Lee.

Winnipeg is waiting for a market that makes sense to present itself.

Because even more than artists, Brandiose are excellent salesmen. Hucksters, if you will. They do such a good job at selling their hackneyed designs that I don't think the teams know what hit them afterwards.

It's like showing up to buy a pre-owned, grey 2007 Corolla and leaving the lot with a hot pink 2016 Hummer H2. Somewhere along the line, someone with a gift for gab convinced you that what you wanted wasn't really what you wanted, and that you needed something else. That's where they truly excel.

With the massive support that junior hockey has in Regina and Saskatoon, as well as the D-1 programs in Grand Forks and Fargo, let's just stop throwing those towns out there as potential landing spots for the MooseCaps.

At this stage, Winnipeg and Hamilton are the cities that make the most sense.

I will also waste a new post by once again stating the case for Winnipeg entering into an operating agreement with Rapid City, which would function as their AA affiliate. I can't stress enough how much sense this makes for the Jets

I'm not a fan of Winnipeg having two pro hockey teams. I worry about them cannibalizing the market. However, if it's true that there are no nonstop flights from Winnipeg to St. John's, then it's time to give that up and let Montreal keep things in Atlantic Canada. The best solution would probably be simply to flip-flop the Hamilton and St. John's affiliations. Should be no trouble flying guys out of Pearson to Winnipeg and back.

If the Moose come back, I'd love to see them use the Jets template, with double green replacing the blues and copper in place of the silver.

I'd wager they already have full graphics and uniform packages ready to go for the eventual winner. In other words, a coke-fueled long weekend gave us this list and concepts for each name on it.

Sometimes the devil is in the details. Funny story - when I was in grade school, I had a teacher who was a big Devils fan. According to my best friend, whom I first met in this class, around the time the Devils won the Cup in '95, he and I started to hang out. It has turned into a 20 year friendship.

So in a strange way, I have New Jersey to thank for that.

In other hockey news:

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/john-tory-toronto-support-two-nhl-teams/

Funny story. The guy who has the radio show that John Tory was talking to, Fearless Fred? He's a Winnipeg boy. Back in the day, I used to hang out with a few radio guys, and he was an intern at the rock station. One of the DJ and I were working on a musical project, and he was totally impressed that I played bass, and hung around me like a puppy for weeks, asking me to give him lessons.

He's come a long way. Good to see.

The Kings spent more time on that new Reign logo than they ever have on player development, and if that logo took an afternoon then someone had a nap halfway through.

They can't add ONE MORE HOME AND HOME to the Special Pacifics? Good god, j'all

Its because Scott Gomez is back where he belongs with the Devils.

When you think, "who is the face of a franchise that is underperforming without having any real expectations," it's Scott Gomez.

Seems like they're missing an opportunity to do that in shades of tan and brown.

You, of all people, should understand why they aren't.

I can see the Jets setting up or buying out Rapid City or possibly Wichita, depending on which one is easier to fly players in and out of. Then again, if the AAA team is Thunder Bay or St John's, it really doesn't matter, ain't nobody getting anywhere in less than 36 hours. There's no way they can keep sharing Manchester with the Kings, right? Right?

Right?

Thunder Bay is well served by Toronto, Winnipeg, and Montreal. Getting to and from isn't such a big deal. The deal is, are they building that new arena or not?

If not, then its time to go to plan b and bb, which is Winnipeg then who the hell knows. I don't think the Blades or the city of saskatoon are in a hurry to vacate for the purposes of the single engine Jets, and there aren't a lot of Midwestern markets that aren't being served by the USHL that might be willing to accommodate another AHL team.

Another vacated AHL market, perhaps Utica (should Vancouver move the Comets to Abbotsford) could work temporarily, but it's really time for the Jets to figure out where their players are gonna be come 2016.

Last I heard, they're guaranteed one more season in St John's, then they'll probably co-habitate in the MTS Centre for as long as it takes for Thunder Bay, Saskatoon, or an underserved US Midwestern market to emerge as a potential home.

There's really nothing keeping them from dropping the Moose or Jets 2.1 into one of the New England towns that are being abandoned, but I think they want to keep prospects reasonably close to home, and honestly, Stoon or T'under Bay are the best choices here.

The trick is, where they're gonna dump their ECHL guys. They had an operating agreement with the Kings to put guys in Ontario, but with the Reign bumping up then that's obviously dead. Maybe this is the year they get Rapid City into the mix.

Which would make for some potentially fun naming conventions. We could have Rush- ??? - Jets, with Moose being the odd man out. All things considered, maybe the AHL affiliate will be the Thunder Bay Bush Pilots which would be both geographically accurate and kinda awesome.

WHAT THE :censored: DOES PC LOAD LETTER EVEN MEAN

...and because the Jets and Bombers can't agree on a date.

We know how you feel about bears with white hair

Those are still some of the best modern era hats ever made.

Yeah, if I'm a minor league team owner, I don't even let Brandiose in the office. Simon or Bosack are the first calls I make.

Since the Alamo isn't a tall building, the slant doesn't really bother me as much as it would if it were a skyscraper.

So buildings can be skewed at 15-degree angles that they're not actually at as long as they aren't tall? MOD EDIT It makes no sense whatsoever. What are they doing, trying to show that there's something progressive and "forward-facing" about a historic building? There's one historic building I can think of that should be drawn so that it's leaning, and it's not because it's progressive.

Hey, my running shoes look like the ones the guy in the home uniform is wearing.

It's an identity for a baseball team. Baseball is a sport. Sports like baseball are about action. Italicizing things connotes action. Of course, the Alamo itself, unlike the historic building you referenced (we assume you are talking about a certain structure in Pisa), does not lean, but sometimes creative individuals use this thing called "artistic license," a hypothetical certificate of sorts that entitles the holder to not necessarily have to be literal in their depictions. I cannot argue with most of the flaws that the Creamer community has already pointed out about this particular identity, but I do not agree that the building being rendered in an italicized fashion is worthy of scorn.

I want to know what school gave you your graphic design/generic art degree so I can make it my mission in life to cost them their accreditation.

Some people are too busy keyboard mashing their way up to 20,000+ posts that they lost the ability to express their opinions with any tact. Again, ideally if you're rendering a building, of course you wouldn't slant it. Vertical structures like the Washington Monument or Empire State Building would appear to be falling. So at least with this logo, it's horizontal enough that it doesn't look like it's falling. It's not ideal but it's no big deal, right? (That question is rhetorical so no need to answer it to those unable to control the urge to accumulate another 20,000 posts.)

There has to be a better, less condescending way for you to express yourself.

Corey Perry has the mumps. THE MUMPS. How the

Franchise in a coma whoa-oa, whoa-oa, its pretty serious

Do you really think they'll pull through?

Etc

Oh, Saskatoon. I love you, I really do.

But you're about a third the size of Winnipeg. You have a terrible case of little brother syndrome, and when your big brother is Winnipeg, then you're really messed in the head.

No.

I'm sure ease of getting players to and from Rapid City is an issue, since it would be a mess of regional flights and airports before getting a Northwestern flight out of MSP to Winnipeg.

That's the tricky part for Canadian teams with farm teams in the US. Fargo might be close, but it would be easier and faster to rent him a car and let him drive rather than try to fly him from Hector Airport to MSP to ORD to YWG.