Taro T Posted August 22, 2018 Report Share Posted August 22, 2018 4 hours ago, Eleven said: Needs to be permanent. I loved those uniforms. Absolutely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGR4GM Posted August 22, 2018 Report Share Posted August 22, 2018 Read a tweet that apparently the GM of the Blues said "But in a perfect world, you get to Christmas and (Robert Thomas) can center a line that maybe has Tarasenko on the right and O'Reilly on the left" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erickompositör72 Posted August 22, 2018 Report Share Posted August 22, 2018 50 minutes ago, LGR4GM said: Read a tweet that apparently the GM of the Blues said "But in a perfect world, you get to Christmas and (Robert Thomas) can center a line that maybe has Tarasenko on the right and O'Reilly on the left" Ouch- not the large role ROR likes to have... this may make him feel even more useless... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted August 22, 2018 Report Share Posted August 22, 2018 1 hour ago, LGR4GM said: Read a tweet that apparently the GM of the Blues said "But in a perfect world, you get to Christmas and (Robert Thomas) can center a line that maybe has Tarasenko on the right and O'Reilly on the left" They do have like 19 centers, but still, I can't wait to see this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrader Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 14 hours ago, erickompositör72 said: Ouch- not the large role ROR likes to have... this may make him feel even more useless... Skating on their top line isn't a large role? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erickompositör72 Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 3 hours ago, shrader said: Skating on their top line isn't a large role? If I'm not mistaken, that's where he was in Colorado (top line wing) when he wanted a "larger role" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickie Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 I'm not sure the larger role he wanted was necessarily where he played, but that he wanted to be a team leader (i.e., captain). That's not going to happen anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 Toby Enstrom signed a one-year deal with MODO in Sweden to be the captain of their squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Hoss said: Toby Enstrom signed a one-year deal with MODO in Sweden to be the captain of their squad. Hmm, didn't feel like he was done for the NHL, he had a spot somewhere still I thought. Certainly the Oilers should have been all over him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 2 hours ago, Hoss said: Toby Enstrom signed a one-year deal with MODO in Sweden to be the captain of their squad. Call out to our MODO. Is that signing going to be enough to get your MODO back into the top level of SHL? Hope so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorny Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 8 hours ago, Huckleberry said: Hmm, didn't feel like he was done for the NHL, he had a spot somewhere still I thought. Certainly the Oilers should have been all over him. His eye test is worse than his numbers. Saw him a lot in Winnipeg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brawndo Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etiennep99 Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 (edited) On 8/22/2018 at 12:25 PM, Eleven said: Needs to be permanent. I loved those uniforms. I was partial to these uniforms. The scout looks like someone in a burka; that would be more a propos these days. Edited August 27, 2018 by etiennep99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 21 minutes ago, etiennep99 said: I was partial to these uniforms. The scout looks like someone in a burka; that would be more a propos these days. I'm young enough not to remember the Scouts, but those Rockies uniforms were things of beauty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrader Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 The thought of a team wearing a jersey from a previous location always feels a bit odd to me. It seems like a slap in the face to the fans from that previous city. They've been talking around here a lot lately about using the Whaler jersey and even playing a preseason game in Hartford. How could the people up there actually want any part of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueBlueGED Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 1 hour ago, Brawndo said: This sucks. I loved Zetterberg's game, and he was a complete class act. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 1 hour ago, shrader said: The thought of a team wearing a jersey from a previous location always feels a bit odd to me. It seems like a slap in the face to the fans from that previous city. They've been talking around here a lot lately about using the Whaler jersey and even playing a preseason game in Hartford. How could the people up there actually want any part of that? Oh, I most definitely agree. I just like the Colorado Rockies jerseys is all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrader Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 2 minutes ago, Eleven said: Oh, I most definitely agree. I just like the Colorado Rockies jerseys is all. It's another thing I wish teams would stick to with their jerseys. Along with the bright colors, they're fairly simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 1 hour ago, shrader said: It's another thing I wish teams would stick to with their jerseys. Along with the bright colors, they're fairly simple. Unfortunately, w/ the whole knockoff jersey industry being a thing, we'll never see teams go back to truly simple elegant unis. Because simple elegant unis can't be trademarked. And if you can't trademark (or get a design patent for) your duds, you can't keep others from making & selling them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 33 minutes ago, Taro T said: Unfortunately, w/ the whole knockoff jersey industry being a thing, we'll never see teams go back to truly simple elegant unis. Because simple elegant unis can't be trademarked. And if you can't trademark (or get a design patent for) your duds, you can't keep others from making & selling them. Huh, what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pi2000 Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 2 hours ago, Taro T said: Unfortunately, w/ the whole knockoff jersey industry being a thing, we'll never see teams go back to truly simple elegant unis. Because simple elegant unis can't be trademarked. And if you can't trademark (or get a design patent for) your duds, you can't keep others from making & selling them. The logo is still trademarked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 2 hours ago, Eleven said: Huh, what? If you notice, especially in the NFL but in the other major sports leagues as well, teams are often using unique number fonts & piping that they have trademarked to keep the uniforms very non-generic to keep the knock off shops from just copying their uniforms and selling them for a fraction of the real things. If the uniformis too simple, the style will already essentially bein the public domain & the knockoff shops will just copy them. (The commentis more directed to football unis, but Adidas certainlyisn't going to develop new unis that are "plain" unless they're throwbacks.) The leagues also have unique referee uniforms to prevent their advertising partners from airing commercials that mock the refs. The Bud Light beer stealing refs weren't NFL refs though it was implied. Once the refs started wearing funky unis, the commercials went away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 3 minutes ago, pi2000 said: The logo is still trademarked. You bet it is. Even if it's as simple as a B with spokes or a C with an H in it or a hockey stick inside a rectangle. Just now, Taro T said: If you notice, especially in the NFL but in the other major sports leagues as well, teams are often using unique number fonts & piping that they have trademarked to keep the uniforms very non-generic to keep the knock off shops from just copying their uniforms and selling them for a fraction of the real things. If the uniformis too simple, the style will already essentially bein the public domain & the knockoff shops will just copy them. (The commentis more directed to football unis, but Adidas certainlyisn't going to develop new unis that are "plain" unless they're throwbacks.) The leagues also have unique referee uniforms to prevent their advertising partners from airing commercials that mock the refs. The Bud Light beer stealing refs weren't NFL refs though it was implied. Once the refs started wearing funky unis, the commercials went away. No, just trust me on this, no. The unique fonts make it more difficult to counterfeit, and sure, they might be trademarked as well, but it's the logo that is central to the sweater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 4 minutes ago, pi2000 said: The logo is still trademarked. Absolutely. But if the numbers aren't trademarked it is really easy to make a knockoff or lower quality generic sweater get customized to look pro weight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted August 27, 2018 Report Share Posted August 27, 2018 17 minutes ago, Taro T said: Absolutely. But if the numbers aren't trademarked it is really easy to make a knockoff or lower quality generic sweater get customized to look pro weight. It doesn't become more difficult to counterfeit a sweater because the numbers are trademarked. It becomes more difficult because the numbers are unique, meaning the counterfeiter needs more and more templates to work from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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