Welcome, Bearcats!

I'd been going around and around with the name of the expansion team that will be joining my historical Strat-O-Matic hockey league next season. As with the other team names in this league, it needs to follow certain criteria: It must be the name of a real-life historical hockey team (amateur or professional), it can't be the name of an existing major-league-level professional team in any sport, it can't be a team that played in the NHL at any point (even under a different name), and it can't be totally off-the-wall or racist.

So where does that leave us? I was leaning toward Aristocrats or Shamrocks, but then I stumbled across a team called the Bearcats, and that seemed pretty cool. Although I reserve the right to change my mind at the last minute, for the time being I'm planning on the Bearcats as the sixth franchise in my hockey league!