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  1. I got one...

    I don't think the Sabres cape jerseys are as bad as people say they are. As an alternate jersey for 1 season, I don't have a problem with them.
    I got one for Christmas and it's not as bad as it originally seemed. It's grown on me and it's actually not bad for what it is.
  2. I like your WHL proposal, monkeypower. I don't like adding more teams. 22 is more than plenty for a regional league, and it's not like they're leaving a lot of big cities on the table while committing to Prince George and Swift Current. Bellevue and Tacoma are bad ideas with one team in Kent and another in Everett already. Fort McMurray is connected to the rest of the world by little planes and one road; that it even exists in the condition it does is something of an abomination.

    You prefer to see a league with certain numbers with an unbalanced schedule than to have a well-fit quantity of teams per division with a well-balanced schedule? Damn! But I won't blame you for that because it's your opinion, after all.
    I agree with admiral. There isn't really room for more teams in Alberta, I was grasping at straws for suitable places in Alberta and the N.W.

    The unbalanced schedule will always happen because the uneven divisions and some of the Eastern teams only play the US teams once a year because of travel.

    I just moved Kootenay because it evens up the conferences and reduces Kootenay's travel because they're with their province.

  3. Right now in the WHL there are 22 teams, 10 in the West and 12 in the East. The prairie teams are in the East, while the American teams and the B.C. teams are in the West... besides Kootenay. The divisional are all set up provincially (the East is Saskatchewan and Manitoba) and American, with Kootenay stuck with the Alberta teams.

    Right now the conferences and divisions are set up like so:

    Eastern Conference

    East Division Central Division

    Brandon Calgary

    Moose Jaw Edmonton

    Prince Albert Kootenay

    Regina Lethbridge

    Saskatoon Medicine Hat

    Swift Current Red Deer

    Western Conference

    B.C. Division American Division

    Kamloops Everett

    Kelowna Portland

    Prince George Seattle

    Vancouver Spokane

    Victoria Tri-City

    What I would do is move Kootenay over to the B.C. Division to even out the conferences and then rename the Eastern Conference divisions, so there's no more East Division of the Eastern Conference.

    Eastern Conference

    Prairie Division Alberta Division

    Brandon Calgary

    Moose Jaw Edmonton

    Prince Albert Lethbridge

    Regina Medicine Hat

    Saskatoon Red Deer

    Swift Current

    Western Conference

    B.C. Division American Division

    Kamloops Everett

    Kelowna Portland

    Kootenay Seattle

    Prince George Spokane

    Vancouver Tri-City

    Victoria

    Love your idea monkeypower. Obviously, Kootenay is a team from the B.C. area. But it would be more well-balanced if two expansion teams would join in to have a total of 24 in the WHL. Maybe one team from Alberta to replace Kootenay's previous spot and another one from the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

    For Alberta, I would guess Fort Saskatchewan, Drumheller and Fort McMurray (even though those two have pretty successful AJHL teams) would be the best ideas. The WHL could try Billings again and it being in Montana would fit in with the Alberta teams.

    Just going off Wikipedia population numbers, the Northwest team could be Tacoma (they had a team before), or Bellevue but I don't know much about that area of the States.

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  4. Right now in the WHL there are 22 teams, 10 in the West and 12 in the East. The prairie teams are in the East, while the American teams and the B.C. teams are in the West... besides Kootenay. The divisional are all set up provincially (the East is Saskatchewan and Manitoba) and American, with Kootenay stuck with the Alberta teams.

    Right now the conferences and divisions are set up like so:

    Eastern Conference

    East Division Central Division

    Brandon Calgary

    Moose Jaw Edmonton

    Prince Albert Kootenay

    Regina Lethbridge

    Saskatoon Medicine Hat

    Swift Current Red Deer

    Western Conference

    B.C. Division American Division

    Kamloops Everett

    Kelowna Portland

    Prince George Seattle

    Vancouver Spokane

    Victoria Tri-City

    What I would do is move Kootenay over to the B.C. Division to even out the conferences and then rename the Eastern Conference divisions, so there's no more East Division of the Eastern Conference.

