Habs change to single logo design at center ice

[vokiel]

How do you make an icing call without it?

Screw icing calls!

Seriously, just put some sensor in the puck and that's it. Actually do the same for the blue lines and get rid of the linesmen.

 

[NobleSix]

I think it looks better.

 

[yianik]

No wonder Molson and Bergevin get along so well. MB seems inordinately occupied with picking up bottom pair D and bottom line forwards, and Molson is changing logos and hot dogs.

Better change that " Drive for 25 " to " 25 by 2055 ".

 

[Habaneros]

I think it looks better.

It's like putting on a pair of jeans,then putting on your underwear....make any sense???? lol

The logo should cover the red line..not the line covering over top of the logo...no reason for that at all...

 

[Redux91]

I wonder who came up with this brilliant idea, they can't even get this right. The red line totally bisects the logo and disfigures it.

Well i mean...kind of an accurate representation of what our management have done to our beloved franchise and "us, the fans!" when you think about it... ahaha am i right guys? ... guys?

 

[MakeTheGoalsLarger]

I don't really care about 1 logo or 2 logos but why didn't the put the logo the other way and cut the logo down the middle? That's just me.

Because then the logo wouldn't be seen the right way on television. I'm pretty sure that's the main purpose of having only one logo.

 

[OldCraig71]

Based on the way that things are going, will a logo change really mean anything? This season is going to make last year look like the 92-93 cup run. Good lord.

 

[PhysicX]

All that's missing is another red line crossing the red line to mark our logo with an X for the fan experience to be improved tenfold.

 

[NobleSix]

It's like putting on a pair of jeans,then putting on your underwear....make any sense???? lol

The logo should cover the red line..not the line covering over top of the logo...no reason for that at all...

Meh, I like the one big logo. The red line thing doesn't bother me.

I think the two logo design looked stupid.

 

[V13]

That's fine

Hughes , Lafreniere and Kotkaniemi will visually all look better taking faceoffs on a big logo

 

[nilan30]

I really don't mind the big logo in the middle of the ice.

It's actually pretty common in the league to have a big logo.. cut in half by the red line.

Ours actually blends well with the red line.

It's minor and it's been talked about before but it would be cool if all teams could pick their colours on the boards. It seems like 90% have the red on top and all have the yellow on the bottom. It was pretty cool when the Forum had red on top and blue on the bottom. Today's rinks are all so cookie cutter that you can't always tell what rink pictures are taken in. Boston's works well with the black on top and yellow on the bottom

 

[Deebs]

That's fine

Hughes , Lafreniere and Kotkaniemi will visually all look better taking faceoffs on a big logo

I can't see us having a realistic shot at LaFreniere as we'll improve too much in the next two years, but Hughes is a legitimate possibility next year....but I get what you're saying

 

[The Great Weal]

Finally we get a big centre.

Plays on both ends on the ice too!

 

[Adriatic]

It's minor and it's been talked about before but it would be cool if all teams could pick their colours on the boards. It seems like 90% have the red on top and all have the yellow on the bottom. It was pretty cool when the Forum had red on top and blue on the bottom. Today's rinks are all so cookie cutter that you can't always tell what rink pictures are taken in. Boston's works well with the black on top and yellow on the bottom

Ya that would be cool, it's probably some rule mandated by the league or something to have yellow at the bottom. This is the NFL syndrome to have everything uniform and identical in every arena..really hate that. That's the one thing I really like about baseball, the ballparks colors and field sizes are different from city to city.

 

[ArtPeur]

I can't see us having a realistic shot at LaFreniere as we'll improve too much in the next two years, but Hughes is a legitimate possibility next year....but I get what you're saying

Trade away Price, Patch, Petry, Weber, Byron + anyone else that is over 28yo (and has value) for picks, prospects and tank all the way. Put Alzner on the top pairing and let him play 30min/game with 2min on each PP

 

[JJ68]

Really, who gives a toss? Crying for the sake of it.

 

[Spectaculard]

Considering all the problems with this team this is the least of our worries.

 

[Gamimenos]

[MOD]

At least this change doesn't make it clearly look worse. An argument can be made. If MB's face was there, it would just be a clear downgrade.

 

[Laurentide]

Ya that would be cool, it's probably some rule mandated by the league or something to have yellow at the bottom. This is the NFL syndrome to have everything uniform and identical in every arena..really hate that. That's the one thing I really like about baseball, the ballparks colors and field sizes are different from city to city.

