KHL teams logos, jerseys and brands

[Acallabeth]

It's actually Drogon - the black one with orange eyes

 

[hansomreiste]

It's actually Drogon - the black one with orange eyes

Dangerously close to the blue hockey player, though, who reminds of...

 

[SoundAndFury]

Is there any information about their roster?

So their roster is finally clear as the have played first game already. Mostly Russian guys, some of them VHL stars even (Pechursky, Yachmenyov) and around 8 Chinese guys I have no clue about. Can't be bothered to look them up in Cyrillic.

 

[Rigafan]

HK Riga MHL

Ok I can't get the photo to work but HK Riga new jerseys are the best in Hockey!

 

[Albatros]

Pretty similar look to Frankfurt Lions/Löwen Frankfurt.

 

[RossiyaSport]

I was bored so I wrote some random thoughts on potential team names and color schemes I would like to see. Yes I know most of this expansion is very hypothetical.


South Korea/Japan: Dolphins, Orcas, Tsunamis, Samurais, Ninjas, Seals


Russian teams: (I know some of these are used in the minor leagues) Firebirds, Yeti, Snipers, Brown/Black Bears, Rockets (space exploration related names), Meteors/Comets.


English team: Ice Guard (red, black, gold uniforms like a palace guard), Ice/Royals/Lions, Sweepers (old fashioned chimney sweep holding a hockey stick)



Color schemes needed in the KHL: Silver and black. A purple combo. Brick red and gold like Florida State.

 

[Rigafan]

English team: Ice Guard (red, black, gold uniforms like a palace guard), Ice/Royals/Lions, Sweepers (old fashioned chimney sweep holding a hockey stick)

Wembley (London) Emperors is a thing. Whether they are for KHL or not we don't know yet. The arena is currently being sorted for ice hockey we are told. Its pretty cool name though I think.

A space/cosmos related Russian team name would be really cool!

 

[hansomreiste]

Oh please not again with that Amerikanski stupid stuff. NHL has enough of those idiotic nicknames which suit them. I will get cancer if "Crowns" ever comes in and then die when we have a team called Emperors, Ice Somethings or stuff like that. One English team can be excused maybe, since using an English name should be OK for them, but what's wrong with others? I mean, even Germans do that. Hamburg Freezers? Hannover Scorpions? What the hell? Why would Adler Mannheim, Kölner Haie or Eisbären Berlin look any less cool than this stupid, fake thing?

 

[Albatros]

I get what you say, but actually the DEL teams adopted such marketing names together when the league was established. So in a sense it's equally artificial in all cases even if I agree that names in German generally work better. Many local fans haven't fully adopted them to this day, for example Eisbären is still often referred to as Dynamo even 25 years later.

 

[ozo]

So their roster is finally clear as the have played first game already. Mostly Russian guys, some of them VHL stars even (Pechursky, Yachmenyov) and around 8 Chinese guys I have no clue about. Can't be bothered to look them up in Cyrillic.

Link from Eliteprospects shows that they are bringing peace to the world, they have Taipei player on their roster.

 

[SoundAndFury]

World is safe now

At the time roster on eliteprospects only had Russian players, I guess it took them awhile to figure out those Chinese dudes as well

 

[vorky]

World is safe now

At the time roster on eliteprospects only had Russian players, I guess it took them awhile to figure out those Chinese dudes as well

That was not so complicated for EP... all they need to do was to look at twitter. There was Jilin roster a day before VHL season´s start.

 

[ozo]

World is safe now

At the time roster on eliteprospects only had Russian players, I guess it took them awhile to figure out those Chinese dudes as well

Couple of these players were also on other Chinese team's preliminary roster. No idea how they are assigned to one or another.

 

[RicEsteban85]

Avangards New Logo

Dont know yet whether I like it or not...

 

[Albatros]

Weird, but better than the previous and I guess that's what ultimately counts.

 

[Jokeri]

Boring. Mediocore american style logo. Old one was much original and better in everyway

 

[Jussi]

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Avangards New Logo

Dont know yet whether I like it or not...

Avangard Seahawks? Reminds me of Seattle's logo.

 

[Rigafan]

Avangard Seahawks? Reminds me of Seattle's logo.

You've ruined it for me!

 

[PlamsUnlimited]

Hopefully not a terrible bump.

