Written task (150 words min.): If you were the GM of an expansion franchise, what would your new team be? Where would you place it? What's the team name? Why there? Why that name? Describe your branding, goal song, colors, etc.

If I were a new GM and tasked to coming up with an expansion franchise, I would make my franchise in Arizona. I picked Arizona because there is not a team there yet and the National Hockey League has a successful team located there and if they can do it so can we, right? I would name my franchise the Rattlesnakes, mainly since the national snake of Arizona is the Ridge-nosed rattlesnake and it sounds cool, Arizona Rattlesnakes! Another reason for bringing the franchise to Arizona is that there is a nice market there with the other sports teams, football and baseball (and yeah I know the baseball team is the Diamondbacks and pretty much the same thing but who caaaares...). Their colors would be blue (federal) and yellow. They would have the rattlesnake pattern near the bottom of their jersey and on the sleeves. The logo would be the rattlesnake bearing the colors of the team and maybe a grey to make the other colors pop. Not sure about the goal song, maybe the national song lol put probably not, but when they score make a rattle from the tail noise and then the noise of cracking a whip. I guess that works as a goal sound, but I do not know lol. I am ready to set a team up but run one not yet, not yeet!

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