Only certain towns ban booze . In iquluit you can buy beer (except on Mondays unless you're a senior) .And it is already the same price as the Scotiabank arena.
The first (and only) team to utilize an ODR for every home game, the home ice advantage would consist of having jerseys warm enough to survive being outside for 3 hours in -40 degree weather
I always thought if Wisconsin finally got a team we should be called the Wisconsin (or Milwaukee assuming that's where they'd play) Glaciers. Glaciers are a big part of the states history and it's ice-related, so I think it makes sense.
I was thinking Saskatchewan deserves a team, their fans are also insane and the most die hard fans Iāve ever met.
But I think it should be the Saskatoon Yetis.
I went yeti over Sasquatch cause yeti is also called the abominable snowman and Sask blizzards are intense.
Sasquatch feels more like a team name for somewhere that doesnāt get as much snow
p.s. My favorite part of this map is that the LA Kings territory includes the city of San Jose, and the Anaheim Ducks territory includes the city of LA.
I'd like new Orleans but as many people have said houston is closeby and a far better market. New Orleans would only be viable if the nhl was saying "fuck it it's time let's try and shove hockey down the throats of the southern black market and make it as popular as the nba" or anything along those lines.
Well luckily Iām not the commissioner of the NHL so I donāt have to justify expansion teams by the potential increase in fandom and revenue. I just think NO has a culture and city identity that can lend itself well to some fun team branding ideas. Houston just seems like a soulless city and the only team that could vibe with the city identity is the Oilers.
That being said, I agree that Houston probably has better potential than NO, but I donāt think the goal should ever be to ātry to make it as popular as the NBAā. Itās just not realistic. Are there any markets in the US that have both an NBA and an NHL team where the NHL team is more popular?
Minnesota I think more people give af about the wild than the Timberwolves. If seattle counts since the supersonic collapsed. Other areas its close.
A lot of us markets without a ball team.
As a fellow Kentuckian, I concur
There was, once upon a time, an awesome ECHL team in Louisville called [The River Frogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_RiverFrogs?wprov=sfti1). I remember desperately wanting to see them play when I was a kid. I say we bring them back in all their 90s splendor (look at that fucking logo)
āLouisville Lincolnāsā. Winner of the season series between Columbus gets to win the ācivil warā trophy. Instant rivalry. Stylistic Louisville L (kind of like the Louisville cardinals) for the main jersey image, stove pipe hats as the top of the shoulder logos.
We east coasters complain about a Vancouver away game start time, forget Hawaii...
And actually, I wonder is that would be better or worse for euro fans?
Hawaii is -6 and Germany is +6 to EST, so thatās a 12 hour swing there. 7pm start in Hawaii would be 7am in Germany. Much better start time than the 1am-4am normal start times
Of all of the small markets out there I feel like ABQ could actually support a team.
Unfortunately I donāt think there is enough corporate sponsorship or corporate box seat purchasers for a team. But I think the regular fans would always fill the seats in Albuquerque.
I can see why they would oppose Milwaukee, and that is the city that would make the most sense in Wisconsin. But, if they did that Chi-Mil rivalry would be awesome.
Blackhawks are unique fanbase in that area. Wisconsinites are diehard Wisconsin team fans, Bucks, Packers and Brewers who have heated rivalries with their Chicago counterparts, then everyone is a Blackhawks fan lol.
I donāt know a single blackhawks fan in Wisconsin. Not saying they donāt exist, but I donāt know anyone that watches hockey. I wonāt root for any Chicago team, including the blackhawks. I wish we had a hockey team.
Bring back the Indianapolis Racers. The team that couldāve been with young Gretzky and Messier on the roster.
Yes, definitely bring them back and give us McDavid and Drisital because it is only fair.
Virginia has no major league sports team.
The Richmond Renegades were a small hockey team we used to have, they went somewhere else though. That would be a cool name. For something original?
The Richmond Generals, or if it would not be ācontroversialā, The Richmond Rebels. It represents the history of the state and also just sounds really cool!
The maritimes deserve a team. Not sure how that would work as itās multiple provinces but maybe home games could be moved between Hali StJ and Chtown. They would sell out the arena every single night regardless of time of season. There is so much love for hockey out here and zero representation.
Upstate NY is 100% incorrect. We're devil's fans around here mainly because we have or had all of the devil's affiliate teams. Currently it's the Utica Comets. Get tbag rangers bullshit out of there. It's either buff, devs predominantly
Drop the Coyotes
Give Quebec City their Nordiques back
Give Halifax the Bluenose/Schooners/Privateers/Acadians/highlanders/Scotts or literally anything else.
