NHL Logo Rankings

[dudacek]

I'd include Blues, Hawks, Wings and Sabres in my top five, so I guess I can't complain too much.

Not getting the the Arizona pick.

Edited August 21, 2014 by dudacek

[Hoss]

I think Arizona's logo is one of the best. Not sure what some see wrong with it. It's a clean and beautiful look. I can see the argument for it being top 1/2. I know I did a ranking before, but I think Phoenix's logo really would be five on my list behind Chicago, St. Louis, Buffalo and Detroit.

[josie]

Man, I missed an entire thread about team logos? That's what I get for tuning out for the summer. d4rk can tell you, I'm fairly obsessed with them. My favorite is digging into non NHL logos. There is some odd stuff out there. My hometown's ECHL team is a damn fish. Yes, the Toledo Walleyes. And I have a Toledo Storm jersey which looks like a 3 year old drew it. Nostalgia. Before that, we were the Toledo Goal Diggers... and had Mike Eruzione play for us.

 

 

I have a mooterus jersey, because it's hilarious. Horrible horrible logo, but worth 10 bucks on ebay for a drunken laugh during pond hockey in the winter.

[IKnowPhysics]

My hometown's ECHL team is a damn fish. Yes, the Toledo Walleyes.

 

Heh. Madison had a "pro" team for a season, the Madison Ice Muskies.

 

 

 

The summer before they got started, they hyped up the team so much. They brought in a coach from out of town, held tryouts, brought in quite a few players from out of town and gave them a stipend. Had a new logo and jerseys and a PR/social media guy. Even made a few promotional videos before they got going:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0bYouBAMlM

 

The season got started and they got a pretty alright draw of people. They served silos of beer for cheap, just about at-cost. The league was comprised of two types of players: the skinny guy from Nintendo Ice Hockey and the fat guy from Nintendo Ice Hockey. The skinny guys would play and the fat guys would fight. Fairly entertaining low level hockey. Again, cheap silos. They even had a full-size mascot that would do funny ######.

 

 

And then it all went to ######. Before the team started, the owners were tight-lipped about which league they were going to play in. They were supposed to play in the Midwest Hockey League, but five of the seven teams left that league or went defunct before the season started. The MWHL would technically merge into the struggling All American Hockey League, except only one of the two remaining teams, Madison, went to the AAHL with the merger. By the end of the season, the owners/founders of the team didn't have enough money to pay the players and coaches, the players couldn't pay their rents. Pretty sure the owners screwed everybody involved and/or went bankrupt. The league bought the remnants of the team and moved it to Wooster, OH to become the Wooster Korn Kings (I can't make this ###### up). The Korn Kings didn't make it two months before collapsing. The AAHL would be defunct within the year.

 

 

Ice muskies jerseys weren't too bad, though, based on the Whalers jerseys.

 

 

 

TL;DR dirt league pro hockey is fun to watch with beer but it's an organizational nightmare.

Edited August 21, 2014 by IKnowPhysics

[sabills]

Man, I missed an entire thread about team logos? That's what I get for tuning out for the summer. d4rk can tell you, I'm fairly obsessed with them. My favorite is digging into non NHL logos. There is some odd stuff out there. My hometown's ECHL team is a damn fish. Yes, the Toledo Walleyes. And I have a Toledo Storm jersey which looks like a 3 year old drew it. Nostalgia. Before that, we were the Toledo Goal Diggers... and had Mike Eruzione play for us.

 

 

I have a mooterus jersey, because it's hilarious. Horrible horrible logo, but worth 10 bucks on ebay for a drunken laugh during pond hockey in the winter.

 

uni-watch.com is a great blog on jersey stuff.

[Hoss]

 

 

uni-watch.com is a great blog on jersey stuff.

 

Icethetics.com for hockey

[josie]

To be honest, the Walleye logo really isn't that bad. It's got a pretty nice design.

 

 

One of my favorites is the Muskegon Lumberjacks. I like the saw blade, I like the axe, and well, I'm one of those ladies with lumberjack fantasies.

 

 

And the Calgary Inferno women's team logo makes me smile- takes both calgary flames and calgary hitmen motifs and gave us a lady with firehair. Couple of those strands of hair are kinda clumsy, but overall, the idea makes me happy.

 

Heh. Madison had a "pro" team for a season, the Madison Ice Muskies.

 

 

 

The summer before they got started, they hyped up the team so much. They brought in a coach from out of town, held tryouts, brought in quite a few players from out of town and gave them a stipend. Had a new logo and jerseys and a PR/social media guy. Even made a few promotional videos before they got going:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0bYouBAMlM

 

The season got started and they got a pretty alright draw of people. They served silos of beer for cheap, just about at-cost. The league was comprised of two types of players: the skinny guy from Nintendo Ice Hockey and the fat guy from Nintendo Ice Hockey. The skinny guys would play and the fat guys would fight. Fairly entertaining low level hockey. Again, cheap silos. They even had a full-size mascot that would do funny ######.

