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Bill Foley Still Searching For Name, Color Scheme For Las Vegas NHL Franchise

The NHL's new Las Vegas franchise has "spent the past couple of weeks working with adidas, which owns Reebok, the NHL's official uniform supplier, and league marketing officials," to come up with a name and color scheme team Owner Bill Foley likes, according to Steve Carp of the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL. Foley said that he has "seen and heard every name imaginable." But he has yet to "find the one name that really wows him and is obtainable without paying ransom to someone who has secured the rights." Foley said that once there is a name that he can accept, he will "let the NHL and adidas folks work on the designs and color schemes." His preference remains "black, gold and gray." But Foley admits that he may have to be "flexible on everything at this point." The "Black Knights" name, even with the "supposed blessing" of those at Foley's alma mater at West Point, is "probably not happening." It is "too complicated when you consider" the U.S. government "would be involved in giving the final OK" (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 7/16).

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