The moment Las Vegas was granted an NHL expansion team, some fans were happy to have another excuse to gamble away their life’s savings. Most fans were just excited to travel to Las Vegas to establish home-ice advantage. That’s exactly what happened on Sunday night, when the Orange & Black staged an invasion akin to that of DX’s on WCW Monday Nitro.
It all started well. In fact, Vegas’ mascot – who inexplicably isn’t a Golden Knight – prepped the poles outside of T-Mobile Arena:
Philly Philly#VegasBorn pic.twitter.com/BxpHJW3BVD
— Chance (@ChanceNHL) February 11, 2018
The folks over at Broad Street Hockey, in conjunction with Phans of Philly, threw a pregame party, at which point you got the feeling that there would be a sizable number of Flyers fans in attendance.
Flyers pregame party at the rooftop beer park bar in Vegas… orange & black invasion pic.twitter.com/zGsujQPJWK
— Dana Libertino (@LittleMissDanaD) February 12, 2018
Is everyone sure this wasn’t a home game?
Just look at all that orange 😎 #blessed #PHIvsVGK pic.twitter.com/ykp7yZzsm4
— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) February 12, 2018
“Maybe it was just that section of the arena!” – Some Golden Knights fan
Doubtful. Do I hear some spelling? I think I do!
Just an Eagles chant in Las Vegas during a Flyers regular season hockey game.
Things we never thought we'd tweet if you asked us three years ago. pic.twitter.com/25maOLZJQm
— NBC Sports Philadelphia (@NBCSPhilly) February 12, 2018
Biggest loser on the night? Pierre-Édouard Bellemare who, when asked pregame about what he wanted to prove to the Flyers’ Front Office, said:
“Maybe show them that they should’ve protected me.” —Pierre-Edouard Bellemare on what he hopes to show the Flyers today.
— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) February 11, 2018
Something tells me they aren’t convinced.
With the win, the Flyers are now 4-0 since the Eagles won Super Bowl LII. If you include the Sixers in that stat, Philadelphia teams are 7-0 since that Super Bowl win.
JACKPOT! Flyers win in Vegas!
Four straight wins and the Sixers and Flyers remain undefeated since the Eagles won the Super Bowl. pic.twitter.com/1KitQf1mKY
— NBC Sports Philadelphia (@NBCSPhilly) February 12, 2018
This was pointed out by Adam Lefkoe on this morning’s Crossing Broadcast.
Here’s to you, Vegas. Thanks for the hospitality. More importantly, thanks for the win.
FINAL SCORE
Them: 4
Us: 1Mood: Rocky Balboa still lost pic.twitter.com/cBLuCPiF4o
— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) February 12, 2018
Yeah, but we won the Super Bowl. How confident are you in this guy?
11 Comments
Cute little article, but i was at the game last night. T Mobile capacity for hockey is 17,500. Real good showing by Flyer fans but there were maybe 4000, it was hardly a “Flyers home game”. Red Wings fans had a better showing. And it still doesn’t change the fact that despite the outcome last night, the (expansion) Knights are a much better team than the Flyers. But hey, keep being proud of “traveling well”
Over online bootleggers lifting his bootleg online Ts? Anything on an article yesterday on philly.com about 3 guys not named Kyle working to secure the phrase Philly Special? Anything on whether you really need a degree from Villanova to be a T-shirt huckster? Anything on Kyle’s Philly Special diagram being completely inaccurate and thusly an illegal formation? Anything ???
The original Herb D. would not support that comment…I’m 75% sure Larry Kane wouldn’t support it and 94% sure that “Big Al” Meltzer wouldn’t….looks like a lot of orange in the pics and videos and the Eagles fight song(s) were loud as hell…nice job by the road team’s fans! Lighten up Herb. Go Flyers!
Mark Davis looks like the dad who chained up his 14 kids in California a couple months ago.
I love how I get zero credit for reporting on Nick Foles gigantic penis. Y’all give credit to Conor Barwin. It’s bull shit. I reported his 10 incher months before the Barwin article.
I am with you Spuds. I know you were all over that. We all got your back you creepy little bald perv.
Where is the cuz at this morning ??
Big dick Angelo has Carson Wentz on and cuz calls out ???
Cuz is getting sized for his super bowl ring this morning.
He’s about 5 inches soft, 7 hard. Impressive.
just like you lame attempts at DICK humour……soft.
WOW
WOW
WOW
WOW!
First this…what’s next?
Choking in the playoffs?
The flyers are the new ‘longest losers’ in Philly.