Don't Call Yourself A Real NHL Fan If You Don't Know These Logos
- by Mike Moore
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With the National Hockey League playoffs in full swing it's time to put your knowledge to the test. 16 teams are battling for the Stanley Cup, the most coveted prize in all of professional sports with the World Series of Major League Baseball giving it a run for its money.
Teams have come and gone in the NHL, and those who have stuck around have all changed their logos in some form or another over the decades of battling it out for Lord Stanley's mug. Those teams who are not around anymore have left a legacy within the NHL in terms of their logos and uniforms such as the Minnesota North Stars, Atlanta Flames, and California Golden Seals to name a few.
Some logos look incredible, such as the current Vegas Golden Knights, where as others are.. questionable, like the 90s New York Islanders fisherman logo, but all have been worn with pride by the teams and their fans for decades, and some jerseys have become collectors items at this point.
So, you think you're a true fan of the National Hockey League, and have the knowledge of teams past and present to pass this quiz? There's only one way to find out. Take the quiz!
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This hockey club originally stems from the 70s era World Hockey Association, which was a direct competition product of the National Hockey League at the time. They played out of Boston, before moving to Hartford due to scheduling conflicts with another little known club in the form of the Boston Bruins. They were on the move again in 1997 and found a home where they still play out of today, finding success with a Stanley Cup win in the 2005-2006 season.
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This franchise joined the National Hockey League during the expansion year in 2000 which saw them, and another club, enter the NHL at the same time. To this day they have yet to really make their mark on the league, only making the post season four times since their inaugural season in 2000. Despite never making a deep run in the playoffs their fan base is dedicated, and the franchise is starting to develop into a real playoff contender in the future.
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This franchise was a power house for a long time in the National Hockey League, so much that people forget they actually originated in Kansas City in 1974 before moving to Colorado in 1976 to form the Rockies. In 1982 they were on the move again and have stayed in their current home since then. They have three Stanley Cups to their credit, and produced a slew of Hall of Famers over the course of their history, most notably in the net minding department with Marty Brodeur.
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The blue and orange were once an unstoppable force during the 80s era National Hockey League. With the likes of Mike Bossy at the helm of the ship it was easy to see why they won an incredible FOUR Stanley Cups in a row starting during the 1979-1980 season and ending in after the 1982-1983 season. Since then however they haven't managed to bring home another championship, and had fallen on some dark times since in terms of team performance.
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This franchise is one of the oldest in all of hockey, sitting among the elite group known as the Original Six as being the first teams to form the National Hockey League. They have four Stanley Cups to their name with the first coming during the 1927-1928 season, and their most recent coming during the 1993-1994 season. Since the 93-94 season they've been able to hang around in the playoffs but have not been able to grasp hockey's greatest prize.
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This club joined the National Hockey League during the 1967-1968 season. They struggled in the early going but managed to turn it around by the 1973-1974 season and brought home the Stanley Cup. They would do it all again the following season by dumping the Buffalo Sabres in six games and become the first franchise in the new expansion era, outside of the Original Six, to win the league championship. They are well known for their rough and tumble style of play.
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This club is one of the biggest power houses in the entire National Hockey League right now, although their history in the league tells a different story where they almost went bankrupt and were a losing franchise for a long period of time. They won two Stanley Cups in the early 90s under the leadership of Mario Lemieux and it wasn't until the late 2000s where they would strike gold again and win a Cup under their new franchise player Sidney Crosby.
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This club was founded in 1974 and despite winning the President's Trophy three different times for the leagues top point getting team they have yet to win a Stanley Cup. They came close to winning the league's top prize in the 1997-1998 season but were swept in four games by the power house Detroit Red Wings. Today the club is one of the stronger teams out of the entire National Hockey League, but they can't seem to get it together when it comes down to playing hockey in the spring.
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This franchise is no longer a part of the National Hockey League, and spent only eight seasons in the league before being shipped to their current home in Calgary in 1980. The team had eight losing seasons during their run in the NHL, and barely made a sound when it came down to the playoffs. They did however produce future talent in the form of the legendary Pat Quinn, Tom Lysiak, and Cliff Fletcher began his managing career with the club.
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This franchise formed in 1924 as part of the National Hockey League's Original Six hockey clubs. Their rough and gritty style of game play is fitting based on where their hail from, and has been part of their club identity since its formation. They have produced some of the greatest players to ever play the game in Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito, and have six Stanley Cups to their name, with their latest coming in the 2010-2011 season against the Vancouver Canucks.
