Name that team

So exciting news has come down out of the National Hockey League: Seattle is joining the party!

Which is to say, the home of the Space Needle and Starbucks is getting an NHL franchise, and what fun it's going to be. There'll be that great border wars rivalry with Vancouver, or so one would presume. There'll be a lot of fans wearing self-aggrandizing No. 7 jerseys for the same reason Seahawks fans wear No. 12 jerseys -- for "The 12th Man," aka the fans. Seattle hockey fans will be The Seventh Man.

Even more fun will be trying to come up with a name for the new franchise.

The Blob being an Official Naming Zone, it has some suggestions. In so doing, it follows the accepted rules of naming hockey teams, which state that there must be an inordinate number of suggestions that include the word "ice," and also an inordinate number of suggestions that include the word "dogs."

Here we go:

1. Seattle Ice Dogs.

2. Seattle Needle-Nosed Ice Dogs.

3. Seattle Sea Dogs.

4. Seattle Grunge Dogs.

5. Seattle Iced Latte Dogs.

6. Seattle Rainiacs.

7. Seattle Icy Rainiacs.

8. Seattle Fightin' Chinooks.

9. Seattle Chinooks Fightin' Upstream While It Rains Cats And Dogs.

10. Seattle Fightin' Red Holiday Cups.

Seriously, though ...

Seriously, the best suggest comes from a friend of the Blob, who points out that the coolest idea would be to resurrect the name of a former Seattle minor league team: The Seattle Totems.

Which wore these way-cool jerseys.

Think we've got a winner.