VHLM Juniors hypothetical team names

[Ledge 1,131]

                                   So, I asked either Bek or Acyd if the VHLM Juniors teams were going to have names, and they said no. Still, it's fun to imagine the names of the teams if we, the community, were to pick and vote on names and logos. I took some time thinking of some cool team names for these teams, one for each current VHLM franchise. Most of them are relatively close in distance, but for some I just got creative. Feel free to tell me what you think

 

Reykjavik Glaciers

Affiliate to the Halifax 21st

I know Glaciers isn't the most badass name out there, but we have a lot of talented logo people in this league, so I'm sure one of them can cook up a sick logo. I think Reykjavik is a good choice for a city because they don't really have any major sports teams and I think an M team could really get the whole country into it. Glaciers I think is a name synonymous to the wide sheets of ice that cover a lot of Iceland. 

My other idea for a Reykjavik team was something like the Reykjavik Fire and Ice, which isn't great on it's own but manipulated in some way it sounds cool. Iceland is known as 'the land of fire and ice' for it's weird climate, which ranges from hot springs to volcanoes to glaciers. I considered some names like 'Firestorm' and Fire Blizzard' but that idea kind of died. Glaciers just seemed like the right one. 

 

Havana Rockets

Affiliate to the Houston Bulls

Ohhhh yeah. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Sets up a brilliant name for any Cuba/Havana based team of any sort. I like Rockets over Missiles just because I think it's smoother and it sounds better. Rockets also sets up a bunch of cool logo ideas. Havana as a city isn't currently a hockey city of any sort, but I figured why not spread the cheer? Hockey is a great sport and Cuba has some good potential when it comes to ticket sales. 

I couldn't think of any other ideas for a Havana based team. Rockets/Missiles seemed so perfect.

 

Hawaii Fighting Geckos

Affiliate to the Las Vegas Aces

Yes, you read that right. The Hawaii Fighting Geckos. When I think of Hawaii, I think of geckos. I've never even been there. But geckos were my favourite animal when I was like seven, and now that I'm older, imagining some badass version of one just seems awesome. For the logo design, I'm thinking two things: either a really buff gecko with boxing gloves, or a gangster gecko with sunglasses, a cigar, and a machine gun. Personally, I prefer the gangster gecko, but I guess the sig-specialists should be making that decision. 

My immediate other idea for a Hawaii team was the Volcanoes, but that just doesn't jive. Fighting Geckos is way more badass

 

Jamaica Reggaes

Affiliate to the Mexico City Kings

As you can by now probably tell, I see lots of potential for the hockey market in the Caribbean, for no apparent reason. Jamaica is an amazing place. I have also never been there. I haven't traveled the world much at all. Anyway, the name Reggaes is pretty obvious in it's background as Jamaica is the home of reggae and Bob Marley. For the logo, I have no idea. Someone will think of something, someone always does.

There really wasn't any other ideas in my head for a Jamaica team. Not many names with good background.

 

Orlando Animation

Affiliate to the Miami Marauders

Florida loves hockey enough to have two teams in the NHL, so why not two in the VHL? Although I personally hate the name I spent half an hour coming up with, an Orlando team would be great, since Orlando is just a touristy place in general, thanks mostly to the company I based the name off of: Disney. One of the biggest entertainment companies in the world, not to mention arguably the most famous. For the logo, something "magical". 

I hate this name. I really do. But I love the idea of a Disney-based Orlando team. Please reply and help me with this.

 

Seattle Sockeyes

Affiliate to the Minnesota Storm

The name that barely lost to the Kraken for the new NHL team. Featuring a sockeye salmon, a fish that is ugly as hell but patriotic as hell for the Seattle area. The original jersey design proposed by random people on the web was pretty cool: a totem-pole salmon, which A. is good for more background on that area and B. it takes away some of that butt ugliness of the actual fish. Literally, this fish is one of the most ugly things I have ever seen in my life. I encourage y'all to look up 'sockeye salmon' and prepare yourself to puke in your mouth a little bit. It really is nasty.