 

 

And then it all went to ######. Before the team started, the owners were tight-lipped about which league they were going to play in. They were supposed to play in the Midwest Hockey League, but five of the seven teams left that league or went defunct before the season started. The MWHL would technically merge into the struggling All American Hockey League, except only one of the two remaining teams, Madison, went to the AAHL with the merger. By the end of the season, the owners/founders of the team didn't have enough money to pay the players and coaches, the players couldn't pay their rents. Pretty sure the owners screwed everybody involved and/or went bankrupt. The league bought the remnants of the team and moved it to Wooster, OH to become the Wooster Korn Kings (I can't make this ###### up). The Korn Kings didn't make it two months before collapsing. The AAHL would be defunct within the year.

 

 

 

Ice muskies jerseys weren't too bad, though, based on the Whalers jerseys.

 

 

 

 

TL;DR dirt league pro hockey is fun to watch with beer but it's an organizational nightmare.

 

Yeah you got the Walleye beat for oof.

 

Wooster. Haven't thought about that town in a long time. I used to go there in middle school/high school for creative writing competitions. Huh. I can guarantee you it's not a sports town. It always seemed pretty sleepy when we stayed at the university there.

 

Also, the Korn Kings sounds like a horrible offspring of Insane Clown Posse (kottonmouth kings) and Korn.

Edited August 21, 2014 by Josie914

[Cereal]

Nice. Down here, Austin used to have the Ice Bats (actually make sense with the huge bat colony based under one of the bridges downtown here):

And the Calgary Inferno women's team logo makes me smile- takes both calgary flames and calgary hitmen motifs and gave us a lady with firehair. Couple of those strands of hair are kinda clumsy, but overall, the idea makes me happy.

One of my fantasy football teams this year is called "L'il Donte's Inferno" (Donte Whitner in Bills uni for the avatar)

[shrader]

One of my favorites is the Muskegon Lumberjacks. I like the saw blade, I like the axe, and well, I'm one of those ladies with lumberjack fantasies.

 

 

 

I always talk about how the circular logos are best. I have to say, that's a nice twist on the circular concept.

[Sabre Dance]

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think that guy in the logo lives in my neighborhood.... :huh:

[IKnowPhysics]

I think that guy in the logo lives in my neighborhood.... :huh:

 

Perhaps you've seen him at Tim Horton's?

 

[shrader]

I think that guy in the logo lives in my neighborhood.... :huh:

 

I played in a pickup league with him. He was a total hack. He once flattened me behind the net because I was "too close to his goalie".

[Claude_Verret]

So they've posted their 10 favorite fan designed logos..

 

http://www.thehockey...om-our-readers/

 

Improvement for the Canes? :w00t:

 

[Eleven]

So they've posted their 10 favorite fan designed logos..

 

http://www.thehockey...om-our-readers/

 

Improvement for the Canes? :w00t:

 

 

Well, if the Canadiens' logo looks like a smiley face when turned on its side, this one looks like, what? A frowny face? Strong Bad?

[Samson's Flow]

So they've posted their 10 favorite fan designed logos..

 

http://www.thehockey...om-our-readers/

 

Improvement for the Canes? :w00t:

 

That logo is a bit... phallic? All I see is the black part in the center with the two "flags" :blush:

[Claude_Verret]

Well, if the Canadiens' logo looks like a smiley face when turned on its side, this one looks like, what? A frowny face? Strong Bad?

 

They were clearly trying to pay homage to the old Whalers logo, but I see a phallic shape going into a big "C".

Edited August 26, 2014 by Claude_Verret

[Samson's Flow]

Well, if the Canadiens' logo looks like a smiley face when turned on its side, this one looks like, what? A frowny face? Strong Bad?

Now I see a large mustached guy with a huge red helmet.

 

The last thing I seem to interpret from that logo is the CH of hurricanes...

[LastPommerFan]

Well, if the Canadiens' logo looks like a smiley face when turned on its side, this one looks like, what? A frowny face? Strong Bad?

 

Totally.

 

Also: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/09/homestar-runner-will-return/

Edited August 26, 2014 by Glass Case Of Emotion

[Hoss]

The redesigned Winnipeg logo looks amazing (the first one).

[qwksndmonster]

Well, if the Canadiens' logo looks like a smiley face when turned on its side, this one looks like, what? A frowny face? Strong Bad?

I'm with Boyes in seeing the handlebar mustache. And you know who Strong Bad is? The more I learn about you the more I think we should date.

[Taro T]

Now I see a large mustached guy with a huge red helmet.

 

The last thing I seem to interpret from that logo is the CH of hurricanes...

Nah, head & shoulders of a robot ninja leaving a tunnel.

[JujuFish]

The (first) Aves, Capitals, and (first) Jets logos are the only ones I think are improvements and most of the redesigns are just atrocious.

[Doohicksie]

I like the Blue Jackets' third jerseys

 

 

It looks like a Civil War relic.

[2ForTripping]

Well columbus was a hub for making yankee uniforms during the great war of yankee aggression

[Weave]

Well columbus was a hub for making yankee uniforms during the great war of yankee aggression awesomeness

 

:P