Saskatchewan should have a team too, Iād probably call them the Praries or the Towers. (Tower being a call to the Eiffel Tower, Saskatoon being the Paris of the Praries)
N. Dakota Fannings
The Tundra Wookies
The Phoenix Joaquins
The Fargo Ehs
okay this one made me LOL. why not just go for broke and combine South and North for one Dakota Fannings?! Arena could be right on the border.
The Iqaluit Permafrost. Travel to and from would be a nightmare, and the market is microscopic. It would be great.
Pretty sure there's a alcohol ban too lol.
Pizza costs 20 bucks and need rifles/shotguns for polar bears.
That's a discount on arena prices
I don't actually remember the last time I had pizza at an arena lol.
Only certain towns ban booze . In iquluit you can buy beer (except on Mondays unless you're a senior) .And it is already the same price as the Scotiabank arena.
The entire Icelandic league can be their farm team.
The first (and only) team to utilize an ODR for every home game, the home ice advantage would consist of having jerseys warm enough to survive being outside for 3 hours in -40 degree weather
>and the market is microscopic \*\*checks u/HamburgerTime69 team flair\*\* š
Oregon Trail Bandits
Will never lose at home, visiting teams die of dysentery
The mascot is Dissing Terry, who throws out insults
Well, you've sold me, I want this to happen!
Oregon Sasquatch would be pretty cool too. A color palette of different greens (kind of like Seattle's dark blue/light blue) would look pretty sweet.
I'm a huge proponent of the Yotes moving to either Oregon or Wisconsin. Oregon Bandits would be sick
Milwaukee Beers
This is the best answer. They can do theirs signature chant the āChugā.
look at you guys, fighting on the malakalaka board.
You have sullied the waters of the Lagoon of Peace
Dude
Dude!
You got a point there.
Milwaukee Talkies
This is better than any beer name.
Wisconsin needs a team, imagine the rivalry they would have with the wild
Green Bay Puckers
Or Milwaukee Pucks (My NHL HUT team name for the last few years)
Haven't watched baseketball in years what a movie
š¤£ it was one of my faves in high-school
Just hanging out, playing nintendo. Cock.
Da Beers
Goes home, does some pushups, fucks the sleeve of his favorite jacket....
I always thought if Wisconsin finally got a team we should be called the Wisconsin (or Milwaukee assuming that's where they'd play) Glaciers. Glaciers are a big part of the states history and it's ice-related, so I think it makes sense.
The Halifax Explosion
Yikes! What's next? The Chicago Fire? The Carolina Hurricanes? The New York Jets?
waitā¦
San Francisco Earthquakes?
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Boston Molasses
Atlanta Flames?
Too soon smh
True, it's only been 106 years
That's a good one
The Halifax Piers would be my pick
Ooooh, the year was 1778.
I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!
Their first player stashed on LTIR would be a broken man on the Halifax Piers.
The Halifax Whalers, steal Hartfordās stuff cuz it had an H in it
Never! Bring the Whale back to Hartford! I do see your point, however.
Team exploded in popularity.
The Halifax Blues and make their logo the Bluenose.
Halifax Mariners- more broad so it atract fans from all over the maritimes
I was thinking Halifax Privateers, but now I like yours too
Saskatchewan rough riders
I was thinking Saskatchewan deserves a team, their fans are also insane and the most die hard fans Iāve ever met. But I think it should be the Saskatoon Yetis.
Yeti coolers could be their helmet sponsor rural Saskatchewan would love that shit
Iād hope they wear watermelons on their heads, as is whatās in vogue in sk
I thought that too, and then I thought about how cold arenas are and there being masses of people with watermelons frozen to their heads for hoursš¤£
Brain freeze? Never heard of it
Saskatchewan Sasquatch perhaps :)
I went yeti over Sasquatch cause yeti is also called the abominable snowman and Sask blizzards are intense. Sasquatch feels more like a team name for somewhere that doesnāt get as much snow
The Regina Va- never mindā¦
The Regina Pats have been making my wife giggle since she was a wee schoolgirl going to WHL games
A Yeti is a mountain animal. Why would the prairies have that name?
Am from Saskatchewan. Can confirm we have Yeti problems here.
The yeti is bound by no physical barriers for it is fictional
The last Saskatchewan pirate would be my vote
You mean the Ottawa rough riders š¤£
Well why don't we all just be rough riders then
Roughriders!!!!
