Yahoo Lifestyle is your source for style, beauty, and wellness, including health, inspiring stories, and the latest fashion trends. You know you love them - XOXO! As the tenth anniversary of Gossip Girl's first ever episode approaches, FEMAIL looks at what the stars of the Upper East Side drama. What's in a Nickname? The Origins of All 3. NHL Team Names. Ever wonder what a Canuck is? How about a Blue Jacket? With another NHL season upon us, here's a breakdown of how the league's 3. New York Rangers. Getty Images. In 1. New York Americans joined the National Hockey League and played their home games at the old Madison Square Garden. Tex Rickard, the boxing promoter and ex- gold prospector who built and owned the arena, decided he wanted his own NHL team, which he was awarded in 1. Rickard's team was immediately dubbed "Tex's Rangers" as a pun referencing the paramilitary force founded in Texas during the 1. The Americans folded in 1. Tex's Rangers remain. New Jersey Devils. Getty Images. Given that New Jersey has never been known for its mountains, the team needed a new nickname after the Colorado Rockies relocated to the Garden State in 1. The New Jersey Sports and Exhibition Authority sponsored a statewide newspaper contest to determine the new nickname and some of the other finalists included Americans, Blades, Coastals, Colonials, Gulls, Jaguars, Meadowlanders, and Meadowlarks. While some fans objected to the winning selection on religious grounds—one threatened the life of a reporter who was covering the search—the Devil has an entirely non- religious folk history in New Jersey. According to legend, a harmless creature known as the Leeds Devil, or the Jersey Devil, roamed the Pine Barrens in the southern part of the state from 1. New York Islanders. Getty Images. When New York's expansion Major League Baseball franchise held a name- the- team contest in 1. Islanders finished third behind Mets and Empires. Eleven years later, Islanders was selected as the nickname for New York's new hockey team, which plays its home games on Long Island. Philadelphia Flyers. Getty Images. The team sponsored a name- the- team contest after Ed Snider, then- vice president of the Philadelphia Eagles, brought hockey back to the City of Brotherly Love in 1. Snider's sister, Phyllis, reportedly suggested the name Flyers, which sounds good when paired with Philadelphia but doesn't have any real meaning. Pittsburgh Penguins.
Getty Images. The Pittsburgh Post- Gazette sponsored a name- the- team contest, but Carol Mc. Gregor, the wife of one of the franchise's part owners, Jack Mc. Gregor, was the one responsible for the nickname. In his book, Pittsburgh Penguins: The Official History of the First 3. Years, Bob Grove describes how Carol Mc. Gregor came up with the name. I was thinking of something with a P. And I said to Jack, 'What do they call the Civic Arena?' And he said, 'The Big Igloo.' So I thought, ice .. Pittsburgh .. Penguins." More than 7. Penguins. 6. Boston Bruins. Getty Images. When grocery store tycoon Charles Adams brought a team to Boston, he hired former hockey great Art Ross to serve as his general manager. Adams tasked Ross with coming up with a nickname, with one of the requirements being that the team's colors would be the same as his grocery store chain's: brown and yellow. 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The brothers sponsored a name- the- team contest and decided on Sabres, with a buffalo featured prominently in the team's logo. Montreal Canadiens. Getty Images. In 1. John Ambrose O'Brien created the Club de Hockey Canadien. Ambrose wanted his team, a charter member of the National Hockey Association, to appeal to Montreal's francophone population and he hoped to drum up a rivalry with the city's established team, the Wanderers. The Canadiens are often referred to as "The Habs" or "Les Habs," an abbreviation of "Les Habitants," the name for the early settlers of New France. Ottawa Senators. Getty Images. The original Ottawa Senators, founded in 1. Stanley Cups. When an NHL team returned to Ottawa in 1. Ottawa's status as Canada's capital city, was an obvious choice. Toronto Maple Leafs. Getty Images. Conn Smythe purchased Toronto's hockey team in 1. The franchise that began play as the Arenas in 1. St. Patricks in 1. Toronto's Irish population. Smythe eventually decided on Maple Leafs, for a couple possible reasons. Smythe fought in the Maple Leaf Regiment during World War I, and there was a former Toronto hockey team called the East Maple Leaves. Winnipeg Jets. Getty Images. The Winnipeg Jets, formed in late 1. Canada's Western Hockey League. The current franchise is actually the second incarnation; the first relocated to Phoenix, Arizona in 1. Phoenix Coyotes. The current franchise was originally called the Atlanta Thrashers— named by Ted Turner after Georgia's state bird, the brown thrasher—before it was sold to a Canadian group, True North Sports & Entertainment, in 2. Carolina Hurricanes. Getty Images. After the Hartford Whalers moved to Raleigh in 1. Peter Karmanos, Jr. Florida Panthers. Getty Images. Had Tampa Bay been awarded a baseball team in the early '9. Florida Panthers, a reference to the endangered species of the same