Quad City Mallards gone... a Storm is Coming!

The Quad City Mallards most recently of the ECHL are now once again being put into moth balls. The Mallards were a favourite team of mine since their UHL days. Next season, in their place will be a new SPHL team, the Quad City Storm. I'm disappointed to see the Quad City Mallards moth balled once again, but they seem to be a team that finds a way to resurface again and again, so I would not be surprised to see them playing again some time in the future. Until then, I kind of like the next Storm name and logo. In the past two of my favourite team logos were the Bakersfield Fog and the Muskegon Fury (by the way, I own jerserys from both of those teams).

UFV Cascades Logo

My wife picked up a pile of pocket schedules while she was out in the valley visiting her father. Among them was the University of the Fraser Valley athletics schedule which has one of the coolest logos I have seen in a long time. Its a menacing looking mountain with trees for teeth and ice for eyes. It kind of reminds me of one of my all time favorite logos the Prince George Spruce Kings which depicts an angry Christmas tree being chased by a saw blade - awesome!

Abbotsford Heat Logo Not Even Lukewarm!

The Abbotsford Heat (joining the AHL for the 2009/10 season), unveiled its new logo today... and what a disappointment it is!
I was already underwhelmed by the name, the Heat, but the logo is just about as lame as you can get. The logo in no way looks like a hockey team logo, there is no appearance of flames or heat, the colours are extremely dull and the font they created for the logo looks like something you would find on one of those lame free font web sites. This is not good enough for a high school team, let alone a professional hockey team.
Along with the new logo, is a sketch that was used in the initial creation process of the logo. You will have to figure out for yourself which is the finished product ;-)
I can guarantee you that I won't be wasting my cash to purchase anything with this logo on it!

IHA Fantasy League

If you are a fan of hockey and logos like me, then you should love this. One of my favorite hockey sites is Icethetics.info. The best part of the site is the user submitted logos, and recently they did created a complete fantasy league with names & locations, as well as logos for each team. Every step of the way, the visitors of the site got to vote on the winners for each location in the league, name for each team and logo for each team. Here is a poster I made of the completed league. My favorite logos from the league are the Edmonton Seahawks and Atlanta Fire. Be sure to click on the graphic below to make it full size!