Winnipeg Falcons: Winnipeg

Falcons Dept: The idea that Winnipeg's new NHL team in 2011 might have been called something other than Jets was real, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Africa edition The 1920 Winnipeg Falcons -- winners of the first ice hockey Olympic gold medal. Was Falcons the favourite? Likely not. Still, it may well have been the best fit of all, based on the story of the very first Olympic gold-medal-winning squad, all but one of them castoffs of Icelandic heritage from then-mainstream Winnipeg. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.