An update to an earlier post made regarding the name of a potential NHL team in Winnipeg for the 2011-2012 season. The Manitoba Moose name is still the preferred choice by the True North Sports & Entertainment, Ltd. ownership group for a relocated or expansion team… unless the team that
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Top o’the Logo to You
A Happy Belated St. Patrick’s Day to Everyone! What was once a holiday dedicated to the harmless fun of binge-drinking without remorse is now an annual trotting-out of baseball, basketball and hockey teams in green uniforms (as well as the whole binge-drinking bit); excluding the Oakland A’s, nine teams
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Brace yourselves, Buffalo sports fans; it’s happening again. As has become nearly ritual over the past decade and a half, one of Buffalo’s major league sports teams is overhauling its uniforms. This time it’s the Bills who will be trotting out redesigned togs when (and if) the NFL resumes play
Making a big Moostake? It looks like Moose not Jets in ’12
According to a reliable source within True North Sports & Entertainment, SportsLogos.Net has learned if an NHL team is to take the ice in Winnpieg in 2011-12 they will do so, not as the Winnipeg Jets, but as the Manitoba Moose. They will use the same logo and uniforms as
A not-so-Heritage Classic (the uniforms, that is)
Outdoors hockey! Tomorrow the 2nd octennial Heritage Classic will take place in the frigid outdoor refrigerator most commonly referred to as Calgary, Alberta. They’re calling for a temperature of -22°C tomorrow (-8°F), so that threat of rain they had for the earlier-this-year Winter Classic in Pittsburgh probably won’t be a
Tampa Bay Lightning unveil new logo and uniforms
The Tampa Bay Lightning unveiled their new logo and uniforms today at a noon press conference in Tampa, Florida… the new look features a relatively stripped down and traditional appearance for the typically modern looking franchise — presumably heavily influenced by long time Detroit Red Wing (the kings of tradition),
Ducks Make Name Change Official
Confirming what was already reported here on sportslogos.net two days ago, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim owner Henry Samueli announced the club will be changing their name to the Anaheim Ducks in time for the 2006/07 season. “In selecting the name the Anaheim Ducks, we are respecting the heritage of a
Anaheim won’t be as ‘Mighty’ in 2007
Well it’s finally happened, the hockey team named after a children’s Disney movie, will be changing their name. Through various sources and some of our own investigation work SportsLogos.Net has learned that the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim will become the Anaheim Ducks in time for the 2006/07 NHL season. The
Wile E. Maple Leaf? Are the Toronto Maple Leafs behind the Roadrunners move
After just one season the Toronto Roadrunners are history. A team that was in negotiations to play in Toronto for five years, is gone after less than one year, on its way to Edmonton. But this isn’t your ordinary franchise transfer. The Toronto Roadrunners were drawing decently at Ricoh Coliseum,
NHL Uniform Preview: What to Watch for in 2004
Yes, I’m fully aware that the 2003/04 NHL season is well underway, but here I am, three weeks late, to give you the uniform preview, review, or view of the upcoming, err…. current NHL season. To be completely honest, this preview is late because so many teams had yet to