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Maybe they'll move to Quebec City or Salt Lake City.

Or Cleveland.

This was a great uniform:

I loved those.

I don't know why shoulder logos get so much disdain around these parts.

I know this was probably posted a year ago, but Andrew Bynum never even actually played a game for the 76ers. Are there any other instances of players being introduced to the media (with a team), having a photo shoot and never playing with them??

There's probably far more notable examples, but Ryan Madson with the Reds comes to mind.

injured his arm before spring training games and had to have Tommy John surgery.

In honour of the recent Hockey Hall of Fame class...

wow good find., Think he only played like 5 or 6 games with ATL and then packed it in for good that year.

In keeping with the theme, these still seems odd

This looks weird as well.

He only wore these uniforms for 45 games during the lockout shortened 94-95 season.

I sat in the front row last year in the shoot twice end and had the pleasure of watching up close as Mike Smith pulled off the very difficult shutout/shootout loss. He was visibly angry with his teammates. It was glorious.

Sooooo when's the next lockout?

Eight years. Because it.

It's happening for sure. It's only been 6 months and already Mike Smith (MIKE SMITH!?!?) got a 6 year, 34 million dollar deal from the league owned team that doesn't have any money.

It's gonna get even worse in two days when free agency opens. This is just year 1 too. Imagine what salaries will look like in 7 years.

Well, I'm glad that there are millionaires and other well-to-do folks in the city, but that raises a new question. If there really is some magically as-yet unrealized passion for hockey in the desert, why can't a couple dozen/hundred/however many of these Glendale millionaires buy the team off the NHL? Do they not believe it can magically make money? Or are they all too smart for that, seeing how the city has thrown good money after bad all these years?

Because there isn't, they can't, and yes, they are.

Furthermore, the NHL would never approve that sale. As reported in the Bettman book, when the Oilers (I believe) were in peril, there was an offer from this conglomerate group of townsfolk dumping hats full of money onto the kitchen table. Bettman wouldn't allow that ownership group because he wanted there to be a solid majority owner.

That was the Jets and the Spirit of Manitoba group, which he struck down as part of a long chain of goalpost-moving on Winnipeg. Edmonton had a similar patchwork of owners step up to buy the team from Pocklington, but he let them buy the team. Daryl Katz eventually took full control of the team from that group, however.

And no, the NHL cannot and should not have a Packers deal. Hockey fandom plus "tra-la-la-la-la, I own stock in the team" would be such a critical mass of sanctimony that it would destroy the entirety of western civilization.

"I'm not paying Nick Schultz 3.5 million a year to be -13! BOOOO you suck Schultz. I pay your overpriced salary ya bum!" - some ahole with one share in the last row of the upperbowl*

*this took some research

They realize McCarthy is a huge Blue Jacket voice on a kinda/sorta not-too-big/not-too-small sports logos forum?

Close. I'm actually Gary Bettman. This thread has been an interesting read. We're doing all that we can to come to a solution to keep the Coyotes in the Phoenix market while keeping all of our franchises happy and healthy. Now how about these terrific Stanley Cup Finals we're seeing?

Can I post my Seattle Pilots concept again?

Here's an anomaly. Phil Housley played one game for the Leafs.

So then where did this come from?

He played in 3 playoff games as well.

Steve Kerr

I think Major League Baseball would have something to say about that...

Call it a trade for the Colorado Rockies.

*shameless plug*

I prefer Allstar games when the players wear their own team uniforms

NHL Youngstars game

No.

They were in a division with each other from 1993 through 2004. The last Expos game was against the Marlins.

Those uniforms played each other from 1993 through 2002. So ten seasons.

I was not aware that Dante Culpepper played for the Lions, let alone two seasons.

Orange Crush Broncos taking on the Jaguars in the 1996 playoffs.

I remember this game not because it was only Jacksonville's second season and they weren't supposed to do as well as they did but because some lineman for the Broncos (I don't even necessarily remember if it was offensive or defensive) didn't get off the field in time before the next play started, costing them a penalty very late in the game. Now that I'm thinking about it, I believe it was a defensive lineman and this was during Jacksonville's last scoring drive that put the game out of reach for Denver. What I remember vividly was 1) how orange the guy's uniform looked as he was walking off the field, even in artificial light; and 2) the broadcasters laying into the lineman calling him lazy, etc. for not getting off the field fast enough. (Admittedly, he did walk off the field; he didn't hustle at all and Mark Brunell was quick enough on the snap to get a penalty out of it.)

Michael Dean Perry.... and I've still not forgiven him.

He's my Bill Buckner/ Steve Bartman

I'd let it go. The Broncos won the next two super bowls.

There were only 3 games over the course of the 1996-1997 season where the Whalers played the Sabres in these uniforms

He played 185 games for the Blue Jackets, but only 50 in the 2007 to present uniforms.

Also,

I wonder how much of their pretend owners were due to being in the playoffs the last three years, especially last year with going to the conference finals. It would've looked horrible for the league to have their own team be that close to the cup without a prospective owner. So Jamison was propped up as being the guy that was going to save the team. (and a bunch of doofuses on twitter bought it)

This year there's no playoff run to cover up with phony "everything's fine, we found a guy" stories.

The Quebec Broneys would be an intimidating name.

No it means Stop. Reel. Line. Mint. The answer is in the post above yours.

Stop realignment. An old CCSLC meme that came out of posters constantly posting long and overly complicated realignment proposals.

Actually the mayor is one of those crusty old gun nuts. I believe he redecorated the mayor's office with deer antlers and associated varmints.

Rich Texan Arizonan

They put his name and number on the front of the jersey.

Making the playoffs three straight years with their roster and winning two playoff series last year is catching a lot of breaks if you ask me. If the market had fans that should've been enough to capture their attention, but nobody in Phoenix cares enough to get out to Glendale.