How Every NHL Team Got Its Name & Identity! 

No oilers logo on the thumbnail is crazy

Some of this information is wrong. Like the Rangers name for example, it was not a nod to a baseball team. It was a nod to the Texas Rangers state police. The black hawks name was not just about the restaurant, it was for the unit named for Cheif Black Hawk, hence the logo. The bruins store wasn't black and gold, it was brown and gold. They later changed to black. This is a fun video, but I'm curious about the research.

if the utah team is named either the powder, yeti, or ice, then i give up watching hockey

Something to add to the video is that the yellow triangle in the Penguin’s logo is in reference to the shape of downtown Pittsburgh. Also, the yellow and black colors are also used by Pittsburgh’s other professional sports teams as well.

Given that Utah is known as the Beehive State, I'd call the team Utah Swarm.

San Jose president: "We're going to hold a contest to name the team!" San Jose fans pick a name. San Jose president: "And you all picked wrong!"

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WOLFPACK?!?!?!

As a Tampa area native (Bradenton), Phil Esposito named the Lightning perfectly. Those summer late day thunderstorms light the sky up. You just hope and pray the power (the AC) stays on Phil still does radio for Lightning home games to this day. Absolute legend as a player, even more so for building a hockey franchise in a place where it almost never gets below freezing

The New York Rangers did get the name from Tex’s Rangers, but it wasn’t the baseball team. The baseball team didn’t exist until (a quick Google search shows) after the 1971 season when the moved from Washington, DC. The Texas Rangers are a law enforcement agency that predates the NHL. They have a long history that would require a video of its own, so i am keeping it simple. The Lone Ranger is so named as he was a Texas Ranger. Then there’s the old show -Walker, Texas Ranger. It wasn’t about the baseball team I let other stuff slide as well

When the Vegas expansion was first announced I really wanted them to be the Vegas Blackjacks. They probably would've been called the BJs by everyone else so I get why that didn't stick.

As a South Florida native and like the Igloo to the Penguins, I affectionately call the arena that the Panthers play in, the Catbox. I'll be there tomorrow for game 3 of the ECF. GO CATS!

Colorado was almost named the Rocky Mountain Xtreme. SUPER duper 90’s influence back then.

The bruins were originally brown and yellow but later changed to black and yellow

Maple leaves were on every incarnation of the Canadian Red Ensign flag, in the bottom section of the shield. You put it on the screen. The maple leaf was the Canadian symbol long before the current flag. Its on countless Canadian buildings, coins, documents and songs that predate the hockey team.

All of the “most popular” suggestions for the Utah teams stink so bad. I get why they’re going with Utah Hockey Club Ownership should definitely try to do some legal gymnastics so they can be Utah Raptors (there’s teams across the big four that share team names, Rangers, Cardinals, Giants, Panthers to name a few)

I would suggest some more research before redoing this video

Ah yeah the penguins playing in an igloo totally makes sense since they are only separated by whatever distance it is from the arctic to antarctic 😂

The Utah Miracle makes sense and ties into the history of Salt Lake City referring to the Miracle of the Gulls when seagulls miraculously saved the 1848 crops by eating thousands of insects that were devouring their fields. The Seagull Monument is located in front of the Salt Lake Assembly Hall on Temple Square.

Winnipeg Jets named after the New York Jets is the most interesting name for me. Blackhawks named after a military unit the coolest.

vegas golden SHOWERS

You can say that the Flames kept their name in Calgary because of the Canadian Wildfires in Calgary

Imagine if we got the San José "Rubber Puckies" 😂

The purple the Lakers and then Kings was referred to as “Forum blue.” Jack Kent Cooke apparently was not a fan on the word purple.

Missed the Avs owner trying to call his team the Rocky Mountain Xtreme, they even had logos done up. The league veto'd it though.

Bruh really highlighted missouri with the Blackhawks on the thumbnail 💀

William Dywer moved the Hamilton Tigers renamed Americans. The winnipeg Jets were named after Bobby Hull The Golden Jet.

Don’t forget there was the Vancouver millionaires that won the Stanley cup in 1915 season

12:33 HOLD UP RIGHT THERE BUDDY!!! THE NEW YORK RANGERS NAME, IS NOT A NOD TO THE TEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL TEAM!!! If you think it is, you know nothing about hockey or baseball. In order for the New York Rangers name to be a nod to the Texas Rangers baseball team, the Texas Rangers baseball team would’ve had to been founded before the New York Rangers, and they weren’t. The New York Rangers were founded in 1926, while the Texas Rangers were founded as the Washington Senators in 1961. In 1972, They moved to the Dallas area, and became the Texas Rangers, almost 50 years after the New York Rangers were founded.

