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The Greensboro Gargoyles are a future professional minor league ice hockey team based in Greensboro, North Carolina, in the Piedmont Triad. They will play in the ECHL and bring Greensboro their first ECHL team since the folding of the Greensboro Generals in 2004. Their home games will be played at First Horizon Coliseum. [1]
The team debuted with the name "On Deck 2025," the placeholder name until the name was chosen. Fans of the new team were given three choices for names; the "Mississippi Mud Monsters," "Mississippi Grits," and "Mississippi Soul Shakers." [6] [7] [8] A name the team contest ran from September 9, and ended on September 26. [7]
This article is a list of teams that play in the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).
The NHL's 32nd franchise — the Seattle-based expansion team set to start play in 2021 — is expected to reveal its highly anticipated name and colour scheme on Thursday.
An expansion team is a new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of satisfying the demand for a local team from a population in a new area. Sporting leagues also hope that the expansion of their competition will grow the popularity of the sport generally.
Three years later, the NHL added a third Canadian team (and the first in Western Canada) when the Vancouver Canucks, formerly of the Western Hockey League, were admitted as an expansion team for the 1970–71 season, along with the Buffalo Sabres, another team whose owners had bid unsuccessfully for an expansion team in 1967. [19]
The Houston Sports Association was formed in 1957 and bought a minor league baseball team four years later. The group was given a controlling interest in Houston's expansion team, which was named the Houston Colt .45s. It played at Colt Stadium. [12] It would only be a few years later in 1965 that the team would become the Houston Astros.
The second album, Expansion Team, was released in 2001 [4] led by the Alchemist–produced "Worst Comes to Worst," which utilized a vocal sample from Mobb Deep's "Survival of the Fittest" and a musical sample from William Bell's "I Forgot to be Your Lover".