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What Should the new Atlanta NHL team be named?

AtlantaWhaler said:
Quebec has lost a team twice and Winnipeg is currently struggling. And history doesn’t pay the bills. The Islanders and Blackhawks had low attendance for years.
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Ohh please saying Quebec lost a team twice is disingenuous as I am guessing you are talking about the Bulldogs which was in 1920 so over 100 years ago. Everything in the brand new NHL was in flux back then.

Atlanta has lost teams twice during my lifetime, 1980 and 2011 much more recently. But hey not my money if the league wants to try again, I guess go for it...not sure if it will work any better this time around.
 
beowulf said:
Ohh please saying Quebec lost a team twice is disingenuous as I am guessing you are talking about the Bulldogs which was in 1920 so over 100 years ago. Everything in the brand new NHL was in flux back then.

Atlanta has lost teams twice during my lifetime, 1980 and 2011 much more recently. But hey not my money if the league wants to try again, I guess go for it...not sure if it will work any better this time around.
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Oh stop… Brand new NHL?? Do you have any idea how much has changed since 1980? Just as silly going back 100 years.
 
The Atlanta Alligators

And a logo with an alligator that bite a shark in half.
 
AtlantaWhaler said:
And that city has grown by like 8 Quebecs in that time. Completely irrelevant.
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Well if you want to talk about Atlanta proper and Quebec City proper, Quebec is bigger population wise. But yes the Greater Atlanta area is a lot bigger than the Greater Quebec area.

Atlanta proper has a population of 496,000 while Quebec City is at 543,000.
Greater Atlanta is over 6M while Quebec Metro area is about 875,000.

They had a similar population in 2011 when they failed at 5.5M so I guess if they do come back we shall see if more people are interested in going to hockey games a decade plus later.
 
beowulf said:
Well if you want to talk about Atlanta proper and Quebec City proper, Quebec is bigger population wise. But yes the Greater Atlanta area is a lot bigger than the Greater Quebec area.

Atlanta proper has a population of 496,000 while Quebec City is at 543,000.
Greater Atlanta is over 6M while Quebec Metro area is about 875,000.

They had a similar population in 2011 when they failed at 5.5M so I guess if they do come back we shall see if more people are interested in going to hockey games a decade plus later.
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Ticket sales stretch further than city limits, so yes, using MSA populations makes sense. This is why the Braves moved out of the city and the potential NHL team here would too.

And I'd think you know the history of the Thrashers, so no need to rehash all of that. But when an ownership group buys the team in order to own the arena and outwardly states that they don't want the team, it doesn't matter what city it's in.
 
WhatTheDuck said:
First thought - Flaming Thrashers
Second thought - that's basically a phoenix
Third thought - how confusing/rude would it be if the Coyotes were moved there and became the Atlanta Phoenix
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I really enjoyed this post. Honestly, with Atlanta getting a 3rd team, I think "Phoenix" works for them, regardless. They need something that speaks to the resilience of hockey in Atlanta, and rising from the ashes is just perfect for their history.
 
Atlanta Soul

And have the mascot be a ghost.
 
AtlantaWhaler said:
Oh stop… Brand new NHL?? Do you have any idea how much has changed since 1980? Just as silly going back 100 years.
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You can argue how relevant the Atlanta Flames are pertaining to the expansion talk of today, but to compare them to the Quebec Bulldogs and say Quebec has failed twice is outright disingenuous.
 
Fishy McScales said:
You can argue how relevant the Atlanta Flames are pertaining to the expansion talk of today, but to compare them to the Quebec Bulldogs and say Quebec has failed twice is outright disingenuous.
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Not at all. The NHL, Atlanta, and life in general is completely different than 45 years ago. The NHL had 21 teams including Hartford, Quebec, Jets 1.0, and even the Colorado Rockies. In every way, saying Atlanta has had two teams is comparable to saying QC has had the same number.
 
AtlantaWhaler said:
Not at all. The NHL, Atlanta, and life in general is completely different than 45 years ago. The NHL had 21 teams including Hartford, Quebec, Jets 1.0, and even the Colorado Rockies. In every way, saying Atlanta has had two teams is comparable to saying QC has had the same number.
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Look, I agree that the Flames are largely irrelevant to today's situation other than optics to some people.

But I also think comparing them to the Bulldogs is ridiculous.

Both things can be true.
 
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