Top 10 Terrible Team Logos

#10 -The Mighty Ducks Of Anaheim. A seriously rubbish logo to go along with those terrible films. If you like those films consider yourself a Fife fan. I can't stand the name, the colours or the duck mask. Funny how they changed the sucka and teams fortunes changed!. I blame the logo.

#9 - Hannover Scorpions. I wonder how long it took the Scorpion's designers to come up with this idea. A scorpion in a goalie helmet. Genius no wait, Rubbish!!!.

#8 - Bracknell Bees. Could it 'Bee' drawn any worse?. The Bees have been a strong team in the UK in past but come on the comical logo let them down big time. Think they have changed it now.

#7 - Vancouver Canucks, their have been some recent rumblings about the Canuck logos of old and how some fans want to see them back. None of them were in favour for the return of this HIDEOUS skate design. It is a skate... isn't it??


#6 - Greenville Grrrowl. One word describes this attempt.... 'Crrrap!'




#5 - Dayton Ice Bandits. I don't really know what to make of this logo. It's so bad, it's almost good. I bet every Ice Bandits player wore it with "pride" It is very Mcdonalds. The team only lasted one season.


#4 - Broome County Icemen. The now defunct UHL team from New York were never going to sell many tops to the few fans that actually came to see them with this LAME attempt of a team logo



TIME FOR THE TOP THREE.... PREPARE YOURSELF!!!!:



#3 Revier Lowen Oberhausen. The 2nd entry on the list from Germany and a well deserved one too. It looks like it was designed on an early 90s version of paint. ISL teams faced-off against Revier Lowen a few years ago.



#2 Hamilton Kilty B's. You'd think this team logo effort would have been good enough for victory and to claim the top spot. It was actually sitting in 1st place until I discovered the new #1 seed. The Kilty B's design again looks like it took about three minutes at most to be scribbled down on a notepad. Whoever drew it and whoever accepted it as the teams design should really check themselves into their local mental hospital. The Kilty B's were a Tier II Junior "A" team from Ontario.


So here it is the worst team logo every thought of. It will take a hell of a lot for anyone to come up with something so obviously WRONG!!!. Fortunately it was never shown out on an ice pad.




#1 Jacksonville Bullets. Do I need to comment on it?. Is that really a bullet?. Would a player even go near a jersey with that design on it?. Maybe if Durex sponsored the team. It is hilarious, can't believe it was even considered to represent a hockey team. The Jacksonville Bullets folded along with the rest of the Southern Hockey League teams after the 1995-96 season.

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Mullet World Fashion

HRH JJ sporting his once famous and rather dashing mullet....

The Mullet is still a very popular look over in the Czech Republic just now so much so that other nations have actually started to take notice too. (see it's not just me) It is probably all down to Jaromir Jagr himself and the Czechs Euro 96 national squad must have something to do with it. I remember their being some 'Extreme Killer Mullets' in that team. I wish I had pictures but a mental image of Karel Poborský celebrating after he chipped Vítor Baia of Portugal will have to do. The locks were flowing that day that's for sure. Anyway the Finns refer to the infamous hairdo as the 'Tsekkitukka' which translates as Czech hair whilst the near by Poles call it the "Czeski piłkarz" meaning Czech player. So after Pilsner, Škoda, Hockey and Pavel Nedved it looks like the mullets is the Czech's next best export. I hope to see a whole lot of them at Murrayfield next season.... grow the 'fro back JJ!!!

Old Time Youtube Hockey

Some Random Hockey Fights From Around The Globe:

Lithuania vs Serbia



Nikko Kobe Ice Bucks (Jap) vs Changchun Fuao (Chi)



'Riga 2000' vs 'ASK/Ogre'

The IIHF have announced their World Championships All-Star team completely made up out of medal winners.

