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Re: The NHL Thread (lolcaps)

Seriously, how can the NHL fuck up so badly that they ban gambling reference for a VEGAS team?

Las Vegas Aces

HOW DO YOU NOT DO THAT?

Re: The NHL Thread (lolcaps)

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Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16648617)

lol it leaked hours ago! Get with it, hairy legs.

I'm slacking!

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Originally Posted by NKAWGNEATO (Post 16648656)

Las Vegas Golden Knights??? That's Pelicans bad.

Yes. Who are you? Who is your team?

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Originally Posted by swordo84 (Post 16648665)

After the games do they take ........

*puts on sunglasses*

Golden Showers?

-cue music-
yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooooooo

*golf clap*

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Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16648686)

The logo is like something you'd see on "Create a team" for some EA game, too.

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Originally Posted by swordo84 (Post 16648703)

It all just feels so............amateur.

Yes to both of these! So lazy, uninspired.

Re: The NHL Thread (lolcaps)

lol did any of you watch the actual "unveiling"?

That countdown and the streamers and pyrotechnics :lol

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For all your viewing pleasure incase you missed this cringe-fest

https://streamable.com/9pgu

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Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16648721)

For all your viewing pleasure incase you missed this cringe-fest

https://streamable.com/9pgu

:lol:lol well it least it's on par with the theme of the evening.

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I do like the logo though.

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Originally Posted by dmbetc (Post 16648727)

I do like the logo though.

Eh it's okay, but they even kinda fucked that up, that's like a gladiator/Roman soldier style helmet, not a knight's.

I personally think it's too simple.

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I actually don't mind the logo. Name sucks though

How long until they shorten it to just "Knights"?

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Definitely should have just been Knights. Nearly every single person will drop the "Golden" when talking about them anyway.

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I really feel like the logo is something we've seen as a generic video game logo before.

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Los Angeles Kings, Las Vegas Golden Knights. Is the West turning into a chess board?

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Lockman nailed it. Absolutely looks like EA Sports create-a-team logo. Just terrible. Awful name. Awful logo. Awful color scheme. Poor Dmitry Orlov.

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So wait. They're technically just the "Vegas" GK? No "Las"? What the fuck, America

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I don't get the dropping of the Las....I mean next up the York Rangers? Golden Knights is eh to me. I know they had to put a name in front of the Knights so I think Black Knights just sounds better. The logo I agree is like a team I'd create on NHL 2001.

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Originally Posted by TMoore4075 (Post 16648866)

I don't get the dropping of the Las....I mean next up the York Rangers? Golden Knights is eh to me. I know they had to put a name in front of the Knights so I think Black Knights just sounds better. The logo I agree is like a team I'd create on NHL 2001.

Followed quickly by the Angeles Dodgers. I agree the whole thing seems a bit amateur hour. But I expect nothing less from Bettman's NHL. Next they will host the Winter Classic in Vegas.

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If you think it feels amateur hour now - wait until you watch this video!

https://streamable.com/5u6b

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I dont understand why its so hard to come up with a good team name and logo.

Minor league baseball pumps out like 3 a year.

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Originally Posted by TheLastPig (Post 16648906)

I dont understand why its so hard to come up with a good team name and logo.

Minor league baseball pumps out like 3 a year.

The whole thing is just SO NHL.

This snippet from the Deadspin article on it is worth reading:

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They were always going to be some form of knights. Owner Bill Foley, a West Point grad, tried and failed to get the use of “Black Knights,” and just plain “Knights” was off the table too because of the OHL’s London Knights.

What’s so good about knights?

“The Knights are the epitome of the warrior class,” Foley said. “They’re team-oriented, they always stick together, they never give up, they never give in. And hockey players are warriors. They’ve always been team players, all for one. That’s us. That’s what we’ll be.”

Easy there, Bill. It’s a hockey team, there to make you money.

The adjective remained up in the air, but Foley had favored Golden Knights all along and settled on it as early as August, when he trademarked it (along with a couple similar names to provide cover).

