Confirmed with Link: Habs farm team moving to Laval for 2017-18 season

[Runner77]

Kind of a strange name, like all the club is just one singular rocket? Shouldn't it be plural?

Not unless it's spelled "racket".

Mind you, even then, there could be a multitude.

 

[Gary320]

Rapids will win.

I think Rocket wins this hands down. But hopefully they change it to Rockets

 

[le_sean]

Rocket singular makes sense. Homage to the Rocket and I guess the team can technically be onboard some kind of propelled rocket. It's also a verb. I mean Rapides and Rocket essentially mean the same thing but at least Rocket has historical significance from a hockey perspective.

 

[Number 57]

Rocket singular makes sense. Homage to the Rocket and I guess the team can technically be onboard some kind of propelled rocket. It's also a verb. I mean Rapides and Rocket essentially mean the same thing but at least Rocket has historical significance from a hockey perspective.

Is Maurice Richard from Laval or something? Why would they honor the Rocket when a player that had (arguably) a better career, Mario Lemieux, actually played in Laval and has a connection to the city.

They proposed as a name The Laval 66s, I thought that was a pretty cool and original name. There's also some history with numbers team name with the SF 49's and the 76ers, etc. Rocket is basically a name teenagers use to nickname their custom video game team... Come on. It's lame, cliche and overused.

Otherwise, I think Patriots and Rapids are alright. But I would have gone with the 66's or perhaps even the Titan as an hommage to the popular Q team.

 

[le_sean]

Is Maurice Richard from Laval or what? Why would they honor the Rocket when a player that had (arguably) a better career, Mario Lemieux, actually played in Laval and has a connection to the city.

They proposed as a name The Laval 66s, I thought that was a pretty cool and original name. There's also some history with numbers team name with the SF 49's and the 76ers, etc. Rocket is basically a name teenagers use to nickname their custom video game team... Come on. It's lame, cliche and overused.

Otherwise, I think Patriots and Rapids are alright. But I would have gone with the 66's.

Because it's a farm team of the Habs, that's why they can choose Rocket. Who cares about Lemieux? He didn't play for the Canadiens. Mario isn't even from Laval either, he just happened to play there for three years on a now defunct team.

Maybe the Oshawa Generals should rename their team to the Oshawa Orrs?

 

[Gary320]

I hate the name Rocket/Rockets but it's definitely more appropriate to Montreal/Laval and the Canadiens than 66's

Titans was better
But I still think it should have been Laval Canadiens

 

[Agalloch]

It's only the Great Darkness for people that were not in it. Saints doesn't mean much, really.

Titans is boring, same with Rocket(s), Patriots alienates a part of the population.

Ok then let's go with the Laval Nonames.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Le Rocket de Laval & Laval Rocket sounds good to me. It has a meaning that is significant to the Canadiens franchise.

I don't want Patriotes or Patriots (in English) because everyone associates that name with the New England Patriots. So no thank you to that one.

Rapids doesn't intrigue me.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Ok then let's go with the Laval Nonames.

I think the brand noname would have something to day about that.

 

[Agalloch]

I think the brand noname would have something to day about that.

I was being sarcastic but I don't mind the name. It will depend on the logo.

 

[Adam Michaels]

I was being sarcastic but I don't mind the name. It will depend on the logo.

Yes I know. I forgot to add the at the end of my post.

 

[Gary320]

I think the brand noname would have something to day about that.

They can sponser the team. Yellow jerseys would be sickkkk

 

[Adam Michaels]

They can sponser the team. Yellow jerseys would be sickkkk

And they have a grocery in the arena where you can buy their products. My wife and I will have a blast going to the game for different reasons!