The IIHF winners for the 2007 World Championship:

BEST GOALIE - Kari Lehtonen (FIN) - They gave this award to Lehtonen to stop it from being a Russian sweep of the tournaments best players. Lehtonen finished 3rd in the stats for netminders behind Cam Ward (2nd) and Russia's Alexander Eremenko (1st). Lehtoned put up a 91.30% and a GAA of 1.93. I guess he was given the prize as his Finnish side made it through to the finals or maybe it was done to keep the NHLers happy. The Russian goalie Eremenko who topped the tables with an impressive save percentage of 95.74% and a GAA of 0.98 played in Russia's nine games. He surely should have won the award.


BEST DEFENSEMAN - Andrei Markov (RUS) Totalled 3+5 for 8 points, joint 2nd places for defensemen. He finished the tournament with +5 a better +/- number than the top points scoring D-man Dick Tarnstrom (1+8).

BEST FORWARD - Aleksei Morozov (RUS) Arguably the best player outside of the NHL scored 8+5 for 13 points from the 7 games he played in. His 8 goals scored were enough to bag him the scorers crown but Swedens Johan Davidsson ended up the tournaments top points scorer beating Morozov by just one point. The Swede scored 7+7


The media All-Star Team was also announced:

Goal: Kari Lehtonen (FIN)
Defense: Petteri Nummelin (FIN), Andrei Markov (RUS)
Forward: Aleksei Morozov(RUS), Evgeny Malkin (RUS), Rick Nash (CAN)

Tournament MVP: Rick Nash - The Canadian scored twice in the final to take home the gold medal that performance probably bagged him the gong. Matthew Lombardi could easily have taken the award too. He had a great tournament, scoring some big goals plus he topped Canada's scoring stats with 6+4.

Incidentally three of the Media's All-Star team players had to miss their team's final games due to injury: Morozov, Markov and Nummelin.

Player Coach For The Caps:

No real surprise at all that the Caps are looking for a new player coach to take over the team next season. The PR released a few days a go did a decent job at letting the fans actually know that things are well underway in the process of building next seasons squad. It's good to keep the fans in the know and it also makes it easier for me to write about stuff....

So this is part of the P.R that was posted on the official Capitals forum, maybe the most interesting part of it all.

" We recently attempted to sign a player-coach. It was a long shot but the man in question - and I don't want to even hint to who it was - decided to stay where he was with a British club, and I respect that. "However, the ideal scenario is to sign a player-coach who can work on bringing his own players in. Hopefully, we can have a player-coach pencilled in and signed quickly to allow us to do that "

My #1 guess was that it could well have been Rich Strachan from Hull but then it was pointed out to me that he was no longer a player having hung up his skates awhile ago. I knew that, just didn't think it through at the time and I'm sticking to that story. My 2nd guess was for Todd Dutiaume from the Flyers. A reasonable guess at the very least. So I'm going to have a look at what would have been the Pros and Cons of having Dutes as our head coach:

PROS

1. He was great for Fife at BNL level, he always got the job done and at that time could easily have played in a stronger league.
2. He has coached a winning team for the last two years, sure it was at SNL level but he will have a winning mentality. Maybe got the taste for it too.
3. Dutes lives close enough to Edinburgh, we wouldn't have to put him up.
4. He knows some of our players already having played against a lot of them over the years.
5. Could get his bro to come play for the Caps too.
6. He can't do as bad a job as Tony Hand did and probably doesn't rate Jim Vickers either
7. The biggest pro of them all. It would annoy the Flyers fans!!!

CONS

1. He has scored loads of goals against us, set up a ton of them too and led his squad to more than a few wins over the Capitals. Oh it would he hard to forget all that...
2. He would probably sign the EVILEST of Flyers John Haig to the team.
3. Dutes hasn't played at a decent level for awhile, it could take awhile for him to adapt.
4. Chances are Dutes would demand the Capitals adopted Fife's tea towel styled jersey approach to the game.
5. He'd maybe bring back the Sieve-boy Steve Briere. (From now on Steve Briere will always be referred to as Sieve-boy). I'd rather have a Crossland brother in nets.
6. He has played for Fife for way to long. 7 years a Flyer. His allegiance is to Sam the Bear. He bleeds their blue and yellow and might have taken on their thieving ways.
7. He would ask the Caps for a lot of money to pay his wages, most of it being wasted on paying the toll to cross the Forth Bridge on his return home to the safari park that is Kirkcaldy.
8. It would be uber weird seeing him play in a Caps jersey. They two just don't go together. Square peg, round hole.
9. Our rink might mysteriously burn down.... ;op
10. And Last of all his name doesn't go well in song form.

