arena calendar this season.