The Vegas Golden Knights are a professional ice hockey team headquartered in Las Vegas. They are a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Golden Knights are the first major sports club to represent Las Vegas, having been founded as an expansion team in 2017. Black Knight Sports & Entertainment, a consortium led by Bill Foley and the Maloof family, owns the franchise. Their home games are held at T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, which is located on the Las Vegas Strip.
The Golden Knights are one of the few expansion teams to have rapid success, having qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs in each of their first four seasons and reaching the Stanley Cup Finals.
The team's name incorporates the word
"Knights" as a nod to the owner's alma mater, the United States Military
Academy's Black Knights, and because knights were "the epitome of the
warrior class," according to the owner. The owner had planned to call
his squad the Black Knights, but after facing opposition from federal
officials, he changed his mind. Due to the London Knights' ownership of
the "Knights" moniker in Canada, the owner was forbidden to call the
team the "Vegas Knights."
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