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Sports Quiz / NHL Team Nicknames Random Sports or Hockey Quiz Can you pick the NHL Team Nicknames? His NHL career got fully underway in Los Angeles where colorful owner Jack Kent Cooke demanded that players all get nicknames and that Flett wear a cowboy hat when the team … The idea for the name Lightning came to then-franchise president Phil Esposito during a thunderstorm in 1990, two years before Tampa Bay played its first NHL game.Conn Smythe bought the Toronto St. Pats in 1927 after the franchise almost had been sold to a group in Philadelphia. Fittingly, the artwork on his mask is based on the classic Pink Floyd album “The Wall.”Bromley tended goal for the Sabres and Canucks from 1973 to 1981. The team now plays on Bay Street in Toronto so this nickname combines some of the Leafs history from the past and present.The Vancouver Canucks are known as the Nucks which is short for Canucks and one of their other nicknames "The Canuckleheads". NHL team nicknames have a variety of origins: Many were selected through a fan vote or the owner's choice, some reflect a city's geography and others are a nod to history or nature.In every case, much thought and deliberation went into choosing the perfect name.Here are the origins of the other 30 NHL team names:The Walt Disney Co. was awarded a Southern California-based expansion franchise on Dec. 10, 1992.
He didn’t always use his fists to destroy opponents, sometimes he used his shot… he scored 35 goals in 1980-81. His name came from the small town in Quebec where he lived (Chicoutimi) and the fact that writers said he was “cool as a cucumber.”Worsley was a Hall-of-Fame goalie who won 335 games for the Rangers, Canadiens and North Stars from 1952 to 1974, winning four Stanley Cups. Gretzky’s The most dynamic player in Pittsburgh Penguins history and one of the greatest players in history of the NHL. All NHL team jerseys customized with NHL players' names and numbers are officially licensed by the NHL and the NHLPA. He looked a lot like actor Brimsek was a goaltender for the Bruins in the NHL’s early years. He asked for help in choosing a nickname for his new team; after receiving more than 7,000 potential names, Cooke chose Kings on May 27, 1966, because he was "looking for a name that would be symbolic of leadership in hockey," according to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.The North Stars departed for Dallas in 1993, but Minnesota was not out of the NHL for long. This is an opinion-based list of mine so if we disagree, none of us have to lose sleep over it.Here are the best alternate nicknames for each NHL team.Anaheim's NHL franchise is currently known as the Ducks but once upon a time they were the Mighty Ducks. The original brown and yellow colors matched those of Adams' grocery stores.Wanting something other than a variation on buffalo or bison, owners Seymour Knox III and Northrup Knox had a contest after being awarded a franchise that would take the ice in 1970. He earned his nickname as a rookie in 1938-39 by posting scoreless streaks of 231 minutes 54 seconds and 220 minutes 24 seconds en route to 10 shutouts and a Stanley Cup.A career .880 save percentage and 3.50 goals-against average, earned Racicot one of the most brutal sports nicknames of all time for a goalie.Lundqvist represented his country, Sweden, for many years before jumping the pond and joining the NHL. He was also versatile in that he could do it all. After holding a name-the-team contest, the ownership group voted to retain the Flames name and change the logo from a flaming "A" to a flaming "C."The franchise, which began as the New England Whalers in the World Hockey Association in 1972, relocated to North Carolina in 1997 after entering the NHL as the Hartford Whalers in 1979.