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Local news people built up the press conference by saying by Black Knights over and over again and trying to make it seem less awkward. Then Foley got to the podium and deliberately said "[we] have no name yet." ABC affiliate just now says Foley will submit a list of names to the BoG and they'll select some. He wants to sell jerseys by the start of the coming season.
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Turdsdown Tom posted:also not only is assuming the colors will be black/silver/gold because of the website dumb, but black/silver/gold is tacky as gently caress and i guarantee they will not show up in september with anything good to show. Foley has already confirmed black/silver/gold. Other developments: - The AHL will give Foley a token look-over but admitted that if you're approved by the NHL then AHL approval is practically a given. - Foley doesn't know where to put the AHL team, but is looking at sites. He's not throwing out the idea of also hosting it in Vegas, somewhere in the burbs, and occasionally letting them play on the Strip against rivals/regional teams. - A training rink is going through the civic bureaucracy. Their first choice in location is near Red Rock casino on the far west edge of civilization, but other options exist, such as the city-owned Cashman Center complex that has a rarely-used convention center and the worst baseball field in Triple-A. - "We probably won't win the Stanley Cup in our first season, but we should be competitive because of the way the expansion rules have changed since the last teams." Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Jun 27, 2016 |
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Lessail posted:https://twitter.com/SinBinVegas/status/754086670253772800 Your blog sucks and your transparent attempt to get work as the expansion team's eventual SBN blog will fail. I mean really you sound like a goddamn Trump groupie with some of your posts. Why don't you just call Bill Foley "Daddy" already and get it over with? Hockles posted:The team and local press are referring to the owner of the team as "The Creator." Nah, our local media is garbage but they're not that garbage. It's just this doofus pretending to be the worst SBN blogger since RevHalofan. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Aug 11, 2016 |
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Teemu Pokemon posted:NHL LV Expansion: ALL GLORY TO THE CREATOR (C3PO voice) "Bless the maker!"
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Las Vegas Dry Heat. I'm only semi-joking. Actually, given the weather patterns here, "Monsoon" might work as well.
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If they're so sold on Knights, and they're doing anything other than Neon Knights, then get the gently caress out of town. (Ironically, these guys used to live across the street from the arena site until about ten years ago.) Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Aug 31, 2016 |
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Doctor Butts posted:Ah for some reason I thought the Sands wasn't around as a casino but was aware it was still a hotel operating company. Sands the hotel was knocked down to make room for the Venetian, but the name is still used the company, casinos in China, and and for the convention center behind the Venetian.
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I wish I had known, I would have run over just to say "who the hell is creator" and then "well then why doesn't it just say that" and then walk away giving the leery eye. There's enough tourists on the Strip that it's plausible. toe knee hand posted:The Las Vegas Creation. Creationists. Nail Rat posted:After the Sin Bin guy doesn't get hired by SB Nation, I hope he just becomes super bitter and ends up getting thrown in jail for stalking Foley I was calling this like three pages ago.
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Silver something is probably best since it's the Silver State. Even though our silver industry's best cultural export was the NWA/WCW Heavyweight Title belt. I just don't know why you're calling your team Knights when there's a bigger city with a team called Kings nearby. Is our hockey identity really Los Angeles's lovely less important buddy? We get enough of that in our real lives.
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Call this team Scorpions and make the logo being one of those gross fuckers holding a puck in its claws.
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The good news is that a training facility for this sill nameless team is about to be built.
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Porrima posted:Las Vegas Unsustainables Phoenix has a reserve on this one.
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Lessail posted:It's not but keep dreaming of that thought like everyone else that isn't in vegas And I still think this team is going to be a mess in it's first couple seasons. THE CREATOR appears to be too busy being a visible fanboy for various things to wear his serious owner shoes (like he's such a fanboy for a non-hockey team that he kept pushing to name the team after them), and I've actually met Maloofs and know what they're like. And don't tell me "well they own like 20% that's it" because they've owned 2% of the Palms for the past five years, and even with only 2% they managed to not only keep their position of running the property, but they managed to sink it even further irrelevancy to the point that the guys who actually owned it have sold it pending state approvals for 25% less than they paid in the bad old days of 2010 when Vegas was an economic disaster zone. I will be there for the first Sharks game with my teal on, but I think it'll be a rough start even if it's ultimately successful. Galaga Galaxian posted:Impossible. This is the best goal song. You're not new here. Why didn't you post this? Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Sep 19, 2016 |
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So the name drama is that there's really no drama and with the exception of a minor detail you already know what the name is. But this is such a clusterfuck that I sort of expect him to show up saying, "psych, I actually named it Heatwaves. Our outfits have these wavy lines."
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Oct 4, 2016 19:42
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Las Vegas is a city. But of course the hockey team plays in Unincorporated Clark County, which is not. "Paradise Township Knights" is pretty boring though.
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All that babbling about the locker room, it looks like a typical unfurnished MGM Resorts International(TM) space. Like there's oddly neglected corners of their hotels that look just like that. A lot of it is going to be that the company that owns the building sees the team as just another tenant, the building was not built with the idea that it needed this team to justify itself like a lot of venues.
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http://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2016/nov/23/how-bill-foley-staff-vegas-golden-knights-nhl/quote:Foley mentioned Nighthawks, Desert Hawks and Sidewinders as a few of his runners-up. He could never shake a desire to incorporate Knights, however, in an ode to his West Point alma mater. I'm sure that will resonate with this guy... quote:“I liked the Knight but I thought it might have been better if they would have done something other than Knight because of the whole L.A. Kings thing,” said David Thummel, a 27-year-old local planning to purchase a hoodie. Nighthawks would have been a much better name if they could have come up with a bird mascot like the baseball teams do. You could even have a poster with a bunch of hockey players in the diner/bar of the Nighthawks oil painting, which is just old fashioned fun. It is kind of telling/embarassing how The Creator's boner for the Army is present in every single viable name, though. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Nov 24, 2016 |
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Just loving use Knights because a US court isn't going to show deference to a Canadian copyright.
