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Semi-related, I was in Pittsburgh in October for the Jets game and went to two Pirates games that same trip. PNC is so great. Everything that people say about it is correct. It made me realize the Pirates situation sucks. They got a great set-up and a great brand and a great history and they should be good. I was looking around there and realized I could be a Pirates fan if the Angels weren't around, but the org stinks.

If they're going white masks, I hope everything else would change too. But if it's not there now, I would assume no...

Ah, I forgot about those. However, I still think it would lean more towards not doing it for next season but waiting instead, especially with the other factors.

Yeah, it's just part of a new wider collection is all. I personally don't see the Ducks changing for next season and if any change will happen, I think it'll be more likely for the 24-25 season. The 30th anniversary logo for next season still uses the webbed D logo. Not that that can't be changed later and I don't know if that anniversary logo exists in physical form yet, but seems like a lot to include the webbed D logo just as a red herring of sorts. 30th anniversary should bring anniversary and throwback merch. Get people to buy anniversary and throwback merch next season and then make them buy "new brand" stuff again the following season instead of splitting the 30th anniversary and "new brand" merch money pot between one season. The first part of the big renos to the Honda Center area are scheduled, as of now, to open in 2024. New renovations, new brand? 24-25 is when the new jersey manufacturer comes in. Next season is the last with Adidas, so why spend all this time making changes with Adidas just to have to do it again the following season?

Maybe it's one of the helmets he used with the Oilers that had to be painted over? There have been two, that I know of at least, instances this year where a player has used old gloves that were painted over/recoloured to match what the team was wearing and Teemu for years used the same JOFA helmets once they went out of business. So maybe Kassian really liked his old helmet and it's just how the repainting turned out?

WHL unveiled a new playoff logo. I don't like the overly detailed trophy.

Well then you've never seen the Lethbridge Hurricanes logo history, They include Taz and later HurrJcanes that Washington made them stop using. (I hope the sarcasm is taken)

I'm just wondering if there's a larger issue at play with weather themed team names not being able to be translated well into good logos. The discussion surrounding the toilet bowl Hurricanes logo and the warning flag alternate logos (even that's an issue because for years they used the incorrect flag and now that they use the correct flag, it looks worse), many Thunder teams just using Thor or including lightning in their logo or OKC doing what they did. You go through the list of weather themed team names and I don't think there's many good logos/brands.

Maybe it's because of the CFL fan in me and seeing way more relaxed jersey rules, I think the NFL letting more people wear different numbers is fine and not a crazy concept. CFL basically has no numbering rules, besides two criteria for players on the offence. There was a period in the 90s where the Stampeders quarterback was #20 (Flutie) and one the fan favourite receivers was #25.

The Swift Current Broncos dipped into MiLB territory yesterday where they played a game as the Lake Diefenbaker Slough Sharks (Slough Shark being a nickname for pike apparently). It's fun enough I think. I was going to say the numbers look like a poor afterthought, but the original design had the numbers being that pale yellow colour so something must have happened during manufacturing.

Good thing they aren't taking away the webbed D then? Not many anniversary logos would immediately jump out as a logo for the given team if the primary logo wasn't a part of the anniversary logo. If anything, I'd argue this does jump out as a Ducks logo without the webbed D because it's clearly the Mighty Ducks logo shape. The yellow is there because that's just the colour of the old sticks. I would agree that there's an odd amount of silver (probably because the outline of the Ducks logo uses that silver) and I would have liked to see some of the other colours used too, but I'm wondering if they had the logo idea first and didn't like how all those colours came together? Either that or they wanted some more neutral coloured logo for different applications? Using either the old Mighty Ducks numbers or the current numbers would have been neat, but I wonder if it also kind of goes back to a more neutral logo and not wanting to focus on either so they went with a generic font. This is the first of the three non-Mighty anniversaries to use anything Mighty in the logo so I do wonder if it was a process in trying to figure out how to combine both eras. That 25th logo was generally not well received and was overshadowed by the anniversary jersey they wore that season. I don't think they would go back to that well with an even more questionable logo turned into a number.

My high school had this logo. However, some teams used the Arizona Cardinals logo for a number of years, including for my first two years playing football, but then my last year (high school is only three years where I live) us football team switched to this other cardinal decal on the helmets (with the Arizona logo still on our jerseys). The football team continued to use that other decal up until apparently a couple years ago and now they're using an updated version of the old school logo which I didn't know existed until looking up the logos to post here. So the school must have rebranded at some point in the nearly a decade since I graduated and I don't know which, if any, other teams are using this new logo or if some are still using the Arizona logo or if some are even still using the old logo.

Well, all it was yesterday was just the anniversary logo. I don't know if I'm expecting a rebrand for next year. One, the first phase of the big renovations to the arena area are expected to be completed in 2024 so there have been some suggestion that any rebrand would match that timeline. Two, this anniversary logo still uses the webbed-D. Seems weird to use that logo in the anniversary logo if they aren't going to use it in that anniversary season.

We don't have a next season thread up yet I don't think. I like it and it's the first anniversary logo they've used that includes both Mighty and non-Mighty eras.

Friedman said that Remington wasn't seen as top suitor and now he wonders if this might change some things with other buyers.

This is the third Bret Hart night and you can see the two previous jerseys behind the players in the top photo, just a pink and black version of this same jersey. The Hitmen had made mention of a Forever a Hitmen night before the season but hadn't yet announced who it would be and now we know. He'll join Brad Moran (who's number was actually retired because it was before the Flames introduced the "Forever a [name]" program and I don't really have a problem with the Hitmen, because of junior hockey's cyclical nature, and Roughnecks, who hadn't yet retired a number, doing it but it's stupid for the Flames), Ryan Getzlaf, Andrew Ladd and Kelly Kisio. Okay, that's a bit worse then. Yeah, the OHL has more buying power but if the Jr. A team is that low, it's a bit more concerning.

I think it's too early to make any projections yet, especially when you're comparing an OHL team to a Jr. B team. I think just a few more people would turn out for an OHL game.

I was going to ask, I saw on Twitter that the Keys were still around and was questioning this team. They're so invested in this whole hullabaloo and finding a "local" name and they're just going to pack up in a season.

I could see the Jets bringing back the 80s/90s throwbacks next year and dropping the blacks. They made some reference to other teams planning to wear throwbacks in 2023 back when they released the black helmets and I'm pretty sure Woody Johnson is aware of the Jets fans thoughts on wanting the throwbacks The 2023 season is also year five of the current Jets uniforms (wow, already?).

I'm so intrigued by this Bobcats story and now I'm down an Elite Prospects rabbit hole. Low level minor league hockey players fascinate me sometimes.

CBS says it wasn't an "intervention" and was instead just one of CBS' regular meetings they do with on-air people.

Along with whoever mentioned seeing the White Sox away jerseys a couple pages back, I'm wondering if it could be because the grey jerseys have the city name on them? Especially for cities like Chicago, New York and Boston where the city itself is a brand of sorts that gets repped, some people might be more attracted to a jersey that says "Chicago", "New York" or "Boston" on the front. The White Sox and Yankees also have pinstripes and logos on the whites as opposed to a plain jersey with a script so some people also might prefer the simpler look of the greys over something a bit more "gaudy" for everyday wear of the whites (along with the city name being on the front thing).

These Ducks jerseys suck enough already, but the dark socks don't match the striping pattern. It looks like an attempt to call back to the Mighty Ducks with the flipped sleeve striping on the socks but the gold and white don't flip.

I like them. I don't like that they stopped doing individual jerseys for each division. What's the point of doing not doing that if you have four teams? It must have not made sense production cost wise.