If You're A Fan Of Shitty Names, You'll Love All The Options For The New Las Vegas NHL Team
NHL.com – The NHL’s Las Vegas expansion team trademarked the nicknames Desert Knights, Golden Knights and Silver Knights last week, a team spokesperson confirmed to NHL.com.
Detroithockey.net first reported the names on Aug 23. Las Vegas was awarded an expansion team on June 22. The franchise will begin play as the NHL’s 31st team in the 2017-18 season. On July 13, owner Bill Foley said he wanted to have a logo and team name “ASAP,” but copyright reasons have been an issue.
It’s been 2 months since the NHL announced the league would be expanding to Las Vegas and the team still doesn’t have a name yet. Obviously, as you just read, the names “Desert Knights” “Golden Knights” and “Silver Knights” have all been trademarked by the team, and I also saw the name “Sand Knights” getting thrown around there too. Before we even get started here, let me just say that all of those names suck dick. And all of them are highly offensive as they are appropriating medieval culture. Kinda fucked up if you ask me but I guess Bill Foley and the rest of the organization doesn’t give a shit about that.
Now let me save these bozos some time real quick and make the executive decision to take Silver Knights off the board right away. When you have the choice between silver and gold, you have to go gold 10 times out of 10. You call your team the Silver Knights when they could have been the Golden Knights and you’re setting a standard of losing right off the bat. So now we’re left with just Golden Knights and Desert Knights. First off, I don’t think it is but Desert Knights kinda sounds like it could be some sort of a racial slur. Also, you’re always going to get the people who misspell “desert” as “dessert” and all of a sudden your team is a bunch of strawberry shortcakes wearing armor. So let’s just cross Desert Knights off the board as well. Looks like we’re left with Golden Knights but that still leaves a shitty taste in my mouth whenever I say it out loud. It’s a can’t-win situation no matter how you look at it. Unless, of course, they file one last trademark and just go with the Las Vegas Suge Knights.
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You’re lying your ass off if you think you wouldn’t buy this jersey. Also not opposed to the Las Vegas Flamingos. Think these would be certified panty droppers.
Worst case scenario, the Jokers wouldn’t be terrible either.
But I’m sure no matter what they ultimately decide on, the public will all react reasonably and rationally. I’m sure it won’t become a “thing” at all. See you guys then.