So instead of racking my brain for some creative spark, I looked to my favorite music group, Rush (click for my historical attendance & setlists) , for help. I stacked all their CD's up and looked through the titles for some clues:

"Working Man Hockey League"?

"By-Tor Hockey League"?

"Diadect and Narpets Fantasy League"?

"Temples of Syrinx Hockey"?

"Cygnus Hockey League"?

"Jacob's Ladder Fantasy Hockey"?

Nothing so far, until looking at the Moving Pictures album:



Click on the picture to learn more about the album!

The song title jumps out at me..... "YYZ"

Simple. Unique. Mysterious. Rush-related.

So ended the search for a League name!! Now what does "YYZ" represent?

YYZ is the transmitter code for Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport. Every airport is assigned a unique 3 letter code, and that code is always being transmitted so that pilots can tell, roughly, where they are and verify that their navigational radios are tuned properly. These codes are also written on your luggage tags when you fly. The intro to the song is Morse code for "YYZ."

Now why did Rush choose to call a song "YYZ"? As mentioned before, "YYZ" is on the 1981 album Moving Pictures. It was nominated for a 1982 Grammy award that year as Best Rock Instrumental (losing to The Police's "Behind my Camel"). In Bill Banasiewicz's 1988 Rush biography "Visions: The Official Biography", he explains in more detail:

