What was the original name of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings?

The Detroit Red Wings were originally called the Detroit Cougars.

The NHL awarded Detroit a franchise in 1926, and the new club purchased players from the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League. Detroit adopted the Cougars name in tribute to that predecessor, even though the team initially played its first season across the river at Border Cities Arena in Windsor, Ontario, because its Detroit arena was not ready.

The franchise changed its name to the Detroit Falcons in 1930. Two years later, grain merchant James E. Norris purchased the club and renamed it the Detroit Red Wings. Norris chose a red winged-wheel emblem inspired by the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, whose hockey team had won the first Stanley Cup in 1893.

The names in the wrong options reflect the franchise’s real history only partly: Detroit was the Falcons from 1930 to 1932, but it was never the Detroit Hornets or Detroit Olympians. The Red Wings name has remained in use since 1932.