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This game is being played tonight with the Hitmen as the visiting team, who just announced on Twitter they are wearing their Teddy Bear Toss jerseys too, with the Hitmen having done their Teddy Bear Toss last Saturday. So it's going to be Teddy Bear on Teddy Bear and (sort of?) colour on colour.

The Angels have agreed to stay in Anaheim until 2050 and the stadium (along with 133 surrounding acres) to be sold to a business partnership, which includes Arte Moreno, for $325 million. https://www.ocregister.com/2019/12/04/angels-agree-to-stay-in-anaheim-through-2050-stadium-to-be-sold-for-325-million/

I still think the Hitmen win the Teddy Bear Toss jersey competition because it's still a regular jersey, just with a Santa hat on the logo and snowcapped numbers (and captain's letters).

Worcester Sauce with a logo similar to the Vermont Lake Monsters Maple Kings? (I kid)

The Swift Current Broncos are doing a Swift Current 57's night this Friday. The 57's are the summer collegiate baseball team.

Interesting they're using the retro logo.

Here's a pic of the Montana logo on a hat from some guy on Twitter. The embroidery isn't half bad I don't think.

From the Hitmen's Bret Hart game.

Per the Barstool blogging discussion, I think their real cash cow now is podcasting and the more visual/audio content, along with merchandise, instead of the blogging. From what I understand, it's also kind of the nature of the beast with making money through internet content. It's more about the sponsors and merch than actual clicks or views. This is probably for another thread, but I wonder if there's going to be a podcasting/Youtube/internet sponsorship bubble burst soon. Someone like Barstool has the history with major companies that sponsor content or put ads on their podcasts, but it seems like every Youtuber or podcaster is sponsored by Audible or whatever VPN is hot in the streets. How much money is there in these ads and how much money do these smaller sponsors have to spend?

Back in 2009, the Hitmen went 59-9-4. They were top in the WHL by three points, they won the conference by 19 and their division by 43(!) points. They swept the first three rounds of the playoffs before laying an egg in the finals and losing the first three games. They forced a game six but ended up losing in overtime and 13 year old me was devastated. They ended up winning the WHL the next year though. The Ducks losing the Conference Finals in 2015 and 2017 was tough too, especially after the game five comeback and finally winning a game seven during the Oilers series in 2017. There was a period of time when I was younger where I also liked the Flames in addition to the Ducks. In 2004, the Flames losing the Stanley Cup ruined 8 year old me. Being so young I got caught up in just how much the Flames took over Calgary during those playoffs. That run was a crazy time in the city.

Back for the 20th anniversary they used his theme as the goal song.

So the pink Ducks jersey was for the 15th anniversary and then they wore it as an alternate for a couple seasons after. Then for their 20th, they brought back the actual throwbacks and added the original starburst logo on one shoulder with the anniversary logo on the other. Then after that season they switched out the anniversary logo for another starburst logo and wore it as an alternate up until last season. They are playing an outdoor game in Regina against the Pats the day after the Flames and Jets play. This will be the second time the Hitmen have played outdoors (the other time was also against Regina) and wore these jerseys last time, so I am expecting some pink and grey again if there are going to be jerseys for the game. They also kept these around as an alternate for a few seasons too. (This was also during a time period where one of the helmet decals was flipped for some reason) I think the current colours have been around for so long at this point. As a fan of both of these teams, I think a fairly good comparison is the Ducks. They both started with branding deeply tied into their ownership with unconventional colours. They both changed to their current branding after new ownership took over and have seen championships in current branding with their first championships coming in the first year of the current branding (the Hitmen have since won another). Not that I think there's as much clamor for the pink Hitmen as there is for the Mighty Ducks, but the current branding has been around for so long now that I think both ownership groups are fine with keeping the old branding around for anniversaries, special occasions and double dipping on the merch.

The Hitmen are having Bret Hart Night on November 2 in conjuction with Prostate Cancer awareness.

Yeah.... that's not going to happen.

I was at home over the weekend for Thanksgiving and my dad was telling me he and others keep seeing the anniversary patch as the sleeve numbers during games, so the Hitmen players look like they're all #25.

The Battlefords North Stars unveiled their third jerseys and they're not good. The intention is to be some sort of an amalgamation of team history but the jersey sucks. It's like the EDGE Thrashers alternate had a baby with the original EDGE Blues. They used to be called the Barons from 73-83 which is where the colours come from and then it has the N-star North Stars logo which the team also used to wear. Also their social media sucks, even by jr. A standards, hence why I have to use a portrait video from Facebook (just make the video go full screen). There's no good full body pictures of the uniform anywhere yet, even from the two local media organizations.

"Well, we got the most votes for [insert locally relevant team name] but the guys from Brandiose heard the ramblings of the town drunk calling an animal by a name nobody else has ever used once and we know it'll sell hats online so...."

I think the Ducks have done that well now that they quasi-updated the colours, and put them back into chronological order, a few years ago. I wouldn't hate if they updated the 2003 Western Conference Championship banner to match the newer template, but still in the Mighty Ducks style.

I don't really like banners with big pictures of the trophies on them.

FredNats doesn't really roll off the tongue like something like PawSox does, but I guess they're going to force it to work. I do like the George logo though.

So what's kind of weird, but makes sense in terms of production costs/efforts, Red Deer's already existing alternates didn't switch templates and I would assume they just have the same jersey set from previous years. I assume that would be the case with most, if not all, the pre-existing alternates? (though the Hitmen anniversary jersey isn't on the new template either)

Triple post baybee!

Meh. Not a fan of the socks at all and they slant the opposite way the jersey stripe slants. The mask logo is sublimated on the silver of the socks and jersey stripes but doesn't appear to be on the shoulders. They almost had a better silver(grey)/25th anniversary jersey for their 10th anniversary.

Yeah someone posted the pic of the jersey in the store a page back or so and the removal of the phantom yoke, trim and armpit colour (this on both jerseys) is new this year with the new templates. So that's definitely an improvement, but they still have the bad, and poorly coloured balanced, number font though. Also, online the Hitmen season ticket package says it comes with a "Commemorative 25th Anniversary Jersey" so it could be assumed there's supposed to be an alternate jersey, because they did this for the 20th anniversary too, but there has been no information at all about it. My family has season tickets and I asked my dad about it over the weekend and he said they have the tickets but haven't even gotten any information on how to get this jersey. The home opener, and next game, is Friday so we could get some information about it during the week but there's been no mention of it besides with the season ticket information.

Oh no Estevan, what are you doing?