The U.S. Army might have an issue with the NHLs newest franchise
The NHL’s newest expansion franchise, the Vegas Golden Knights, is already facing some stiff competition, but not on the ice. The team’s first challenge, it appears, is descending on them from above — in the form of the U.S. Army Parachute Team, which has been called the Golden Knights since the 1960s. The Army isn’t quite sure it approves of the hockey team borrowing its name.
“We’re reviewing the situation and figuring out what the way ahead would be,” Army spokeswoman Alison Bettencourt told the Fayetteville Observer this week.
Bettencourt confirmed to The Post that the Army has enlisted its legal team to review the matter, which she said the Army only found out about on Wednesday, a day after Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley announced it in a high-profile ceremony at the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip.
Foley, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, appears to have been aware of the name of the parachute team. He told the Las Vegas Review-Journal last week that he wanted to incorporate that Golden Knights parachute team into the ceremony, but “it got kind of complicated.”
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