Similar to Pugs’ “Phoenix Flamethrowers” moniker for the then future DBacks, I did a similar thing herein Denver when the new baseball te am was being formed. There was still debate on whether to use the city or state name. But I submitted a name I though captured both the city and the region, the “Denver Mountain Lions”.
Not only that, you could create a great logo from a mountain lion. I pictured a hat logo with a “D”, and a menacing mountain lion at an angle in the center.
But of course they went with the retread name of the old NHL team that was here in the early 1980s. No creativity,