The_Admiral

Apparently Sabres games are no longer available in the Niagara region. I wonder who decided it wasn't worth it anymore, Bell or the Sabres.

I'm surprised the Wings have never tried to work out a similar deal for Windsor and Chatham, which are within their 50-mile radius.

1 hour ago, Thomas said:

How about refs in tutu's and with pacifiers, i mean refs you suck, right?

How about you run across a busy expressway?

Those were terrible, at least for Buffalo. I might not have minded the template for some expansion team, but Buffalo should look traditional. It's a traditional place.

UNPOPULAR OPINION: bring back NHL refs in neckties under v-neck sweaters!

Not just because there's something humorously genteel about it, but also because it would give each of the four leagues a distinct visual identity for its officials. Football refs would have the zebra stripes, umpires would, well, look like umpires, NHL refs would have ties and v-necks, and NBA refs would have those ugly grey shirts.

Huh, a team that dropped a word from its city name and used "Golden." At least it was an IHL team.

Is Fort Collins still in the ECHL? That could work for Calgary, as could Salt Lake City. Maybe one and then the other considering the Flames and their AHL PATH OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION

What a dick move it was for the Sharks to take their farm team out of a perfectly good AHL town like Woostah and have them play in an empty NHL arena. I think the endgame is to have them play in the same practice complex The NHL's Best Rec League will use.

Canadians preferring major-junior to the AHL is a fairly recent development. I suspect TSN spurred the change in the late '90s when they got really heavy into the World Juniors in lieu of the NHL. The AHL and OHL co-existed in Ontario, and the AHL had a big presence in the Maritimes until about the end of the millennium. There was never any history of triple-A hockey in Western Canada other than the Manitoba Moose, so of course they've preferred the Dub.

Congratulations to the NHL for getting a team's trademark application denied without it involving an ethnic slur.

My preference would be a Blues affiliate in Peoria, but failing that, Kansas City could be good. I'd worry that people in Kansas City might get itchy about being a farm club for St. Louis, whom they see as a little too full of themselves considering they're St. Louis, a race-relations dystopia that turns your asscrack into a waterfall for four months a year. I also don't think a 17,000+ arena is right for the AHL right now, where attendance across the board seems to be smarting a bit, surely for macroeconomic reasons and not simply because the league finally started ejecting dudes for fighting. Also, KC seems quite far afield from the rest of the midwestern circuit, considering how tightly packed Milwaukee, Rockford, Rosemont, Des Moines, and Grand Rapids are, but then this is a league that has Tucson and Winnipeg in it now for some reason, so maybe mileage doesn't matter like I think it does.

Robopenguin was badly drawn. The bottom point of the triangle is not dead-center in the image file. Unacceptable!

Yeah, sure, purple trimmed in gold would work, I guess. The numbers need some refreshing, too. I hate that '90s font. I'm envisioning something a little more Olde Baltimore, something like what the Pittsburgh Pirates use.

It's fine in and of itself but not for the Los Angeles Rams, who can be in slightly updated uniforms -- or even that very template -- but in royal and athletic gold.

My unpopular Ravens opinion is that the Ravens should definitely be in head-to-toe black at home. On the road, I don't care what's black and what's purple (but for the sake of argument let's say black names, purple numbers, black pants, purple socks), but the white should be minimal. No albino Ravens! Their whole deal is that they're supposed to be mean and scary. Maximum black works for them.

I think they should have built off their third (as much as I rag on teams building off their thirds). I thought red helmets and pants with black sweaters and socks was an interesting spin on a well-worn color scheme, plus you had the beige to break it up. They were simple but modern at the same time, which works, because a Phoenix NHL team needs no pretense of timelessness. What they have now is...I dunno, it just is.

Circling the drain again...

You're wrong that Montreal never did anything for the Expos; they supported the team quite well in the '70s, '80s, and early '90s, at not one but two lousy places to see a ballgame. You're also probably wrong that they'll ever get a team again unless Bell decides a billion dollars is what it costs to program TSN for six months a year.

I hope the Rays get an outdoor park somewhere in Tampa-St. Pete or Orlando. There's nowhere else to put a team and I hate the Trop too.

Awwww, why did it have to say "icon" instead of "iconic"? Could've had a board joke about "New Orleans should be the Jazz and Utah should be the Hornets" coming in at 6%.

32 minutes ago, hawk36 said:

I think these were the best they've ever looked. Just a tad bit of the navy/black but 99% powder/yellow.

 

Yeah, if you had that width of yellow outline on the Agency numbers and a yellow facemask, it'd be a perfect update for today.

2 hours ago, Ray Lankford said:

The navy blue provides some much needed contrast. Powder blue, yellow and white are all too soft together.

Bolder yellow outlines would give enough contrast, I think. If you need a darker blue, use a medium blue, but I don't think you do.

Conversely, you probably can't get good paczki in New Orleans, either!

On 11/16/2016 at 9:20 AM, buckeye said:

Could this finally be the start to a new ballpark for the rays? They're taking submissions for ideas at this time.

 

 

2 hours ago, Davidellias said:

Rumble Ponies might be the worse of the bunch.

Yeah. what is that, a nickname for a Sybian?

15 minutes ago, Kaz said:

Double whammy; not only are these the best the Chargers have ever looked, their current number font is among the league's best.

More yellow, no navy, and I'll agree.

1 hour ago, B-Rich said:

Water fountains and ceiling fans were removed form the concourses (probably to help spur concession sales)

Even for the minor leagues, this crap is minor-league!

Oh, so it's kind of a thick kringle with a trinket inside. 

I haven't had a good Racine kringle in years.

1 hour ago, FinsUp1214 said:

Looking at all those King Cake pictures makes me really miss them. Utah definitely doesn't have them. 

CCSLC's answer to Pete Maravich over here.

2 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

"Baby Cakes" comes off like some kind of smarmy, creepy, inappropriately sexual name, like "Sweet Cheeks" or "Honey Lambs" (the latter's presence in the lyrics of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" does not redeem it).

Love to name sports teams after dubious terms of endearment used by low-level Sterling Draper employees.