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  1. Ridleylash
    If what we got out of Detroit, Toronto and Dallas was what they said "yes" to, I'm morbidly curious about what they said no to, being honest. I assume it's all under NDA, though, which makes sense.
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    Honestly, I think going the Vegas route for everybody and doing throwbacks to older franchises from the region the team represents would be a really neat idea for a second RR run instead of just another bout of inverted NHL uniforms. The Rangers donning a version of a NY Americans throwback would be super cool. Maybe the Sens could do a WHA Nationals throwback, the Sharks could do a Seals throwback, Tampa could do a Suncoast Suns throwback, the Pens could throw back to the Hornets, Minnesota could do a Millers or Saints jersey, etc. There's potential there for everybody and it'd be a nice way to show off the hockey history of each NHL market.
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    Oh, that's definitely new; they haven't had a geographic identifier in use with the Kachina wordmark since bringing it back, just "Coyotes". The fact that the truck's graphic has "Arizona" over it means it has to have been made recently. This and the new jersey coming this offseason are two huge red flags for an imminent Kachina rebrand.
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    More likely;
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    Note that Bettman's already said jersey ads aren't happening next year, though. Dundon may think it's a good idea, but he still needs a majority consensus to do it; and I have a feeling that they'll look at the NBA's deal and decide it's not really worth it, because it clearly isn't that worth it to spam ads on jerseys at the major league level, otherwise more sports would've done it by now. The helmet ad is essentially the equivalent of the NBA's jersey ad. I have a feeling that this is as far as things will go unless there's another massive event that hurts the bottom line. They just got some fat TV contract deals and the expansion money; I feel like they're not hurting for money as badly now as they were before last season started.
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    I mean, considering they succeeded the first time until Jeff Loria decided to it all the way up, I don't think it's the market's fault the Expos left. The team being run like crap post-94 is what ultimately sealed the Expos' fate, and the downturning Canadian economy at the time didn't help matters.
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    It's also the logo of a team that then choked away a 3-1 series lead in the first round against the choke-master Sharks the year after that in impossible fashion, then nearly got swept by Dallas in the bubble WCF and has now added "got beaten by a team everybody expected them to absolutely maul" this year. Vegas is looking a whole lot more like a Toronto than a Tampa Bay at this point; a paper tiger.
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    I wouldn't be surprised if they kept it to clear out stock to make room for an '04 red third, honestly. Flames management seems keen on keeping the Black C variant around, and it'd be easy to cash in on '04 nostalgia with that red jersey.
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    Fleur-de-Leon
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    Wouldn't surprise me if they either go with Winterhawks and use an actual hawk logo or rebrand to be the new incarnation of the Rosebuds using the P-rose logo. Oh, and ECHL's Trois-Rivieres team has shown their own branding; the Trois-Rivières Lions;
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    Doubt it'd be a RR; the Isles have never used that kind of stripe in any of their past jerseys. It could be an alternate the team was planning to reveal this offseason, though.
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    I mean, there's other uniforms that have a similar thing going on that people love; The black and purple here don't contrast very much in a B+W image, but the Coyotes' RR is considered one of the best of the entire program. Heck, you want a really egregious case of having nothing but midtones and highlights in a primary jersey, look at the Rangers' home set; If you showed this to someone with no knowledge of the Rangers' uniform, would they even be able to guess that this was a team wearing red pants over a blue jersey and blue socks?
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    I actually really like that NoB font; slap it on the regular set with an outline and that could be really good. The rest of the jersey is pretty standard Stadium Series fare; experimental, and it either works for you or it doesn't. Black and red jerseys like this always tend to sell well, though. Also, I think this is the first time the Canes have ever had an alternate jersey without any white on it at all? Which is pretty neat, given how long they've been around in the NHL.
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    Teams have Twitter logos that don't actually mean anything in terms of on-ice stuff all the time. I remember for a while the Stars' Twitter icon was this same idea, just with their primary on a victory green backdrop. The Celtics are doing something similar, for example, as are the Lakers. I really wouldn't read too much into it.
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    I just don't see it, honestly. The neon orange is garish as hell, especially combined with a navy that's so dark it looks black on camera. Besides, teams around the league are moving away from navy blue anyways; the Sabres dumped it in favor of royal, the Isles dumped it a while ago; I think only Winnipeg's left of the NHL teams using navy besides Seattle. Plus royal blue is the color they wore during their Stanley Cup dynasty. Navy blue has...like, the 2006 run? Getting swept by Winnipeg in the first round this season? It's not exactly a color the Oilers have historically had much success in. And why would they use a picture of a fan wearing a jersey that isn't their main dark jersey or current alternate if this means nothing? Why specifically use one wearing the Reebok royal blue? There's plenty of photos they could've used of fans cheering in the orange home jersey they wear now.
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    Would not be surprised at all to see them bring back the WHA-styled orange jersey they had as the alternate before Adidas took over in that case. That's a very popular alternate amongst Oilers fans, and it'd sell well getting renewed on an Adidas template.
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    By using two different versions of the secondary logo;
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    Does it look wrong because it actually doesn't work, or does it just look wrong because people are so used to the black equipment, though? Personally, I think the cohesion is better-looking than black helmets and breezers on a primarily blue and burgundy uniform design.
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    Silver seems to think Vancouver should get a second shot, and having SEA-VAN-PTL all in one division seems like the obvious play. If not Vegas, I think Vancouver makes sense as a landing spot for the T-Wolves.
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    Honestly, though, I feel like this whole thing does more to discredit the location for the Trop over the actual support the region has for baseball. The Rays do well for a smaller-market team locally when it comes to viewership, so I don't think it's the overall region that's the problem here, necessarily. The biggest part of the problem for the Rays is that they're not the Lightning, they're the Loria Expos. They don't have Jeff Vinik pushing them to great success by spending; they have Stu Sternberg, an owner that's willing to spend more effort plotting ways to move than he is to try and actually make an honest college try out of the Tampa Bay region. They don't have a really nice centrally-located park to play out of that's easy for people to get to, they have a decrepit fossil that's a pain in the ass to travel to and from if you don't live in one specific part of the area. Combine a cheapass owner everybody in the local area hates with a decrepit venue that's not fun to travel to or fun to be in and most franchises would struggle.
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    Stu Sternberg. Hope Vinik comes in and gets the Rays; he'd make them a far better franchise with how well the Lightning have done since he took over.
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    I'd be more concerned with the Raiders, honestly. The Golden Knights got to be the first child and happened to come in right at a very important time for locals, so the city has a stronger connection to them then the Raiders, who from what I've seen haven't had the locals enthusiastic at all. If any of the three potential teams is the least likely to move, it'd be the Knights. The Raiders have a history of bouncing from city to city between Oakland and LA. Them bouncing to Vegas and then bouncing somewhere else isn't exactly unfathomable.
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    It was the Columbus SC logo that the Crew were going to rebrand to before fan backlash forced them to keep the Crew name around;
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    I'd prefer if it were one of these; The double-blue just works so well for Pens alternates. None of the Pens' gold-dominant jerseys have ever looked good; the double-blue gives them a nice alternate option that's entirely unique from the rest of their lineup, and it's I think the only design the Pens haven't thrown back to yet besides the RoboPen jersey.
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    I remember the Leafs wore their alternates at home during the 2002 playoffs, as well. I'd like a blue jersey to get back into the rotation for the Pens, honestly. The two-tone blue works perfectly for an alternate.
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