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#1 roxfan00

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Posted September 10, 2007 - 19:32

If you had to choose the name for the Nordiques when they came over to Colorado...from this list what name would you choose?

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Posted September 10, 2007 - 19:34

The "Avalanche" was the most popular name for the team. Those other nicknames on the board would've been rejected by some of the local fans.
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Posted September 10, 2007 - 19:34

Avalanche, Rapids and Renegades seem like the only good choices, Avalanche is the best tho.

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Posted September 10, 2007 - 19:35

Avalanche, Rapids and Renegades seem like the only good choices, Avalanche is the best tho.

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Posted September 10, 2007 - 19:42

They forgot the "Rocky Mountain eXtreme," which was bandied about right after the team was moved... ^_^
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Posted September 10, 2007 - 19:47

View PostFred T. Jane, on Monday, September 10th, 2007 - 20:42:38, said:

They forgot the "Rocky Mountain eXtreme," which was bandied about right after the team was moved... ^_^

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Published on July 26, 1995. Article 1 of 1 found.
SOURCE: BOB KRAVITZ
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS SPORTS COLUMNIST
ANGIE REESE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.
Denver's National Hockey League team will be the Colorado Avalanche and its color scheme will be burgundy, black and another color to be determined, a source close to Comsat, the team's owner, said Tuesday.

The name, logo and colors will be unveiled Aug. 10, team officials announced. The source, who requested anonymity, refuted a report the team would be named the Rocky Mountain Avalanche. "It's definitely Colorado," he said.... 1156 words, Rocky Mountain News (CO)

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In 1995, then-owner Charlie Lyons wanted to rename the Quebec Nordiques the "Rocky Mountain Extreme", but a public outcry against it forced management to let fans vote eight proposed names [thank God]. Avalanche won against competitors such as Black Bears, Wranglers, and Outlaws. Colorado was the preferred dateline, not Rocky Mountain or Denver. The logo, at first ridiculed for looking like a melting mountain of soft-serve ice cream with a puck attached, soon became cool among Denver youth.
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Posted September 10, 2007 - 19:57

View Postroxfan00, on Monday, September 10th, 2007 - 19:47:43, said:

In 1995, then-owner Charlie Lyons wanted to rename the Quebec Nordiques the "Rocky Mountain Extreme", but a public outcry against it forced management to let fans vote eight proposed names [thank God].

Coloradans were no fun.
[Croatia National Team Manager Slavan] Bilic then went on to explain how Croatia's success can partially be put down to his progressive man-management techniques. "Sometimes I lie in the bed with my players. I go to the room of Vedran Corluka and Luka Modric when I see they have a problem and I lie in bed with them and we talk for 10 minutes." Maybe Capello could try getting through to his players this way too? Although how far he'd get with Joe Cole jumping up and down on the mattress and Rooney demanding to be read his favourite page from The Very Hungry Caterpillar is open to question. --The Guardian's Fiver, 08 September 2008  

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Posted September 10, 2007 - 21:16

View PostFred T. Jane, on Monday, September 10th, 2007 - 19:57:57, said:

View Postroxfan00, on Monday, September 10th, 2007 - 19:47:43, said:

In 1995, then-owner Charlie Lyons wanted to rename the Quebec Nordiques the "Rocky Mountain Extreme", but a public outcry against it forced management to let fans vote eight proposed names [thank God].

Coloradans were no fun.

Or people with some sense. Thank the hockey gods that Arte Moreno wasn't part of the group!
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Posted September 10, 2007 - 21:21

View Postoddball, on Monday, September 10th, 2007 - 21:16:52, said:

Or people with some sense.

Ya think?
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Posted September 10, 2007 - 21:25

avalanche was clearly the best choice, but Cougars and Black Bears sound alright too. Of course  this is coming from a guy who thought White Bears sounded alright from the Wild's choices of names.
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Posted September 10, 2007 - 21:34

I remember seeing the Avalanche uniforms for the first time in a pre-season game and just thinking they were the worst uniforms i had ever seen... this was back with the lighter burgundy, and the black helmets with the white uniforms.
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Posted September 10, 2007 - 21:42

I see on that pic.. the Avalanche logo with the double Mountaintops the one in the middle bottom of that 2nd pic...that one looked cool.. but I notice something..the current wordmark for the Avalanche seems to be a bit similiar to that one with the A now curved with the mountain snow going off....
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Posted September 10, 2007 - 21:54

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Posted September 10, 2007 - 21:54

View PostCC97, on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 - 12:34:06, said:

I remember seeing the Avalanche uniforms for the first time in a pre-season game and just thinking they were the worst uniforms i had ever seen... this was back with the lighter burgundy, and the black helmets with the white uniforms.
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What's happened to change your opinion?
Is it just that other jerseys are even worse?

For me, living Down Under at the time, we got no news of the move, and the first time I saw them was during coverage of the playoffs.
(Back then we only got coverage during the playoffs. Now we get even less coverage, due to the revised TV deal since the strike)

I thought they must have been an expansion team.
It was only when they showed fans in the stands with signs saying "Merci Quebec" that I twigged that this was the transplanted Nordiques.
Being the owner of a Nordiques jersey, I was disappointed.
I've hated them since.
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Posted September 10, 2007 - 22:15

It might just be that I'm used to them now and back then I really was not...


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The white uniform has changed a bit... the burgundy has darkened slightly and the helmet change
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Posted September 10, 2007 - 22:16

I'm glad they didn't use any of those logos, they are all horrible. Hopefully they were only designed as wordmarks and never actually intended for placement on the uniform.

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Posted September 10, 2007 - 22:20

View PostCC97, on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 - 13:15:45, said:

It might just be that I'm used to them now and back then I really was not...


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The white uniform has changed a bit... the burgundy has darkened slightly and the helmet change
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Posted September 11, 2007 - 01:30

But, of course, you've already said that's a product of the team moving, not (necessarily) the look itself.
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When it comes to style, ya'll really should listen to Kev.

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Posted September 11, 2007 - 01:48

View PostMockba, on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 - 16:30:38, said:

But, of course, you've already said that's a product of the team moving, not (necessarily) the look itself.
Well, probably a bit of both.

I didn't like them much to start off with, but the rest of it makes it worse, sure.

For one thing, the black pants.
It's looks like they're trying some sort of throwback uni thing, but it's not working.
Black looks out of place to me, given you hardly notice it on the jerseys.
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Posted September 11, 2007 - 11:28

As a lifelong, Detroit Red Wings fan, I hate the Colorado Avalanche (just kidding).

I've always liked their logo and uniforms.  They haven't been in Denver that long, yet they established the "A" identity that is recognizeable.
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