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yellowcar posted:Bonus if it's 'Black Knights'. Supposedly Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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As I was saying in the news/views thread, they've been making a cable-access reality show of getting a team off the ground. At least that implies they're doing something.
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They'd likely get an expansion, but as Duke Chin's posting history here will tell you, the arena isn't likely to happen because the old Kingdome teams aren't interested in sharing the neighborhood with a third building.
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They've said they're looking into the same Fox Sports West channels that carry Ducks/Kings for their TV broadcasts. That might sound weird, but Vegas is a tiny media market by way of isolation that can't support it's own RSN. Cox locally offers these Los Angeles based RSNs, but also exempts them from their skinny no-sports packages so any residents who don't care can opt to never see games. What Vegas cable doesn't offer, as the asking price is so high that Cox refuses to inflict it upon customers, is SportsNet LA, the LA Dodgers channel. As that channel is about the Dodgers 24/7/365 even during the MLB offseason, one has to wonder if Charter and the Dodgers have considered ceding a few hours here and there to the Knights in order to push Cox LV into picking it up and adding another cable system in a 2M population area to shove dollar bills into their filthy mouths.
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hifi posted:I'd look at arizona and florida first, imo. vegas has a lot of people that aren't from vegas, just like phoenix/miami. I don't know if the tickets are going to decline and the thing is going to be a huge fuckup, but if it does, the Raiders actually will probably play a role because the media here is just fuckin' hyped as hell for the Raiders. There seemed to be very little taxpayer revolt to the politicians making such an expensive pork barrel project without any input from residents or a public referendum. But the alt-weekly was people in silver facepaint on the cover last week, tonight's leading news story was the excitement/disappointment of the Raiders draft pick, and the classic rock and Motown station every few songs has a drop of a voice saying "The Las Vegas Raiders, I like the sound of that!" I think that the hockey team will actually be on the Strip in a casino-owned arena gives it an edge in terms of "casinos buy seats and give them away". I'm sure casinos will buy a bunch of Raiders tickets too, but it'll probably be a harder get. MGM is probably looking at this as an alternative to showroom entertainment because they have drained the Cirque Du Soleil well bone dry with their rapid expansion in the late 2000s. There's a large Kings fanbase visiting as well as significant fans locally for the Hawks, Sharks, and Wings. I doubt Vegas vs Columbus will sell out, but Vegas vs Big_City_Here should do alright. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Apr 28, 2017 |
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a false posted:the rangers for sure. probably montreal and toronto too Blackhawks games here will be insane since the Vegas tourism industry and it's supporting industries (equipment manufacturing, hospitality services, etc) seems to be staffed with 60% ex-Chicagoans. I realize it's a transient population, but the number of people I've met in a decade from Chicago and how it is disproportional to any other region (Californians included) absolutely astounds me. Scaramouche posted:Sorry SinBin guy! Maybe next time I think he's aiming for an SBNation buyout. However their job opening for someone to cover the team was still open a week ago even after the deadline was supposedly up, so I guess they aren't biting.
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Vegas seems to be more interested in what restaurant will be moving into the team's practice facility in the suburbs than who is actually going to be on the team.fits posted:canada is never getting another team until the CAD isn't terrible anymore and thats not happening anytime soon/ever Canada is an export economy, so it'll always be a few notches below USD or else some hockey fans will be laid off.
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Duke Chin posted:lol no it won't I'd think people from Vancouver looking for different hockey would outdraw Seattle FC even if the locals didn't care.
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kalensc posted:The nascent fanbase of an expansion franchise in a "foreign" sport will only have 2 (max 3) years to grow before a historic NFL team with a playoff-caliber roster rolls into town. Sure, tickets may sell regardless due to casino promos and curious tourists, but a pro team needs a core loyal fanbase for the long haul. People who live here don't make enough money to support pro sports. Education metrics are very low, advanced job prospects are low because good jobs follow good schools. The largest two industries expected to continue growth are the service industry and nursing care. The Raiders and Knights join Cirque Du Soleil and the Backstreet Boys in "things competing for your vacation dollar."
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Lessail posted:Could you perhaps say that Vegas is the next Detroit? No, because Vegas is better racially integrated and has been proactive in gentrifying it's downtown before the rot expanded. Also a lot of wealthy and well to do people live in the metro a pro sports team considers "Detroit", they just moved away to suburbs and exurbs in a massive act of white flight. There are no cities an hour out of the Vegas valley for people to move to. You're basically three hours of driving away from anywhere. pizza valentine posted:I'm not sure what point you're really trying to make here, but "people who live here don't make enough money to support pro sports" seems like a wild exaggeration. It's an exaggeration but it's not wild. Costs of living are low and salaries match that appropriately. I realize there's some guys making six figures promoting nightclubs, but they're the exemption and not the rule. But I think the team will do fine given what we've seen in Phoenix. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Aurora posted:Apparently I have to root for the Golden Knights now because my local team is the ECHL affiliate. Before the NHL circus came to town, we used to have an ECHL team that represented Calgary and then Phoenix. I remained a Sharks fan. Upon looking at the Knights roster ten minutes ago, I believe I shall remain a Sharks fan. What I'm saying is: If you too stick to your original NHL team, all the sooner you can watch them get bodied out of the playoffs by the Pens. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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