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43 minutes ago, Dilbert said:

Tennessee Smokies have announced they will revert back to their previous name of Knoxville Smokies when they move to their new Knoxville ballpark in 2024

I wonder if it will bring a full rebrand or just swapping out "Tennessee" for "Knoxville".

I really like their TS logo, so much so that I bought a hat a couple years ago, and I don't know if KS would flow the same.

2 hours ago, LMU said:

Because there's not a more coveted endorsement than a bunch of working and retired empty suits who haven't had a damn thing to do with the team up to this point.  And, I'm sure that hospital leaders and Coke distributors are the authorities on regional macroeconomics.

 

(Please tell me we're going full Coyotes and that the Columbia Restaurant Group has a Johnny Rockets in its portfolio).

https://www.columbiarestaurant.com/

Sadly no, it's a Spanish restaurant with seven locations in Florida. 

20 hours ago, CaliforniaGlowin said:

Well this is different...

 

Love it.

On 12/30/2021 at 1:30 AM, Ridleylash said:

please be the 2004 red jersey, please be the 2004 red jersey, please be the 2004 red jersey 

Well the white jersey template is apparently back now.

25 minutes ago, _RH_ said:

Is this helmet logo new?

Or maybe it's just an ad

It's both.

It is a new helmet logo, but it's an ad for Visit Nashville, Nashville's tourism board/department/whatever it's called. It's Visit Nashville's logo.

Yeah, I liked those Pens jerseys too.

But that number font sucked.

Calgary isn't letting Glendale have all the arena fun. A twitter thread from  Calgary's mayor, who was on city council when the arena deal was made and was elected mayor a couple months ago, says CSEC intends to pull the plug on the arena deal (over $9.7 million dollars according to her).

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Today, I spoke with Murray Edwards, primary shareholder of Calgary Sports & Entertainment Corp (CSEC), about the future of the Event Centre project.
He informed me of the Flames intention to pull the plug on the Event Centre deal.
Why? Here’s what I know:

 

The deal struck in summer of 2019 envisioned a $550 m deal w/costs split equally between CSEC & the City. In addition, the City provided land, 90% demolition of the ‘Dome, excess flood/site remediation, & levies. Total City contribution: $275m + $22.4m = $297.4 plus land.

 

Plus the value of the land. I supported that deal. In July 2021, CSEC asked to make changes to the above deal. CMLC removed as devel manager, both parties added $12.5m for potential cost overruns & City added up to $10m in event management costs.
Total value: $307.4 + land

 

I did not support that deal.
Since I was elected Mayor, Administration & my office have been working with CSEC to mitigate any additional costs. Two costs were identified: climate mitigation of around $4m and road/sidewalk right of way issues of $12.1m.

 

The City came to the table to assist with $6.4m in roadways leaving $9.7m for the Flames. Based on this gap, CSEC informed me they are walking away from our deal.

On a project worth over $650m, to have one party walk away for 1.5% of the value of the deal is staggering.

 

I wanted Calgarians to be the first to know. I am as disappointed as all of you that this is the way things are ending.

Houston Flames baybee! The new arena deal wouldn't have them leaving the Saddledome for another four or five years anyways, and I don't think groundbreaking is close either, so I guess Edwards and CSEC are trying to see if they can squeeze some money out of/re-enter negotiations with a new mayor and city council.

5 hours ago, the admiral said:

Quebec City has done everything right and has everything a team needs. However, hockey fans on reddit and HFboards are just enraptured by the idea of Dallas and Houston having a  hockey rivalry. From what I can tell, nothing has ever made their hearts swell more than imagining a Dallas-Houston game. It would be the most important thing that has ever happened to the NHL, Dallas playing Houston. I should go post on CFL forums talking about how the world can wait no longer for Montreal to play Quebec in football.

Oddly enough, much like the Sunbelt NHL teams, you'd have to compete with college university football for that dream as well.

15 hours ago, Jer15 said:

Fantastic!

I took it to specifically mean the black alternates and not the removal of "black" as a concept from all the uniforms. I also assumed they would just have different black alternates next year because the black alternate is a part of Stamps branding and lore.

There was also another person in the locker room at the same time as me talking with a Stamps employee of some kind and they were both lamenting the fact that they can't wear the black helmets anymore because of how cool they looked. I'm not one for public confrontation, especially for something as insignificant as that, but I almost said something above me giving them a quizzical look.

Maybe for next season’s thread, but I’m in line at the Stampeders locker room sale and a lady came outside and told the front of the line that the black jerseys might be a good buy because they aren’t coming back next year.

On 12/10/2021 at 2:45 PM, Digby said:

Yeah, I'm putting those with in the "90s best to be forgotten about bin", along with Calgary and STL going weirdly diagonal and the Burger Kings. I might grant an alternate timeline where the Isles successfully integrate teal into their scheme

Hand up, I've started to come around a bit on the pedestal jerseys. The pedestal ruins it, but I don't think it's a bad jersey minus the pedestal (you know, just take out the most prominent feature).

I first noticed the Flames selling this hat a couple years ago and that's the only current pedestal stuff around but I haven't noticed this year if it's still in the store at the Saddledome. It's still available online though for what that's worth.

23 hours ago, Red Comet said:

I like the old Scouts jerseys. In 2021, however, you’d have to be on hallucinogens to think they’d bring back a uniform from a team that failed after 2 years. And that’s not even getting into any other issues such a uniform would have that would be verboten for me to explain further on. 

23 hours ago, the admiral said:

The Devils cited some vague Scouts inspiration in their crappy redesign. It's not impossible.

There was a NAHL team, owned by Lamar Hunt Jr.'s company, who moved to Kansas City (or technically a suburb) for the 2020-21 season and changed their name to the Scouts, with a new logo.

