Sodboy13

Oh, you would have loved Vince's original idea to name the Birmingham Thunderbolts the "Blast," then. Your next smart post on here will be your first. Maybe stop and just read for a couple months here.

This has all been so cosmically stupid, if Sternberg keeps it up, we won't be able to say OITGDNHL around here anymore.

Chicago annexed Austin a hundred and some odd years ago, so yes. Mount Greenwood is Suburban Chicago, though. It's almost Honorary Will County.

We may have a new frontier in OITGDNHL here.

Credit where it's due - Brandiose got this one right, and did it well. That cherries-in-mitten logo is a must-have on a hat.

For their 3rd jersey this year, the Fort Wayne Komets brought back their old 3rd jersey from the IHL in the mid-1990s.

Okay, I found something. The team is the owner. He's owned them for 15 years, taken credit for "saving" the franchise to the point where he felt comfortable asking fans for a liver transplant, keeps an unpopular logo and uniform, and regularly puts himself front and center of the team's PR, whether it's Between Two Pylons with Mark Borowiecki or threatening to move the team the day before hosting an outdoor game. Alfie has told the organization to kick rocks publicly - twice. They tried to villainize Erik Karlsson for not taking a steep-enough hometown discount.

Name something good about the Ottawa Senators franchise. "They're in Ottawa" does not count. UPDATE: Give me my free arena or I will sue you for $700 million.

They did shrink the crest from the first set of jerseys to the second. That original version is super wide, and I can see how it would get it uncomfortable. Anyhoo, back to the worst owner in the modern-day NHL by a longshot:

I remember when a dude used to get high as hell and post stream of consciousness on here. He got laughed off the board. Nowadays, that approach gets you a contract with MiLB.

"It's a name that's totally about weed, but we have to pretend it's not about weed. What else can we blaze up?" The s'more is cute and the flag iconography is a lazy crutch. Congratulations on picking a name worse than animal testicles.

They should have just gone with Green Bay Chickenheads, and let everyone draw their own conclusions.

"It's a, um, Sod Puddle."

That is some embarrassing work. Forget the Brandiosity of the name, the work itself looks unpleasant, unfinished, and unprofessional. "Quick, put an 'A' on there before we post it!"

I swear to you, something very close to this happened in my office several years back.

Wheeling did it better than the Penguins did.

You can't separate Chicago from St. Louis. Stick with eight-team divisions.

Niiiiiice.

They should sign an Australian player and give him a special, shiny, metallic jersey. A Golden Guernsey, if you will.

Hide the kids when the Milkmen are playing the Dogs in Rosemont on Wiener Wednesdays.

Here's something to picture while we await the return for trading Erik Karlsson to San Jose: EDIT: aaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha

Eugene Melnyk and the Senators are riding a 3-day streak of rake-stepping, and the most wonderful thing so far is that an NHL team is designating a section of its arena as the "Coke Zone," and it's not the locker rooms.

I dunno, have we heard yet if Rocky Wirtz lost $20 million on the Hawks again last season? Or are we no longer subjected to that story now that Rockwell sold his piece of the Sun-Times?

Well, I'm sure another three or twelve years of league ownership will turn things around.

The other difference is that the Hurricanes don't have a large, dormant fanbase waiting for signs that the franchise is finally willing to pull itself out of the depths. Outside of maybe a season and a half's worth of bump around the Cup win 12 years ago, this is what they've got. I also remember reading around the time of the sale that, unlike pretty much every other Southern expansion team, Peter Karmanos never put any effort into "grow the game" efforts like building youth leagues and rinks. So there's no forthcoming generation in the Triangle with increased interest in hockey, unless the Hurricanes magically become consistently top-tier. Long story short Pete Karmanos sideways with a rake.