Like many new teams, the Pittsburgh Penguins held a contest to pick a new name. Also like many teams, the owners and managers wanted to pick the name themselves. Bob Grove in his book Pittsburgh Pirates:The Official History of the First 30 Years, tells that one of the wifes of a part owner asked what they named their arena. It was the Igloo. She thought about a name with a P. Penguins! They counted the ballots and found that 700 out of 26,000 suggested that name. That was enough to make it!
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