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I have no idea what's up with that 3 on the new banner. This is what the actual font looked like: Maybe the yellow outline is messing with my vision, but the 3 from the jersey seems to have a more consistent thickness in the blue.

So the Sabres retired Dominik Hasek's number last night. They pretty much matched the old ones, so I'm happy. It would have been neat to see a red and black one, but he did wear the blue and gold, so it's not a big deal either way. They won't be retiring anyone's number that only wore red and black, and they even kept the original logos around for the alumni association during the red and black era.

They have a club policy of not disclosing terms? When all salaries are eventually public knowledge, anyway?

With important college football on New Year's Day again for the foreseeable future, they should really look at moving it deeper into winter. Baseball stadiums suck for a hockey game, and NFL teams aren't gonna offer up their stadiums for a Jan 1 game.

Apparently, overpaying marginal players and flying them all over Eurasia with money from oil speculation is unsustainable.

This is a couple weeks old now, but the KHL is imploding. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2014/12/16/will-the-crashing-ruble-kill-khl-hockey/

Seconded. I have no idea why they didn't at least keep it as a shoulder patch. Worked well on the Pre-Edge set Thirded. Agree with the shoulder patch thing too. I like it better than the skating penguin, but I don't think it should be a shoulder patch on a skating penguin jersey. Mixing logos from different eras almost always looks weird.Umm... They had it as a shoulder patch on the skating penguin jerseys for 7 years and it looked fine. It doesn't look bad, but I don't like the way the styles of the penguins mismatch. Like putting a square peg in a rectangular hole... it might fit, but it's not quite right.

Seconded. I have no idea why they didn't at least keep it as a shoulder patch. Worked well on the Pre-Edge set Thirded. Agree with the shoulder patch thing too. I like it better than the skating penguin, but I don't think it should be a shoulder patch on a skating penguin jersey. Mixing logos from different eras almost always looks weird.

The mods don't share your enthusiasm. I made a thread when Tom Magliozzi from Car Talk died and I accidentally double posted, so I made one "Car Talk's Tom Magliozzi is Dead" and one "Car Talk's Tom Magliozzi is Dead Anti-Thread". Somebody didn't get the joke; that got them both nuked.

They're more for the business side and off-ice/field/court controversies.

Thankfully, the Blues don't play the Devils any more this season.

Joey: What are you guys woofing about?Monica: Chandler stole a Twenty from my purse!Joey: No! You know what? Now that I think about it, I constantly find myself without twenties and you always have lots!

Yeah I totally understand which is why I can't be 100% sure. However, you have to admit that it IS a little suspicious that it was used for a local Buffalo event as well as local Buffalo-area credit union. I know I'm late to the party here, but that's not just some random building... that's City Hall (and the McKinley Monument). It's not really suspicious that people would use that as a symbol for Buffalo.

I like every combination of the Titans' uniforms except the mono navy and mono powder blue. I like the helmet. I like the thumbtack. I think they're modern classics and shouldn't go anywhere.

Also the wrong goalie pads. He should still be in those same pads that used to be white once in 1992.

They know that they'd field a better team in Buffalo by moving this team to be the Las Vegas Heat Strokes next year, then fielding an expansion draft team back in WNY. The Sabres are 2-0 against the Sharks, and 3-13-2 against the rest of the league. Welcome to Buffalo "If Hockey Season Were In July, It Would Probably Be Done Snowing By Then" Considering half the area is under a driving ban, the whole county is in a limited state of emergency, and the people that are even allowed to go out have to deal with closed roads/highways, it is what it is. Estimated about 6,200 in the building.

It's all cool... there's a clever 37 hidden inside the Majestic XII logo.

Forgive me if this has been posted before, but at 0:25 of this video, you have first year of those Sabres uniforms and the last year of those Canucks uniforms.

A Las Vegas-Arizona ice hockey game sounds like something from the fake future of an old movie.

Just feels like the right time to post this:

This is really gonna get ugly when it's like game 57 out of 82.

I love the Laker drop shadow Did the arena lose electricity that night? I'm guessing it's flash = short exposure time = things not lit by the flash are dark

I think this thread exists to draw out dissenters and hold them up to public scorn.

I like the Pens/Sens template. It doesn't have stripes that randomly end or stupid piping, which are by far the two worst crimes of the Edge era IMO. Plus, only two teams use it; it's not like it's all over the place. And the color schemes are different, and the home jerseys are different colors. I don't like the Pens in khaki, but the template is fine. Edit: I'm not saying everybody should love it (it's not a new classic or anything), but the hate it gets is way overblown.

I agree with this. I think those look good in a vacuum, but I generally dislike throwbacks that look nothing like the current set. I think at least some of the hate those get is because people don't think the Jets should look like that.Edit: The Eagles' blue and yellow jerseys are another example. I normally like bright colors like that, but it doesn't look like the Eagles to me.