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
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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
WHL Prince George Cougars Unveil New Logo
The Western Hockey League’s Prince George Cougars unveiled their new logo earlier today, the logo is the same one we posted a black-and-white version of two weeks ago. A cougar head is the main focal point of the logo, the cougar is created out of the negative space in a
New Logo for the Prince George Cougars?
The owners of the Western Hockey League’s Prince George Cougars have a new trademarked logo featuring a cougar graphic we’ve yet to see before. Filed with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office in April 2015 (application number 1722295), the logo shows a “C” with a cougar head formed in the negative space of
Junior Team to Wear WHA Throwback Jerseys
The Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League will be honouring a long forgotten professional team which used to call the city home. This weekend the Giants will wear the yellow and red uniforms of the World Hockey Association’s Vancouver Blazers, who played during the 1973-74 and 1974-75 seasons, inheriting their
NHL15 New Uniforms Available Today
EA Sports has officially released all the new third jerseys previously unavailable for the PS4 and XBox One versions of their NHL15 video game. To avoid having new uniforms leaked early by the game (which used to happen, like, constantly) games now are manufactured and shipped to customers without any
Jr Hockey: Rebels and IceDogs Unveil New Uniforms
Two members of the Major Junior ‘A’ Canadian Hockey League unveiled new uniforms over the past day, the Western League Red Deer Rebels and Ontario’s Niagara Ice Dogs. Red Deer showed off new alternate uniforms (photo at top of this post) just a day after they were awarded the hosting rights to
Is an Offensive Logo Okay on a Throwback Jersey?
The Moose Jaw Warriors were hit with a bit of a backlash this past week after they unveiled their plans to wear a throwback uniform for the 2014-15 season, their 30th in the junior Western Hockey League. The uniform features a logo used by the club during the 1980s, a
Throwback Jerseys for Saskatoon Blades on Nov 1st
The WHL’s Saskatoon Blades will be wearing their first of several throwback uniforms throughout the season during their game against the Swift Current Broncos on November 1st. The Broncos are honouring the 50th anniversary of their time in Saskatoon with a series of throwbacks in 2013-14. For the game next