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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
When the Flames moved to Calgary, was there ever any consideration to re-brand them as the Tigers?
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They actually had an informal write-in thing where fans could suggest nicknames for the team, but none of the suggested names got traction, so in the end they kept the name ‘Flames’.
In the old days, this sort of thing was not done formally at all. Since we've reached the first season of the Montreal Maroons franchise, I might as well use it as an example:
The owners of the new Montreal team actually wanted to resurrect the name ‘Montreal Wanderers’, because that team had won several championships in the 1900s and 1910s and was still regarded nostalgically. But Sammy Lichtenhein still owned the trademark on that name, and wouldn't sell it, at least not for any reasonable price.
Now, the Wanderers' logo had been a simple ‘W’ on a red shield. The new team got rid of the shield, changed the ‘W’ to an ‘M’ (to stand for Montreal), and went for a much darker colour. It was the press who nicknamed the team ‘Maroons’ after that colour, and the name stuck. Officially it was known simply as the ‘Montreal Professional Hockey Club’.
The Bruins got their nickname, by the way, because Charles Adams wanted a name that would go with yellow and brown uniforms. Why yellow and brown? Those were the colours in the logo of his grocery stores. The brown was changed to black some years later.