I seemingly bought some game worn Neftekhimik jerseys. I am curious about more of the history of the area and team. There seems to be some type of Celtic knot on the jersey's shoulders and the back near the wordmark. I know it has other similar meaning for Nordic mythology and Germanic history but I am unsure of what it means here.

 

[SoundAndFury]

I seemingly bought some game worn Neftekhimik jerseys. I am curious about more of the history of the area and team. There seems to be some type of Celtic knot on the jersey's shoulders and the back near the wordmark. I know it has other similar meaning for Nordic mythology and Germanic history but I am unsure of what it means here.

I'm not sure how much do you know but Nizhnekamsk is the very new factory town built almost from scratch around the petrochemical plant in the 60s. The "Celtic knot" logo was one of the concern owning the factory, you can read more about the concern itself and see what is still their logo here: Title | Corporate website PJSC "Nizhnekamskneftekhim" . Subsequently, the logo is also tied to a chemical process of some sort however I was given the explanation 4 years ago and forgot what is it exactly.

Now since we are talking about USSR times you could have never said back then there is some sort of religious symbolism in your logo but sometimes there was. Now I don't know if Celtic knot is used in Tatarstan and has some mythological meaning even if it does the creators of logo could have never said it even they knew full well what they are doing. At the same time, it can be just circumstantial and their intention really could have been just to illustrate some chemical process their life is built around. That's what the original explanation meant anyway.

Hope this helps some, maybe Atas can shed some light on this. There was a great 20-25 minute video about the city and the team made by KHL on youtube in 2014 when they ran series called "KHL cities" but it seems like it has since been removed. Maybe some Russian guys could find it on their local websites.

 

[vorky]

Perhaps you mean this video (only in Russian)

 

[PlamsUnlimited]

I'm not sure how much do you know but Nizhnekamsk is the very new factory town built almost from scratch around the petrochemical plant in the 60s. The "Celtic knot" logo was one of the concern owning the factory, you can read more about the concern itself and see what is still their logo here: Title | Corporate website PJSC "Nizhnekamskneftekhim" . Subsequently, the logo is also tied to a chemical process of some sort however I was given the explanation 4 years ago and forgot what is it exactly.

Now since we are talking about USSR times you could have never said back then there is some sort of religious symbolism in your logo but sometimes there was. Now I don't know if Celtic knot is used in Tatarstan and has some mythological meaning even if it does the creators of logo could have never said it even they knew full well what they are doing. At the same time, it can be just circumstantial and their intention really could have been just to illustrate some chemical process their life is built around. That's what the original explanation meant anyway.

Hope this helps some, maybe Atas can shed some light on this. There was a great 20-25 minute video about the city and the team made by KHL on youtube in 2014 when they ran series called "KHL cities" but it seems like it has since been removed. Maybe some Russian guys could find it on their local websites.

This is very helpful actually. I was aware of the petrochemical facility but not about a lot of its history except that it was around the 60s that the town/city started to be built up. I am going to read more on their website when I get home from work tonight as well. I took a look at their history page earlier today as well and it was interesting to see. It seems like from their business mission statement there are 3 pillars so I am not sure if that has anything to do with it as well, but definitely will look into it. I did suspect it may have to do with chemical reactions as well but the first thing I thought of was asking why it looked like that. I am going to watch the video above, I understand minimal Russian but will do my best.

Thank you again.

 

[SoundAndFury]

Perhaps you mean this video (only in Russian)

Yeah this is it, thanks a lot vorky. I thought they were in English but I guess they weren't.

 

[JMCx4]

I'm not sure how much do you know but Nizhnekamsk is the very new factory town built almost from scratch around the petrochemical plant in the 60s. The "Celtic knot" logo was one of the concern owning the factory, you can read more about the concern itself and see what is still their logo here: Title | Corporate website PJSC "Nizhnekamskneftekhim" . Subsequently, the logo is also tied to a chemical process of some sort however I was given the explanation 4 years ago and forgot what is it exactly. ...

There's a relatively recently discovered polymerization process inspired by the Celtic knot structure which can produce very strong synthetic structures. Applications have primarily been in the medical industry but the process is being applied to other products such as tires, which is Nizhnekamsk's product base.

 

[Submuloc]

I'm so glad I was able to get a HK Sochi jersey for Christmas from my soon-to-be-in-laws in Russia. It's a replica, but it's difficult to find over here, if at all.