It also recently won back-to-back Stanley Cups with a similarly-talented group of players: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Phil Kessel.
This team was the second of the four added, joining the Nashville Predators, Minnesota Wild, and Columbus Blue Jackets. Despite only making the playoffs in one of those seasons, the team had a number of talented stars, including Marian Hossa, Dany Heatley, and Ilya Kovalchuk.TheQuiz (the “Website”) is owned and operated by Valnet inc. (“us” or “we”), a corporation incorporated under the laws of Canada, having its head office at 7405 Transcanada Highway, Suite 100, Saint Laurent, Quebec H4T 1Z2.Advertisers, as third-party vendors, use cookies to collect usage and demographic data in order to serve ads on our site. Unfortunately, it didn't really work that way for this city as the team, while still playing there, has struggled to garner fans and remains a candidate for relocation. It was the only logo the Rockies used before becoming the New Jersey Devils in 1982. In fact, the previous version of the team that used this name existed from 1883 until 1934 and spent the latter 17 years of that time in the NHL, during which it won an incredible 11 Stanley Cups. This team attempted to do something different in designing its alternate logo, but like the Islanders, experienced quite a bit of a negative backlash as fans thought it was too cartoonish and silly. As with most detailed logos of the time, it didn't last long; the Pirates moved the following season, becoming the Philadelphia Quakers, and the logo was never used again.I was never a fan of the logo used by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim upon their founding, but I cannot deny how popular it was then and how even more popular it is today. Every current logo in the NHL looks modern and stylish, but in the 1990s, teams had logos that were more cartoonish and perhaps attempting to appeal to a younger generation of fans. When James Norris, a former member of that team, purchased the Detroit Falcons in 1932, he changed their name to the Red Wings and made the "Winged Wheel" their symbol, thinking it'd be perfect for the Motor City. Regardless of the league it played in, the team hasn't been afraid to alter its logos. Its original logo was designed by its owner's wife, Irene Castle, and featured a crudely-drawn head of a Native American man, but the team did a lot in its early years to educate the community through its partnership with the American Indian Center.This franchise was founded in 1972 and played in the now-defunct WHA until 1979, when it joined the NHL. It proved too popular to remain retired, and the Penguins brought it back as an alternate with muted colors in 2000 and as a full-time logo for 2002-03. Like most of the logos in this quiz, nobody is wishing this one would make a return.This Eastern Conference Original 6 team was founded in 1926 and has used the same logo for much of its existence. The team primarily used the logo during the 1980s and only changed just in time for the arrival of its most prominent player in franchise history: Wayne Gretzky.The NHL went from six teams in 1967 to 18 by 1978 and one of those teams added was the team that used the accompanying logo. I didn't realize at first that it's actually a large C, the hockey stick formed by the negative space in between the top and bottom halves of the letter, and that the overall shape of the logo is meant to reflect the ice surface of a hockey rink. Despite turmoil behind the scenes in regard to management and player personnel, it actually won the Stanley Cup in the 1917-18 season, but didn't have its name engraved as later became the custom.