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This franchise joined the National Hockey League at the beginning of the 1970-1971 regular season along side of the Vancouver Canucks as part of a league expansion. They have had their ups and downs since their inaugural season in the league, and have yet to grab themselves a Stanley Cup despite making it to the conferences finals on three separate occasions. They are currently on a bit of a down swing in terms of team performance, but have a bright future ahead with the current crop of prospects.
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This franchise is one of the most successful in all of hockey, and has the honor in being part of the Original Six franchises to form the National Hockey League although they went by the Cougars at the time. They have an impressive 11 Stanley Cups to their credit, and went on the longest streak ever recorded in National Hockey League history for making it into the post season which ended after 25 seasons of making it into the spring dance.
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This franchise came into the National Hockey League during another expansion year which saw the Mighty Ducks in Anaheim (owned by Disney) join the western conference as this club joined the east. They made a pretty good first impression in the early going, making it all the way to the Stanley Cup final in 1996-1997 against the Colorado Avalanche but would ending up losing that series in a four game sweep. To this day they haven't had much more experience in the post season, however they are turning it around with their crop of prospects and young talent.
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This franchise is likely one of the most recognizable teams in all of professional hockey, stemming from their early going as part of the Original Six and having the most Stanley Cups out of any other franchise in the National Hockey League to date with an impressive 24 total championships to their name. Although they have not won a championship since 1993, they are one of those teams who always look a little dangerous when it gets late in the year.
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This franchise is the second incarnation of a club under the same name who played in the same city from 1917 to 1934. The original club won an impressive 11 Stanley Cups in that run, but this current franchise has won zero so far, after joining the National Hockey League in 1992. They won the President's Trophy in 2002-2003 at the league's top team that year, but failed to make it through the Eastern Conference finals over the New Jersey Devils.
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This hockey club joined the ranks of the National Hockey League in 1992 after a two-way battle between ownership groups ended with none other than Hockey Hall of Fame legend Phil Esposito and company winning the bid to put the team in their current home town. The club has one Stanley Cup with their name on it, and has been buzzing over the last handful of years as one of the league's top contenders to win another as they appear to have all the pieces in place to bring home another trophy.
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This franchise entered the National Hockey League in 1917 as part of the Original Six, and under the name of the St. Pat's. It wasn't until 1927 when they debuted under their current name and the classic blue and white uniforms. They have 13 Stanley Cups to their name, although their last came in 1967 and marks one of the longest losing droughts in league history and is a major point of concern for their faithful, yet eager, fan base. The future looks bright for the blue and white however.
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This Original Six franchise was founded in 1926 and was one of the National Hockey League's toughest teams to beat in recent years, although they are on the decline right now. They currently have six Stanley Cups with their names on them, three of which came in the late 2000s in 2010, 2013, and 2015, which spawned the conversation of whether or not they were the most recent dynasty in which the National Hockey League had seen since the 80s New York Islanders.
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This club joined the ranks of the National Hockey League in 1967 as part of the first ever league wide expansion year which saw six new teams added to the roster. While they competed for 26 seasons in the NHL they couldn't get their hands on a Stanley Cup, although they came close in the 1990-1991 season by winning the conference championship only to lose in six hard fought games against the Pittsburgh Penguins during the Stanley Cup finals that year.
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This franchise has a long history in the National Hockey League, but got their start in Quebec as the Nordiques in the WHA before being shuffled into the fold of the National Hockey League in 1979. In 1995 the franchise was bought by another ownership group which moved the club to their current home, and they actually ended up winning the Stanley Cup that same year. They would go on to add another Stanley Cup to their trophy room in 2000.
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This hockey club entered into the National Hockey League in 1993, but not as part of an expansion. They were moved south from their previous home where they played since 1967, and with the move they brought along some very good up-and-coming talent in the form of Mike Modano. They won their first Stanley cup only a few years later in 1998, and followed up that season with a trip to another final, where they ultimately lost against the New Jersey Devils.
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This franchise entered into the National Hockey League in 2000 as part of an expansion which saw it and the Columbus Blue Jackets enter the ranks at the same time. While they were new to the modern era of the league, they had a long history there before the original club was sold and moved to Dallas in 1993. They have yet to get their hands on a Stanley Cup, however they've been good enough to at least give themselves a crack at the opportunity.
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This franchise entered into the National Hockey League in 1998 in one of the most unlikely cities you would expect that there would be an NHL club, let alone ice hockey in general. It worked for the city however, and their fan base is among the most loyal out of the entire National Hockey League. They have yet to win a Stanley Cup, but have gotten close in recent years, losing in the final against the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2016-2017.
