NHL Hockey Team Names by Clue

Yes, such a good one!

Well, yeah. Duh.

islanders fan, can confirm

Obviously they're superior, they aren't attached to the mainland.

I think the idea is basically: "Oh you're surrounded by water on three sides? Well, we're surrounded on all four!"

Agreed. It's a terrible name. Whether they are good or not is irrelevant. Adding a color modifier to an already perfectly normal team name makes it sound like a college team. Knights is good enough...in fact, Vegas Knights is an awesome name with a double meaning. Sticking "Golden" on there is just dumb.

I did the same. I'll be honest, if I asked someone what job they did, and they said they were an "aeroplane flyer", I'd never get on their plane.

Same! If all sports quizzes were like this, I might actually be able to get some points from them once in a while!

No, they don't, but I still got the answer. We were sitting around a bonfire on Halloween and we heard coyotes coming toward us. My cats were getting really nervous, so as a joke I threw back my head and gave a long howl. The pack immediately turned and ran the other way and we never heard them again the rest of the evening. So, coyotes don't howl at the moon, but humans can howl at coyotes.

There's *shiny* already

I always wondered why are they the maple leafs and not the maple leaves? :)

I dunno. Horned Frogs, Chanticleers and Banana Slugs might be up there.

I don't understand why teams pick names with two words. Everyone just shortens it to the second word. Pretty much since their inception, they've been called "the Knights," which is a perfectly fine name. Props to the Devil Rays for realizing this themselves and just dropping "Devil" from the name. Mighty Ducks dropped the "Mighty" too. Even the Maple Leafs, which are named after their national symbol, are usually just called "the Leafs." I can understand older teams who are stuck with their names, but for a brand new team to do it just seems dumb.

The name is a pun. A bad pun, but a pun. Golden Knights, like knights wearing armour, but it also is about how you can win riches at night in Las Vegas. I assume this is why they went with that name, anyway.

The Arizona Coyotes were relocated to Salt Lake City. It happened pretty quickly so a team name hasn't been picked yet. For the 2024-25 season, the team will be known as Utah Hockey Club.

No, I got it as a Beatstar (music game) player. The game does not explicitly have blues as a genre, but has some blues rock songs like "Fell in Love with a Girl".

Do, they do not. Very peculiar clue.

It's funnier.

My favorite, though, was the Philadelphia Brochures. LOL

Several of these are not literal definitions. The Blackhawks, for example, are not named after a bird. They're named after a Native American tribe. The Flyers are definitely not named after pamphlets. The clue just needs to direct you to the answer, which "Hot tub water sprayers" definitely does.

I'd also imagine that, even though a pilot and his jet are not the same thing, some people would get confused if the clues for Jets or Flyers referred to actual flying.