“Silver Knights was an option because this is the Silver State, but Nevada is the largest gold producer in the country,” Foley said. “Gold is a precious metal, the No. 1 metal versus silver. I didn’t feel Desert Knights had character to it.”
(Foley admitted that the runners-up included Nighthawks, Desert Hawks, and Sidewinders, and damn, “Nighthawks” would have been an actually good name I think.)

“Golden Knights,” however, is bad. Too bland to be respectable, not whimsical enough to be memorable. As a general rule of thumb, adjectives are minor league. “Rays” is so much better than “Devil Rays,” and “Ducks” infinitely preferable to “Mighty Ducks.” Trademark issues obviously stand in the way, but I can see a future where they drop the “Golden” and everyone is better off for it.

Foley said he was conscious of the name being too long, and he addressed that by dropping the “Las” from the official team name. This is, simply, Vegas. They play in Vegas. They’re the Vegas Golden Knights.

“The local people refer to Vegas, not Las Vegas,” he said. “The people from out of town refer to, ‘Las Vegas.’ It’s, ‘Where are you from?’ ‘Oh, I’m from Vegas.’

“I thought Las Vegas Golden Knights, four words, too much. Three words is kind of the limit.”

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Originally Posted by TheLastPig (Post 16648906)

I dont understand why its so hard to come up with a good team name and logo.

Minor league baseball pumps out like 3 a year.

Seriously. Some great ones within the last month too.

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/11/...ies-baby-cakes

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Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16648910)

The whole thing is just SO NHL.

This snippet from the Deadspin article on it is worth reading:

Thanks for sharing that.

Nighthawks would have been much better. But even then I hate using similar names to existing teams (ala Blackhawks).

Seriously, something like Aces, Dealers, Scorpions, Rattlesnakes, Vulchers, Bobcats etc.

Even something as simple as "Vegas Gold" would have been miles better.

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Originally Posted by emu513 (Post 16648913)

Seriously. Some great ones within the last month too.

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/11/...ies-baby-cakes

:lol In all fairness, those are all really great as minor league names, but not big league clubs.

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Originally Posted by emu513 (Post 16648913)

Seriously. Some great ones within the last month too.

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/11/...ies-baby-cakes

Didnt see the rumble ponies :lol

I fucking love the babycakes and jumbo shrimp ones.

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A Miami Marlins player starting from the bottom gets called up via the following route: Muckdogs -> Grasshoppers -> Hammerheads -> Jumbo Shrimp -> Baby Cakes -> Marlins.

It's amazing.

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Originally Posted by dmbetc (Post 16648727)

I do like the logo though.

I think it looks like a Power Rangers.

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Originally Posted by dmbetc (Post 16648727)

I do like the logo though.

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Originally Posted by BeyondKnight (Post 16648961)

I think it looks like a Power Rangers.

Magneto....

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Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16648686)

The logo is like something you'd see on "Create a team" for some EA game, too.

:lol first thing i thought of too

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Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16648719)

lol did any of you watch the actual "unveiling"?

That countdown and the streamers and pyrotechnics :lol

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Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16648721)

For all your viewing pleasure incase you missed this cringe-fest

https://streamable.com/9pgu

:lol the NHL is the ugly child and we are the parents. we love it, but most people have no idea why

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Originally Posted by TMoore4075 (Post 16648964)

Magneto....

:lol

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oh my god, everything about Vegas is terrible.

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I'm not going to complain too much. With the team in Vegas, I plan on going to at least two of their games a year. Which is about two more NHL games than I normally go to in a year.

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are there any more opposite places in the US than Utah and Vegas?

make sure to take at least 3 of your wives with you, Matty, to keep an eye on you. would hate to see a guy in an Adam Foote sweater face down on the floor of the MGM Grand with a Golden Knights bobblehead in one hand and a Kessel sized hot dog in the other

actually nevermind, i'd love to see that :lol