Best team names!

I am a little biased however, here are some of my all time favourites out of the west.
1) Trail Smoke Eaters
2) Kimberley Dynamiters
3) Portland Buckaroos
4) Quesnel Kangaroos

The Macon Whoopee
Orlando Solar Bears
Miami Screaming Eagles

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And my favorite...The Ottawa Silver Seven

...Vancouver Millionaires

The Macon Whoopee
Orlando Solar Bears
Miami Screaming Eagles

Edit:

And my favorite...The Ottawa Silver Seven

Detroit Vipers
Orlando Solar Bears*

*My favorite

Minnesota Fighting Saints

Anahiem Mighty Ducks...




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This is best team names.

Johnstown Cheifs
Wheeling Nailers

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Mighty Ducks of Anaheim

Nashville Predators

not the nashville part but if you name a team after an Aronold Scwartzenegger movie, I LOVE IT

Florida Terminators
new york twins
kindergarden cops of minnesota
las vegas total recall

Interesting that the team names everyone loves are non-NHL teams. :)

Attack (Owen Sound - OHL)
Wolfpack (Hartford - AHL)
Jackals (Orlando - RHI)
Aeros (Houston - AHL)

As a kid, always wondered why would a team call themselves as "Whalers".

Now I love the name. :)

Just look at my avatar, funniest hockey name ever. Their slogan was:

"No spectators, just witnesses."

Does it get any better than that?

...Vancouver Millionaires

the irony of that name is way back then, players got paid about 300 bucks a year.

Detroit Honeybaked Midgets.

mmm, honeybaked midget...

University of Alaska-Fairbanks Nanooks

http://www.uscho.com/m/?team=uaf

Minnesota Fighting SaintsJohnstown Cheifs
Some of the Johnston Jets (Charlestown Chiefs in Slap Shot and now Johnstown Chiefs) played for the Minnesota Fighting Saints (called the Minnesota Nighthawks at the end of Slap Shot.) Johnstown was the farm-team to the World Hockey Association's Minnesota team.

Jack Carlson couldn't be in the movie as Jack Hanson because he was playing with Minnesota during part of the shooting schedule. Dave "Killer" Hanson played Jack Hanson instead of the character based on him, Dave "Killer" Carlson.

Grand Rapids Griffins.

I'd call my team the 'Cavaliers'.

...Vancouver Millionaires
Formerly the Renfrew Millionaires. :D

Simon Gamache followed up his Memorial Cup run with a stint in the ECHL with the Greenville Grrrowl.

Against teams like the Columbus Cottonmouths, Pee Dee Pride and Lexington Men O'War.

Incredible.

Seattle Metropolitans

Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies

Adirondack Frostbite - sounds so cool

Hamburg Freezers

The North Stars!!!!!!!!!

flin flon bombers

edmonton oil kings

medicine hat tigers

Lubbock Cotton Kings.

The Cresent Street Canadians

I always liked the sound of the Aspen Ice Spiders

Winnipeg Winnipegs
Quebec Bulldogs
Montreal Shamrocks

A little OT, but remember the Quebec Citadels?

Well, I was thinking if the DELL computer company bought a hockey team and put it in Quebec City, they could be the Quebec City Dells.....(insert groan here) :help:

New York/Brooklyn Americans (Going really old school)
Atlanta Knights (Some of their ads had lines like "Knightmare on Peachtree Street" "Hockey Knight in Atlanta")
Atlanta Flames
Atlanta Fire Ants (Short-lived RHI team)
Gwinnett Gladiators (A minor league team without a cutesy name)

Kingston Frontenacs
Erie Otters (That Sound Like Music)
Minnesota Fighting Saints
LA Sharks
Quebec Nordiques

Bob Gainey went to France in the early 1990's for a few weeks to coach the Epinal Squirrels...

There was a Tropical Hockey League that existed in the late 1930's , with four teams worthy of mention:

http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/thl19391939.html

1938-39 Tropical Hockey League
Coral-Gables Seminoles
Miami Clippers
Miami-Beach Pirates
Havana Tropicals

The Spokane Canaries from 1916-17 and Saskatoon Sheiks from 1921-23...

The Spokane Canaries from 1916-17 and Saskatoon Sheiks from 1921-23...Saskatoon Sheiks..I like it!

Some names that I've always liked:

Brampton Battalion
Detroit Motor City Mustangs
Detroit Vipers
Edmonton Ice
Elmira Jackals
Fayetteville Force
Hartford Wolf Pack
Huntsville Blast
Kelowna Rockets
Macon Whoopie
Mobile Mysticks
Muskegan Fury
Nashville Predators
Owen-Sound Attack
Philadelphia Phantoms
Reno Rage
Sarnia Sting
Saskatoon Blades
Syracuse Crunch
Tampa-Bay Lightning
Toledo Storm
Toronto Toros
Vancouver Voodoo
Wheeling Nailers
Windsor Spitfires
Worcester Icecats

As a kid, always wondered why would a team call themselves as "Whalers".

Now I love the name. :)

I heard (or read) that since the New England WHA team didn't have a nickname in its first few days, they went by the New England WHA'ers -- with the apostrophe looking like the letter L and thus the Whalers were created.

Favorite names:
Miami Screaming Eagles (of course)
Cincinnati Stingers
Quebec Nordiques (when said in French)
California Golden Seals
San Francisco Spiders
Binghamton Broome Dusters
Beauce Jaros
Chicoutimi Saguenéens
Trail Smoke Eaters
Minnesota Fighting Saints
San Antonio Iguanas
Non-hockey: San Antonio Gunslingers of the USFL

Miami Screaming Eagles
Winnipeg Jets
West Palm Beach Blaze

I always thought 'The Red Army' was a good name.

Traktor Chelyabinsk!

It's hard to put NHL teams in the good list because of their familiarity. Little known teams with quirky or unique names tend to stand out more.

Cool Sounding French Names:

Nova Scotia Voyageurs
Quebec Citadelles
Chicoutimi Sagueneens
Drummondville Voltigeurs
Shawinigan Cataractes
Beauport Harfangs
Trois-Riveres Dravuers
Val d'Or Foreurs
Laval Titan
Montreal Rouge, Blanc et Bleu

The Animal Kingdom:

Cape Breton Screaming Eagles
Miami Manatees
Philadelphia Firebirds
Quad City Mallards
New Haven Nighthawks
Tacoma SabreCats
Portland Winterhawks
San Diego Skyhawks
Waywayseecappo Wolverines
Blind River Beavers


Kings of the Ice:

Manchester Monarchs
Reading Royals
Brandon Wheat Kings
Lubbock Cotton Kings
Edmonton Oil Kings
Prince George Spruce Kings
Saginaw Lumber Kings
Dauphin Kings

& The Rest

Owen Sound Platers
Dayton Bombers
New Orleans Brass
Nashville Dixie Flyers