What Should Seattle Name Their NHL Team? The Barstool Office Weighs In
The odds (according to Bovada) for the name of the new NHL team in Seattle (coming in 2021) are out. The Seattle Totems are the current favorite.. decent name. The Seattle Emeralds are +400… boring. The Seattle Rainiers (+700)… that name stinks out loud… but the Seattle Sockeyes? (Also +700) AWESOME.
Twitter user @beware1984 made concept jerseys and logos and they are gorgeous.
Here are the rest of the potential names and odds.
Here is what Barstool HQ thinks they should be named…
Big Cat – Seattle Seals
Riggs – Seattle Sockeyes
Frankie Borrelli – The Seattle Rainers, he thought Rainiers was the Rainers… like rain. Then he decided on the Seattle Rain. Here is his his reasoning.
Seattle Rain – Goal notifications to phones could look like flash flood warnings. (Flash flood noise could be the goal horn). Announcers can use the term “pouring it on”, “they are in a drought”. They can make it look like it is raining in the stadium when the team comes on the ice with those cool lights they use in concerts and movies and shit.
PFT – Seattle Cougars or the Seattle Sea Lions
Nate - Bring back the Whalers
Feitelberg – “Rainiers sounds the coolest but it’s a horrible marketing decision”
Brett Merriman – “Seattle Rainiers but Sockeyes is tight”
Smitty – Seattle Kraken
Young Pageviews – Seattle Sockeyes
Ria – Seattle Firebirds
Gaz – Seattle Whale
Robbie Fox – “Why can’t they be the Super Sonics?”
Kate – Seattle Kraken
Kenjac – Seattle Cougars
Devlin – Seattle Sea Lions
Fran – Seattle Eagles
Glenny Balls – Seattle Firebirds
Francis – Seattle Sockeyes
Liz – Seattle Seals
Kenjac – Seattle Cougars
Kayce – Seattle Firebirds
Jeff Lowe – Seattle Totems
Ellie – Seattle Rainiers
Marty Mush – Seattle Seals
Hubbs – Seattle Kraken – “I would refuse to get on the same ice rink as that team.”
Trent – Seattle Renegades
Jack Mac – Seattle Kraken
Matt Brown – Seattle Renegades
(h/t Darren Rovell)