PITTSBURG — This city is one “h” and 2,600 or so miles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but the East Bay’s Steel City is looking to distance itself even further from the NHL’s Penguins — at least for the duration of the Stanley Cup Finals — with a temporary municipal name change.

If you’re in the Pittsburg much closer to San Jose than to Pennsylvania, welcome to “Teal Town,” a tongue-in-cheek rebrand but with a sincere nod of support to the Penguins’ finals opponent, the San Jose Sharks.

“We are behind our Sharks, and we’re flying the team banner on City Hall,” Pittsburg Mayor Ben Johnson said in a statement issued Thursday. “We’d rather be known as ‘Teal Town’ than be associated with those Penguins.”

Local businesses are on board with the Sharks fever, adding banners to their storefronts and specials to their menus. “Our Teal Town Smoothie is cool as the ice in the Shark Tank,” said Eugenia Gueorguieva, owner of the Kite Bar Café at the waterfront. John Phair, owner of the E.J. Phair Brewing Company, has a shout-out to Sharks veteran Joe Thornton: “Our ‘Thornton’s Revenge’ is our best seller.”

The City of Pittsburg expects its “Teal Town” celebration to continue “through the Stanley Cup Finals to the championship parade day in downtown San Jose,” the city’s official statement reads.

The Sharks have some work to do to that end, however; as of Thursday they were down 2-0 to the Penguins in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup finals. The prospect of there not being a San Jose celebratory parade is not mentioned in the city’s release.