The_Admiral

I don't want an AHL team to cannibalize the Winnipeg market. Belleville is a longtime OHL town, which is kind of rare for that league. If Hamilton can't crack the NHL, they should at least be in the AHL.

I believe TNSE still owns the MooseCaps (leased to Danny Williams), so I'm guessing they'll move back to Winnipeg whence they came and the Bulldogs, owned by the Habs, will be the franchise moving to the rock. Then they'll leave the "Hamilton Bulldogs" IP to the Belleville Bulls, who will move in, THIS IS STUPID

Everything about this sucks.

They're really committed to that Yard Goats thing, you can tell.

Minnesota and Columbus have banners for all the teams in the rafters. I think Winnipeg has them in the lobby. Who are the others?

My question is what would an updated Wings logo look like...my guess is a deflated tired because that's what happened to their Motor Industry XD

XD a major sector of the American economy and middle class failed XD

I think it's time for the Cardinals to go back to dressing like a traditional football team. Not sure what the answer would be for the roads, though.

Dangling an NHL team, giving them Montreal's AHL team, taking away the AHL team, and finally giving them a backdoor ECHL team has to be a sign from the hockey gods that Hamilton should just call it a day, set the whole city on fire for insurance money, and move out to Cambridge.

I only like "Hartford Huckleberries" so much because it's alliterative and it sounds so absurd and fanciful to name a baseball team after a berry. I don't know anything about huckleberries or where they're grown (here I thought they were southern), but I'd support a Double-A team called the Grand Rapids Gooseberries or Boise Boysenberries on the same tenuous grounds. It'd be the second-best minor-league foodstuff team behind the great Montgomery Biscuits.

Teams that have 15 different word marks and logos WANT 15 different logos. Do people really think teams are forced to do something they don't want? Rebranding firms work for the teams not the other way around.

What happened to paying for expertise? This makes Brandiose a bunch of craven order-takers, hardly different from doctors who prescribe antibiotics for viruses because the patients demand it so obnoxiously. I pay you, not the other way around! How can you call yourself a "branding expert" when you fail to enact a key concept of branding (i.e., don't dilute it) in your work?

Technically Hamilton has what they claim is an airport, but considering you have to walk onto the tarmac to board a plane, it's more of a fancy bus depot without all the high-falutin' bus depot amenities.

I had to do that once at O'Hare in the dead of winter because the Jetway broke. I had never thought about the ways that a big tube could break. The railings of the big staircase on the tarmac were coated in ice. It sucked.

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.

You're crazy. We should point to "Yard Goats" as the point where Brandiose entered self-parody. The sad thing is I think we've said that about other things. We just have to keep moving the point.

I feel like Huckleberry Finn imagery would be more suited for a Missouri team than a Connecticut team. I mean, I don't mind a Mark Twain reference, but once you're getting that deep, you're losing the local flair.

Let's all get grassroots on this Hartford Huckleberries thing. This is our chance as a community to do some real good in this world: we can take this hard-luck New England town and rescue them from Brandiose team name ideas.

I'm writing my email right now. Everyone here should too.

That's no way to talk about Dan Ellis.

Will it be a home-ice advantage when all games start at 6 a.m. local time?

A Columbus or St. Louis affiliation and the promise of better talent may help bring in some bigger crowds. I wouldn't mind Cincinnati at the AHL level one bit.

Yeah, at least make the California snowflakes deign to travel to the Great Lakes and then leave everything east of Cleveland to itself.

I like the new Teddy set but still:

CALL ON MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, CALL ON ME, CALL ON MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, CALL ON ME, CALL ON MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, CALL ON ME, CALL ON MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, I'M THE SAME BRAND I USED TO BE

We had a 6:30 drop last week when the Wings were in town. They come here once a year and even that's too much Central Time for them.

Then maybe cities with bad public transportation should either get good public transportation or not be in the business of funneling 18,000 people in and out of one place. If every team had late/bad attendance on weeknights, no one would talk about it.

I also don't think it's very Good For Development to only see four other teams all year. That doesn't really prepare you for a semi-balanced schedule.

Did we talk about how nice the new Gulls logo is? The new Gulls logo is very good.

All I see when I see his name is "Septic Bladder."

Hey, I'm behind Pacific AHL hockey 89.47-percent!

I'm fine with the Snowflakes playing eight fewer games than the rest of the league. Just give them eight forfeit losses. That can be the price the Sharks pay for having their undrafted college free agents across the street.