Best fantasy hockey team names for 2024-25 NHL season

Every year that I do this list for ESPN fantasy hockey, I dig for inspiration. Some names lend themselves naturally to puns or pop culture references, which creates a solid, standard Fantasy name such as “A Jack Hughes Brothers Film” or “Auston Matthews McConaughey”). The secret sauce, though, is to play with more challenging names; that’s where you find your diamonds in the rough.

Once in a while a name comes along that defies all fantasy team handle conventions. Throws the rule book completely out the window. Makes you question everything you’ve ever known.

That name? Rutger McGroarty.

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This wonderfully goated name (and former University of Michigan player who was selected 14th overall by Winnipeg in the 2022 NHL draft and is now with the Pittsburgh Penguins, but that’s not the focus for this particular piece) is both a blessing and a curse in terms of naming your fantasy team. If Rutger McGroarty didn’t exist as a hockey player in the NHL, inventing that moniker for your team would still turn heads and spark a few questions. If you were hearing the name for the first time, you’d be excused if you thought Rutger McGroarty played against Babe Dye and Newsy Lalonde in the 1920s.

But Rutger McGroarty is an S-tier fantasy hockey team name in itself, no clever modification or linking needed. It does the work for you. It is the Mona Lisa or the Raygun of fantasy names; 10/10, no notes.

Speaking of work, that’s what I did so you don’t have to. Enjoy the fourth annual ESPN Fantasy Team Name List, bigger and more Rutger McGroartier than ever.

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Author : Arda Öcal

Publish date : 2024-09-13 15:40:32

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