The Golden Knights have opened up their home as part of a 24-hour open house at T-Mobile Arena from 8AM this morning to 8AM tomorrow. I wrote this post last week explaining the whole thing, and I don’t really feel like explaining it again, so instead here’s a bunch of pictures and my thoughts on the event.

Observations

Early returns on attendance have been pretty strong. For the first few hours there’s been somewhere between 500-1000 people in the building at any point and there’s been a steady line the entire time at the “ticket information” table.

The ice is NOT laid despite what my friend from Channel 8 thinks who told me he expected the ice to be much more white. #NailedIt

They have a blow-up castle type thing to shoot pucks in, cornhole/beanbag games decked out with Golden Knights logos, both goals are in place, they have VGK Jenga (seriously, there’s a picture below), and the head equipment manager has sticks, helmets, and pads to try on.

There are white pieces of paper on seats throughout the arena which have information on season tickets for that seat. By rough count, there are probably about 100 of those.

Split season ticket information is available for the first time on 11-game and 22-game packages. The price list is in a picture below.

They weren’t kidding, they are literally giving away two seats to the home opener once an hour. You do not have to be present to win.

A very loud gong is hit every time someone purchases tickets.

Behind The Vegas Ice episodes are being played on the jumbotron. You better believe I filmed “the scene” on the big screen.

Attendance picked up significantly through the early night. I’m guessing about 1500 or so as a max in the building at one time.

They turned on the Blackhawks/Wild game on the big screen, with sound. I also heard that Duluth Trading Company underwear commercial about eight times on the T-Mobile sound system. Lucky them.

I was in the arena all the way from about 10PM until 4AM. There were people on the floor playing the games throughout the entire time. Most were recently off the late shift at the casinos or restaurants. However there were a bundle of people who were here earlier in the day and came back cause they thought it would be fun.

Multiple tickets were sold between the hours of midnight and 5AM.

I’m not going to make it the whole 24 hours. I arrived at 7AM on Tuesday and I will be leaving the arena at 6:30 AM on Wednesday. 23 and half ain’t too bad.

All in all, this should be viewed as a highly successful event, and I’ll have much more on it tomorrow about what we learned. At least 8,000 people were through the building during the 24 hours and the final number is likely to be pushing 9,000. Pretty darn good to come in and see a building that’s been open for 10 months.

Pictures

President Kerry Bubolz on KXNT with The Heidi Harris Show

Updated the thoughts and pictures page from the event. And to answer your question, yes, I’m still here. (23 hours)https://t.co/THYSHoHCae pic.twitter.com/fsoKHHggOv — SinBin.vegas (@SinBinVegas) February 22, 2017