Las Vegas hockey franchise owner Bill Foley would love to have a name for his expansion team, and he's open to ideas.

Three weeks after the NHL awarded a new team to Foley, he said his group is having trademark issues and wants to settle on a name quickly. After selecting George McPhee as his GM, Foley expressed some impatience at how the process has stalled.

"We have a lot of names in mind, but a lot of the ones I really liked are trademarked, so that's a little bit of an issue," Foley said Wednesday. "I'm happy to take any suggestions anyone has for a name, particularly one that's not already trademarked."

Foley is a 1967 graduate of West Point and has expressed an affinity for the name "Black Knights" as a nod to the Army. Canadian network TSN reported Wednesday that "Knights" was likely to be the name of the Las Vegas team, which will begin play in 2017-18.

Longtime Washington Capitals general manager George McPhee will become the first GM of the NHL's expansion franchise in Las Vegas, multiple sources told ESPN.com.

After an exhaustive process that included interviews with as many as seven candidates, owner Bill Foley, with the help of adviser Murray Craven, a longtime NHL player and close associate of Foley's, opted to go with McPhee. He will be announced as team GM at a news conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday afternoon.

The Las Vegas team, as yet unnamed, was awarded the NHL's 31st franchise in June shortly before the league's annual awards ceremony held in Las Vegas.