What's in a name?

My interest piqued by my friend Ross, I've been watching video of the Whyte Ave. hockey celebrations on YouTube.com (just enter "Whyte Ave" into the search field). I haven't gone down to the celebrations myself, due mostly to lack of interest in the Oilers. However, I do live two blocks up and about four blocks west of the main intersections where the celebrations occur, so I get a lot of noise on the nights that the Oilers win.

I am amused, though, by the utter inability of anyone to coin a nickname for the celebrations à la Calgary's Red Mile a couple of years ago. I have heard the term the Blue Mile, as well as the short-lived Oil Slick, and some neighbourhood business have "You're on the Copper Mile" signs up (because copper is the new orange, apparently). The clincher, though, has to be something I read in the Globe and Mail on Monday: The Copper Kilometre. Come on, people! Just because there's alliteration doesn't make it good! And really, as my sister pointed out, the street's already named like a colour. And besides, two major intersections does not a mile make.

With Roloson out, it's difficult to see how the Oilers can win the series. At least that will give everyone another 16 years to come up with a better nickname.