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IceCap

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  1. Laser Kiwi is exactly the flag that debacle deserved.
  2. Ok. So do you know why so many US states have "seal/coat of arms on a blue field" designs? Because these were standard regiment designs in the Union army during the US Civil War. Following the War a lot of states adopted the simple "seal on a blue field" design specifically because they wanted to invoke the memories of those Union Army regimental flags, and to feel like their state "belonged" in the Union. The Civil War had saved the Union, after all, and a lot of people wanted their state flag to "look the part" of being part of the greater whole. After over a century that reasoning became somewhat forgotten and a crop of young vexillologists decided it was time to push for redesigns or re-adoptions of older, more unique designs. And it's all very understandable. It seems like a problem if you don't have the knowledge of why these states all have similar flags. The thing is that as this push increases more and more people are looking into why the "seal on a blue field" template became so prominent in the first place and when they discover the reason it resonates with them. Sometimes more powerfully then a better designed alternative. I forgot who said it, but there was a vexillologist who had a good point when the New Zealand flag debate was going on a few years back. A flag is not a sports team logo, nor is it a corporate logo. It has in it the symbolism and history of whatever it's representing. As this vexillologist put it not liking your flag because it's not "well designed" enough is like not liking your relatives if they're not good looking. It kind of misses the point.
  3. A desperate attempt to seem relevant!
  4. You've threatened to leave this forum multiple times over disagreements about hockey sweater design. You're not really in a position to talk.
  5. Somehow, some way, you will manage to survive someone hitting too close to home with an internet meme. I believe in you.
  6. Look. This is a tricky one because we have a no politics rule but also this decision by the NHL has a political impact. Our options are to go "you can't talk about this period" or let it go and play itself out. Given that this is a discussion board well... you can guess how we decided. If you don't want to talk about it you can ignore it until it's old news. Or keep posting those reactions. Really getting the impotent rage across.
  7. That was the AHL, the top minor league affiliate of the NHL.
  8. People have been predicting <insert thing here> has been causing the downfall of civilization since civilization became a thing.
  9. No joke I'd be all over a Belfour Sharks sweater
  10. Chances are I'm in a Leafs sweater and he's in a Sharks sweater. We bond over shared crushed dreams
  11. I'm well read and well educated enough to understand that the people who """read""" a single essay or paper and use it as the bedrock of their entire worldview are just smart enough for their stupidity to be dangerous. I'm also educated enough to understand that an integral part analyzing any historic work is understanding "bias" and "context." What a mid-20th century British Army officer thinks isn't really pertinent to things in 2023, outside of a historiographical context. All of which is to say that I think you've done a bang up job rebranding good ole' fashion homophobia as something pseudo-intellectual. OH! One last thing. See you wanna talk about the decline of civilizations and empires... The British Empire still criminalized homosexuality when the sun finally set and the Romans? Well Christian morals had completely replaced traditional pagan morals in Rome when the Western Empire fell. So if your argument here is "teh gayz" are hallmark of an empire's decline then you're kind of reaching.
  12. Oh why don't you tell me all about it Mr. Dysgenics?
  13. Question. If you see a guy and his girlfriend out do you immediately obsess over what they do in bed? No? Then why do you seem to obsess over what my boyfriend and I do in bed?
  14. It should go without saying that calling for someone to be lynched won't be tolerated
  15. People always have new excuses/willingness to try the Sunbelt again but when the Nords leave for reasons other than fan support it's "lol they had a team and lost it and no one likes to speak French anyway, not viable." Gimmie a break.
  16. How about this- the Yeti is a mythological creature from the Himalayas. And yes it was dumb when the Avs used it too. Thankfully they've fixed the situation. Anyway Utah doesn't even have a NHL caliber arena.
  17. It's all guesswork unless you're on the inside and know how much they budgeted for. Everyone knew they'd lose money the first couple of years. The question is if the loses are seen as acceptable or not. And they may very well be.
  18. I bet you think the Maple Leafs and Rangers are too close for comfort too.
  19. I don't think they were designed with much thought at all. The white pants stripes had a pretty simple navy-red-navy pattern but on the navy pants it was nickel-white-nickel. The numbers on the navy set were white with royal and nickel outlines while the numbers on the white set were royal with navy outlines. This created a disjointed look because the white jersey was designed to go with the navy pants but the jerseys were very heavy on double blue, yet royal never showed up on the navy pants. In fact the royal blue numbers on the white jerseys stick out like a sore thumb compared to everything else in the set. The helmet stripe was a jumbled mess because they tried to shove two shades of blue and nickel into a space that had a pretty simple striping pattern before. I can understand the desire to see some good in it all, I really can. But it's also fair to say it's a case of too many ideas and no willingness to cut any of them. Darkening the royal to navy across the board and adding silver ("nickel") would have been following every bad design trend in the 2000s but just doing that would have at least been a consistent look. By insisting they held onto royal blue though, they created a jumbled mess where even elements that were designed to be worn together didn't really mesh.
  20. I wasn't even going there. I just think blue and white feels Buffalo. The city flag, the heavy white accents, pants and helmet give a snowy vibe, etc... it just feels like it works for Upstate NY. They were trying to do something like the Patriots' Brady-era look.
  21. The red helmets are fine but the whites feel more fitting for upstate NY? I donno. It's arbitrary but they do to me
  22. They say they expect to be cash positive by 2027
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