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E.L.

Post subject: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 4:26 pm

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Unanimous vote. 500M. First expansion team since 2000.

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Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 8:37 pm

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When is the official naming?

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E.L.

Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 5:56 pm

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The first GM of the Las Vegas expansion team will be George McPhee.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/geo ... -1.3676071

Good to go with experience the first time around, like with Poile.

Who here has the power to create a new Las Vegas team page?

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Bosc

Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 9:07 pm

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I figured that it would be McPhee or Maloney.

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Chris18

Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 12:03 am

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Bosc wrote:

I figured that it would be McPhee or Maloney.

I was hoping Milbury, so they'd help the rest of the league. :lol:

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E.L.

Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2016 11:34 am

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Can't remember where I read it, but the team will likely get a name next week.

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Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2016 1:56 pm

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E.L. wrote:

Can't remember where I read it, but the team will likely get a name next week.

Las Vegas Meadows of Paradise

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Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2016 2:08 pm

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E.L. wrote:

Can't remember where I read it, but the team will likely get a name next week.

The Elvis Liberaccis.

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E.L.

Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:22 am

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The Las Vegas Golden Knights it is.

Black and Gold jerseys, naturally.

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E.L.

Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:42 am

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Wait, they're just called the "Vegas Golden Knights"?!

That's dumb.

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Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 11:13 am

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E.L. wrote:

Wait, they're just called the "Vegas Golden Knights"?!

That's dumb.

Hear hear.
I wanted them to be the Black Knights so we could make "None shall pass" jokes when their D played well. Golden Knights? Dumb. And VGK sounds like an STD. "Went to Vegas & got VGK."

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Pokecheque

Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 12:44 pm

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I suppose "Golden Knights" sounds better than "Silver Knights" even though silver would've made more sense for a Nevada-based team.

I'm assuming they just went with "Vegas" because they wanted the V to be the only letter incorporated into the logo. But really, even if it was just "Las Vegas" it's not like they would've been required to shoehorn an "L."

What's going to be annoying is that their acronym should be "LV" on the scoreboard but they might try shortening it to "VEG".

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Logical Progression

Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 4:14 pm

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Apparently the US Military kiboshed the Black Knights as they own that trademark and the London Knights quashed the Knights.

Nobody local to the greater Las Vegas area calls it 'Las Vegas' - apparently they just call it Vegas.

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Pokecheque

Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 4:30 pm

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Logical Progression wrote:

It's funny, I was just reading a post in the new Las Vegas HF forum and here's what one of the mods had to say:

BattleBorn on HF wrote:

When people move to Vegas they think it's cool that they live in Vegas. Once they realize "Vegas" is usually shouted by some drunk bachelorette in a straw hat drinking a mojito out of a three foot tall guitar shaped container and almost immediately followed by "baby" and the vocal equivalent of five exclamation points they usually convert to preferring "Las Vegas" as the way in which they refer to their hometown to "outsiders."

Foley and the crew of new Las Vegans in the organization haven't made the conversion yet, and apparently didn't care enough to ask anyone that's lived here longer than two years.

It's a huge disappointment for me, and I try not to exaggerate things. :laugh:

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Pokecheque

Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 4:45 pm

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I don't mind "Las Vegas Golden Knights" but the "Vegas" just makes me think it's some cheap lounge act.

I suppose a return trip to Sin City might be in order. Don't have any idea when that'll be though.

I'm reading any names that had anything to do with gambling were outright rejected by the league, so the name a lot of fans wanted "Las Vegas Aces" was killed before it had a chance. Frankly I think pro sports' outright paranoia when it comes to associations with gambling is about the most ridiculous thing ever, especially since the NHL actively partners with and promotes both Draft Kings and FanDuel, which, hate to break it to ya, are gambling websites.

Looking forward to the jerseys, given they went pretty minimal for both logos I'll be pretty disappointed if the uniforms are garish and overdone.

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Logical Progression

Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 4:52 pm

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Av-merican wrote:

The whole thing smells like a cheap lounge act - just like last night's logo unveiling.

But I have to admit that I would go to see LAS Vegas to watch the Canucks or the Kings play. Would be quite a spectacle - or at least a total gong show.

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Pokecheque

Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 5:06 pm

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I just feel bad for the poor tech guys who you absolutely know got bitched out big-time afterwards. Bettman was visibly annoyed last night. :lol:

Foley said to the crowd he got interviewed for five hours for that segment, so you KNOW he was pissed.

DAMMIT...I think they made DGB delete his tweet from last night. He said something like "Good to see the people behind the NHL.com redesign found a new project." :lol:

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E.L.

Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 5:47 pm

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https://twitter.com/ETD51/status/801251746156781568

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Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 7:09 pm

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Here we go--the list of players likely NOT to be on the roster in 2017.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/offi ... surprises/

The list of players who must be protected in case you're not down with auto-play video.

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Anaheim (4)
Kevin Bieksa
Ryan Getzlaf
Ryan Kesler
Corey Perry

Arizona (1)
Alex Goligoski

Boston (4)
David Backes
Patrice Bergeron
Zdeno Chara
David Krejci

Buffalo (1)
Kyle Okposo

Carolina (1)
Jordan Staal

Columbus (5)
Sergei Bobrovsky
David Clarkson
Brandon Dubinsky
Nick Foligno
Scott Hartnell

Chicago (8)
Artem Anisimov
Corey Crawford
Niklas Hjalmarsson
Marian Hossa
Patrick Kane
Duncan Keith
Brent Seabrook
Jonathan Toews

Colorado (2)
Francois Beauchemin
Erik Johnson

Dallas (2)
Jamie Benn
Jason Spezza

Detroit (1)
Frans Nielsen

Edmonton (3)
Milan Lucic
Andrej Sekera
Cam Talbot

Florida (1)
Keith Yandle

Los Angeles (1)
Anze Kopitar

Minnesota (4)
Mikko Koivu
Zach Parise
Jason Pominville
Ryan Suter

Montreal (2)
Jeff Petry
Carey Price

Nashville (1)
Pekka Rinne

New Jersey (1)
Ryane Clowe

N.Y. Islanders (3)
Johnny Boychuk
Andrew Ladd
John Tavares

N.Y. Rangers (4)
Dan Girardi
Henrik Lundqvist
Rick Nash
Marc Staal

Ottawa (1)
Dion Phaneuf

Philadelphia (1)
Claude Giroux

Pittsburgh (5)
Sidney Crosby
Marc-Andre Fleury
Phil Kessel
Kris Letang
Evgeni Malkin

Tampa Bay (4)
Ryan Callahan
Valtteri Filppula
Victor Hedman
Steven Stamkos

Toronto (1)
Nathan Horton

Vancouver (3)
Loui Eriksson
Daniel Sedin
Henrik Sedin

Winnipeg (2)
Dustin Byfuglien
Toby Enstrom

How in HELL did Ryane effin' Clowe get a NMC!?

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Post subject: Re: It's Official: Las Vegas to join NHL for 2017-18 season

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 8:38 pm

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Holy shit balls - how did Quick and Carter NOT get NMC's?

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