Well, that’s the one upside for those unfortunate souls that have Kings season tickets that they have less preseason games to pay for. They’re playing three “home” games away from LA as you pointed out.

That said, season ticket holders DO have to pay for those seats no matter what. The Kings season ticket agreement states that they are paying for 43 home games.

Yes, it’s all money in Anschultz’s pocket, but that’s never been in doubt from the get-go.

I get that about doing the Las Vegas game, ever since the IHL folded up shop and the Avalanche came into being, it made sense to have them play a game there.

Of course, and here’s where the fun of creating a conspiracy theory comes in, why take the Kings away from Los Angeles so much now? They burned off a chunk of their preseason last year playing in Europe and even gave up a home date at Staples Center to play the Ducks at The O2 in London, another AEG arena.

Whether Anschultz is finding creative ways to make money for himself on the preseason since preseason games hardly draw flies or Anschultz really doesn’t give two craps about sticking around in LA and is exploiting his other holdings to find a new place that receives them well.

I’d like to think that Anschultz is the kind of greedy guy that is just looking for places that will fill up for a preseason game to make more money – but given everything that’s cropped up with his friend Boots and his nefarious plot to take a team westward… I have to be skeptical.

Besides, its more fun that way!

To me, it just seems like good business strategy: are they going to make more money in LA, where people would rather wait and go to a regular season game, or at other locations that they own, where it becomes an event and people would be more likely to go? Plus, season ticket holders don’t have to pay regular season prices for preseason games if they don’t want to.