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In early August, I had the chance to attend the ESPN fantasy football ultimate draft weekend in the Bahamas. Multiple fantasy football leagues congregated at Baha Mar to make their annual selections, with the help of the "Fantasy Focus" crew, to help with draft orders, late-round diamonds in the rough and a healthy amount of chirping. ("You picked WHO sixth overall???") Among the leagues present were the "Bahamas Ballers," who were the life of the party and incredible ambassadors for why it's awesome to live in the Bahamas. Bahamas Ballers is also a terrific league name: alliteration, easy and fun to say and invokes pride among its members. Then there was the "Nice Man League" of college friends, who selected the theme music for the Nintendo Wii as they marched in as if they were a caricatured Mii version of themselves. Their league name was birthed because, as league-member Ryan pointed out when I asked, "When someone would do something stupid, we would say, 'Nice, man,' so it became a trend. I've been doing this post on ESPN for four years, and this is the first time that I've shined a spotlight on league names. Whether you have a great origin story or another connection, don't forget to put a little elbow grease into the league name as well. Previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 The league I joined is called "Influencers in Paradise" -- the influencer part is inspired by the terrific creators in the league, like Kickball Dad and Insane Shayne. The "in Paradise" part was a nod to Joey Graziadei and Tanner Courtad, both from the Bachelor/ette. Field Yates made the selection for my team -- the Millenium Atlanta Falcons -- and chose a kicker in the sixth round ... I'm in trouble. I owe Field a little payback, I'm a Yater and I'm gonna Yate. Luckily, you won't be in trouble because I'm here to inspire you with some cool, funny fantasy hockey team names. Lumped into categories as usual. Drop the puck!
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Player pun namesKyle Connor McDavid Pastrnak LabuBoone Jenner Colton Rizz-ons SkibiDean Evason Dexter Morgan Rielly Bingo and Nikolai Bluey-lers La Femme Nikita Kucherov Nathan's MacHotDog Eating Contest Leon Forgot About Draisaitl Cale Makarbonated beverage Sidney Cros-bae Brandon Nat Pagle Artemi Panarinse and repeat The Nature of Things with Nick Suzuki Jesper Bratt Pack William Homelander Brayden Right To The Point Zach What Is a Werenski Matt Du-Shane Wright Lucas Everybody Loves Raymond Auston JackHughes Travis ConnectMe via LinkedIn Sebastian Aho, Aho, It's off to work we go Captain Rikard Rakell Justin Holl in the Wall Erik Pinky and the Brannstrom Ivan Ivan Duran Duran Now you Vesey now you don't A mistake plus Tyler Kleven gets you home by 7 Collin Steffi Graf Brandon Carlo Colaiacovo Ben Chiarot's of Fire
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Max I don't think you're ready for Pacioretty Ilya La Bouche-kin Connor Geekie Squad Oskar We Are So Back Sean Walker, Texas Ranger Michael Pocket Eyssimont Drew Never In Doughty Olli Maata and Faata Nick Publix Jamie Canada Drysdale Adam Pelech-an Brief Erik Haula If You Hear Me Nikita Knock at Za-Door-ov Kirby Dach-ed and Loaded Mason Applebees Cody Ceci'd on that email Eetu Luosta Rhymes Esa Lindell computers Frank Nazar Deymesin (for my fellow Turks out there) Zach Benson and Beaker Ondrej Palat-es
Star WarsCassian An-Dorofeyev K2S-Orlov R2-DTootoo Order #66 Mario Lemieux It's a Neutral Zone Trap! Alex Emperor Palpa-Steen Grand Admiral Henry Thrun I don't like Sand-is Ozolinsh Mon Moth-Martin Necas That's no Moon-treal Canadiens Noxi Clayton Kell-er Kitrin Adam Braves DJ Smith Clulow Filip Use The Forceberg John TaBarriss Offee Use the Schmaltz! (for the Spaceballs fans) Din Tristan Djarin Kayden GroGuhle StewJon Klingberg Chris Cooper-alls
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Arda, who bears a close resemblance to WWE's "Kyle Edwards," has been involved in the wrestling industry for years and still writes about the squared circle here on ESPN.
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The 'Fantasy Focus' crew but with wrestling-inspired namesMike Clay-more Field UnderYater Stephania Ring The Bell Daniel Atomic Dopp Liz WrestlepaLoza
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