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I wouldn't consider this a "whimsical" logo. If anything the regular bird head is the whimsical logo, especially when you compare it to the Black Jays they switched from.

There aren't great? They're supposed to be oars I gather, but Oregon Argonauts.

From Larry Brooks:

I kind of like these very short lived Dodger blue jerseys. I remember using them on Triple Play Baseball (with Giambi on the cover) on the computer.

Because they're not an MiLB team. They were a summer collegiate team that started doing Harlem Globetrotters-eque games of baseball on the side and then dropped the summer team aspect and are now essentially just baseball's version of the Globetrotters. Looking them up, they're in Las Vegas this weekend.

The EE on the helmet is the brand. Part of the reason Elks was chosen was because it kept the EE and the new name was always going to start with an E. The antler on the helmet didn't work in person from the stands IMO. It *didn't have the same line weight *nor the size/prominence as something like the Rams, Vikings or Eagles, it just looked like a twig on the helmet.

Joe Lacob was pretty in on the Angels this offseason before Arte got cold feet. Sigh Lacob did grow up in Anaheim and worked for the Angels and/or Angel Stadium in his youth, so we'll have to see if he wants a baseball team or just wanted the Angels.

Kind of a neat thing; for training camp and the pre-season, the Stamps will be handing out retired numbers to some players and those players will be wearing jersey patches signifying the player who the number was retired for. The numbers will be taken back out of circulation once the regular season starts.

It's pretty consistent really. What Arizona did was against the established rules that are set in place in the CBA related to the actual on-ice playing of games and they were punished per those rules. What Chicago did was not. There weren't any punishments in writing/place for what they did (and what they did didn't really impact the actual on-ice playing of games) so it's different situations. -- I'm so disappointed the Ducks aren't getting Bedard.

The current one stinks. It's a modified RCAF logo with a jet slapped on and a notch in the top the celebrate the ownership group. Plus I hate the maple leaf usage, it's one of my logo pet peeves. The Jets aren't the only Canadian team in the NHL and one other team who is also Canadian already uses that as their name.

The Medicine Hat Mavericks of the WCBL (Alberta and Saskatchewan summer collegiate) have a 20th anniversary logo. The black shape is the horse head from their logo.

I believe they've hit some issues with concerts and other arena events that have pushed the entire schedule around.

It is far back but I'm pretty sure it's because of the size and shape of the decal. The previous helmets had the same issue.

I wonder if the helmet change was made because the football boat was getting lost in the helmet.

Also before we get too far off the Devils, underrated Stanley Cup Finals jersey matchup.

The issue I can see with that Senators concept is that the gold would get so lost in the red, especially with how thin that stripe is. I've seen it to an extent with the Ducks and the Hitmen where I think it would look muddy.

They made a change to what? Depart from the old era into a new one? But the change was such a minimal thing that was barely a change and was a change that looks like it should have happened with the initial EDGE rollout era of jerseys and then they would have gone back to the old ones by now. It's kind of like the Devils were the sheltered kid with the strict parent in Lamoriello and once the parent was gone the kid decided to try to get a little wild, but they didn't know what that meant and considered drinking two glasses of sparkling apple juice instead of one as "wild".

If you want the "best" teams to win the league championship, watch European soccer. Same with the little pockets of internet who say that North American sports need promotion/relegation. That ship sailed 150 years ago. (It more so comes up in regards to MLS, and then sort of to other sports, but that would dry up their expansion fees if the MLS did that)

Friedman said on a 32 Thoughts or a Marek Show back when the those Atlanta rumblings were going over the internet (based on like three tweets and did those go rumblings go away quickly) that he believes the NHL doesn't want to expand soon and the league views Houston as more of a back-up plan for Arizona right now.

I was in Pittsburgh last October for the Jets-Steelers game and then a couple Pirates games and I found myself really liking Pittsburgh (and was disappointed the Angels weren't playing there this season so I have no reason to go back anytime soon) so I was looking forward to see what the Pirates would come up with. Colour me disappointed from everything Pittsburgh has if all we get is "PGH". It could be a sleeve patch, but I'm not liking the t-shirt look.

Yeah, the Rangers should fit in there as well, but I think their playoff struggles are more well documented than the Bruins and the Bruins always seem to go into the playoffs in recent years as a "contender" of some kind. I don't know if the Rangers have that same kind of aura, warranted or not, as the Bruins do. The Wild's playoff peak was scoring one goal in four games in the Western Conference Finals 20 years ago. Not to go further off topic, but I think the Flames don't get enough guff for their historical mediocrity (probably a bit worse that mediocrity actually because the Wild and Bruins/Rangers et al at least make the playoffs consistently). Since the cup win in 1989, they've won six* playoff series and three of those were in the same playoffs. *One of those six was the 2020 bubble qualifying round, so don't know if that counts as playoffs in the eyes of the NHL.

I wonder if the Bruins deserve to be more in the same tier with teams such as the Maple Leafs (this year not withstanding) and Wild and other poor playoff performers. They do have the one Cup in 2011 but it was their first since 1972 and they haven't done much playoff wise any other time.

I think it's also a bigger issue of that logo never being used anywhere so it doesn't have the recognition it could have to warrant Sens fans wanting it. I don't think either Sharks logos are all that great. They both have design issues.

There were two versions of the draft hats, a grey one and a team colour one and they appear to be giving everyone the grey version. The yellow heavy one is the team colour one.

The Jets didn't really have any say on the ICE (yes, it is supposed to be capitalized ) coming in because they are completely unrelated and the Ice have a bit of a problem boiling. They're playing in a 1600 seat university rink that they moved to Winnipeg for 2019-20 with the promise groundbreaking on an proper sized area within five years. Going on five years later, they don't even have a parcel of land, much less a plan for an arena, much less shovels in the ground. They had a supposed plan with a local "elite" youth hockey program to go in on the arena together fairly early on after the move but that fell apart and nothing concrete has ever come up after. There was a newspaper article back in December that said the WHL fined the Ice $500,000 because nothing has happened with the arena, but the WHL and the Ice denied it. A different newspaper's article in February said a source confirmed the fine and that the February BoG meeting was going to discuss what to do with the team and that relocation wouldn't be off the table. Nothing has come out after the meetings to my knowledge, but the Jets may not need to worry about the Ice much longer.