Congrats, you are now the owner and gm for an expansion team?

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Betman has decided to continue his southern experiment, and you have been named owner of the new team. You can pick one of the following cities to place the team: New Orleans (largest city in the south), Mexico City (trying to expand to an international fan base), Austin, Texas (be the only pro sports team in town), or Boca Raton (a lot of snow bird northerners)

What would the team's name be?
What would the logo, mascot, and colors be?
Design the uniforms?
If you could select a "rival" team, who?

You need to pick 2 lines worth of players. No players who wear letters for their current teams, and only 2 players from the same team allowed.  Also, pick 2 goalies.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Austin NO, Houston perhaps?  I've been to Austin and it's Longhorns (wronghorns) or nothing.

Houston Aeros but that name is taken.. Houston Vipers?
A snake go with Black and Red?
Rival team The Dallas Stars

No idea about the players.

eNICKma · Answer

Based on the fact i like about 20 minutes away from Boca Raton and i absolutely love the city, im going to choose Boca

Teams name: The Boca Rats, or The Rats Mouth (Boca Raton means "The Rats Mouth" in Spanish and as Dweezil Zappa said when i saw him in 2006 in Boca "It truely is the rats mouth of the world!"
Logo, Mascot etc. : Definately a rat of some sort, for the logo maybe an awesome pic of a rat biting a hockey stick, sort of like the San Jose sharks logo but with a rat. Colors would be Black & Orange. Resembling the Anaheim Ducks jersey
Jersey: just said it^
Rival: The Tampa Bay lightning and (sadly my team) The Florida Panthers :'( mostly because the rat tradition they have down there

David Booth-Steven Stamkos-Semin
Ballard-Green
Tomas Vokoun/Craig Anderson

lots of past panthers^

hockeyhelmer · Answer

There is a problem with this, first of all Texas is a Football state, High School, College, and Pro, so Austin is out....

New Orleans is a Football tailgating city......They dont even sell that many basketball tickets, so they wont sell hockey tickets

Mexico City will need a lot more than a Hockey team to help there international fan base and Mexico city sounds terrible for a hockey team.....

And Boca Raton, why would Florida need another hockey team, The only 2 states with 3 teams are New York, and California......Old people go to beaches in Boca Raton not to see men crush each other.....NO and The Panthers play in Fort Lauderdale, thats what 10 miles away from Boca? NO

Just stop making up games....or......at least create a game that makes sense!!!

LJ · Answer

I would like to move to Mexico City and we would be called the Banditos.  We would be black and red, and silver, and our logo would be a guy with a handkerchief over his face with a cowboy hat on. 

Home it would be a black uniform and black socks with red and silver stripes on the sleves and.

Rival city:  Pheonix Coyotes because well we all know AZ and the immigration law.  

I will take:  Patrick Marleau, Marion Gaborik, Patrick Kane, Nicklas Backstrom, Bobby Ryan, Ilya Kovalchuk

Goalies: Henrik Lundqvist, Ryan Miller

I'd Maybe take Scott Gomez bc of the whole mexico thing

? · Answer

@ LJ
Sorry, this isn't really an answer, I'd just like to point out that Scott Gomez is from the United States.  More specifically, he's from Alaska.  Let's keep the stereotypes to a minimum here.  It'd be like putting an expansion team in Italy and drafting a guy just because his last name is DeMato, even though he's lived in the US his entire life.

tomjc43 · Answer

I'd chose New Orleans and the name would be the Acadians. (What does Yahoo mean spelt wrong?)

Logo would be an alligator, Mascot would be Pete Lafitte (pirate) Colours would be green and yellow. (Much like Albert in Pogo). 
Uniforms are out of my league.

The rival would be the Montreal Canadians (history here folks). 

Players:

Goal From Pittsburgh M. A. Fleury 
         From Ottawa Pascale Le Claire

Defence:  From NYI Milan Jurcina and Andrew Mac Donald
                  From Montreal Alex Picard
                  From Nashville Aaron Johnson

Forward   From Buffalo Jason Pominville
                  From Florida Steve Bernier
                 From Edmonton J. F. Jaques
                From Minnesota G. Latendresse
                 From Columbus Derek Brasard
   and       From  Tampa Bay Marc Poulot

Each player played his junior in Acadia Canada and thus will be solid Acadians always.

Anonymous · Answer

Sorry I am going to decline your offer, with those choices of cities I will be bankrupt the second game of the season. Thanks for the offer though.

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