However, they went dormant because of the Covid season in 20-21 and then also were going to be dormant for the 21-22 season as wll, but were sold and moved to Amarillo in time for the 21-22 season.

So there was a return of the Scouts, but they failed worse than the original Scouts because at least the original Scouts played more than no games..

Speaking of Fisherman, the Isles are selling these at UBS.

I think this is a neat jersey to put back into circulation.

I want to like the Pens home and aways, and I think I do, but I echo that the striping is all over the place. Then you got Saskatoon who somehow made the striping issues even worse.

First look at the Roughnecks new look and the turf.

The red being dropped was an interesting (and partially because of sponsorship reasons) choice, but I guess the jerseys are fine?

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[James] Duthie: ...there’s a team that is 2-13-1 to start the season, and going to be kicked out of their home in Glendale, without a new arena being built, so what’s going to happen next season and beyond? 

 

[Chris] Johnston: Well, they’re still working on that. But I can say with certainty that they’re confident they will be in Arizona next season and beyond. On the front burner is trying to get an arena project, a permanent arena built in Tempe, Arizona. That’s going to take a few years, so the Coyotes have to be creative. And among the things they have considered for future temporary homes is Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, it’s a domed stadium that [is] in downtown Phoenix, they feel they can put an ice surface in there and play. And there is a precedent for this, many years ago the Tampa Bay Lightning did this while they were getting their own permanent rink built.

https://www.tsn.ca/insider-trading-how-close-are-the-sens-to-returning-to-play-1.1723083

1 hour ago, Brass said:

Not sure if it's been brought up, but the Bruins are once again wearing their alternate uniform tonight. It's the fifth time this season. I hope they are not interested in going full-time with it...

Yeah... I don't think you have anything to worry about considering the five games they've worn them are the first five games on their third jersey schedule. They're only wearing them 12 times this season, it's just a very front loaded schedule though with nine of those 12 games being before Christmas.

7 hours ago, Green27 said:

The long-discussed Beloit rebrand will be unveiled on Monday. I'm assuming Sky Carp based on colors.

 

https://twitter.com/MiLBPromos/status/1459613175209365505?s=20

So they're still going forward with it.

30 minutes ago, Popmart said:

Something to do with chocolate chip cookies?

That's the vibe I got too from the left side of the image. I can't figure out the right side, but it also seems food related.

I really don't think this is a permanent change, I'm thinking two food based "alternate identities", or whatever they're called nowadays.

21 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

I think nothing good comes from sports Substack.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has one (do you have a Substack or are you on Substack?) and the couple pieces I've seen have been good.

Is he doing something illegal? I don't think we can suffice to say based on this.

Is he a moron, trending towards scumbag, who is having risky and poorly communicated sexual encounters with girls he doesn't know  that he shouldn't be having (probably because he's going through a midlife crisis while rich and famous and trying make up for being a goober for most of his life)? Yes.

And 19 is way too young for him. I'm 25 and I think 19 is way too young. A series of events happened this past summer at my summer job, that I am not aware of the full story and probably never will be, that led to a 19 year-old coworker (who was closer to 18 than 20) kinda, sorta hitting me up and I was weirded out.

43 minutes ago, the admiral said:

I don't know, I mean, the entire cool kids' table has been trying to end Dave Portnoy's career for, what, eight years now? What do they have to show for it besides getting an ESPN show pulled that would have failed anyway? He's impervious to this stuff, having perfected just the right mix of oddball charisma, lack of initial acceptance, and total lack of shame. 

I've made it known on here that I consume some Barstool content. It's basically just three things at this point, which aren't Portnoy related nor really Barstool-centric, plus following some personalities on Twitter.

This discourse surrounding Barstool absolutely sucks and I hate it. It's the same thing every single time. The "blue checkmarks" retread the same anti-Portnoy and anti-Barstool stuff, even this article (which I guess is like two years in the making?) is pretty much that plus the sex stuff, and then people are like "I never liked Barstool anyways" or "Barstool = Bad" or some other vaguely related statement (like this stupid thing made it's way to hockey twitter and somebody was saying that the hockey writers who "vowed to do better" after the Kyle Beach story should follow this story and talk to NHL people who have been involved with Spittin Chiclets). Then the mouth breather Stoolies and Portnoy sycophants and some Barstool personalities do their part in "defending" the honour of El Pres and Barstool and reinforcing that people aren't entirely incorrect in viewing Stoolies and Barstool in the way they do.

It's just the same old song and dance and nothing ever comes of it. But hey, it gets clicks and engagement on both sides, and everybody gets to tweet and then feel like they made a difference in the world, so it's worth going back to that well.

No, the shoulder patches were a great addition.

Continuing Ducks talk, they have warmups for Dia de Muertos night.

Gibson also has a mask for it, though he did wear it for the first two periods of their last game on Halloween and switched to his usual one for the third. I don't know what that was about.

The sugar skull in hockey helmet and sugar skull duck mask have been around for at least a couple of seasons now.

2 hours ago, AFirestormToPurify said:

Funny, the mostly orange socks are one of the very few things I like about that uniform. Reminds me of when the Bruins still wore yellow socks with their black jerseys

I like the socks too. It's just that the striping is wrong.

2 hours ago, AFirestormToPurify said:

It was probably inspired by the 03-06 alternate with the script logo and black base which was extremely popular with the fan base and even became the default home jersey near the end of the last season and playoffs as the Mighty Ducks IIRC

Yes, it was the home jersey for the 2006 playoffs and I would have to imagine that it had an impact on the 06-14 set.

I dislike these jerseys immensely.