What is your opinion on the Vegas Golden Knights?

What is your opinion on the Vegas Golden Knights?

>Golden Knights

Will be interesting to see if a pro sports team can work in Vegas.

1. Smallish market
2. Lots of people work nights and weekends
3. Loads of transplants
4. Not a hockey town

It's not going to work. No hockey teams in the sw are amazing in terms of fan size and revenue. (Maybe the stars but meh) should have given another team to Canada honestly.

>americans in charge of naming franchises

It'll fail and move north, just like all the other attempts to dip into the South/Southwest.

The Raiders will also fail in Vegas and hopefully move back to Oakland.

They are going to fail and then suddenly they will win they Stanley Cup as a last resort to keep interest up just like Tampa, Carolina, Los Angeles and Anaheim

In other words, get ready. The Nordiques are coming back

>NHL puts a team into a huge desert city full of transplants and Mexicans
>nobody gives a fuck, no fans, no success
>.....
>I know, let's do it again but with a smaller desert city this time!

I live in Phoenix and I already know how this will end.

Las Vegas is a popular tourist destiation.

Phoenix...?

6th biggest city in America, still can't fill the seats.

But Pheonix doesn't really draw the tourism traffic, or the notoriety that LV has. Rich, northern, white people love Vegas. Perfect for hockey tickets. There's actually a lot of hockey fans who live in Vegas, anyway, according to my friend who live in one of the outer suburbs.

Rich, northern white people are also who lives in Phoenix metro, both cities are pretty much the same when it comes to demographic makeup, yet nobody cares. And tourists don't give a shit about hockey games, it's completely pointless to start a team in an area where you cannot build a local fanbase.

There's only so many times the NHL can keep fucking up and doing the same mistake instead of putting a team in Seattle, Milwaukee or Quebec.

it's going to be too tied to vegas, when the economy crashes like in 08, vegas becomes a ghost town

expect montreal and toronto to sell out their games there and the crowd will be 90% canadian

yotes are in the wrong valley of phoenix

at least a million middle aged people go to vegas and spend $100 a ticket on a show because it's the thing to do

The difference between the white people in Pheonix and Vegas are what they're looking for out of being there. Vegas gets people looking for a show, and husbands getting dragged along to shitty theater. Phoenix gets people looking to retire by yesterday and people who want an easy degree or BBC. The demos are important.

dumb logo
dumb idea to expand
another non-hockey market

wew lad can't wait worked so well the other times.

Who goes to LV to watch hockey kek

They go there to get drunk and have fun. Hockey fans who are spending a weekend in Vegas will put money down.

You're still confusing tourists with actual residents, the same sort of people who live in Vegas also live in Phoenix. Tourists don't care for sports teams, this is a fact, highlighted by the reality that Orlando (Disney world) and Anaheim (Disneyland) both have teams absolutely nobody gives a shit about. When you're out casino hopping the last thing on your mind is some dogshit hockey team.

People have their kids with them in those cities. Hockey is made for getting drunk with your friends and yelling at people.

nigger nobody cares about phoenix shut the fuck up

>mad at facts

you also claimed Phoenix was the 6th largest city in the country but in metropolitan area, which is what actually matters, it's not even top 10. even your facts are shit

we get it, you're a faggot

Sorry you got deported from Phoenix, Pablo.

and now you're projecting wildly because you have nothing left.

Never seen anyone get this assblasted over a city for nothing.

>not even top 10
still much bigger than Vegas tho

now you're calling me mad. you're going right down the checklist

Sorry but drunk degenerates in the gambling capital of the US aren't going to go to watch a shitty hockey team regularly.

This is going to fail.

>Pheonixfags will defend this man
When your point is refuted, and you immediately go to insults, it kind of proves that your argument I full of shit.

Hotels will make packages, bookies will attend every game.

The only baseless insults I've seen were here:

Alot of hockey euros are gonna go on hockey/gambling trips

This.

Jesus, I know American cities are generally pretty bad outside of the northeast, but Phoenix looks grim.

Seattle > any shit in the northeast

show us your horn rimmed glasses and super kewl moustache

Arizona is a shitty place. At least in the mountains to the north you don't get as depressed by the scenery as down in the desert.

Why would anyone hate a desert?

Why is the NHL building another team in the middle of the desert with lots of risk, when tons of teams are literally bleeding cash?

>They end up just like the Coyotes

...

>tfw devils are bleeding cash

they're my favorite team Sup Forums, I don't want them to go.

pls tell me they'll move the hurricanes first

I think it's unfair that Vegas gets the rap is a small city full of strippers and gamblers.

So many empty and worthless cities get grandfathered in from back in the 50s when they were relevant, like Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Buffalo, Cincinatti, etc. If those cities were vying for franchises today they wouldn't get them.

It looks like something from a Video Game that doesn't have the licence for real teams

A Brit wouldn't know this, but the Southwest is actually really cool, historically. Might not look pretty but it was never supposed to.

These towns sprung up in the middle of the dessert out of nothing, they were full of cowboys, vagabonds, whores and people trying to run away from shit in the East.

this

They'll be okay, at least there's a constant stream of Quebecois who vacation in Vegas. The French love their gambling and hockey.

>a Britcuck calling anything grim
>especially the sunniest city in America
Stay in your foggy shithole

>shit goalie
>shit fans
>shit franchise

Hockey belongs in the north, not in a fucking desert.

It looks like a clipart.

The nhl is already bleeding when it comes to popularity, i don't know how fucking retarded the NHL front office is, but for any 1 person to have actually okayed this idea should lose there job. This was just a stupid move on so many levels.
lmao

The difference, and the argument, is that in those shithole midwestern towns, there is literally nothing else to do but be a sports fan. So they spend more accordingly.

Are you talking about Australia?

360 days of sunny weather tends to bleach things fast

Australia is where Brits sent the convicts they couldn't rehabilitate.

it's a city in a desert, what the fuck are you expecting it to look like

t. Coastlet with chip on shoulder

is a golden knight like a knight that has been urinated on?

Success depends how good the team will be. NHL is honestly a pretty balanced league. However they will suck dick

Depends how many Finns the team will have :^)

Should've been the Pink Flamingos.

That being said they'll probably fair better then CBJ in terms of performance.

which Finns would be avaliable in the expansion draft

By being in vegas they are going to be the international favorite. I don't think people realize how many foreigners are going to roll through vegas and leave with "cool american sport" stuff. Hell just the amount of rich white americans and canadians that roll through vegas will make them everyone's second favorite team. We also have fucking nothing here so the locals are hype for them and the football team. We all already have knights hats and shit. The raiders are going to make a fucking fortune here too and everyone knows it.

the owner has so much money and sway he wanted to name it after his alma matter like his company (westpoint black knights) and the league gave him a list of things he couldn't do or name. He absolutely will not back down from putting "knight" on everything he touches.

t. vegas user with season tickets already and knows the owner through real estate business

>t. vegas user with season tickets already and knows the owner through real estate business
Well alright then.

this desu

Phoenix is a nice place to live.

You just have 120 (49) degree summers and the fact that winter lasts roughly a month less than other places.

>By being in vegas they are going to be the international favourite.

lol

They are the douchebag favorite.