Monday: No Upsets Here!

Well we have a championship game! The Rivermen will be playing the Stags in the final! Well it will be a good game to say the least! With the Lynx and Foxes losing, they will play in the Winners Consolation Ladder, and the Express and Sabreswords keep playing in the Consolation Ladder. 

Before we go any farther, I want to say that I made the worst possible GM decision I could yesterday. To have a better shot at winning the game with +10 goalie points, I went out and signed Karri Ramo, since none of my goalies were starting. Now Ramo let in 6 goals that night to the Sens, making him a -11.5. In final score of the Sabreswords game, I lost by 9.7 points. In the end, if I hadn't signed Ramo, I would have won. 

These are the HCIHL Scores.

1 Hamilton Stags 426.4 - 4 Skopje Lisici 329.9

2 Evansville Rivermen 416.8 - 3 Louisville Lynx 356.5

5 London Sabreswords 289 - 6 Altoona Express 279.3

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Pitt Panthers (Nick S.)

Right Now Pitt only has an ACHA team, but not an Div. 1 team, in fact the only colleges in PA that have teams are Robert Morris (Pittsburgh), Penn State (State College), and Mercyhurst (Erie). In my opinion Temple or someother east Pennsylvanian university should get a team, but that's for another time. I've never liked how Pitt uses black in their branding, and, even though I don't like it, I wish it was on the Blue jersey. Right now the way you don't have enough contrast compared to the white jersey. I've also never liked how that collar looks when it is colored in, one thing that Nike got right (not coloring in that style of color). I would also use a Block style of font to match the wordmark. 7.3/10

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Well that's it for today, looking forward to the HCIHL playoffs and championships, and I hope you are too!

College Classic Monday

Hello and welcome to a very special post. We've been seeing an onslaught of outdoor designs lately, with the Lake Erie Monsters and the Rochester Americans playing in the first outdoor game of the year, and my Pens unveiling their Stadium Series jersey, which I will get a Jokinen one of. In fact I'll post some pics of it when I get one (probably in January). As you can tell I like it, though if all the jersey are going to look something like that, creativity as you can see isn't high. My favorite part of it is the yoke.




Well anyway, this post is dedicated to all the college designs that have come in of late. And speaking of college designs! We have a new competition! Click here for more info.

Blue Jays Comp entries due Saturday!

But first, our HCIHL scores.

Hamilton Stags 171.6 - Skopje Lisici 106.9
Evansville Rivermen 199.6 - Altoona Express 170.3
Louisville Lynx 198.9- London Sabreswords 136.1

I know all of you are dying to see the concepts so here they are!

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Apple Cup (By Justin S.)

Justin starts us out with a nice event that he calls the Apple Cup, taking place it Washington, between two Washington teams. I like that it uses the very underused Under Armour template. Lets start out with the Huskies one. I love the colors and the logo choice was good. I like the striping but I feel that there should be some white in it, since there is some in the logo and numbers. I don't think that the shoulder patches are necessary, since the yoke striping is there. For the Cougars one, grey is an interesting choice, but I think it works. The wordmark looks good on a jersey, and it matches the striping and number outlines. I'm not sure about the name in red I'd make it white with a red outline. Concept Rating 7.9/10 (U of Wash. 8/10) (Wash State 7.8/10)

The Game (By Dylan W.)

Dylan gives us a great presentation with these, but we couldn't put it all on the blog, so check out his Sportslogos.net thread, it shows you everything from the tickets to in game mechindice. I like both logos, though I think Ohio State's should have a larger outline. The yokes are done well and so is the striping. I also like the Wonka V.S. McElroy bit that appeared on both of your concepts. I don't really have any complants so to the rating. Concept Rating 8.7/10 (Ohio State 8.9/10) (Michigan 8.5/10)

Hockey at Heinz (By Jake88/Me)

This was my entry into the competition. For Pitt, I did some yoke striping and arm striping that matches, while using a classic esque logo and font. For Syracuse I made an orange jersey (their name is the Orange could they have made it any easier?) with simple striping that doubles on the socks, a classic feature that I've always liked. For both jerseys, I lowered the numbers and put a patch in it's place.

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The final part of this special post is even more special, we have the Fuel Comp. results in and here they are!

And your winner...

Congrats to Alan on his win, and I hope to see you next post!