What's the best name for a Seattle NHL team?

More than a hundred years after winning the Stanley Cup, the NHL has approved an expansion team for Seattle.

Now that the announcement is official many fans are wondering: What will the franchise name and mascot be?

The Metropolitans, a tip of the cap to the Pacific Coast Hockey Association team that beat the NHL champion Montreal Canadians to win the Stanley Cup, is among the usual recommendations.

Other ideas included the Pilots (the name of Seattle’s first Major League Baseball team), the Steelheads (the state fish and the name of a local Negro leagues team) and the Thunderbirds (Seattle’s longtime junior hockey team).

Canadian sports network TSN proposed four names: The Thunder, Nighthawks, Neon Warriors and Skyscrapers. For good measure, hockeyfeed.com added another Northwest cliche: The Seattle Sasquatch.

Here are some other suggestions (both new and old) via KIRO 7 News viewers on Facebook:

• The Seattle Metropolitans
• The Seattle Sasquatch
• The Seattle Freeze
• The Seattle Sockeyes
• The Seattle Totems

What do you think? Follow this link or click it below to weigh in and add your name suggestion.

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