Cars and Hockey

Podcast Episode: 0099
​How Cars & Hockey Connect

    Automobiles have a connection to just about anything out there, you just have to look close enough to find it.  For our 99th episode, AutoLooks wanted to honor the great one with an episode about Hockey and how cars fit into this world.

     Cars really don't seem like something you would mix with hockey, but with a bit of digging you can find out the two (2) are very well related.  A few teams have the same names as vehicles, most of which came before the vehicles.  Then you have a few logos which borrow aspects from the auto industry.  But all around these two (2) have more in common than you think.

     Wayne Gretzky started his NHL career off with the Edmonton Oilers, a team which it itself is part of the automotive industry in a big way.  Oil as we know it is highly used within the automotive industry and Edmonton shares its colour coordination with that of Gulf Oil.  The best part of this, is that Wayne himself had a Gulf Livery Ford GT at one point, bringing these two (2) industries even closer.

     From sports team names to logos, the automotive world is tied to nearly every form of sporting event.  Even if you don't think they are related, everything eventually comes back to the automotive world, whether you like it or not.

Everett J.