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The Ontario Hockey League is returning to Brampton, if new trademarks filed with the Canadian government are any indication. As first pointed out by Abbotsford News reporter Ben Lypka on Twitter earlier this week, trademarks were filed with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office on Wednesday, January 17, for “BRAMPTON STEELHEADS”
The city of Brampton, Ontario had both their new CeHL and their new NBL-C team unveil their inaugural team logos over the weekend. Yes, it’ll be an interesting fall for sports fans in Brampton as they quickly go from being excited about their two new clubs to reading a footnote
The ECHL’s brand new season will have a consistent theme all year long. The 27-team hockey league announced a partnership with the children’s television network Nickelodeon, best known for the shows SpongeBob SquarePants, PAW Patrol, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The design firm OT Sports will create
Overwhelming evidence suggests that the St. John’s-based ECHL expansion club set to join the league for the upcoming 2018-19 season will be known as the Newfoundland Growlers. “Fake News!”, you probably say. Allow me to explain. The domain name newfoundlandgrowlers.com was registered by “The Idea Factory”, the company tasked with
The ECHL announced earlier this week that there would be some franchise shuffling for the 2018-19 season. Expansion was announced to St. John’s, the capital city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the club will be affiliated with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Marlies at the NHL
The Avengers will take a break from defending the Earth from evil to take to minor league hockey rinks all over the continent in the coming months. All 27 teams in the ECHL will wear Marvel-themed Super Hero uniforms on theme nights during the 2017-18 season. The league-wide partnership between
Last week’s Veterans Day and Remembrance Day commemorations brought a slew of patriotic uniforms to hockey rinks around North America. One of the designers responsible for creating the patriotic sportswear is Jeff Tasca of the Toronto-based company Athletic Knit. Tasca designed themed jerseys this year for the ECHL’s Kalamazoo Wings, Reading Royals, Brampton Beast, Quad
The ECHL has absorbed the seven remaining teams of the Central Hockey League. The move brings the ECHL up to 29 total franchises (28 active, 1 suspended) and signals an end to the Central Hockey League which had been in operation since the early 1990s. Making the move to the ECHL are the Allen
