Las Vegas Has a New NHL Team

And they go by the hipper name, "Vegas".

The Vegas Golden Knights to be exact.

Here is their primary logo, and I can say that I do like it:

I'm a sucker for negative space, and the "V" as the facial openings in the knight's helmet satisfies this. It's both simple and strong, both new and hinting at the old school. I rather like it.

It reminds me of another team that used te negative space in the helmet of a warriors outfit:

This was a now-defunct pro-lacrosse team that started play while we lived in New York. They used the Mets and Knicks color scheme (orange and blue) and the name of the original Jets franchise. Here you can see the negative facial space is the "T".

In the grand tradition of professional Vegas sporting teams--of which there haven't been too many---or any (besides Larry Johnson and the Runnin' Rebels of UNLV)---the logo has been pretty sweet.

I speak of the Las Vegas Outlaws of the heavily promoted but ultimately doomed XFL:

I always thought that the Outlaws logo was the most inspired in their league, reminding me of the Dead's Steal Your Face:

Funny: I'm neither a Grateful Dead nor Las Vegas fan, but I can appreciate killer logos, and these four satisfy that qualifier.