08-02-2017, 04:59 PM
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#481
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Flames are going to be lagging so far behind....and soon.
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the Vegas Golden Knights’ 146,000-square-foot hockey fortress, a place so impressive and modern that it instantly gives the expansion franchise a better facility than most of the league’s other clubs.
“People will be very excited when they get here and it will be well worth the wait,” said Golden Knights’ senior vice president Murray Craven, who has overseen the construction from the start.
“It’s kind of a secondary home for them, especially for the single guys,” Craven said. “The married guys go home and have a family, but the single guys go home to an empty apartment or house. Those guys will hang out here. They’ll have the ping-pong table or video games or whatever 20-year-old guys do these days.”
One wall of the team locker room will be covered with murals of the Golden Knights’ primary and alternate logos, and the other three will house the 27 player lockers. Adjacent to the locker rooms are the showers, sauna and steam room. There are also massive hot and cold tubs and the massage room with a full-time team masseuse.
Two standard hockey rinks take up the east half of the building. Each will be equipped with stands to seat 450 people for recreational youth and adult hockey leagues. The building also has 10 public locker rooms, including one for women and one specifically for the UNLV hockey team, which will play its home games there.
Towering above, and right between, the two hockey rinks will be a 9,000-square-foot restaurant with a center bar. Golden Knights’ practices will be open to the public so fans will be able to sit and have a slice of pizza or a drink while they peer down on their city’s first major professional team hard at work.
Also for the fans, the facility will have a 4,000-square-foot pro shop with every type of hockey equipment or Golden Knights merchandise imaginable. The public entrance will look familiar — made with the same metallic design as T-Mobile Arena.
Directly above the players' locker room will sit the largest gym in the entire NHL — a sprawling 6,500 square feet of weights, equipment and a running track that overlooks the hockey rinks and Downtown Summerlin.
“We want to encourage them to live close to the practice facility,” Craven said. “You can live very comfortably within 10 minutes of here and that’s our goal. They’re going to be here the majority of the time anyway. We would rather have them here than other places in Las Vegas that aren’t as friendly to an athlete as our facilities.”
Craven played 18 years in the NHL for six organizations. He’s seen it all when it comes to the league, but says he’s never seen anything like what the Golden Knights will be calling home.
“There’s no way anyone could have conceived something like this,” Craven said. “You wouldn’t have even dreamed about it.”
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https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/ma...something-you/
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08-02-2017, 05:24 PM
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#482
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Franchise Player
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Sounds pretty amazing, kinda jealous actually.
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08-02-2017, 05:36 PM
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#483
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Probably didnt cost a cool Billion either.
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08-02-2017, 05:43 PM
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#484
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Locke
Probably didnt cost a cool Billion either.
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Probably not....as this is the practice facility. I think Calgary actually uses Winsport quite a bit for their training and practices. So I don't think we are too far behind in this aspect.
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08-02-2017, 06:00 PM
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#485
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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The Saddledome is closer to WinSport than the T-Mobile Arena is to the Vegas practice facility. They really want to keep their players away from the Strip.
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08-02-2017, 06:04 PM
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#486
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All I can get
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State-of-the-art facility is a big selling point for a new franchise.
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08-03-2017, 12:07 PM
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#487
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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08-21-2017, 03:47 PM
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#489
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Whitefish, MT & Marysville B.C.
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I got the chance to talk to both Lanny and Murray at the event. Whitefish has pretty big exposure with the Knights, as Bill Foley, and Murray Craven have been prominent in this community. We also lost Chad Goodwin, our skating coach to the knights. I wouldn't be surprised if Whitefish gets a prospects camp or a training camp in the future.
Last edited by fastpuck; 08-21-2017 at 04:14 PM.
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09-25-2017, 01:39 PM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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This is interesting
https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/sta...82579512418305
JUST IN: The Vegas @GoldenKnights are embedding their season ticket holders names in their home ice.
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09-25-2017, 01:45 PM
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#491
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#1 Goaltender
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It's already easier to watch VGK games than Calgary vs Winnipeg
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09-25-2017, 01:46 PM
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#492
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Resident Videologist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary
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09-25-2017, 01:47 PM
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#493
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Kelowna, BC
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
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what are the "odds" that there will be a spelling error with some of the names? 
(with my work we regularly are asked to embroider names on sleeves for personalization and it's something we don't really enjoy becuz if there is going to be an oops, it will be with the spelling of names. it's gotten a lot better since i made it mandatory that all name lists are emailed so that we can just cut/paste them into the software. at least then when there is a mistake it is not mine!)
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09-25-2017, 01:49 PM
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#494
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by bc-chris
what are the "odds" that there will be a spelling error with some of the names?
(with my work we regularly are asked to embroider names on sleeves for personalization and it's something we don't really enjoy becuz if there is going to be an oops, it will be with the spelling of names. it's gotten a lot better since i made it mandatory that all name lists are emailed so that we can just cut/paste them into the software. at least then when there is a mistake it is not mine!) |
Is capitalization an extra cost at your business?
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09-25-2017, 01:50 PM
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#495
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Kelowna, BC
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Originally Posted by JFK
Is capitalization an extra cost at your business?
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i embroider it however they email it
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09-25-2017, 02:45 PM
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#497
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Why is VGK not playing any exhibition games in LV?
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09-25-2017, 03:51 PM
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#498
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Why is VGK not playing any exhibition games in LV?
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They are. Tomorrow, Thursday, and Sunday.
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09-25-2017, 08:20 PM
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#499
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Farm Team Player
Join Date: Sep 2017
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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
True, still, I believe that the timing of the expansion draft will benefit the Flames ability to compete more than it hurts them.
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Agree
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09-25-2017, 08:38 PM
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#500
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I was lucky enough to play some games in a tournament in their practice rink over the weekend. Even the practice rink is super nice.
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