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DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


yellowcar posted:

Las Vegas Five Aces

Please, Doc

they had a family

E: Imagine 4 pucks on the edge of the boards...

DJExile fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jun 23, 2016

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DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


DOOP posted:

I want to be in the war room when Vegas picks their team so badly :(

Seriously, this would be neat as hell

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Jesus christ :stare:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Yaya posted:

It's his Manny Legacy!

boooooooooooooooooo

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Thufir posted:

Supposedly Vegas will be naming their GM tomorrow and George McPhee is the rumored guy.

lmao

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


pizza valentine posted:

Reveal yourself sin bin.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Go with Nighthawks and work the Edward Hopper painting into it.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


ThinkTank posted:

Las Vegas BlackReds please and thank you

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Neodoomium posted:

For real though anyone who would call himself "The Creator" or allow himself to be called that in seriousness is a loving idiot.

An absolute ham-and-egger dumbass jamoke.

A god damned trash bag.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


ThinkTank posted:

It costs next to nothing to register a domain name. I figure some IT department has been tasked with buying up every possibility from a list of a thousand so the team doesn't get scooped when it does settle on one it wants to go with. The last thing they want is to decide on "Desert Knights" but be forced to pay some pasty kid from Wisconsin $50,000 for the URL.

They'll be teamname.nhl.com in the end anyways.

Yeah this would be my bet as well

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Heaf posted:

Use every different Knight from Shovel Knight.

now we're talking

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Wilford Cutlery posted:

Las Vegas Roadrunners, given their proximity to the Coyotes.

Funny you mention that, that's Arizona's new AHL team name.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Nail Rat posted:

LV American Gladiators IMO

seconded

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Desert Knights is OK, the others are rear end

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Doctor Butts posted:

Was "Sands" too 'gambly' or copyrighted?

Sands is a casino and hotel operating company in LV

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007



i will fully admit i liked this logo as a secondary

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Martytoof posted:

I was like the one person on earth who thought this was a good logo.

Carry on.

I liked it too! :cool::respek::cool:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007



ahahahahaha so he always just assumed West Point was OK with it?

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Aphrodite posted:

He's talking about the Army's parachute team. Golden Knights is their nickname.

ohhh poo poo that's right

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Yeah they'll open up for big opponents but let's not pretend they're anywhere close to full for like a Wednesday night game against Winnipeg or something.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Scaramouche posted:

Doesn't that just make more work than not tarping at all? Or is it a perception thing?

Tarping off seats doesn't take much time and they'll be up more often than not.

On top of that it gives them more ad space to sell

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


hifi posted:

its funny that for all the bitching about the coyotes that goes on here and on other forums, the diamondbacks managed to bring in 14k in a 50k stadium last year and supposedly we're on their side for a new ballpark

https://twitter.com/jasonmredman/status/750508584996179970

I get your point but to be a little fair that was a 4th of july weekend game against the equally junk Padres. I cannot imagine the desire to go to that game was very high.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Aurora posted:

I would think that holiday weekends for baseball are great days to go.

It was 2 last place teams and I think most of Phoenix's retired locals get out of town when the temperatures can start hitting 120+

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Plus holiday weekend games like that are always a toss-up. Baseball games seem either completely packed for them or almost totally empty, depending on the area.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Well yeah but Gila River Arena only seats like 18,500. Chase Field's just under 50k if memory serves.

14,000 asses in seats in the first is going to look a lot better than 14,000 asses in the latter.

E: mods namechange me to 14,000 Asses pls

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Kevyn posted:

Wait, are people actually on the side of the D-Backs demanding a new stadium? Chase Field isn't even 20 years old, what's their beef with it?

It's not "new enough"

See also: Redskins/Fedex field

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Well sure but having potentially 3 professional football stadiums (Granted, RFK is a loving dump) in the DC area is dumb as hell.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


holy poo poo that's great hahahaha

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


El Gallinero Gros posted:

I'd forgotten about the legendarily poo poo Caps team. Still, I feel like the best candidates for expansion are Hamilton, Seattle, Quebec City, Milwaukee (Wisconsin loving loves hockey, as much as Minnesota does I'd say), and this might seem odd, but Omaha. Population of close to 500,000, and their NCAA team is one of the best attended teams in the NCAA.

Dean Blais just left UNO and it sounds like support from the school to the program may be drying up, which would be a real shame. It's a very underrated program.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Martytoof posted:

I'm trying to decide whether I believe that comped tickets will result in actual okay attendance or just large swathes of empty seats at a "sold out" game.

Yeah, I'm guessing weekday games will look like some of those arenas were a ton of seats are corporately owned and largely sitting empty. I know Devils games have been like this for a while and I'm sure a few others are like that.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Did you get your rear end kicked and/or wig split? :v:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Barry's got way too easy a gig with ESPN at this point to leave

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Las Vegas will become the third team to have a spanish language radio broadcast. Chicago and Florida are the other two.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


The Titans have a fanbase that can be measured in the dozens.

E: and yeah the NFL/NHL fanbase overlap isn't particularly huge, but the NFL is a juggernaut in every conceivable way now, and it's not hard to see the Vegas Raiders quickly overshadow the Knights.

This will obviously also depend on how well the Knights market themselves too.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Powershift posted:

I think the next expansion team should be a gypsy team with no home arena that plays 82 road games a year. You could stick all the players nobody likes on there and laugh at them when they go 10-70-2

The hockey version of the Washington Generals. I'd be all about that

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Mike_V posted:

Stephane Robidas is technically not retired?

This is the last season on his contract so I'd imagine he is effective as of the end of the playoffs.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


lol, i get the annoyance to a certain degree but loving every minor league team in every sport markets itself as the less-expensive alternative to the big leagues, that's not new

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007



well it should be

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/GoldenKnights/status/874697254791135232

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DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


A Typical Goon posted:

whut


The MTS centre is right down town and the Jets have the richest ownership in the league and the second richest ownership in pro sports.

Winnipeg is about the smallest city that could support an NHL team. They have a similar population as Halifax+Saskatoon+Regina combined

Rich ownership =/= ownership that's willing to spend. Every pro sports owner is rich.

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