Robin Lehner Files For Bankruptcy Stemming From Snake Farm
Robin Lehner hasn’t played the Golden Knights this year after being placed on LTIR after undergoing a hip procedure. Lehner is expected to miss the entire season. Somehow Lehner is back in the news and it has nothing to do with his on-ice performance. The VGK goalie is filing from bankruptcy stemming from a snake farm that he’s heavily involved in.
VIA SinBin.Vegas:
Golden Knights goaltender Robin Lehner and his wife Donya filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy with the District of Nevada on December 30th, 2022.
According to the public filing, Lehner estimates the worth of his assets between $1-10 million while his liability to creditors is between $10-50 million.
“In the bankruptcy filing documents, Lehner is said to be the owner of RL Exotics LLC, “which operates a reptile farm in Plato, Missouri, which is an operating business with 3 employees, and which requires reptiles to be maintained and fed.”
“Lehner was first linked to snakes back in 2017 when he reportedly purchased a collection of exotic snakes for $1.2 million.”
But wait… there’s more!
KMIZ in St. Louis reported last January that Lehner sent an initial $200,000 payment to Ben Renick for the exotic snakes. Not too long after, Renick was murdered by his wife and her ex-boyfriend. After Renick sadly passed, Lehner simply stopped making payments.
The bankruptcy filing includes the Golden Knights, the NHL and Sure Sports Lending. It’s hard to say for certain but this might be the straw that broke the camel’s back with Lehner. There is already bad blood between the two sides as it is. Given the emergence of Logan Thompson (as correctly predicted by me), it seems likely Vegas will try to move on from Lehner this upcoming offseason.
Lehner, 31, is still under contract for two more years after this one carrying a $5 million AAV.
