Las Vegas hockey team name reveal thread

Get in here it's happening

Any links to streams lol?

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twitter.com/MurphysLaw74/status/801240400287694848
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Chairmen

Dessert knights

praying that is isnt sand

you should make another thread

Swear to god if this is a Brandiose effort

official team mascot

Mormon Mafia

Seen this floating around on fb. Supposedly the logo for the team.

so it's confirmed that the team's logo was selected by a kid playing NHL Hitz 2004

Such a boring color scheme, they should have gone neon with it. I hate this shitty "modern classic" design trend

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM

>Not having an anime girl as a mascot.

I don't know why more teams don't do this.

they already appeal to furfags amirite?

fucking /furpuck/

twitter.com/HockeyinVegas for updates

It's a bit boring. Compare to a much superior logo, which has unfortunately been retired for some tasteless crap like LV will apparently be using.

Las Vegas Golden Knights

nobody cares about hockey in vegas lmao

the league will be bailing the team out in a matter of years

go to bed grampa, that shit senators logo looks like it was drawn by a 10 year old in the 1930's

KEK.

You have no taste, and you disgust me.

Shit taste tBh.

>a kek before my reply

adequately rated post.

>muh bland geometric shapes
>taste

wew plebs

The fact that Vegas is a tourist hotspot is what is going to make this expansion work.
Imagine being a Montreal fan being able to go on vacation in Vegas and see a has game after gambling in the casino that the arena will probably be attached to.

shut the fuck up faggot i'll slit your throat neck.

Low budget team confirmed

>shitting on shapes for being "geometric"

You utterly grievous moron.

lol

...

There's still a team in Phoenix despite:

1. Nobody in Phoenix giving a shit
2. Having no owner for years
3. Having numerous suitors that want to buy the team the actually put them in a market that wants hockey

And then they were finally sold to an LLC, which I'm pretty sure is just a NHL-owned shell company, and the chairman is Gary Bettman in a fake mustache.

Bettman has a raging hard on for playing hockey in a desert.

Some ICP motherfucker doing the intro

That's fucking badass

>current decade
>not streaming the announcement

>shrink the league instead of growing it
>no more fourth line bullshit. every player is extremely skilled
if only

stream?0

there's still a hockey team in vegas because Bettman swindled the taxpayers and the league into paying for it

hope they like their new money pit stadium

stream? anybody?

>shrink league
for what fucking purpose every team bar the Hurricanes and Coyotes can reliably fill their stadiums very well. Either through relocation or sheer determination they can survive and you simply put a team in an easy market like Wisconsin or Canada

If you aren't growing you are dying

periscope.tv/Bowling_Ninja/1nAKEkdrkvvJL

Here's a shitty stream

Tbf there's enough skill out there to have talented 4th lines, teams are just too stuck in the mindset that the 4th line has to be gritty and physical. Could play some semi-talented prospects there to give them experience.

did you read the post? to increase the quality of play

>If you aren't growing you are dying

That mantra only applies if you are in direct competition with similar vendors. NHL hockey is a unique niche.

They have alright sales but they should move as NYC Metro has 3 teams, NY State has 3, and it is the weakest of them all fanbase wise.

He said "if only" in reference to shrinking the league (which would not increase quality of play) and then removing 4th lines, which is shit because that would mandate everyone have to play more which is physically taxing and makes quality of play actually lower because we have enough skilled players to fill 4th lines.

you do understand this is a 20,000 seat arena on the strip in Las Vegas right? they pack it for every event they have.

so when do they announce it?

There's enough to support the teams, its just that the Isles have basically been irrelevant as a winning team for like 30 years. devils and rangers have more recent playoff pasts to thrive on and both have had more or less good seasons

i meant phoenix, but i was thinking about vegas so i typed vegas

sorry

but really this desert team is going to bomb anyway, they're just paying bettman half a billion dollars so he has a team he can move to quebec after they get their arena up

official stream link
nhl.com/video/live-from-las-vegas/t-281013894/c-46582703

my man on the inside says the name is Crusaders

>31 teams

does this guarantee a 32rd team?

That's not great but at least it's a single word

Seattle or Quebec is pretty much a given, maybe one of them gets a relocation.

nice name but the crusaders did a whole shitton of losing after the 1st crusade. with this vegas franchise have one good year and suck until muslims conquer las vegas?

That's not PC enough lmao

The Rangers aren't competing with the Islanders or Devils for fans, the Islanders and Devils are competing with the Rangers.

