Tomáš Hertl reported to Las Vegas quickly after the San Jose Sharks traded him to the Golden Knights on March 8, but his family didn’t join him right away.
A lot went wrong for the Golden Knights Wednesday night at American Airlines Center. That’s hard to remember after Vegas pulled off a 3-1 victory over the Dallas Stars in a game where it trailed for a total of 82 seconds to go up 2-0 in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup Playoff series. ...
Golden Knights coach Bruce Cassidy didn’t want his team to be content getting out of the first two games of the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a split on the road. They weren’t. Vegas beat Dallas 3-1. ...
The chemistry between Stone and his teammates appeared to contribute to the first victory in the best-of-seven series, and now the Golden Knights will try to replicate it in Game 2 at 6:30 tonight. ...
Winning 16 games over the next two months to stake their claim as repeat champions is a tall order for the Golden Knights, but that magic number is now already down to 15.
The playoff energy was palpable at the Golden Knights’ first postseason practice Saturday morning at City National Arena. Perhaps spurred by the full-contact returns ...
I don’t know if there’s ever been a trio of bad beats in a span of less than 24 hours that hit harder than that in the four-year history of Weekend Wagers than last week's variety pack. ...
Vegas prepares to take on the Dallas Stars in its best-of-seven first-round Western Conference Playoff showdown beginning at 6:30 p.m. Monday on the road. ...
The best-of-seven series between the Golden Knights and Stars is expected to start on Monday in Dallas before shifting back to T-Mobile Arena for Games 3 and 4 towards next weekend. ...
When the Pac-10 extended hastily accepted invitations to Utah and Colorado for the 2011 college football season, many hailed it as the dawning of the age of “super conferences.”
The never-ending footrace between Boise State and bookmakers may feature a new leader for the first time in nearly two decades. The popular narrative of non-BCS conference Boise State baffling the country with its run of sustained success once rang truest in Las Vegas.
The Miami Heat’s championship parade drew to a close Monday in a fashion typical for these types of celebrations — with talk of next season. The back-to-back NBA champions fielded questions about potentially pulling off the first three-peat in more than a decade next season. Las Vegas has answers, or at least valuable insight into the likelihood of it happening.
The dramatic finish in Game 6 of the NBA Finals caused at least three different groups of people spread throughout the country in separate time zones to look foolish. There were, of course, the much-ridiculed Miami fans who fled the American Airlines Arena exits early before their Heat sparked to win 103-100 in overtime. San Antonio supporters who flooded the Riverwalk anticipating a celebration before their Spurs dulled took their barbs, too.
Tonight marks the closest equivalent to Groundhog Day for local sports books. If the Miami Heat win to extend the NBA Finals to a Game 7, brightness in the form of money gets one last hurrah. Dim the lights around betting windows, though, if they lose.
Sports book directors may have flopped to the floor harder than Chris Bosh as game four of the NBA Finals wound down. Unlike the minor contact Tim Duncan made with Bosh, the Miami Heat actually inflicted pain on bookmakers. They cost Las Vegas books far more than the $5,000 the NBA fined Bosh for his embellishment, too.
Don’t make the same mistake some analysts made Tuesday night. Don’t pen the Miami Heat’s eulogy yet. Despite an embarrassing 113-77 loss to San Antonio in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, Miami is a victory Thursday night away from regaining its status as the favorite in the series, according to Las Vegas odds.
LeBron James has experienced both the supposed greatest benefit and biggest drawback to the NBA Finals’ 2-3-2 home court format over the past couple of years. The Heat are now minus-175 (risking $1.75 to win $1) to win the series with the Spurs coming back at plus-155 (risking $1 to win $1.55).
Fans in San Antonio might as well crank Rihanna’s breakthrough single “Umbrella” and dust off those black and silver Robert Horry jerseys. They should party like it’s June 2007, and not just because their Spurs are back in the NBA Finals for the first time since suppressing this very King (James) six years ago.
According solely to future odds in Las Vegas sports books, Miami was 13 percent more likely to win the title before the just-concluded series with the Indiana Pacers ever began. The LVH Superbook had the Heat at minus-400 (risking $4 to win $1) to win the NBA title on May 20. Now they’re just minus-220. San Antonio’s numbers swayed the opposite direction, as it was plus-450 to end the season with a championship before a near pick’em Western Conference Finals series against the Memphis Grizzlies.
Case Keefer has spent more than a decade covering his passions at Greenspun Media Group. He's written about and supervised coverage of everything relating to the local sports scene, with an emphasis on betting and football, for the Las Vegas Sun and Las Vegas Weekly. He's also an avid music fan, constantly listening to new records and attending concerts, and writing about them whenever he can for Las Vegas Weekly.