Other ideas for the NHL Seattle team were Emeralds, Metropolitans, Cougars, etc. All not as good as Kraken and Sockeyes.

 

Hamilton Terriers

Affiliate for the Mississauga Hounds

There really isn't any background in Hamilton for 'terriers'. I think it just sounds cool. And if you make a bunch of names that have deep cultural meanings, you gotta throw some in there that have no meaning whatsoever and just sound cool. And I think Hamilton Terriers has a nice ring to it. It also fits in nicely with the whole dogs thing with the Hounds, and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not yet. A logo with a small dog such as a terrier doesn't sound amazing on paper, but if you make it really vicious and add some hockey stuff, it can be decent.

I considered the Hamilton Tigers, Hamilton's old NHL team, for a bit, but Tigers is a common-ass name in sports. 

 

Montreal Voyageurs

Affiliate to the Ottawa Lynx

The team that I've been hyping since expansion became a possibility, the Montreal Voyageurs. Deep cultural reference, way back to the 1600s when Quebec was a French settlement. But also a cool sounding name in English: 'Muntree-all Voya-jerz' and in French: 'Muh-ray-al Voya-zher". For the logo, I would love a logo similar to the one of the Baie-Comeau Drakkar where there is a nice-looking boat, which is basically what 'Voyageurs' means in the first place. 

I don't have any more names for a Montreal based team, but someone else definitely does. Feel free to share

 

Pittsburgh Steelheads

Affiliate to the Philadelphia Reapers

Wow, you're probably thinking, that's a boring ass name compared to the Hawaii Fighting Geckos. And you'd be right. It's kinda boring. But it pays homage to Pittsburgh being the steel city, and I dearly hope there are steelhead fish in Pennsylvania now. I love the Mississauga Steelheads' logo, so I'm hoping for something along those lines. Pittsburgh has become a hockey city since the Steelers have sucked recently and nobody cares about baseball, plus the small fact of Sidney Crosby winning them like three cups in six years. I think it'd be a perfect place for another pro team, and an affiliate in state is helpful in reality.

This is another name that I spent a while trying to come up with one, but couldn't find anything cool, so I went with an average one. I was thinking like Robots or something like that but that just doesn't sound right.

 

Paris Triomphe

Affiliate to the San Diego Marlins

I've seen this name being proposed by people a lot, and I like it. It's obviously based off of the Arc de Triomphe, one of the lesser attractions in France, but it's still very cool. I was going to do the Paris Knights, which is common but goes well together, but Triomphe is just much cooler. Paris is a big city, with hella people, and it's soccer teams do fairly well. I just think there are so many people it'd be fine with a hockey team, at the very least people will go if there's no soccer. France is experiencing a bit of a growth in hockey, with P-E Bellemare a vet in the NHL and Alexandre Texier an up and coming young guy. I think there's potental for sure.

I did really like the Paris Knights, but I guess people in general like the Triomphe better, so yeah.

 

Edmonton Oil Kings

Affiliate to the Saskatoon Wild

Yes, I'm flat out copying the name of a WHL team. But I really, really love this name and it would fit well with all these other crap names that I made up. Realistically, we can make a deal with the WHL to move the Oil Kings to the VHLM Juniors, which would be awesome. However, I do not like their current logo at all, because it has no reference to oil whatsoever and is just plain bad. I'm confident someone can make a good one. Edmonton is a hardcore hockey city, as Gretzky and McDavid have made a lot of hockey fans in the last fifty years. Overall, Saskatoon isn't far from Edmonton, the name sounds cool, and a new logo sounds promising. Nice.

I was thinking about different names involving oil for a while and couldn't think of any, so I copied one. If anyone had any ideas, please share.

