Cern

Babcock said in the post-game interview that Howard's starting in Edmonton

HOLY COW HOWARD

HOWARD WITH THE BEAST SAVE

DAT SYUK HE'S BACK WITH A VENGEANCE

Datsyuk completely undressed Erhoff there!

period done. Wings looked god-awful which I guess means they're going to go into god mode for the last half of the game.

Filpulla looked laaaaaaaaaaazy on that first goal, he literally just stared at the puck as it was picked up and shot.

Calgary's logo looks like a piece of clip art and represents nothing, where's the professionalism in that? Minn's third looks eons better than most regular jerseys in the league as-is, let alone most other 3rd jerseys.

So it in fact 'represents' nothing whatsoever beyond the team's name. It has the EXACT same effect as a wordmark, just because you need two braincells to figure it out instead of one dosen't change that. This is why things like fonts and visual embellishments are important. Yeah, if you just slap the team name onto the chest in some featureless Impact-esque font it's going to suck - there are plenty of third jerseys that prove that. Placing Minnesota's jersey into that category is asinine though, it's a wordmark but it's clear that they actually put some effort into making it visually interesting.

What does the Flames' logo 'represent'? It's a big C with some wavy lines added to it. That's it.

"all over the place" isn't particularly reassuring language... D:

Sums everything up right there. If they'd just play 60 full minutes every game they'd be laughing at the top of the Central right now.

The Leafs technically use a script for a logo too, it just happens to be inside a logo.

I'd actually say that wordmark jerseys are a great make-or-break test of design. It's really easy to make a horrible wordmark jersey (see Atlanta, Dallas, TB, Ottawa), but when they're done right I think they look fantastic. Besides, even if most teams don't adopt a script for a logo, a good number of them do virtually the exact same thing by stamping a letter onto the jersey anyway. Why is a stylized letter fine but a stylized word not?

I think if we play like we did last game we'll win. I can't believe I'm saying this, but Howard was actually overall pretty solid in net, and Anderson must have had horseshoes in both pockets to have the posts save him as many times as they did. Even though they ended up losing I'm hoping that that was something of a turning point for the team.

Except the Leafs don't have a 1st round pick now. What's the difference between the Leafs and a guy who's sworn off drinking for eight months? The guy has a draft to look forward to in the summer.

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah draper

dohohohoho

I have no idea how you'd be able to integrate MST3K into a hockey mask in the first place... o_O

Almost all of them are really overbusy IMO. I'm no goalie but if I was I'd want something seriously old-school with simple bold colours. I see something like Grant Fuhr's mask or Brodeur's before he changed it a season or so ago being an ideal model in that regard, something with the team's colours but not oversaturated with stuff like my favourite food or brand of toilet paper slapped onto the sides of it.

This. Yeah there are people arguing stuff like 'if it was the playoffs now we wouldn't be in' but the fact of the matter is that the playoffs AREN'T now. It's an 82-game season, it by nature is going to allow a bit of wiggle room for the occasional downturn, particularly when all teams experience them. All we need is a string of a few solid games to get back into contention. My only genuine worry is with goaltenting atm. Oz just needs to start playing 60 minutes instead of the first 50, Howard is more problematic but he hasn't played nearly enough to produce a decent assessment - though I'd keep a tight leash on him.

If we're supporting NHL Hockey and not the Coyotes, how about advancing the move of the team to someplace that's going to be profitable so that the rest of the teams don't have to keep siphoning off money to keep them alive? That sounds pretty supportive of the NHL as a whole to me.

youma- dammit.

>implying I wouldn't take CG board ads over even those RBK EDGE logos being on jerseys

It's a bit of an eyesore, but I'd take CG ads on the glass over jersey ads any day of the week