LAS VEGAS, NV – JANUARY 26: The Vegas Golden Knights vs. the St. Louis Blues on January 26, 2021 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Bottari / NHLI via Getty Images)
A pro sports team’s relationship with a tout service did not last as long as a broken late night drunken marriage at the Lucky Little Wedding Chapel.
On Saturday, about 72 hours after announcing it, the Vegas Golden Knights sold their relationship with UpickTrade, a Mexico-based website.
“The Vegas Golden Knights have terminated their sponsorship agreement with UpickTrade,” the club said in a statement. “The organization will not comment further on this at this time.”
When the deal was announced, the team said the sponsorship was an ‘official partner of the Knights’ sports service’, which caught the entire industry off guard.
The Action Network reached out to a Vegas Golden Knights official who declined to comment publicly. So did the NHL, which would have had to approve the sponsorship category but did not ask questions about the mystery.
The most shocking thing about the partnership is that if a team knows of the sled land of touts, it should be a team in Vegas.
Would the service ever choose against the knights? What happens if the selection service tells everyone to bet on the Knights and lose them? No one knows what the answers to these questions are, because it was mom after the half-baked deal that could only happen in the NHL.