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Five months agoLas Vegas was awarded the NHL's 31st franchise. Now we know what to call it. OFFICIAL: We are now YOUR Vegas Golden Knights. Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) The city's first major profe sional sports team will be known, , Ivan Prosvetov Jersey as the Vegas Golden Knights. A group of NHL dignitaries, including commi sioner Gary Bettman and team owner Bill Foley, made the unveilTuesday night amid fanfare and some technical difficulties at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip, where the club will play beginning 2017. MORE: The party did not go off without a hitch. After a performance byCirque du Soleil, Bettman took the stage to traditional boos "Keep the boos going. Itproves you'rea real NHL city," he quipped but a glitch in the video presentation created a painfully awkward delay. Foley stepped in with animpromptu countdown, and finally hockey in Las Vegas had an identity. The primarylogo andcolor scheme steel gray, gold, red and black earned surprisingly positive reviews on social media after the unveil. The Vegas Golden Knights logo. Nick Cotsonika (@cotsonika) MORE: Foley, a West Point alumnus,didn't have much creative leeway with the moniker, which was long rumored to include some derivative of "Knights." Trademark pushback took away his preferred choice of Black Knights, or even simply Knights, and the NHL was adamant there were to be no connotations, however harmle s,to the Sin City's famed gambling culture. "Our logo and our name is really going to exhibit the highest element of the warrior cla s the knight," Foley told the crowd. "The knight protects the unprotected. The knight defends the realm. The knight never gives up, never gives in, always advances, never retreats. And that is what our team is going to be." Now that the franchise hasan identity, attention turns to a sembling a mix-and-match roster of players poached from the other 30 NHL franchisesin June's expansion draft.It has been 16 years since the NHL last expanded, with new rules in place to ensure the roster is competitive immediately, so let the real work begin. "Believe me, we won't screw up the first game like we screwed up the video," Foley said. Parker Kelly Jersey |
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