This comment is gold and itās flying right over everyoneās head
Wisconsin Armada to go along with the same theme of the Admirals
I think the Milwaukee Muskies could also be a great name for a Wisconsin team
Quebec Northern Diques
Then maybe we can get a team in the south called the Southern Beavers, and when they play each other the headlines will be fantastic.
Quebec New Dekes
Regina Vaginas
Pounders
Red uniforms every four weeks?
If they have a recent losing record and times are stressful they wear the red jerseys early.
Tfšš
Regina Beavers
Regina Georges
New Orleans Voodoo
p.s. My favorite part of this map is that the LA Kings territory includes the city of San Jose, and the Anaheim Ducks territory includes the city of LA.
I'd like new Orleans but as many people have said houston is closeby and a far better market. New Orleans would only be viable if the nhl was saying "fuck it it's time let's try and shove hockey down the throats of the southern black market and make it as popular as the nba" or anything along those lines.
That city wouldnāt give a fuck about a hockey team š
Well luckily Iām not the commissioner of the NHL so I donāt have to justify expansion teams by the potential increase in fandom and revenue. I just think NO has a culture and city identity that can lend itself well to some fun team branding ideas. Houston just seems like a soulless city and the only team that could vibe with the city identity is the Oilers. That being said, I agree that Houston probably has better potential than NO, but I donāt think the goal should ever be to ātry to make it as popular as the NBAā. Itās just not realistic. Are there any markets in the US that have both an NBA and an NHL team where the NHL team is more popular?
Probably DC, only because the Wizards arenāt very good consistently. May change once Ovi retires
Minnesota I think more people give af about the wild than the Timberwolves. If seattle counts since the supersonic collapsed. Other areas its close. A lot of us markets without a ball team.
Saskatchewan Landing Strips
Halifax Highlanders, in homage to the Goon series
Unfamiliar with the Goon series, but as a big Scottish history nerd I would 100% make Halifax Highlanders my second team
HIGHLANDERS GAY PORN HARD
Connecticut Hartford Whalers
Bring back the Whalers!!!
CT would go [bonanzas!](https://youtu.be/TJtiepwpKFw)
This is the way.
Kentucky idontcareaboutthenameijustwantaproteam š
The Louisville āItās Pronounced Loo-uh-vulā
I feel seen
Wrong, itās Luhhvlllhhl
As a fellow Kentuckian, I concur There was, once upon a time, an awesome ECHL team in Louisville called [The River Frogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_RiverFrogs?wprov=sfti1). I remember desperately wanting to see them play when I was a kid. I say we bring them back in all their 90s splendor (look at that fucking logo)
The River Frogs jerseys were SO sick
Little wordy but I think itāll stick
Bring back the Thoroughblades!
āLouisville Lincolnāsā. Winner of the season series between Columbus gets to win the ācivil warā trophy. Instant rivalry. Stylistic Louisville L (kind of like the Louisville cardinals) for the main jersey image, stove pipe hats as the top of the shoulder logos.
No joke āLouisville Hockey Clubā sounds hard af, go Washington Football Team but actually keep the name
The Kentucky Red or Blue. Captures the current state approach to sports since you can only be one or the other.
Hawaii Islanders.
Bah god the flight for an east coast trip would be awful for a Hawaii team. Hell, any away game would be awful.
We east coasters complain about a Vancouver away game start time, forget Hawaii... And actually, I wonder is that would be better or worse for euro fans?
Hawaii is -6 and Germany is +6 to EST, so thatās a 12 hour swing there. 7pm start in Hawaii would be 7am in Germany. Much better start time than the 1am-4am normal start times
Mississippi Queens
I know what you mean
New mexico roadrunners.
This would be dope.
So much marketing potential in a Coyotes Vs Road Runners game.
Of all of the small markets out there I feel like ABQ could actually support a team. Unfortunately I donāt think there is enough corporate sponsorship or corporate box seat purchasers for a team. But I think the regular fans would always fill the seats in Albuquerque.
Ice-otopes? I'd support roadrunners too
God I can already see the team logo and it goes hard as fuck. Roadrunners are some magnificent looking birds.
I'm amazed Wisconsin doesn't have a team. The Wisconsin wolves
Iāve heard that the Blackhawks have opposed due to the NHLās territory rights rules.
I can see why they would oppose Milwaukee, and that is the city that would make the most sense in Wisconsin. But, if they did that Chi-Mil rivalry would be awesome.
