The Bear Skins are Born

In a press release today, the GDC Bruins announced that they are changing their name to the "Bear Skins".

In an interview, GM MacCormack explained, "There are many reasons for our name change, first and foremost, we want to start a winning tradition here at GDC. Last year's second place finish in the GDHL is just not good enough. We in the front office realized that we need to be less reliant on one team. You know what killed our team last year? Our main supplier of talent, the Boston Bruins, were shutout in half of their last 10 games. We had so many Bruins on board we could not recover from that. This year we have players from 19 different NHL clubs. That should insolate us from prolonged slumps by any one team."

MacCormack did acknowledge that he will not totally abandon the Bruins. "The Bear Skins will always have Boston Bruins on their roster. That is not going to change. We currently have what we consider to be 5 of the best Bruins." he added, "We'd also love to get big dman Chara, but GM Shannon is being very stubborn in his dealings with us. "

The team is planning a series of advertisements to promote its new name which will feature hairless bears dancing to music by the Bare Naked Ladies.