There is no shortage of NHL team name polls in Seattle right now. The announcement last week that the NHL is allowing Seattle to apply for expansion caused a lot of excitement, which is a beautiful thing.
Never forget, however, that we at the Seattle Sin Bin and Sonics Rising have been having this debate on and off for the last four years. We were trying to name our future team before trying naming our future team was cool.
And we’re not about to stop now.
Beginning today, the @SeattleSinBin twitter account is running a bracket style tournament in which 32 team names square off against one another a round at a time. The tournament will be conducted via Twitter polling.
Today’s contests have already been tweeted. If you don’t vote, you can’t complain about the winner! In the comments below, please tell us which names you voted for and why.
Comments
Oh, this should be fun and hard.
By Throbert Bedford on 12.11.17 8:13pm
Kraken
Is pretty easy.
By Chris Meirose on 12.11.17 8:15pm
Minor league rec team name.
UTTERLY TERRIBLE
Would be great for a GSHL team, though.
By Throbert Bedford on 12.11.17 8:17pm
T-Birds is LITERALLY a minor league team name!!!!
By Drunk Viking on 12.12.17 7:50am
In the literal sense yes
But other WHL team names include:
Chiefs, Rockets, Pats, Giants, Royals, Warriors, Blazers, Raiders, and Bruins so it’s not like the name couldn’t be used.
The appeal to me is the logo – it’s fantastic. One of the best around, IMO, and could be used for T-Birds or Totems (or adapted for a different name) if you go with the Native American style for an animal team name.
By maruk14 on 12.12.17 9:53am
They've outkicked their coverage, though.
It’s a pro-team name slumming it in the WHL.
And, as maruk pointed out, the logo is already NHL ready and one of the best in the business (pro and minor).
By Throbert Bedford on 12.12.17 10:05am
No mistake, it is a pretty good name/logo concept.
Just too bad that they wasted it on a minor league team.
"Seattle Mildew". It’s practically like printing money.
By Drunk Viking on 12.12.17 10:08am
We did what we could with what we had at the time thanks to the Ackerley idiot
Now we can bring it back to primetime after it took a couple laps in AAA.
By Throbert Bedford on 12.12.17 10:10am
Except they'll NEVER get rid of the WHL name now.
And we’ll be stuck in the same terrible situation as Montreal where all their teams are Canadiens/Canadiennes/Canadians/etc. I love the Habs and all but that drives me nuts. Just turns them into the sports equivalent of the kid who always dresses the same as his daddy.
By Drunk Viking on 12.12.17 10:13am
They can and should. They play in Kent and Seattle will have a pro team. It's time to move on.
Kent Breakers; Kent Totems; Kent Meth
The team needs to rebrand away from the "Seattle" name and it’s time to do so once the pro team arrives. They were called the Breakers before, take it back.
By Throbert Bedford on 12.12.17 10:18am
If AND ONLY IF they become the Kent teamnames, then I can maybe get a little more onboard with the Thunderbirds.
Still, any nickname summarized by first letter + subsequent syllable is terrible. Exhibit A, and the one that started it all: K-Fed.
F*** that. Any time someone started a "T-Birds" chant I’ll just silently throw up a little.
By Drunk Viking on 12.12.17 10:20am
I hope we still say "Portland sucks" in our chant. It fits on so many levels
1) don’t have a team
2) try so hard to be like Seattle
3) timbers suck
4) hipsters
By Throbert Bedford on 12.12.17 10:28am
I think they might try to crush that...
Considering a fair portion of onlookers/supporters will be from Portland.
By Otto Rogers on 12.12.17 2:21pm
"Vancouver sucks"
just doesn’t flow as well though!
By Taylor Bartle on 12.12.17 3:32pm
You mean Vanhoover, right?
By Count to 10 on 12.12.17 3:46pm
Remove the "Van" and it works.
Couver sucks! They’ll know what we mean!
By itsanospreybich on 12.12.17 3:53pm
Van City Sucks
Could work.
By Matt Tucker on 12.12.17 4:57pm
or "Canucks suck"
By Taylor Bartle on 12.12.17 4:58pm
"Canucksuk"
By Throbert Bedford on 12.12.17 5:04pm
Winner.
By itsanospreybich on 12.12.17 5:55pm
Eh, doesn't really work since the emphasis on "Canucks" is stressed so much on the second syllable. " 'Cou-ver sucks" works way better, phonetically.
By Drunk Viking on 12.12.17 9:37pm
Pfft. You bunch of amateurs
The proper chant is Nucktown sucks!
By Paul Rogers on 12.12.17 9:41pm
Okay this is best.
By Drunk Viking on 12.12.17 9:50pm
Thunderbirds need to keep their name
I love the WHL and I think the Thunderbirds name is a staple to the league. I think it would not be good for the new NHL team to take the name of an existing and beloved local franchise
By EK123456 on 12.13.17 7:52am
Keeping the Seattle name is fine until Seattle gets a team. Now that it looks to be happening, they should give it up.
They don’t play in Seattle and never will again, so this shouldn’t be that big of an issue. It can be done and since the name and logo are already NHL level, it would be easy.
By Throbert Bedford on 12.13.17 9:58am