name. Instead, the nickname was adopted by Florida's second NHL team. When Panthers president Bill Torrey revealed the nickname, he told reporters: "A panther, for your information, is the quickest striking of all cats. Hopefully, that's how we will be on the ice."1. Tampa Bay Lightning. Getty Images. In 1. Tampa Bay Hockey Group Phil Esposito's decision to name his team the Lightning. Esposito said that, in addition to being a natural characteristic of the Tampa Bay area, Lightning expressed the fast action of a hockey game. Washington Capitals. Getty Images. Washington owner Abe Pollin decided on the perfectly apt nickname Capitals after staging a name- the- team contest. Chicago Blackhawks. Getty Images. World War I veteran and coffee tycoon Frederic Mc. Laughlin was Chicago's owner when it entered the NHL in 1. Mc. Laughlin named the team after the 8. Infantry Division in which he served. The "Black Hawk Division" was named after Chief Black Hawk of the Sauk American Indian tribe, who fought the Illinois militia in 1. The nickname was officially changed from Black Hawks to Blackhawks in 1. Columbus Blue Jackets. Getty Images. Blue Jackets was the winning entry in a name- the- team contest. According to the team's website, the name "celebrates patriotism, pride and the rich Civil War history in the state of Ohio and, more specifically, the city of Columbus." Ohio contributed more residents to the Union Army than any other state during the Civil War. Detroit Red Wings. Getty Images. After purchasing the Detroit Falcons in 1. James Norris renamed the team after the "Winged Wheelers," the nickname of the Montreal Hockey Club for which he once played. Norris chose a winged wheel as the team's logo, a nod to Detroit's growing reputation as the heart of the automobile industry. Nashville Predators. Getty Images. A vote by the fans helped determine Nashville's nickname, a reference to the saber- toothed tiger remains that were discovered during an excavation in the city in 1. St. Louis Blues. Getty Images. According to the team's website, owner Sid Saloman Jr. Blues in 1. 96. 7 after W. C. Handy's song, "St. Louis Blues." Mercury and Apollo were two of the other nicknames that were considered. Calgary Flames. Getty Images. The Flames played in Atlanta from 1. Atlanta by General William T. Sherman during the Civil War. While the team moved, the nickname remained. Colorado Avalanche. Getty Images. Rockies, the nickname for Colorado's hockey team that left for New Jersey in 1. Denver's baseball team by the time the Quebec Nordiques left Canada for the Front Range in 1. Management originally wanted to name the team Extreme, but received all sorts of negative feedback, and justifiably so. Avalanche, which eventually beat out Black Bears, Outlaws, Storm, Wranglers, Renegades, Rapids, and Cougars, drew some criticism, as well, given their deadly nature. A member of the marketing group responsible for naming the team replied: "This is the NHL, a rough and tough sport, and Avalanche is something that matches the 'on the edge' feel they want to create. Hey, Cougars and Bears kill people, too. People shouldn't get so excited about Avalanche being a disrespectful name or something. It's just a name."2. Edmonton Oilers. Getty Images. Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, is also the oil capital of Canada. Edmonton began play in 1. World Hockey Association and retained the name Oilers when it joined the NHL in 1. Minnesota Wild. Getty Images. In 1. 99. 8, Wild was chosen from a field of six finalists, which also included the Blue Ox, Northern Lights, Voyageurs, White Bears, and Freeze. Voyageurs were the working- class employees of fur trading companies in the region during the 1. Vancouver Canucks. Getty Images. Johnny Canuck, who originally appeared as a Canadian political cartoon character in 1. Adolf Hitler, among other villains, during World War II. Canuck is also slang for Canadian, making Vancouver's hockey team the Canadian equivalent of the New York Yankees—with a little less money. Dallas Stars. Getty Images. When the Minnesota North Stars, whose nickname was decided by a fan contest, moved to Texas in 1. North" and didn't feel compelled to replace it with "South" or "Lone."2. Los Angeles Kings. Getty Images. The late Jack Kent Cooke, who owned the Los Angeles Lakers and later the Washington Redskins, settled on Kings as the team nickname from entries submitted in a fan contest. The Los Angeles Monarchs played in the Pacific Coast Hockey League during the 1. Cooke's new team adopted the same royal color scheme as the Lakers. Anaheim Ducks. Getty Images. Quack. Quack. Quack! Quack! QUACK! Anaheim joined the NHL in 1. Mighty Ducks, after the wildly popular Disney movie and cross- marketing vehicle of the same name. The nickname was changed to Ducks and the logo was changed in 2. Disney sold the team. Phoenix Coyotes. Getty Images. The Winnipeg Jets moved to Phoenix in 1. Coyotes was the winner in a name- the- team contest that attracted more than 1. Travel | Yahoo Lifestyle. Here's how to pack for a trip without blowing a hole in your budget: Avoid hidden baggage fees, make lists, and say "no" to travel- size items.
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