    Eastern Conference

    Prairie Division Alberta Division

    Brandon Calgary

    Moose Jaw Edmonton

    Prince Albert Lethbridge

    Regina Medicine Hat

    Saskatoon Red Deer

    Swift Current

    Western Conference

    B.C. Division American Division

    Kamloops Everett

    Kelowna Portland

    Kootenay Seattle

    Prince George Spokane

    Vancouver Tri-City

    Victoria

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    OH :censored: YOU FOREVER GLENDALE

    I've seen worse. They used to have a thing where you get 2 free tickets when you buy a $20 bottle of Absolute or Stoli or something from Fry's (a local grocery store).

    maybe but that's $24.75 for a NHL ticket, a hot dog and Pepsi per person to see the current Stanley Cup champs play. I spent more than that to take my wife to see Phantom of the Opera for her birthday years ago.

    ... on a Saturday night, no less. Those should be the easy tickets to sell.

    If they have trouble selling a Saturday game against the defending Cup champions, how in blue hell do they promote a Tuesday game in March against the Florida Panthers?

    Weird definition of "lake". More like a puddle.

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    If this water fountain constitutes a "lake" in Arizona, what constitutes an "ocean?"

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  6. How are they going to do it though? Jiggy and Teemu played for the Mighty and non-Mighty Ducks.

    I personally wouldn't care whatever team they were retired for (even though it will probably be the Ducks) as long as they don't go back and retire Herbert or Salei or *gasp* Kariya or whoever as non-Mighty Ducks.

  7. What's weird about that is that IMO Hockey uniforms are by far the most interesting of the four major sports.

    I struggle to get excited about basketball or baseball uniforms, although I can appreciate a good one.

    I think the reason for this is because hockey jerseys are the largest, so there is more room to do interesting stripes and patterns on them.
    I think it's also because it has the most room for creativity. There are only so many variations on baseball jerseys. There's going to be a script or a chest logo, maybe a number on the front or not, a sleeve logo or not.

    Basketball's the same. You're usually going to get a script with a number underneath it.

  8. It could have been worse they could have put Danny Heatley on the cover of a video game :P

    To be fair, that wasn't an NHL decision.

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    Picking a cover athlete for NHL 2004 proved to be problematic. Joe Thornton was the original choice but after he was brought up on assault charges, he was removed and replaced by Dany Heatley for the game's first shipments. After Heatley's car crash that killed his Atlanta Thrashers team-mate, Dan Snyder, EA removed him and replaced the cover with Joe Sakic but not before a large number of units had already been shipped. As a result, both covers (Heatley and Sakic) made it into circulation.
  9. whats the difference between the concept and general design forums ? what type of thread goes in which ?

    Concepts are for sports esthetic related things that people create and want to show off (logos, jerseys, stadiums, rebrands etc.)

    General Design is basically the Sports Logos section but for non-sports related designs. It's not a place to post your own work, but rather a place to discuss non-sports related designs.

  10. I will say this. If the NHL goes to Seattle, it is imperative for the league to get control of a hypothetical new arena and then absolutely refuse to give a lease to an NBA team. A Sonics revival is not in its best interests.

    Not possible. The hypothetical arena is being built by the guys trying to bring the NBA to Seattle. Hockey is always going to be a secondary consideration even with a team at Key Arena. That said a secondary consideration Coyotes in Seattle are better than the no consideration Coyotes in Glendale.

    No, not really. I'd rather the NHL not be a catspaw for some effort to secure a basketball team.

    You say that like the NHL hadn't sacrificed its dignity long ago.

    At what point in the space time continuum has the NHL ever had some dignity to begin with?

    They cancelled the Stanley Cup final in 1919 because of the Spanish flu pandemic... that was classy of them.

    Only because players were affected and it was a simpler time. HRR wasn't invented yet.

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