NY and by extension the NYC Metro area is heavily regionalized (everybody hates everybody, sometimes even themselves). This means the Islanders primarily only appeals to people on Long Island (and non-NY natives who don't understand the regionalism), the Devils only appeals to New Jersey. The Rangers have a large advantage because they have been here so long that even people who don't follow hockey at all know who they are, and they are clearly a general New York team so they appeal to everyone in New York State as well as the Metro Area. This creates a situation where the Ranger's main fanbase (basically the Hudson Valley of New York) has absolutely no threats to it and that they take up a very large amount of the fans in the Islander's and the Devil's territory.

t. Native New Yorker (not NYC, there is a whole state)

Seattle or Quebec City

It might be named Black or Dark Knights
twitter.com/MurphysLaw74/status/801240400287694848

Kek

2nd, 4th crusades weren't bad

How long until the Hurricanes move to Quebec?

i will never watch another nhl game and go full time KHL if it is either one of those i swear to god

its desert knights. pack it up

I think the Army didn't want him to do Black Knights so he pulled it. Maybe they changed their mind.

no they tried that originally because the owner went to Army who's sports teams are the Black Knights but they ran into copyright issues. The name is either Desert, Golden, or Silver Knights.

2nd crusade was a shitshow. lost half the army to the turks in a mountain ambush and then proceeded to attack their one muslim ally and then give up after a few days.

4th depends if you are pro or anti byzantine. either way they got jack shit done in the holy land

are knights native to nevada?

I place bets on silver knights

>4th Crusade wasn't bad
destroying literally the only reason the Turks weren't in Europe was not a good thing dipshit. That was a product of Venice being a shit.

WITHIN HALF AN HOUR

That's were defensive mistakes happen desu.

They should just go back to Hartford and I'm a Canes fan in North Carolina.

Yeah I definitely agree. I think that its cool that the isles are trying to embrace their brooklyness, but they just can't win and so fan turn out is really low. Isles have a huge fanbase that are just being demoralized by some terrible management level issues that have persisted for a long long time.

I know he owns the team but does that really give him the right to be a retard with the naming? I wish the NHL could veto him, they should have the ability to protect their brand from crap like this

you already have that with the shitty current normal 4th lines though, at least you'd get more positive plays as well

the turds

all the name finalists are SHIT

but if it's not desert knights they really dun goofed

DEUS VULT

CTV livestream cause NHL.com won't work
ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=68597&playlistId=1.3172546&binId=1.810401&playlistPageNum=1&binPageNum=1

LIVESTREAM IS UP ON NHL.COM

nhl.com/video/live-from-las-vegas/t-281013894/c-46582703

It was a terrible idea to embrace Brooklyn. Most hockey fans in NY lie in the suburbs to the point where we almost outnumber basketball fans. Considering pretty much all their fans were from Long Island that isn't Brooklyn/Queens it was an idiotic move to go to Barclays.

They should be relocated and thats not just because I hate Long Island

>Vegas booing Bettman

and some people doubted they had hockey fans there

I love how he just goes with the booing and makes jokes about it and plays off it
cool guy

He'd be cool if he wasn't plopping insolvent teams around the hottest parts of the USA

>is this a Donald trump cpnvention
OH SHIT!

>is this a donald trump convention here

It was basically inevitable due to all the NIMBY-ism surrounding the mausoleum. I'm a little biased because I'm an isles fan from way back living in BK now, and having 6 dollar hockey games minutes away is very nice.

The guy is filthy rich. I'd let people boo me too.

>is this a donald trump convention here
Kek what the fuck is this guy doing?

is that some user shouting? lol

2bh the only team placements I have an issue with is this one and the coyotes. All the others are fine really

JUST REVEAL THE FUCKING NAME AND LOGO

nhl.com

it's literally on the front page, faggot.

This guy is spilling his spaghetti all over the stage

yeah. i used to feel bad for him, but he gets paid a ton so whatever.

also he just plays it off like one big running joke now so im pretty sure he doesn't care at all

"Embryonic stage"

ABORT ABORT

No, we need another round of applause for McPhee

I'm not watching it. I'm only following this thread and listening to tunes. Conventions are boring with just endless clapping and small talk.

Even the Panthers and Canes?

FO LEE

>when I win a few games
wew cheeky lad

Did they reveal the name yet?

Is it the Desert Knights or something dumb like that?

Because that's gay.

Just fucking reveal the name already, no one cares. Las Vegas is a tourist destination, not a home town hockey team. Just get to the part that affects 90% of the people watching this shit.

post math while waiting

>that cringeworthy justification for confusing armed service member's and their branches

heh this franchise is destined for success