The Flames don’t have nothing to with Calgary? That’s inaccurate The Alberta Oil and gas industry is a big part of the city’s economy When the Flames moved there was enormous support to keep the name to reflect the oil & gas wells that could be seen all around southern Alberta. The natural gas wells have Flames. Please do some research There are good things about these videos, or I would just stop watching But it gets annoying with all lack of research.

The Denver team was once named the Rockies in their previous foray into the NHL .. you dropped the puck on that factoid

Alternate name for the Miami Panthers “Sawgrass Mall Rats “

Tex's Rangers was not a nod to the baseball team. It didn't exist yet. It was a nod to the law enforcement group Texas Rangers.

While the Atlanta Flames represent the Civil War burning of the city, the Flames moved to Calgary shortly after the city was awarded the 1988 Winter Olympics. Since the Olympic flame is symbolic of the games, the name was retained.

The Texas Rangers baseball team was established in 1961, so maybe THAT team was a nod to the hockey team, not the other way around. TONS of errors in this videos.

Little correction : The 'Canadiens' name is not just because of the french spelling, it's because back in '09, the french-canadians were called Canadians or Canadiens while the anglophone were just called English.

Great Video. I saw another one of these, but, I liked this one a bit better

I wish San Jose chose rubber puckies

Hands down the Kraken have the best name/logos and colors!

Love all the team names most of them fit with the location. Yes some names might be odd but baseball has two teams named after socks

Kings went to black and silver because of the Los Angeles Raiders

Long Island Ducks. The original use.

Why do Blackhawks own Missouri in the Thumbnail? The blues are there? Same with RedWings in Chicago

Rickard didn't buy the Tigers that was Bill Dywer who was the bootlegger.

How TF did mugwumps not win? The Utah Mugwumps. Utah McTeamName

No oilers on the thumbnail pic

Glad we're just gonna ignore the caps and bruins in the thumbnail lol

Utah Wendigos

utah skinwalkers

In the thumbnail th st louis bluise arent even in missouri...

as a Dallas fan anything other than Stars wouldn't really do it

Let me explain it as an commercial expert. All the finale names for the UTAH team have more or less nothing to do with hockey and its purpose. Yeti? We are not in the Himalians, Venom? Have never seen a snake on ice, Maomouth? Is it a team from the stones age? Outlaws? This might have fit to the old Flyers days with Schulz and Clarke. Ice??? Yes, of course they are playing on it but what does it say about the state and the team???? What is important to mention. The team is working as a team, they are symbolysing the attitude and the mentality of this state and this is only possible if you do it a s a newbie in the league as a SWARM to overrun opponents in regard to attitude and commitment. There is only one name realistic and I hope Mr. Owner might see that the same way. The UTAH SWARM

Your map on the thumbnail would suggest that Alberta has no Oilers team , just the shitty Flames. I didn’t come to watch your video , just to point out you have obviously no clue .

Think you meant to say North Carolina State Wolfpack 😅

where tf the oiler's?

damn the true origin of the Blackhawks name was quite a let down, I was always lead to believe it was after and to honour the Blackhawk Tribe and war chief in the Illinois region

Utah fighting mormons

New York got another NHL team so that the WHA couldn't buy a team on the island so they couldn't compete with the NHL

Detroit red wings best logo in all of sports 👍absolute truth

The Sabres will now and forever be the Flying Zeppelins and the Sharks will now and forever be the Rubber Puckies.

Utah Lakes

Yeti yeti yeti

did you really just have a thumbnail with only the united states and nhl teams? then you talk about identity and show lord stanley's cup. americans...

Edmonton Oilers is fairly obvious

The Red Wings naming history is accurate.

UTAH LAKERS

The Utah Mormons. The Salt Lake Sinners. Bonneville Bible Humpers. The Desert Skaters. The MOAB Vipers.

How do you have the flames in the thumbnail when the Oilers are by far a way more popular team in Alberta? 🤣

YUHHHH

Where da oilers

“americans” is a dumb team name impinge naming your nhl team after the country its in thats idiotic especially if there’s a e in it bc it’s french I single being French goofy ah

Salt Lake Soakers is what it should be.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this video; however, I would like to point out that the VERY FIRST logo the Columbus Blue Jackets had wasn’t shown. The “C” shaped Ohio flag swooping around a star was the second one. 😉

The Mighty Ducks original movie uniforms were not used for the team They had a different colour set and logo The movies later adopted the team’s look