The sports logo community lost a true friend last week when Keith Flynn of Flynnagain Productions died this past Tuesday, October 9th. In addition to being an excellent logo designer, Flynn was a great friend both to the design community at large as well as this site. He was a
Category: WHL
Series of Portland NHL Domains Registered by Winterhawks
New challenger approaching! The Portland Winterhawks, a major-junior team in the Western Hockey League appears to be ready to throw their hat into the NHL ring, if a series of interesting domain name registrations can be trusted. Via domain detective Clark Rasmussen of DetroitHockey.Net, the Winterhawks registered numerous new domain
Prince George Cougars Unveil 25th Season Logo
The Western Hockey League’s Prince George Cougars have unveiled the logo they’ll be using to celebrate their 25th anniversary year which will take place during the 2018-19 season. Featuring the Cougars current primary logo, the logo includes a red “25” trimmed in gold and silver in the background as well
Jerseys Used In Wedding Proposal
A hockey jersey wedding proposal? Now why didn’t *I* think of that? At the Calgary Hitmen (Western Hockey League) game last night, one fan proposed to his girlfriend using a unique method. During a “Newlywed Game” style promotion, which the Hitmen called the “Couple’s Challenge”, during a stoppage in play
Red Deer Rebels Unveil Second Alternate Jersey
The Red Deer Rebels yesterday added a second alternate uniform to their set, this in addition to their regular home, road, and alternate gives them four uniforms to wear throughout the season. It seems excessive doesn’t it? But when you hear the reason behind it, it really makes a lot
Regina to Host 100th Memorial Cup, Logo Unveiled
The City of Regina, Saskatchewan and the WHL’s Regina Pats was announced today as the host of the 100th Canadian Hockey League Memorial Cup to be held in May 2018. Regina beat out competing bids from Ontario’s Hamilton Bulldogs and Oshawa Generals. I grew up in Oshawa so… ugh. Often described
As Rated By You: The Worst New Logos of 2015
Everyone having a good week so far? Good. Mine’s been a little busy. A couple days ago we shared with you our 2015 Sports Logos of the Year Awards, an annual run-down of the best in logo design over the past twelve months, and a fine reminder to those of
2015 Logo of the Year Awards: The Best New Sports Logos of the Year
It’s that time again, when the folks at SportsLogos.Net (well, just me really) go through every new logo and rank them based on how you, the readers of this site, have rated them since their unveiling. This year we received over 65,000 votes from you guys to put together this
Saskatoon Blades Unveil Star Wars Uniform
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… teams didn’t do Star Wars jerseys every couple of weeks. Hard to remember those days but there was once a time. The Saskatoon Blades of the junior Western Hockey League are the latest to join this club with the unveiling
Kamloops Blazers Unveil New Uniform
Slipping this one in just before the buzzer, the Kamloops Blazers have unveiled their new home and road uniforms in time for their 2015-16 Western Hockey League season opener this weekend. The new look are a vast improvement over what the team wore last year (see graphic at bottom of
Tri-City Americans Unveil New Uniforms
The Western Hockey League’s Tri-City Americans have unveiled an updated uniform via a post on their official website yesterday evening. Call it a victory for fans of great uniform design, the terrible thick stripes which once ran up either side of the front of the uniform are thankfully gone and have been
Kamloops Blazers Tweak Logo, Unveil New Alternate
The Western Hockey League’s Kamloops Blazers announced today that they are making a slight tweak to their primary logo. Most noticeable is the removal of the city name from the logo resulting in a much cleaner mark and putting more emphasis on the “B”-Flame icon. There’s also a new silver