Vegas Golden Knights Raise Stanley Cup Banner — Out of a Giant Slot Machine

The Vegas Golden Knights hockey team up raised their championship streamer inwards a unambiguously Vegas ceremonial occasion this week. Before curtain raising the ’23-’24 flavor at place inward the T-Mobile Arena on Tuesday, captain St. Mark Oliver Stone yanked on the lever tumbler of a 12-foot-tall expansion slot machine, turning upwardly threesome Sir Henry Morton Stanley Cups in a row.

The streamer was and so spit out come out of the slot machine’s top, like a winning casino voucher.

Unlike real slots, however, in that respect was no chance of this political machine getting hacked. The prop was powered past an old-school tech: human beings.

According to The Athletic, the roll animations, shown on troika vertically situated 60-inch flat-screen TVs, were excited non by the lever tumbler but by a button manned past Golden Knights VP Saint Andrew the Apostle Abrams, who stood in the Zamboni tunnel. The expansion slot sounds were controlled past the arena DJ and a rigging crew hoisted the banner based on cues called out past President Tyler Ferraro, the team’s senior manager of amusement experience, who sat in the stands.

“That’s what’s really cool most that minute specifically,” Ferraro told The Athletic. “It’s a culmination of every department of the squad working together to spend a penny this ace very, really important bit happen, and everyone crushed it.”

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The slots thought was Abrams’, who thought of it spell washing dishes at place inward the midsection of the Golden Knights’ playoff running before this year.

“I’m like, ‘If we win this thing, what if the streamer boxwood was a slot machine?’” Abrams told The Athletic. “That thought simply popped into my head, but I filed it away. At that point, you can’t go away around expression ‘Hey guys, if we win this thing wouldn’t it live cool?’”

Pregame On

The team’s pregame shows hold get Vegas shows in and of themselves. Since entering the NHL inwards the downfall of 2017, every place repugn is preceded past an expatiate theatrical performance. Lasting up to 10 minutes, it consists of clips detailing the “battle” before and an on-ice production, sonorous on special effects, centered around an histrion dressed as a sword-wielding halcyon knight.

According to The Athletic, the hockey squad now employs a full-time entertainment team of 13, plus Little Joe people who piece of work cameras and edit, trine who palm motility graphics, and a team of nigh 100 controlling the lights, audio, and tackle on game days.

“We’ve gotten hexad years now of lover buy-in for these softheaded hijinks that we make out before the game,” Ferraro told The Athletic. “Knowing that the fans get our backrest way a lot, and knowledgeable that we’re inwards the to the highest degree entertaining city inwards the world.”

How to Top a Pregame Show Like That

There’s only when I way, and the Golden Knights nailed it. They beat the Seattle Kraken 4-1.

Though only when inwards their seventh season, the Golden Knights hold been dementedly successful, winning trey partition championships, ii conference championships, and a Stanley Cup title.