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  1. Ridleylash
    The Canucks also aren't really a team that wears alternates in the playoffs like Carolina or Minnesota; I think the only time they did it was 2007. I think people are just getting themselves way too hyped for a Skate revival that almost certainly will not be happening. Too much equity in their current branding to toss it away now.
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    If Lacob buys the team, he's not gonna keep them in Sacramento or move them to Vegas; he's going to bring them back to Oakland and get right back to negotiating with Oakland for Howard Terminal. His intent from the beginning of his interest in the A's has been keeping them in the Bay Area, so if he buys the team it's under the pretense of having them in the Bay Area alongside the Warriors. That's what will happen if/when Vegas fails to materialize, most likely; I don't see Fisher being competent enough to not this up considering his track record.
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    Yeah, same here. Fisher's fumbled :censored: too many times, who's to say he won't do it again?
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    And so ends another chapter in the long and inevitably-tragic tale of Maritime minor-pro hockey. Seems like the Growlers' death may be the final nail in the coffin for the region's prospects of hosting another minor-pro team again; they've already lost so many that it's becoming clear that the region simply can't sustain it unless we find a way to make travel a non-issue. It thrives at the major-junior level, the Q is evidence enough of that. But seems like that might be the cap on the region's heights until someone can solve the travel conundrum.
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    Way too much for the A's to stomach; the Giants aren't giving up Silicon Valley without bleeding as much out of the A's as physically possible first. They'd be better-served sticking to Oakland than getting bent over and rawdogged relentlessly by SanFran. Yeah, I can't see Fisher managing anything besides crawling back to Oakland with his tail between his legs to sign the new extension. SLC is a pipe dream that seems to be getting further from Fisher's grasp every day, Sacramento is a laugher of a choice that they're clearly trotting out in desperation and it's become very clear that nobody really wants them in Vegas over an expansion franchise.
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    New specialty jersey for the Monsters;
  7. Ridleylash
    Yeah, that Blues jersey actually looks pretty damn nice. I'd maybe fill in the middle and add a simple stripe on the hem, but otherwise that's pretty solid for something like an alternate. Hell, maybe they could pull it out for the upcoming Winter Classic.
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    I'd disagree on the Avs needing to overhaul their color palette at all. If they have to change anything, just adding a second navy stripe on the hem and sleeves would be enough; put it above the silver on the road jersey and above the slate but below the silver on the home and you've effectively brought back the same look as the 90's-2000's Avs, just with navy replacing black. Plus, I don't think the solution to the contrast issue is pairing a dark color (burgundy) with...a much darker shade of blue. If anything, that seems like the exact wrong solution for contrast and would just make the overall uniform seem dingy; the Ducks didn't pair their eggplant with forest green, after all, they paired it with jade because jade contrasted better with eggplant. That sort of setup really only works if you design the uniform around the dark color scheme, which the Avs uniform very obviously is not designed around.
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    Black is completely and utterly unnecessary as an Avs uniform color when they already have a pretty dark color in their palette (burgundy) to contrast the blue and silver with. It's one of the purest examples of BFBS in the NHL, especially since they barely used it for anything anyways. The dark jersey only has it as an accent color for a single stripe on the hem and sleeves, and they didn't even bother putting black on anything but the NoB and numbers on their white jerseys; making the black equipment feel even less cohesive on what was their home jersey at the time. I'd rather they bring out burgundy pants if there must be a different pants color for the road jersey, because at least it keeps within the color hierarchy of the jersey.
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    I think it's perfectly fine, honestly. It's no more weird than many other minor league team names (RubberDucks, Otterbots, Baby Cakes, Biscuits, Shuckers, Tourists, Mighty Mussels, Muckdogs, WhistlePigs, Sock Puppets, etc).
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    It also helps the Cubs that they built an intense feel of mystique and notoriety over the years thanks to the Curse of the Billy Goat becoming so legendary, and the White Sox...really just kinda exist. They won a World Series before the Cubs and barely anybody but White Sox fans even remember that tidbit because of how much more iconic the Cubs and their win in 2016 are. New Comiskey doesn't even come anywhere close to the practical divine status of Wrigley or Old Comiskey, and they don't exactly have a lot of recent success to brag about; people born the last time the White Sox won a pennant are now legal adults, and all the franchise has won since is 2 division titles, one of which they won by proxy of being the only team in their division to not themselves.
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    To be fair, when your most well-known nickname is "Broadway Blueshirts", it kinda makes sense that they'd end up keeping to blue for alternate jersey designs. Plus, there's the little problem of red jerseys being associated primarily with the Devils within the Tri-State Area.
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    Really, if you're at the point where you're having to consider temporarily moving to a completely different state than the place you're actually trying to relocate to just so you can have a place to stay while you get a stadium built, you've officially reached boondoggle levels of planning. Like, who in Utah is going to give a about a team that views them as nothing more than a stopgap because they don't have anywhere to play where they actually want to be? Literally the only reason the league approved this in the first place was a blind desire to rush into Vegas, and now Fisher seems to be tripping and bumbling pretty much every step to even get the A's there in the first place.
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    I think just a solid pink yoke would be fine, honestly, maybe with a thin white outline to match the flames on the sleeves. I think making it look like epaulets would make the design a little too busy between those two elements.
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    Plus, as you said...they make a killing on throwback merch without having to switch at all. Why remove an easy source of free revenue? The only way I think they rebrand back to looking more like the Mighty Ducks is if they include orange instead of one of the other colors (probably silver, given how otherwise superfluous it is on the jerseys) and change the jersey design a bit so that they can still hock throwback merch.
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