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This franchise entered into the National Hockey League during the very first expansion era which saw it and five other franchises join the Original Six in 1967. Despite their long standing history in the NHL they have yet to win a Stanley Cup, although they have been making waves during the post season and are likely to win a championship sooner than later. The club is one of the few lucky teams to have played home to Wayne Gretzky before his retirement.
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This hockey club is in its second stint in the National Hockey League. They formed in 1971 as part of the now defunct World Hockey Association, and were moved to the National Hockey League in 1979 as part of the WHA-NHL merger. They were sold later on, in 1996, to an ownership group which relocated them to Arizona to form the Coyotes. Years later as the Atlanta Thrashers were folding, an ownership group purchased the club and moved them back to this city to reform one of the NHL's more legendary clubs.
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This franchise formed in 1972 as part of the World Hockey Association, the competing professional hockey league of the NHL. They joined the National Hockey League in 1979 after the leagues merged and played there until 1997 when they were relocated to Carolina and are still there to this day. While they have no Stanley Cups to their credit, they did manage to snag an Avco World Trophy in 1972-1973, the WHA's equivalent to the Stanley Cup at the time.
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This franchise was part of the 1993 expansion year along with the Florida Panthers. They were initially owned by the Walt Disney Company, which was a tad bit off of the radar in terms of hockey ownership groups. They did alright for themselves in the early going, and drafted franchise player and future Hall of Famer Paul Kariya in the entry draft that year. The won a Stanley Cup in the 2006-2007 season, and it's their only cup to date despite always being in the running.
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This franchise has had a bit of a checkered history to this day in the National Hockey League. They've faced bankruptcy, franchise movement rumors, and even tried to recruit the greatest player of all time Wayne Gretzky to pull them out from the bottom of the NHL as their head coach. Despite never finding much success their fan base is as loyal as any other club in the NHL, and they have a decent crop of prospects which could potentially turn it around.
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This club was originally formed in Atlanta in 1972 before before being sold and moved to its new Canadian home while still flying the same banner. They have played home to some of the all-time greats like Lanny Mcdonald, Doug Gilmore, and Theo Fleury, and even won a Stanley Cup with that core for their team in 1988-1989. They made another run at the Cup in 2003-2004 but fell short against the Tampa Bay Lightning in a hard fought seven game series.
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This franchise is historically one of the best clubs to ever play in the National Hockey League, despite being on a heavy downward swing since their last playoff run in 2006 where the lost in the finals against the Carolina Hurricanes. The club produced many great elite stars of the game in Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Glenn Anderson, and in the modern NHL the likes of Connor McDavid and Taylor Hall who was recently acquired by the New Jersey Devils.
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This franchise was founded in 1967 as part of the National Hockey League's first ever league expansion year which saw six new teams join the ranks with the Original Six. They have had some recent success in winning the Stanley Cup as they snatched their first and second ever championships in 2011-2012 and 2013-2014. They have also played home to the Great One Wayne Gretzky as Gretz was on the move from Edmonton in one of the biggest trades in National Hockey League history.
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This club made their debut in 1991 as part of a league expansion which saw hockey return to the Bay Area after the California Seals went under in 1976. They always appear to be a competitive group, ready to strike and win their first Stanley Cup, but Lord Stanley's Mug is still just out of reach for the franchise. Each year they seem to be a favorite to win it all, but generally fall short when it comes playoff time.
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This franchise entered the National Hockey League in 1970 as part of a league expansion year along with the Buffalo Sabres. They have yet to get their hands on a Stanley Cup to call their own, but have gotten close on three separate occasions, losing to the New York Islanders in 1982, the New York Rangers in 1994, and most recently the Boston Bruins in 2010 which spawned a riot throughout their city after the game and costed millions of dollars in damages.
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This franchise is the newest expansion club to the National Hockey League, making their debut during the 2017-2018 regular season. They have made an immediate impact league wide with their immediate success during their first season of play, posting a record of 51-24-7 which was good enough for 109 points and clinching their division. They are making quick work of their current playoff run and are high favorites to win it all in their first year, which would be a first for any expansion team to date.
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This franchise is the most recent club to have been relocated to another city in the National Hockey League. They were formed in 1999 and played in the NHL until 2011 when they were relocated to Winnipeg, which was a blessing for the fans in the Peg as they were finally getting another NHL team after the Jets rolled out of town in 1996. They didn't see much success in terms of team performance and were a minor blip on the radar of National Hockey League fans.