Post a pic of your team's arena banners

[Pyrophorus]

But those aren't your team's banners. They're the ones in the back.

Neither are the ones from 1903-1908

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

 

[Spectaculard]

A more recent one with Patty and new jumbotron.

I personally saw Savards and Geoffrions banners raised.

 

[Bizarro Bandwagoner]

Didn't say it had to be NHL, right?

 

[rhinoshawarma]

I thought for sure this would be a habs fan starting this thread

 

[EpicDing]

Hard to get a good picture, they're too spread out.

 

[McMatthews]

 

[Plante]

I thought for sure this would be a habs fan starting this thread

You're right. Pride in the history of the game is usually a Habs fans trait.

If only we were like all the cool kids and assumed history doesn't matter and isn't worth talking about

 

[DrunkUncleDenis]

My initials are on the boards of a large selection of NHL, AHL, KHL, CHL and NCAA teams. Come at me bro.

I'm informing the ushers of the appropriate venues of your blatant vandalism and general hooliganism!

 

[McMatthews]

A more recent one with Patty and new jumbotron.

That's beautiful.

 

[SladeWilson23]

NOTE: The "2" in Niedermayer's banner is the wrong font.

 

[Never]

You're right. Pride in the history of the game is usually a Habs fans trait.

If only we were like all the cool kids and assumed history doesn't matter and isn't worth talking about

It does matter, it's just not relevant when used as an argument to counter somebody saying that the team isn't very good now, i.e. "well we have 24 cups!!".

 

[Plante]

It does matter, it's just not relevant when used as an argument to counter somebody saying that the team isn't very good now, i.e. "well we have 24 cups!!".

Listening to the kids who scream silly stuff like that and trying to group up an entire fan base as that persona is much more ridiculous.

Its like I took to heart three Islanders fans telling me Clutterbuck as the best NHL player, Im going to attribute it to that person and that person alone, not to thousands of people that neither of us has ever met before.

I guess the tribal mentality is fun though. Easy to paint a group of people all with the same brush.

Its like, whats with all the Flames fans and their pushing of Johnny Hockey on everyone? Its just rude.

 

[Daniels45]

Yeah as a habs fan its great to see all those banners that show just how great we used to be ... but in a way its not cause it shows how ordinary we have become. When you consider that out of all them 24 cups, only 2 were won in the last 35 years and none in the last 22...

We will never see that form of dominance ever again in the NHL...too many teams now and too much parity along with the cap.

 

[Breaded Fox]

This looks cool.

 

[Step]

Why, OP?

Why?

Thought I made it pretty clear in my post.

And those Philly banners are awesome. I also have always loved the simplicity of Edmonton and NYR's banners.

 

[jeangauthier]

Society is built on history as it's foundation...........anyone whom says otherwise is a fool..........

 

[Wayne Primeau]

 

[wingnutks]

General layout

Cup Banners

Divisional/Conference

Players ( I was there for Nystrom's)

 

[The Podium]

Sadly, the Maple Leafs had their originals sold

Angered (or maybe jealous) by Conn Smythe's success with the club and his inability to bring a Stanley Cup to Toronto under his sole ownership, Ballard sold all of the Cup banners that had hung from the rafters of Maple Leafs Gardens for years. Ballard had managed to get his name on the Cup four times while part-owner of the team. When the Leafs moved to the Air Canada Centre in 1999, the NHL presented the team with new banners to replace those Ballard had sold.

 

[Wayne Primeau]

Sadly, the Maple Leafs had their originals sold

Django sighting!

 

[Hoek]

We need some newer ones. At least we got rid of the silly attendance one we had before.

 

[htpwn]

Sadly, the Maple Leafs had their originals sold

I don't think they've been seen since. Wonder where they ended up.

The Leafs did have replacements bought after Ballard's death in 1989:

These were also sold in 1999, replaced by the current, more modern ones, in 1999:

I did find a picture of the original Conn Smythe-era banners at one point. I might still have it saved somewhere. I'll take a look.

 

[Step]

I actually prefer the new Toronto banners.

 

[iamjs]

Looks like the collection originally went to a collector in 1999, who later sold the collection to Frozen Pond in 2012. Looks like Frozen Pond had 6 of the 10 honoured numbers, including Bailey, Barilko, and Horton, along with the original 1967 Cup banner

http://o.canada.com/sports/hockey/maple-leaf-gardens-memories-up-for-grabs

They even sold the toilet from the dresssing room: https://twitter.com/CityTomHayes/status/256442576486416384