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    YOUR Las Vegas Golden Knights!!!

    Eh, could be worse. Could be better. I liked the Aces better, even though it kind of sounded like a roller hockey team.

    Blue Jackets sounded really dumb at the time, now we're just used to it.

    Looks like it's gonna be black and gold for hockey, and black and silver for NFL!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ralphie Halves View Post
    Eh, could be worse. Could be better. I liked the Aces better, even though it kind of sounded like a roller hockey team.

    Blue Jackets sounded really dumb at the time, now we're just used to it.

    Looks like it's gonna be black and gold for hockey, and black and silver for NFL!!
    I have not kept up - which NHL team is headed for vegas?

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    Why not just Knights?

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    Let me guess.... Vancouver? cuz they suck and Canada cannot support NHL

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    Quote Originally Posted by sportsfan9698 View Post
    Let me guess.... Vancouver? cuz they suck and Canada cannot support NHL
    Expansion

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    Quote Originally Posted by sportsfan9698 View Post
    I have not kept up - which NHL team is headed for vegas?
    Quote Originally Posted by sportsfan9698 View Post
    Let me guess.... Vancouver? cuz they suck and Canada cannot support NHL
    Expansion team.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DiggityDaggityDo View Post
    Why not just Knights?
    Wanted to more resemble Caesers instead of Excalibur maybe? Dunno.

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    I would cringe if it were any other sport... but I think the hockey fan base is growing and still have plenty of room to grow.

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    I do agree though... Vegas Aces would be soooo much better

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    Quote Originally Posted by sportsfan9698 View Post
    I do agree though... Vegas Aces would be soooo much better
    Vegas Aces sounds better.

    Fuk the Golden Knights.

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    Maybe the Vegas Mob

    or maybe Sin City Hustle

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    jjgold invited me to a golden knights event last week but I assumed it was some sort of bear/cub golden shower club and gave him a no thanks

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    Quote Originally Posted by DiggityDaggityDo View Post
    Why not just Knights?
    London Knights is a junior team in Canada.

    Vegas could use the name "Knights" in the USA but not north of he border without permission and I heard it was quite costly to do so.

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    good name

    no idea if franchise will last in Nevada

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    This will be a great litmus test for the other major sports leagues. With all of the tourism already there, I think they will do great at the gates. Home base might not be as good though. I can see many of the road teams having more fans for some of the games.

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    Why did Army say no to Black Knights?

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    do a chase ats till they win ...

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    Just name them the golden showers. Terrible fukkin' name, terrible logo. Let's have the 1st pro team in Vegas, but have the team name have absolutely nothing to do with the state. Fukkin' brilliant.

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    Vegas Aces would be been so right on the money

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    Team will be bankrupt 3 years

    Vegas terrible for pro and college sports

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    Sounds like a WHL team name (that's amateur hockey).

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    Vegas Bandits? Two armed?? lol

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    What can we expect from the Vegas Golden Knights in 2017-18? No one really knows what they’ll look like once they hit the ice because they’ve never played together before.

    Of course, the expectation is that they’ll be bad, which is fair considering the track record expansion teams have in pro sports. But are they gonna be “Colorado bad” or will they be able to hold their own more often than not?

    “I knew we were going to have a pretty decent team, but the team was better than I thought,” head coach Gerard Gallant said, per NHL.com. “I thought we got better top-end players than I thought we’d get.

    “So I think we did a real good job building our team. Is it good enough to win and compete consistently? I think it is.”

    Through the expansion draft, Gallant’s team was able to find themselves a quality number one goalie in Marc-Andre Fleury and a relatively young backup in Calvin Pickard.

    After parting ways with defensemen like Alexei Emelin and Marc Methot, the Golden Knights are left with solid options like Nate Schmidt, Shea Theodore, Colin Miller, and veterans like Jason Garrison, Luca Sbisa and Brayden McNabb. That’s a decent group for an expansion side.

    Up front is where things get a little more complicated. They signed Russian free agent Vadim Shipachyov and picked James Neal, David Perron and Reilly Smith during the expansion draft, but they’re also light on scoring depth.

    “There’s going to be issues,” added the Golden Knights head coach. “Some nights we’re going to have trouble scoring goals. You look at our roster, there’s a lot of good players. Are there any superstars there?”

    It’ll be interesting to see how Vegas’ first year in the NHL will unfold under Gallant and general manager George McPhee’s watch.

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    I say after a while arena empty

    Vegas is a drug and party town not hockey where ALL WHITES GO

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