The thing I hate the most (and the first thing I would change if I were in charge of the NHL) is the player benches on the same side of the ice. All it does is create a stupid, needless traffic jam during line changes. This is a league-mandated thing and it's origins ironically come from a franchise that doesn't even exist anymore: the Hartford Whalers.

Back in the 80's, the Whalers played in the Adams Division with the Habs, Nords, Bruins and Sabres. In that era, divisional play was huge; you played your divisional rivals 8 times during the season and in the first two rounds of the playoffs. Home ice advantage was a thing. But the Whalers didn't have it in the Hartford Civic Center where the players benches were on the same side of the ice while the penalty box was on the other. All of their divisional rivals had the home team bench and penalty box on one side while the visitor bench was on the other. The Forum, Boston Garden, Le Colisee and the Aud in Buffalo were all configured this way (and the Garden and Aud also had smaller-than-regulation 200' x 85' size rinks to boot)

So the Whalers complained about the "unfair" advantage to the league and the NHL, in its infinite stupidity, instead of telling the Whalers to change the configuration of the benches at the Civic Center (which they probably couldn't unilaterally do since they were merely tenants and didn't own the arena) they told the other 20 teams in the league to change to the Whalers model. Prior to this, there was no rule and the placement of the benches and penalty boxes varied from rink to rink. Maple Leaf Gardens always had both team's benches on the same side of the rink, for example.

This is how we wound up with back-up goalies having to sit by the Zamboni entrance because there was no more room on the bench for them - because the visiting team's bench was barely bigger than the old penalty box.

 

[Adriatic]

The thing I hate the most (and the first thing I would change if I were in charge of the NHL) is the player benches on the same side of the ice. All it does is create a stupid, needless traffic jam during line changes. This is a league-mandated thing and it's origins ironically come from a franchise that doesn't even exist anymore: the Hartford Whalers.

Back in the 80's, the Whalers played in the Adams Division with the Habs, Nords, Bruins and Sabres. In that era, divisional play was huge; you played your divisional rivals 8 times during the season and in the first two rounds of the playoffs. Home ice advantage was a thing. But the Whalers didn't have it in the Hartford Civic Center where the players benches were on the same side of the ice while the penalty box was on the other. All of their divisional rivals had the home team bench and penalty box on one side while the visitor bench was on the other. The Forum, Boston Garden, Le Colisee and the Aud in Buffalo were all configured this way (and the Garden and Aud also had smaller-than-regulation 200' x 85' size rinks to boot)

So the Whalers complained about the "unfair" advantage to the league and the NHL, in its infinite stupidity, instead of telling the Whalers to change the configuration of the benches at the Civic Center (which they probably couldn't unilaterally do since they were merely tenants and didn't own the arena) they told the other 20 teams in the league to change to the Whalers model. Prior to this, there was no rule and the placement of the benches and penalty boxes varied from rink to rink. Maple Leaf Gardens always had both team's benches on the same side of the rink, for example.

This is how we wound up with back-up goalies having to sit by the Zamboni entrance because there was no more room on the bench for them - because the visiting team's bench was barely bigger than the old penalty box.

Ya uniformity is the worst. I would let teams decide all of that stuff, rink sizes, bench placement, board colors. I don't think we would be able to tell what rink the games were being played in if it wasn't for the logo on the ice. Just awful.

 

[Godzilla]

Of all the things that we will see on the ice this year, the logo is the least of our problems.

 

[groovejuice]

Trade away Price, Patch, Petry, Weber, Byron + anyone else that is over 28yo (and has value) for picks, prospects and tank all the way. Put Alzner on the top pairing and let him play 30min/game with 2min on each PP

So we'll end up with 5 more dwarves with bloodlines and mysterious attitudes? Awesome.

 

[ArtPeur]

So we'll end up with 5 more dwarves with bloodlines and mysterious attitudes? Awesome.

Snow White & the 7 Dwarves

 

[groovejuice]

Snow White & the 7 Dwarves

So we get the babe too? A happy ending indeed.

 

[Laurentide]

Ya uniformity is the worst. I would let teams decide all of that stuff, rink sizes, bench placement, board colors. I don't think we would be able to tell what rink the games were being played in if it wasn't for the logo on the ice. Just awful.

Yep, I miss the old Boston Garden, Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo and Chicago Stadium, which all had smaller than average rinks and built teams specifically designed to play in them. The "big bad Bruins" aren't nearly as big or as bad on the TD Garden's 200' x 85' rink as they were on the old Garden's postage stamp-sized 191' x 83' rink (Buffalo's was 196' x 85' while Chicago's was a ridiculous 185' x 85')