As you can clearly see there are more cons than pros to Todd Dutiaume becoming the Capitals future player-coach. I know the PR stated we failed in our effort to sign the guy. We might have just dodged a bullet there with that one or maybe not. We might still get him. Anyway who-ever does come in and takes the job on they are going to have a lot of work to do to get the Caps off the bottom of the EIHL table.

Worlds 2008

Division IA:

Poland
Kazakhstan
GB
Netherlands
Korea

Team GB has been drawn into another tough group for next years world championships tournament. Looking at it at this very, very early stage before the number one seed has been relegated from the top league. Kazakhstan are the stand-out team and will probably be one of the favourites to be right up there looking for promotion to join up with the major hockey nations. Any result against them will be a bonus. Saying that though Poland were the team that dented the Kazakh's promotion hopes this year by defeating them 5-2. The French took full advantage of that result and topped the Group A table. The Poles though also struggled to narrow one goal victories over Estonia and The Netherlands. So the Poles who have players based in the top leagues of the Czech Republic (Trinec), Slovakia (Lipt. Mik) and Germany (Hamburg Freezers) will provide a strong challenge to the Brits and they will be a danger once again to the Kazakhs. We shouldn't take the game against them lightly but if we play to our best and keep the concentraion levels up we could spring a surprise result. Anyway looking at the other results from this years Division 1 Group A tournament the Dutch match up could also prove to be tricky fixture for the British squad. They gave up plenty of goals but they also managed to score two or more goals in each of their games, including a 9-3 blow out against a truly weak Chinese squad. The Dutch might provide some offensive threat to our D. So i'm thinking the Dutch match up will be the most important game of our campaign (you heard it here first). Being positive it could be a bronze medal deciding fixture if things go our way.
Then on to the Korean's who won every game of their division II championships. They beat the likes of Australia, Iceland, Israel and the mighty hockey nation that is Mexico to gain promotion. Iam pretty sure the rest of Div I will be more than capable of defeating the Koreans they will be the whipping boys of the group that will dive straight backdown to the lower division they came from. The Koreans will be the security blanket we might just need to stay in the division.

How Well Do You Know Dino Bauba?

I've had a few important off ice issues to deal with over the last few days and haven't really had anytime to post up anything decent. (I've been benched) The same goes for just now so you will have to make do with this, like it and lump it:

So how well do you hockey know it alls know Team GB knocker Dino 'The Wolfman' Bauba?. Do you know these truths about our Lithuanian O.A.P, sorry veteran, experienced forward....

Underneath Dino Bauba's beard is infact another beard

Dino Bauba invented the beard

Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Dino Bauba instead decided to hook his way out of his mother's womb. Shortly thereafter he grew a beard.

Dino Bauba was the fourth Wiseman. He brought baby Jesus the gift of "beard". Jesus wore it proudly to his dying day. The other Wisemen, jealous of Jesus' obvious gift favoritism, used their combined influence to have Dino omitted from the Bible.

The chief export of Dino Bauba is beard!

Dino Bauba, when clean-shaven, radiates the heat of three suns

Your granny has that beard out of respect for Dino

Almost a repost of a previous update but that's all you getting for now!.

Your Quick Hockey Fact Of The Day:

The San Jose Sharks and the Ottawa Senators are the only teams in the NHL that record the franchise's Gordie Howe Hat Tricks....

Hockey A Gentleman's Sport...

Made In England?



I think not....



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