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The last set of three groups of trivia questions here were about the unusual origins of professional hockey team names and logos. The current set of question groups to appear in this space asks you to identify by general shape a number of "mystery" logos of pro hockey teams the graphic details of which have been altered or disguised. To help you with this task I have included an indirect "clue" to the identity of each club.
The Challenge: To identify the pro teams (and their leagues) from the altered or disguised logos and/or the accompaning clues and match them....
7) While bearing the name of a 1794 citadel, this club could also be thought of as representing an angelic, slightly misspelled, periodic "long haired" visitor made mostly of ice.
8) The denizens of this team's home "arcade" could best be thought of as a nest of algid caimans.
9) Visitors to this team's divinely guided coop came there in hopes of broiling their hosts.
10) Although this team carries the surname of the youngest signer of the U.S. Constitution, its name could just as easily be thought of as that of a 47th Street ice house.
11) General Corwallis might well have described this team to its namesake as "a hornet's nest in a taxi."
12) To the founding doyens of this team's hometown, even the Leiden Separatists might well be thought of as being "late for the game."
Mystery Logo "H"
General Corwallis might well have described this team to its namesake as "a hornet's nest in a taxi." (In 1780, British Gen. Charles Corwallis wrote to Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III, that the American rebels in her namesake town of Charlotte, N.C., were a "hornet's nest of rebellion." For decades the iconic American taxi was the boxy "Checker Cab" built by Checker Motors.)
Charlotte Checkers (ECHL)
Mystery Logo "I"
Although this team carries the surname of the youngest signer of the U.S. Constitution (then 28-year-old New Jersey Delagate Jonathan Dayton), its name could just as easily be thought of as that of a 47th Street (New York's jeweler's row) ice ("diamond") house.
Dayton Gems (IHL)
Mystery Logo "J"
While bearing the name of a 1794 citadel (the U.S. Army's Ft. Wayne which was named for Gen "Mad" Anthony Wayne), this club could also be thought of as representing an angelic, slightly misspelled, periodic "long haired" visitor made mostly of ice (comet). ([Origin: 1150-1200; ME comete < AF, OF < L cométés, cométa < Gk komtés wearing long hair, equiv. to komé-, var. s. of komân to let one's hair grow (deriv. of kómé hair) + -tés agent suffix])
Ft. Wayne Komets (IHL)
Mystery Logo "K"
To the founding doyens (leaders of the English settlers who first arrived in Virginia in 1610) of this team's hometown (Hampton, VA), even the Leiden Separatists (the "Pilgrims" who arrived in Plymouth, MA, ten years later in 1620) might well be thought of as being "late for the game."
Hampton Aces (EHL)
Mystery Logo "L"
Visitors to this team's divinely guided ("providence") coop (chicken house) came there in hopes of broiling their hosts.
Providence Reds (AHL)
Mystery Logo "M"
The denizens of this team's home "arcade" could best be thought of as a nest of algid (cold [blooded]) caimans (Origin: 1577, from Port. or Sp. caiman, from a Carib word, or perhaps from a Congo African word applied to the reptiles in the new world by African slaves.).
Louisiana IceGators (ECHL)
The Challenge: To identify the pro teams (and their leagues) from the altered or disguised logos and/or the accompaning clues and match them....
7) While bearing the name of a 1794 citadel, this club could also be thought of as representing an angelic, slightly misspelled, periodic "long haired" visitor made mostly of ice.
8) The denizens of this team's home "arcade" could best be thought of as a nest of algid caimans.
9) Visitors to this team's divinely guided coop came there in hopes of broiling their hosts.
10) Although this team carries the surname of the youngest signer of the U.S. Constitution, its name could just as easily be thought of as that of a 47th Street ice house.
11) General Corwallis might well have described this team to its namesake as "a hornet's nest in a taxi."
12) To the founding doyens of this team's hometown, even the Leiden Separatists might well be thought of as being "late for the game."
Mystery Logo "H"
General Corwallis might well have described this team to its namesake as "a hornet's nest in a taxi." (In 1780, British Gen. Charles Corwallis wrote to Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III, that the American rebels in her namesake town of Charlotte, N.C., were a "hornet's nest of rebellion." For decades the iconic American taxi was the boxy "Checker Cab" built by Checker Motors.)
Charlotte Checkers (ECHL)
Mystery Logo "I"
Although this team carries the surname of the youngest signer of the U.S. Constitution (then 28-year-old New Jersey Delagate Jonathan Dayton), its name could just as easily be thought of as that of a 47th Street (New York's jeweler's row) ice ("diamond") house.
Dayton Gems (IHL)
Mystery Logo "J"
While bearing the name of a 1794 citadel (the U.S. Army's Ft. Wayne which was named for Gen "Mad" Anthony Wayne), this club could also be thought of as representing an angelic, slightly misspelled, periodic "long haired" visitor made mostly of ice (comet). ([Origin: 1150-1200; ME comete < AF, OF < L cométés, cométa < Gk komtés wearing long hair, equiv. to komé-, var. s. of komân to let one's hair grow (deriv. of kómé hair) + -tés agent suffix])
Ft. Wayne Komets (IHL)
Mystery Logo "K"
To the founding doyens (leaders of the English settlers who first arrived in Virginia in 1610) of this team's hometown (Hampton, VA), even the Leiden Separatists (the "Pilgrims" who arrived in Plymouth, MA, ten years later in 1620) might well be thought of as being "late for the game."
Hampton Aces (EHL)
Mystery Logo "L"
Visitors to this team's divinely guided ("providence") coop (chicken house) came there in hopes of broiling their hosts.
Providence Reds (AHL)
Mystery Logo "M"
The denizens of this team's home "arcade" could best be thought of as a nest of algid (cold [blooded]) caimans (Origin: 1577, from Port. or Sp. caiman, from a Carib word, or perhaps from a Congo African word applied to the reptiles in the new world by African slaves.).
Louisiana IceGators (ECHL)
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