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    Can't see anybody but Vegas fans rooting for the Knights in that situation, given the ridiculous amount of pain and misery Panthers fans have been dealt over the decades. I know I'm certainly rooting for the Panthers to win; it'd be an incredible, incredible story and such a sweet reward for everybody who's stuck through the pain.
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    Regarding the Canucks; I severely doubt it'll be anything more than a color tweak, and maaaaybe a little uniform alteration at maximum. The Orca is too ingrained into the brand to dump at this point, it'll be a cold day in Hell before they use the Stick-in-Rink as a primary logo again and with Johnny now representing Abbotsford you can't use him as NHL imagery. The problem with the Skate is that either way it's a deathtrap to tie your entire brand around; if you just use the retro logo, you'll get raked over the coals because it's a terrible logo that mainly got platooned by '94 nostalgia that is quickly fading; it doesn't have the benefit of being considered a universal upgrade over their current look, like how the Sens' rebrand was considered a universal upgrade over the look they'd had prior. And if you remake it to try and make it look better, you risk pissing off the crowd you're trying to please by "ruining" the logo for them and they just won't buy stuff, meaning then nobody wins.
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    An 8th-seed rocking the bracket? A second-year franchise potentially making it all the way to the Conference Finals after getting the reigning champion in the first round? A team with a legendary drought breaking it? The top team in the league being upset in absolutely stunning fashion? The fact that the only remaining teams with a Cup title (Dallas and Carolina) won it 23 and 16 years ago, respectively? There's been plenty of good fortune in the playoffs this year, you're just being butthurt that it's not the teams you wanted to have that good fortune. People love tuning into playoffs for the drama and upsets, and these Cup Playoffs have had a bunch of that.
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    Lacob's already expressed interest in the A's as far back as 2005, so I think he's perfectly happy with getting the A's.
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    If they wanted some lame gimmick tied to their city, at least do something with "Queen City" lmao The Reds wearing primarily black is a stupid, stupid move, too. Slapping black into their identity as it was already looked kinda bad, and now they're trying to jump on the "stealth" bandwagon far too late.
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    Exactly, it feels really :censored:ing weird for people to simultaneously go "These teams :censored:ing suck, nobody supports them and they should move" and "These new fans of this franchise are all fake, they only just started loving hockey so they're not real fans!" Like, shouldn't you celebrate a long-moribund franchise finally getting footing in their market again and potentially bringing an influx of new fans to share your love of the sport? Why celebrate a team failing and complain about it succeeding solely based on its geographical location? It's stupid, and it's not conducive to bringing new fans into hockey if they get screamed at and treated like dog:censored: for supporting "the wrong team".
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    The Leafs can at least say they've killed the two biggest memes that have hounded them for over a decade, so there's that. Honestly, even just making it to Round 2 will be huge for them going forwards, since it finally removes all of that pressure. I'm also betting a particular subset of fans across multiple fanbases are frothing at the mouth in rage at the Panthers and Hurricanes being an ECF, calling it"Bettman-rigged" even though it makes no sense to rig it so Toronto doesn't go to the ECF lmao
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    Actually, the orange they've been using is less Philly; they've used a more burnt orange for a long period of their history; and most Flyers fans I've seen haaaaated the more neon orange with a burning passion and wanted them to go back.
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    In other news, the Flyers continue to be absolute buffoons.
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    Because the obvious solution to having two struggling MLB teams in Florida is to add a third one /s
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    This is just going swimmingly for the A's, I see lmao
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    I just don't get the ruling consistency; why the hell is skirting the combine rules an infinitely worse crime than an organization actively covering for a rapist for a solid decade? You'd think the team with the much more severe infraction would be the one getting the much more severe punishment here, not getting off with nothing and receiving a generational talent. One team lost two picks for skirting draft combine rules, one team lost no picks and got a generational talent after covering up rape for a decade. I would think the latter deserves the far more severe punishment here, since it's the far more severe crime.
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    How the did the Coyotes get railed for something INFITESMALLY less terrible than covering up for a literal rapist and the Blackhawks get a :censored:ing generational talent for covering up rape for a DECADE?! There better not be any more accusations of this league "coddling" the Coyotes after this bull:censored:. Actually :censored:ing unacceptable.
