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I've only heard baseball going this route, the NHL seems set at 32, along with the NFL. Maybe MLS will add another 16 teams, but it seems only baseball is going to come out of all this forever radically changed, from teams to rules to playoffs, etc. The NHL may change a couple seats at the table, but unless they're in a way, way worse situation, I can't see any changes amounting to the cumulative changes from around 1995-2000. The league started the new century in a radically different place than they did the decade before with relocations, expansion, rule changes, etc.

The cost of contracting four teams would be huge, wouldn't it? Wouldn't all the teams basically have to but the contracting teams out? Wouldn't 'suspending operations' be more apt, letting the owners still 'hold the team' for some time without fielding a team before just selling the franchise to another billionaire or folding as a last resort? Is the NHL (and major sports in general) just an operation that is too big to fail or is bankruptcy and vanishing franchises a reality?

Well, things could get interesting for the NHL next season, the very real possibility of no travel between Canada and the US could make for a seven team all Canada division, with 3 eight team divisions south of the border. CANADA: MON, OTT, TOR, WIN, EDM, CAL, VAN EAST: BUF, BOS, NYI, NYR, NJ, PHI, PIT, WAS CENTRAL?: CAR, TB, FLA, NSH, CHI, DET, CLB, STL WEST: MIN, DAL, ARZ, COL, VEG, LA, ANA, SJ Rough call for that eighth western team, sorry Wild! The NHL could plan to play the first half of the season in division, 42 games each team. (Canada x7 each opponent, US teams x6 each opponent). This may buy them some time to figure out a second half of the season (unless arena dates need to be plugged in by a certain date), allowing time for covid rates to hopefully slow/drop, or just schedule another 42 games for each team in their division.

If only the KC Mavericks had such taste! They have the same owner but just got horrible sweaters.

When I saw they dropped the light blue, I kinda figured we were in store for something more along the lines of the Flyers' use of orange, black and white, but whoa, they really leaned into that grey didn't they? And all that piping... yikes.

Here's one of my recent paintings

Just curious, has anybody here ever conjured up a league using contraction? 48 teams in MLB seems pretty unreasonable, but has anybody come up with a smaller league, perhaps realigned in different ways besides putting teams in Portland, Charlotte, Nashville, etc? The once possible prospects of a three 'division' MLB set into East, Central and West seemed exciting for a short season. But what happens if baseball isn't played for two years? Can Miami survive? Cleveland? What would MLB look like with 22 teams? I'd be curious to see what people think.

Mars Attacks! Burning Cows intro Maybe the designer was a really big fan of Mars Attacks!

I do live in KC, so I know my way around the metro area I think they're moving to Olathe when the arena they are building there will be finished, which is just another 15 minutes fown the road. I'm not sure how handcuffed they were on the logo (due to NHL copyrights and Native American restraints), but the logo?/wordmark? is Oklahoma City Thunder level simplicity. EDIT: Oh, looks like they have an actual logo:

The Kansas City Scouts are officially back! Well, not in the NHL, in the NAHL. And not actually in Kansas City, Missouri, but Shawnee, Kansas.

Okay, so the failure aspect of this entire thread is one big failjack with limited results, but here's a rebrand that cost the already successful company $35 million to roll out and another $20 million in lost sales. The story behind it is pretty interesting as well.

I'm no familiar with a lot of the logisitics of the AHL, understand they're at 32 teams, and matching a team with an affiliate is essential now. But there's been a lot of talk about the AHL here in Kansas City, and I thought it would happen until I read this : https://arenadigest.com/2020/02/28/should-blues-pursue-kansas-city-ahl-affiliate/ The Sprint Center seats well over 16k for hockey, was built for an NBA/NHL team, and is in the middle of downtown, the Mavericks currently play in Independence, about 10 miles west of KC and seats just under 6,000. I can't see an AHL team moving into the Sprint Center as its one of the most used and profitable arenas in the country, and annually gives about 1 million a year back to the city (KCMO paid for it after all). I'd say moving an AHL team into Independence would not hurt, but taking over 40+ dates at the Sprint Center would most likely be a disaster.

The rumor is the Mavericks get moved up to the AHL. I'm not sure how exactly that works, but Hunt Jr is all about it and St Louis needing an affiliate kinda makes the logistical pieces work.

Lamar Hunt Jr just bought the NAHL Topeka Pilots and is moving them to Kansas City. http://www.nahl.com/news/story.cfm?id=29100 There's no way the Mavericks don't move up to the AHL now.

I missed something there. I mean Disney started his career in KC, but is there another connection? Hallmark just laid off another couple thousand people here, so I guess they won't bring an XFL team here either. Edit: He's from Missouri? Like St Louis is also in Missouri?

Well, I guess I learn something every day.Gentle drinking buzz and general bias against everything Massachusetts aside, I stand corrected. It's a better name than the Worcester Wind Fits!

I don't care, I lived in central Mass for 20 years, that's really not a thing. I don't care how you pronounce 'haaaaht'.

I'm lost trying to figure out who exactly would have official XFL merch on their Christmas list.

Each new Brandiose design isn't just boring for the same tropes used over and over, but the line quality on every single design is so thick and dull. It looks like sketches I'll do with my finger in a text message using the default draw option. The word marks are usually well produced and the strongest part of each identity. Also, all these logos have way more going on than their others, and it's not helping here.

I had never really thought about why the White Sox are such a bland team before, but being split from those teams damaged their club a ton.

Here's a very interesting article about the original realignment in Major League Baseball. It's funny to see the concerns and what upset teams back when it was happening.

Barstool is notorious for using other people's content. https://deadspin.com/comedian-says-barstool-sports-stole-her-video-tried-to-1833048577

this is what it also reminds me of:

That rock may be the single worst depiction of an object in logo history. And that all too common fat sized stroke/line quality is doing it absolutely zero good.

The NLL's Saskatchewan Rush wear a bright, bright green. https://www.saskrush.com/