 

Tokyo Katanas

Affiliate to the Yukon Rush

The first name I made up and the one I've had to wait all this time for.....the Tokyo Katanas! It was brought to my attention to @GustavMattias's amazing new player Taro Tsujimoto, who the Buffalo Sabres faked selecting in the 1974 NHL draft. Tsujimoto's fake Japanese team that he 'played' for in his draft year was the Katanas, which is a Japanese sword of some sort. A cool sounding name, with an awesome meaning. What more coudl you want? How about a great city in Tokyo with the potential to be a great hockey city? I think this is the best name on this list. Checks all the boxes, and sounds so badass. I love it.

There have been some other proposed Tokyo names, but I think Katanas trumps them all. 

 

              Well, there you have it. The team names I want for the VHLM Juniors. @VHLM Commissioner  I'd love it if you guys checked this out and give me some feedback. Also, anyone who has any favourites or any suggestions, I'm here and I've got lots of time. 

 

P.S. This is a new record for words in an article for me

 

 

1,749 words

 

 

[Spartan 4,402]

27 minutes ago, Ledge_and_Dairy said:

Pittsburgh Steelheads

I want this one tyvm

[mediocrepony 1,216]

im gonna do one of these! thanks for the inspiration!

[diacope 1,696]

The Hamilton Terriers idea is pretty good!

[Matt thunder 444]

for Paris i would use the revolutionaries and use the red had whit the flag of France as a logo, but also the actual name is good.

Edited November 14, 2020 by Matt thunder

[fromtheinside 1,290]

some quality names in here. great read Ledge

[rory 1,916]

Smh using bigger cities for junior teams

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12 minutes ago, rory said:

Smh using bigger cities for junior teams

Bigger cities in different countries. The attendance would be similar either way

[fyrefly 172]

Love the Katanas and the Sockeyes, but the Animation is horrible imho

[Suzuki14 24]

Review: I like the idea, there are some great names here. Nice use of bold and italic text, and nice short paragraphs so it's easy to read. I know it's hard to include images for teams that don't exist, but one would be a nice touch.

9.5/10

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4 hours ago, fyrefly said:

Love the Katanas and the Sockeyes, but the Animation is horrible imho

I know, I tried harder to find a decent Disney name but couldn’t

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21 hours ago, Ledge_and_Dairy said:

 

 

Paris Triomphe

Affiliate to the San Diego Marlins

I've seen this name being proposed by people a lot, and I like it. It's obviously based off of the Arc de Triomphe, one of the lesser attractions in France, but it's still very cool. I was going to do the Paris Knights, which is common but goes well together, but Triomphe is just much cooler. 

 

 

"Lesser Attraction"??? in paris? The arc de triomphe?

[Doomsday 4,130]

13 hours ago, Ledge_and_Dairy said:

I know, I tried harder to find a decent Disney name but couldn’t

 

Orlando Cells

 

Cells can be a reference to animation AND to the tropical weather that Florida endures, really opens up what can be done with it.

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3 hours ago, GrittyIsKing09 said:

"Lesser Attraction"??? in paris? The arc de triomphe?

Lesser attraction compared to the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre

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2 hours ago, Doomsday said:

 

Orlando Cells

 

Cells can be a reference to animation AND to the tropical weather that Florida endures, really opens up what can be done with it.

Yes!! Thank you, that's so much better than the Animation

[bigAL 2,176]

The Orlando Florida Men (people?)

 

Absolutely terrifying.

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Claiming 1/3

[Jolline 13]

This is just glorious. I like all these kinds of posts so naturally it pleases me. Some good creativity was used here and honestly my favourite was the Tokyo Katanas

 

9/10

[Toast 887]

Review:

I can't even come up with one name so the creativity here is outstanding. I understand a love for the Oil Kings but would've liked this even more if they were all created names. The writing flowed well but it was a lot without much going on. Maybe some colour for the city/team names or a general image to help make it more appealing? Awesome work with this overall. 9.5/10

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[mediocrepony 1,216]

well you just posted this somewhere else so it is fair game to reopen this thread. Buffalo is a perfect VHLM team location. not a huge city, but a big hockey one