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Hybrid1486 · 09-03-2015, 06:43 PM

Whenever trades are posted in the SMHJL, or SHL for that matter, they are usually signified by using each team's three-letter indicator, such as DET - COL for a trade between Detroit and Colorado. Many of these are bland and uninteresting, but a few make for funny-sounding words or partial phrases that can make any player look forward to a deal just to see how it reads. Here are my top five team combinations, based solely on how their short names sound when typed out together.

Honorable Mention: COL - KEL / KEL - COL

No matter which team is listed first, any trade between Colorado and Kelowna would bring a smile to my face. I seem to be leaning towards the first combination, since as I'm writing this I can't stop saying 'cokel'. Either way, it's going to sound fun since they're so similar.

5. VAN - HAL

Neither of those teams are based in 'Panama', but whenever a player makes the 'jump' from Vancouver to Halifax their trip will seem like they're 'runnin' with the devil'. Those two teams need to make a trade 'right now'.

4. COL - VAN

This one is kind of personal to me, since I grew up near a street called Colvin Boulevard. I didn't spend a whole lot of time there, but whenever I go home I usually end up driving near it at some point. To that end, any time Colorado and Vancouver make a trade it'll make me want to hop on a flight home...except, you know, I won't since flying is expensive and I have to work.

3. KEL - VAN

This one sounds like Kelvin, the temperature scale that's designed to shift the Celsius scale so that there are no negative temperatures. To find the temperature in Kelvin, you add 273.15 to the temperature in Celsius. Of course, being an American I don't use Celsius outside of work, but that's a fun little fact for everybody else if they want to confuse people by giving them the temperature in Kelvin. One point, though: it's not in degrees, so water's freezing point wouldn't be '273.15 degrees Kelvin', it would just be '273.15 Kelvin'.

2. COL - STL

This sounds like coastal, which is both my credit union and an area that I'd like to be right about now. Neither Colorado nor St. Louis could really be considered 'coastal' areas since they're largely landlocked, but St. Louis does sit on the Missouri River, and Colorado has several waterways, most notable the Rio Grande. They wouldn't be my first stops, but I could deal.

1. MON - KEL

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