Washington sure went decidedly neutral with Nationals. Ottawa could have done a lot better than the scholarly Senators.

You can bet if Toronto was to get a second crack at naming the city’s hockey team it would come up with something far more interesting (and grammatically correct) than Maple Leafs. It’s really about an edgy nickname and an exciting logo a team can sell, nothing more. So we have Utah and the Jazz, the Dodgers of Los Angeles, Carolina’s Hurricanes and the Vegas Golden Knights. Gone are the days when a team’s nickname needs to have any meaningful connection to the city, province, state or country in which the team plays. Whether the Kraken nickname actually has anything at all to do with the city of Seattle - it doesn’t - no longer matters.

The Redmen are gone, the Fighting Sioux are gone, but there’s still more work to do. It’s just taken a long, long time to get rid of them, and the process is ongoing. That the Seattle Kraken have arrived at the same time we are gratefully waving farewell to the Redskins and Eskimos, and hopefully soon to the Indians, Braves, Chiefs and Blackhawks, is interesting but doesn’t exactly represent an inflection point in sports history.Īfter all, teams stopped using these insulting nicknames a long, long time ago.

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