2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs thread

Imagine the charm offensive Vegas can roll out for free agents.

 

My top 5: Mountaineers, Black Diamonds, Yeti, Mammoth, Venom
Bottom 5: Ice, Fury, Frost, Freeze, Blast

Couple of the other ones are weird (HC, Caribou, Powder) or uninspiring (Canyons, Glaciers, Blizzard). If I had one pick, Black Diamonds might be it but visuals may be limited.

 

"Charm offensive?" Is that what they call showgirls now?

 

Venom isn’t that great, but there used to be an arena football team in Huntsville called the Vipers and I always thought that was catchy.

 

I think I've been up on that because they have a ready-made goal song for that, a relatively obscure Eminem cut by that name. Vipers was Detroit's briefly existing IHL franchise that played out of the Palace. IIRC, it was part of the Peter Karmanos-Mike Ilitch wars of the 1990s.

I am generally an absolutist about team names ending in S, but if they're going to go the 'trendy' route, at least Venom is something that does something, unlike the "Wild," or 3-4 of the options listed or what the Avalanche almost were: the "Rocky Mountain Xtreme."

 

The Great Salt Lakers

 

This is actually a great name, but the LA Lakers undoubtedly would sue, and I'll bet the franchise's neighbor the Jazz wouldn't care for it either.

 

The Soakers.

 

The Utah Yeti is cooler.

 

Can American consumerism stand it if Yeti people start openly pining for a Stanley?

 

My 20-year-old daughter, who loves Barstool and all things Portnoy, asked me if I’d heard there was a push to name the team that. My wife and are still reeling from the question.

 

Salt Lake Spikes