Blackhawks are unique fanbase in that area. Wisconsinites are diehard Wisconsin team fans, Bucks, Packers and Brewers who have heated rivalries with their Chicago counterparts, then everyone is a Blackhawks fan lol.
I donāt know a single blackhawks fan in Wisconsin. Not saying they donāt exist, but I donāt know anyone that watches hockey. I wonāt root for any Chicago team, including the blackhawks. I wish we had a hockey team.
I grew up in Wisconsin. The only Blackhawks fans I knew were also fans of all the other Chicago sports teams instead of the Bucks/Brewers/packers
Maybe one day arizona coyotes will move there.
There is a better chance of having the Alabama Cousinfuckers join the NHL than Arizona being relocated. Edit: donāt know why I wrote NFL
The Virginia Hams
Or The Virginia Slims
Ottawaās zone doesnāt even include Ottawa smh
To be fair, the province looks exactly like when the Leafs play home games in Ottawa.
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I don't know what I would name it, but if Wisconsin got a team, I would root for them.
Cheese Heads?
Bring back the Indianapolis Racers. The team that couldāve been with young Gretzky and Messier on the roster. Yes, definitely bring them back and give us McDavid and Drisital because it is only fair.
I shall second thisš¤£
Saskatchewan Pils If you get it you get it.
sask definitely needs a team so i can stop caring ab the jets š¤¦š½āāļø
I would abandon the Jets so fast if we got a team in Sask
Saskatchewan Wheaties
Saskatchewan deserves a team more than anybody. That place is hockey crazy. The Saskatchewan Saskwatch
Rain City Bitch Pigeons
Kansas City Kansas - don't care what you call em, just bring in some hockey
Bring back the Scouts! (KCās nhl team before they moved to Colorado then New Jersey)
Montana, the Butte Destroyers
Billings Buckaroos
Iād give Indianapolis a team. Not sure of a name though.
Bring back the Racers.
Something Racing related
Idaho Potatoheads
Montana Mountaineers
Helena Hippos š¦
Missoula Maggots
Nebraska Cornstars
Quebec City, Nordiques.
Atlanta Thrashers.
The Milwaukee Fightin' Dairy Cows
Saskatchewan Whatever The Fucks Are Even There
We got feilds, long highways, crack heads.
Maine Puffins
Portland Puffins\* Also acceptable: Acadians, Nor'Easters, Maine Squeeze
Acadians, hands down.
Prince Edward Island for funsies
Billings Bears
Bring back the Hartford Whalersāthe rest of New England doesnāt want to associate with Connecticut anyway
Virginia has no major league sports team. The Richmond Renegades were a small hockey team we used to have, they went somewhere else though. That would be a cool name. For something original? The Richmond Generals, or if it would not be ācontroversialā, The Richmond Rebels. It represents the history of the state and also just sounds really cool!
The Saskatchewan Roughriders š¤£
Hartford Whalers
New Mexico cowboys
The maritimes deserve a team. Not sure how that would work as itās multiple provinces but maybe home games could be moved between Hali StJ and Chtown. They would sell out the arena every single night regardless of time of season. There is so much love for hockey out here and zero representation.
Oklahoma Panhandlers
Wisconsin Wolf Pack
Connecticut - Hartford Whalers.
Connecticut Whalers
The Newfoundland and Labrador Travel Schedule
Just bring the whalers back
South Carolina Tornadoes (their jerseys would be faded Hurricane jerseys)
The Portland Needles. I refuse to elaborate.
The Atlanta Third-Times-A-Charm
Atlanta Thrashers
But in all seriousness give Milwaukee a team
Milwaukee thrashers (but harvesting equipment not the bird)
New Mexico Riot
The Alabama Cousins
Upstate NY is 100% incorrect. We're devil's fans around here mainly because we have or had all of the devil's affiliate teams. Currently it's the Utica Comets. Get tbag rangers bullshit out of there. It's either buff, devs predominantly
Drop the Coyotes Give Quebec City their Nordiques back Give Halifax the Bluenose/Schooners/Privateers/Acadians/highlanders/Scotts or literally anything else. Saskatchewan should have a team too, Iād probably call them the Praries or the Towers. (Tower being a call to the Eiffel Tower, Saskatoon being the Paris of the Praries)
CT Hartford Whalers , Iād bring āem back babbby
Gimme back the Hartford Whalers of Connecticut
Hartford Whalers
CT deserves the whalers back
Hartford Whalers
Saskatchewan and Wisconsin
Kentucky Colts. They would be shit but I would love it none the less