OT: Around Hockey and the NHL

[FinnLightning26]

Canadian hockey manufacturing seems like it's just a few factories. I know there's a stick factory in Ontario, and NHL jerseys come from Quebec. Meet the Quebec company that makes every NHL jersey worn on the ice | TSN

It looks like replica Fanatics jerseys come from Indonesia, so no movement there.

I'm also seeing on eBay and lockerswap a pair of retail Bauer elbow pads made in Thailand, a pro stock CCM helmet made in China, and pro stock CCM skates made in Canada.

The Canadian made stuff was always at risk. Extended tariffs may push that over the edge. Canadians can still sell to Canadians, but it's about losing the US market, and retaliatory tariffs.


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The objective with Canada seems to be a bit different, as there's a public fixation with Canada becoming a state. This is all transactional, though.

Even the talk of that is batshit f***ing insane but I digress.

 

[LordStanlersCup]

This is actually so embarrassing. The outlaws logo is from chel and the other two logos look worse than most of the AI concepts I have seen on twitter. They gave themselves an entire year and this is what they came up with? There was so much to work with here, and that's it?

 

[LightningStrikes]

The best logos are usually the ones a child could roughly draw imo paired with a good color combination. These here look like generic 3D placeholders from a video game.

I guess the yeti with the mountains concept is the best but the execution is lacking. Its borders are weird and unnecessarily unsymmetrical. And it would go with the “HC” name apparently which I personally find out of place in NA hockey. This is not European soccer.

 

[Felonious Python]

The colors don't work for Outlaws. It's got to get into the reds, oranges, and yellows.

Are they really the official logos, or are they the logos they officially showed to fans?


I'm not convinced that these are the 'final' logos. They decided to pull Wasatch just a few days ago for Outlaws. How many final logos do they have?

 

[Felonious Python]

30 day delay with the Canadian tariffs.

 

[Renopucker]

30 day delay with the Canadian tariffs.

I wonder how much fentanyl goes NORTH to Canada via US border towns and roads? I’ll bet its ALOT. And the Canadians ain’t crying and kavetching about it.