The NHL is expanding to Las Vegas, the city's first pro-sports team

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How does a team even come into existence in sports like NHL? Why dont they make more?

Takes a lot of investment

More teams dilutes the talent pool and championship potential of other teams so it's always a difficult process.

NHL will likely expand to Seattle if they can ever get an arena as they're at 31 teams now

Las Vegas Golden Knights doesn't exactly roll of the tongue.

It's Vegas Golden Knights... they drop the las
 
How does a team even come into existence in sports like NHL? Why dont they make more?
There is a process. The league opens up Expansion talks and asks for bids - potential ownership groups submit a non refundable application of $1 million dollars and then must prove they can support the team in the city they want the team in.

NHL reviews the bids and decides. Winning bids must pay an expansion fee of $500 million.

Reason there isn't more is it makes the product crap since there isn't enough talent to justify the ticket prices.
 
How does a team even come into existence in sports like NHL? Why dont they make more?

The owner gets a 1/31 share of profits in perpetuity, which cuts down the profits of the other owners. So they charge a fee they feel is worth the cost. In this case, 500 million USD just to be allowed to have a team.
 
Las Vegas Golden Knights

Team name is official.

http://www.tsn.ca/las-vegas-golden-knights-introduced-as-nhl-s-31st-franchise-1.614604

https://www.nhl.com/goldenknights

Here is the logo - note the V in the negative space.

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I like it. Simple, yet identifiable.
 
UCF ditched Golden Knights because everyone just called them the Knights anyway. Feel like its lock Vegas will do the same thing in like 5 years.

Well plenty of people still call us the Golden Knights. There was a reporter on Twitter just now comparing us already!

Now it's just going to be more confusing. :(
 
Pierre LeBrun ‏@Real_ESPNLeBrun 30m30 minutes ago
Can't wait for that first game between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Angeles Kings
 
Still not sure why this happened. Hasn't everybody been crying about how the competition and talent in general has been going down league-wide in recent years? Now everyone loses more depth in an expansion draft? Meh.

Logo and name is fine I guess.
 
Still not sure why this happened. Hasn't everybody been crying about how the competition and talent in general has been going down league-wide in recent years? Now everyone loses more depth in an expansion draft? Meh.

Logo and name is fine I guess.

2015 draft was crazy deep

Soon a bunch of solid NHLers won't be able to get contracts

At this point in time... every team has a star
 
Vegas Golden Knights was just as bad as Tampa Bay Devil Rays. They roll off the tongue badly. It sounds like a losing franchise name.
 
Still not sure why this happened. Hasn't everybody been crying about how the competition and talent in general has been going down league-wide in recent years? Now everyone loses more depth in an expansion draft?

Talent might be better than ever. The problem is the (hilarious) inflation of goalie equipment size over the past 15-20 years.
 
It's pretty underwhelming. I don't hate it, but I'm not all that impressed either.

Black Knights or Desert Knights would've been better.
 
Holy shit.

I just realized they dropped "Las" from the name. It's the "Vegas Golden Knights" not "Las Vegas Golden Knights".

lol
 
I really like the logo. I think the Golden Knights will quickly become the Knights in conversation but it's fine. Pretty satisfied with it all so far.
 
not a fan of logos with 3d in em,

looks collegy, high schooly

why Golden?

The owner graduated from West Point which are the Black Knights and I heard he REALLY wanted them to be the same name. The NHL didn't want to get into any trouble with using such a common known phrase (and to avoid any racial misconceptions) so I'm guessing they settled with the Golden Knights.
 
I kind of hate it but I'll get used to it.

I like the L and the V in the negative space from a design standpoint, but the logo itself is pretty blah. The color scheme is just so... well, it looks barren, like a desert, so I guess it fits.
 
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