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NHL Hockey Team Names by Clue

All the answers are NHL team names. Based on the selected clue, guess the team name.
Each team is used once
Quiz idea: chempstead98
Quiz by Quizmaster
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Last updated: May 7, 2025
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First submittedOctober 11, 2013
Times taken73,651
Average score81.3%
Rating4.37
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Clue
Team Name
Antarctic birds
Penguins
Typhoons
Hurricanes
Male monarchs
Kings
Jaws!
Sharks
Mallards
Ducks
Lucifers
Devils
Peninsula one-uppers
Islanders
Roman leaders
Senators
Constellation components
Stars
Cascade of snow
Avalanche
Ebony birds of prey
Blackhawks
Bears
Bruins
Infernos
Flames
Cerulean coats
Blue Jackets
Extinct elephant
Mammoth
Untamed
Wild
Clue
Team Name
Scarlet airfoils
Red Wings
Canadian flags
Maple Leafs
Giant squid
Kraken
French speakers north of the border
Canadiens
Petroleum workers
Oilers
Black leopards, jaguars, or cougars
Panthers
Prey hunters
Predators
Park patrollers
Rangers
Hot tub water sprayers
Jets
Brochures
Flyers
Cutlasses
Sabres
Sadnesses
Blues
Zeus's anger
Lightning
Wearers of shiny armor
Golden Knights
Slang for Canadians
Canucks
Seats of government
Capitals
60 Comments
+21
Level 82
Sep 5, 2014
Haha, laughed at "hot tub water sprayers".
+2
Level 55
Sep 19, 2015
Yes, such a good one!
+6
Level 86
Nov 27, 2016
I don't get why Islanders are "Peninsula one-uppers". Do people consider islands superior to peninsulas?
+26
Level 66
Nov 27, 2016
Well, yeah. Duh.
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Level 62
Nov 3, 2017
lol
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Level 91
May 10, 2025
Definitely superior to Pelicans.
+3
Level 46
Nov 4, 2021
islanders fan, can confirm
+3
Level 60
Jan 18, 2022
Not in Michigan we don't. I'm offended!
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Level 60
Jan 18, 2022
I'm not really offended.
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Level 54
Aug 18, 2022
Obviously they're superior, they aren't attached to the mainland.
+4
Level 85
May 7, 2025
I think the idea is basically: "Oh you're surrounded by water on three sides? Well, we're surrounded on all four!"
+4
Level 97
Nov 27, 2016
looks like you need to add one for the Golden Knights... what a terrible name
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Level 34
Nov 28, 2016
You're worried about the name?
+12
Level 61
Aug 22, 2018
lmfao you thought they were gonna suck
+8
Level 78
Mar 18, 2022
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.
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Level 58
Oct 17, 2023
you took the words right out of my mouth
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Level 56
May 30, 2024
With that logic "Red" Wings and "Blue" Jackets is stupid too, right?
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Level 72
Nov 9, 2024
I personally would agree with the Red Wings, but the Blue Jackets are named for the Bluecoats from the civil war, I think, so they get a bit more leeway with me.
+4
Level 64
Nov 27, 2016
So I was confused about the "Pilots" one because jets wasn't the answer and in the last ten seconds I'm like, "What are they, Flyers? OH MY GOD"
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Level 59
Jun 29, 2021
I did the same thing. And I'm from Philly. And a big hockey fan.
+1
Level 69
Jan 4, 2022
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.
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Level 80
Jan 18, 2022
But it’d be more concerning if they said they were a jet!
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Level 78
Mar 18, 2022
Well you know what they say...when you're a jet you're a jet from your first cigarette to your last dyin' day.
+6
Level 77
Nov 27, 2016
I managed to get 19/30 despite knowing nothing about hockey and not being able to name a single hockey team. Think this is the best I've ever done on a sports quiz by far haha.
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Level 55
Nov 29, 2016
Same! If all sports quizzes were like this, I might actually be able to get some points from them once in a while!
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Level 87
Nov 27, 2016
Coyotes don't howl at the moon: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2426745
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Level 75
Nov 3, 2017
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.
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Level 33
Nov 30, 2016
Great quiz. The clues were amusing.
+4
Level 58
Jan 1, 2017
I know nothing about hockey and kept throwing basketball teams in (Timberwolves, Grizzlies---I know nothing about basketball, either). Still got 21, tho.
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Level 68
Sep 23, 2017
Cute! As a hockey fan, I loved it :-)
+5
Level 79
Nov 3, 2017
I forgot the Flyers. I am a Flyers fan
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Level 59
Nov 3, 2017
Why isn't sabers allowed for Swords? Sabres is the team name, but Saber is proper spelling for the clue
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Level ∞
Nov 3, 2017
Fixed
+5
Level 66
Nov 3, 2017
I'm British and I have seen one NHL game in London about 10 years ago! Scored 15, didn't think that was too bad.....
+2
Level 79
Nov 3, 2017
Please accept "knights," or add something about "golden" to the clue.
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Level 85
Jul 10, 2021
There's *shiny* already
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Level 81
Nov 21, 2017
The ones I missed didn't exist in 1991, the last time I went to a hockey game.
+3
Level 6
Jan 30, 2018
can you accept leafs for maple leafs please?
+3
Level 75
Jul 14, 2020
I always wondered why are they the maple leafs and not the maple leaves? :)
+1
Level 54
Aug 18, 2022
Proper noun regiment in wwi
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Level 14
Jan 25, 2019
try my quiz. https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/318093/hard-nhl-quiz
+1
Level 73
Jul 14, 2020
If you liked this quiz, check out my NHL Teams by Emoji quiz for something similar. There are also versions for the NFL,

NBA, and MLB.

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Level 74
Sep 10, 2021
"Golden Knights" has gotta be the worst name for a sports team that has ever existed, with the possible exception of the Henderson Silver Knights. Which is the same people's fault.
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Level 86
Jan 18, 2022
I dunno. Horned Frogs, Chanticleers and Banana Slugs might be up there.
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Level 67
Jan 18, 2022
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.
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Level 87
May 7, 2025
The Maple Leafs are actually named after Cdn soldiers in WW1 who wore a maple leaf patch. Its why the plural Leafs is correct.
+1
Level 80
May 7, 2025
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.
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Level 82
Dec 21, 2021
Fantastic. I especially loved the peninsula one-uppers. My only suggestion would be to not repeat azure.
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Level 71
Jul 29, 2024
What the heck is "hockey club"?
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Level 47
Sep 8, 2024
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.
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Level ∞
May 7, 2025
Thankfully they have now picked a real name.
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Level 86
May 7, 2025
So, everyone will get "Sadnesses" by process of elimination?
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Level 74
May 7, 2025
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".
+1
Level 80
May 7, 2025
Do people call coyotes "panthers"?
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Level 86
May 7, 2025
Do, they do not. Very peculiar clue.
+1
Level ∞
May 7, 2025
Was supposed to be cougars. Now fixed.
+6
Level 63
May 8, 2025
So this is how I find out about Utah lol
+1
Level 76
May 9, 2025
Came here to say the exact same thing
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Level 92
May 12, 2025
Weird that you’d go straight to a hot tub for jets, rather than actual, er, like, jets, that fly in the sky…
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Level 91
May 12, 2025
Why they got to be black? ;) In fact, the logo is a tan colored cat!