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    If that's the jersey, then oof. Black and what looks like grey camo with only teeny spatterings of orange just does not work for the O's. It looks like a damn bootleg Nets jersey.
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    Presumably, this is what they were referring to. Personally, I kinda hope they're going to a version of the 90's jersey, since that's way more interesting than just being Edmonton ala New York Rangers.
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    I mean, why would there be public transportation to what is currently a shipping yard parking lot? The only people that'd need to be there are the people who work there. Obviously there'd be public transport added if it was redeveloped into a baseball stadium.
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    See: Calgary
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    Keeping a team in Oakland is better than contraction, which would be the only other realistic option since the league's effort for new franchises is entirely keyed on expansion, not relocation. Moving the A's to Nashville, Vegas or wherever knocks that market off the list of expansion options. Plus, it's a market that has historically proven it can support the league with an owner that gives a about the team besides making as much money as possible for as little investment as they can muster. If/(more likely) when the Vegas bid falls through, I feel like Fisher will just end up selling the team outright and whoever buys the A's will pick the negotiations with Oakland right back up. Besides, everything we've been learning of the A's dealings with Vegas has been things that are at best controversial and at worst outright stupid on their part in terms of endearing themselves to the Vegas locals. If that's the kind of stuff they're going to do to any city who has interest in them, then I would see interest drying up very quickly anywhere besides Oakland.
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    There's absolutely a return to Oakland if Fisher ends up having to sell the A's due to his own blunders; we've known that Lacob has already expressed interest in owning them and keeping the team in Oakland. The issue between Oakland and Fisher is completely on Fisher, not the city; Fisher just wants someone who'll do whatever he wants them to do.
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    And those red, white and blue bulls and bison, blue, white and gold rams, teal sharks, navy blue tigers, green and gold elephants... Man, what idiot makes all these inaccurately-colored animal logos and expects people to not realize they're all wrong?
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    I mean, personally I just think looking like the team that won 3 Stanley Cups is probably a better idea than trying to throw Scouts and Rockies striping into your main identity, when both of those teams are associated with literally nothing but failure. It'd be like if the Stars decided to rebrand their look to homage the Cleveland Barons part of their history instead of, you know, looking like the team that won the Stanley Cup and went to multiple Finals.
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    I would imagine so. From where I looked at the time, at least, the prevailing sentiment among Sens fans was along the route the team ultimately chose in just going back to their original logo and jersey design was the #1 choice for a rebrand. The O was popular, but I think it was popular in the same way that other good-looking alternates tend to be when a team's main look is unsatisfactory. Plus, I'd imagine the team was very, very hesitant to completely scrap the brand identity they'd spent close to 30 years with, which likely also played a part in nixing any Silver Seven-themed rebrands that got suggested. That being said, I wouldn't be shocked if the Sens did eventually bring back some variant of the Silver Seven jersey, now that the main brand has settled into a much more satisfactory spot; maybe as a Heritage Classic design or even some kind of specialty alt ala the Whalers.
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    Exactly, it's just the fact that the chaos we did get is all-timer chaos that makes it seem wilder than normal lmao
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    The teams that won are clearly the better teams, because otherwise they would have...well, lost. Everybody knows the playoffs are a different animal from the regular season, we've known it going back decades. If the Bruins and Avs couldn't even take the Panthers or Kraken out in seven, they were not the better team.
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    Why does a teams logo HAVE to be an exactly literal interpretation of their name and location, though? Boston doesn't have a brown bear as their primary logo despite being named the Boston Brown Bears, their capital cohort Washington literally just uses their own name as their primary brand identity, the Rangers don't have a hockey-playing cop or cowboy for a primary logo, LA doesn't use a king as their primary logo at all, Seattle only vaguely suggests their namesake in their logo... You're limiting yourself way too much if you try to be perfectly literal in creating a logo. The most iconic hockey logo of all time has literally nothing to do with the city the team is based in, but has become a cultural landmark of its identity anyways. It's not actually all that strange when you remember that straight clock towers make for pretty boring hockey primary logos, and fat dudes in suits making policies don't make for particularly cool-looking team identities either. The Roman motif simply has more visual flair than being entirely literal; it wouldn't have stuck around this long if it didn't connect with people like a more municipal, Peace Tower-centric identity would.
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