monkeypower

They snuck them out yesterday. Pretty classic football look. Not that there's anything wrong with that but I do wish the helmet striping was used instead.

Yes, the initial plan was for the Ice to go in on the new arena with the the Rink program but I believe, from some online scuttlebutt, the Ice ownership had a falling out of some kind with the Rink and the plan fell apart. Did the Ice actually build a new facility or was it just an addition to the Rink's building? If it's the latter, maybe it could still get some use after taking down some signage and repainting? Obviously circumstances changed, but I don't think the ownership were ever at a point where they would be impacted by construction costs or costs exceeding the original figure because they had nothing about an arena. They didn't even have a site. I don't even know if they had any plans past the Rink partnership and once that didn't materialize, nothing happened. You can point to the pandemic or rising construction costs and it could have bought them some more leniency if they had shovels in the ground or even a solid plan but they had absolutely nothing to show. They were allowed to be moved under the condition there would be an arena built and they had nothing.

I'm whelmed by the Pirates set. I visited Pittsburgh last fall and really enjoyed it so I was looking forward to seeing what they could come up with.

The initial thing posted here from their promotional schedule made it sound like the jerseys won't be unveiled until the day of the first game they're wearing them.

That's the issue. Nobody wanted to do it. Not even the ownership who was allowed to move under the condition that they get an arena built. If there was less competition, maybe there would have been more appetite to build an arena. It was going to be a problem when the ICE (I am so glad all the Dub teams are now back to the correct number of 0 all-capitalized team names) moved to Winnipeg and not being owned by True North. That's why the Ice move out of Edmonton to Cranbrook in the first place, because they were being squeezed out by the Oilers. That's what the plan appears to be. I personally hope they take a look at updating the logo because it's not great.

The namebar and the inconsistent number application really degrade what is an otherwise alright set.

So the Ice finally got moved. Not surprised.

And it doesn't look nearly as much like a scrimmage anymore when these two play.

I don't think I see the Bills in those. Those jerseys to me always stuck out to me as the CFL's answer to the Patriots, but looking it up now, these Als jerseys and the Pats jerseys came out in the same year.

Here's the thing, and you're not the only person to kind of make this comment here, these Bills jerseys predate the CFL look by three years. Reebok didn't take over the CFL and do their thing until 2005. So if anything, the CFL redesign had some major Bills feeling to it. 2002 2005 I think it was just what Reebok was doing at the time. They did the Bills and then did the entire CFL a few years later.

I'm wondering if that was just some retail workers putting on the patches in the store for display once they got them and thinking to keep the location consistent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Arizona *Bettman sorts by population*

I wonder if that's a style guide thing or a stylistic choice from Fanatics because of the Leafs logos. The logos don't have an outline so regardless of which logo/stripes combo they went with, the stripe would look like it connects into the logo.

What I think is kind of a neat part with the draft hats is a patch on the side with an alternate logo (or the primary again if no alternate logo) and the arena's coordinates on it. This would also confirm that the Ducks aren't changing for this upcoming season? Not that I ever believed they would.

Really cool website but FWIW, the Stampeders logos are wrong. Despite what graphics are out on the internet, even on the mothership, I don't know how often the Stampeders have actually used the primary logo on the helmets and jerseys, if at all. They've had like a Yankees thing going on where the logo on the uniforms is different than the primary, instead essentially using SMU's versions of the horse. Every other application, including the retail versions of the jerseys, uses the primary. The most notable differences being the tail and the mane.

Johnny's just in a later stride position than your picture. He's in the process of bringing his left foot forward and starting to stride with his right as opposed to your picture who is just at the end of his left foot stride. A couple frames later and the pictures would look more similar. Yeah, it's exaggerated and cartoon because it is an update of a drawing from like the 1940s but I never thought it looks like he wasn't skating correctly. My issue has always been the head angle.

I knew tarp wasn't the right word, I just didn't know how else to describe it.

I would have to assume Vegas' is not painted.

I think it depends. Some are painted, some are the tarp things (which is typically what the ice ads are). I know the Ducks and Flames paint theirs.

A couple of the Stampeders have been wearing them since last season and I also think it looks so weird.

We need like a CCSLC rodeo clown to distract from discussions. "Quick, quick! Look over here! Pay no attention to the Canucks! Anaheim is a different city than Los Angeles and the Angels should use Anaheim!" I also submit what outfits the rodeo clowns should wear.

Would they even be able to have a yellow away jersey with the Perds having a yellow home jersey? The Patriots have a pretty defined brand and identity in the US Revolutionary War that has been consistent for their entire history. The Yankees, Canadiens and Giants also all have letter based logos where the vagueness created their identities. The difference between these three and the Canucks is what you said, Canucks is so vague where anything could be considered "Canuck" after enough time. Any of their logos could have been their NY, CH or SF, but they never stuck to anything.

It's not like the orca logo has any significance to the Canucks besides the ownership name at the time being Orca Bay. They really brute forced that logo into representing the team to the point where now it's sacred?