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- Pris - 06-04-2018
THIS PT IS FOR SHL PLAYERS AND SENDDOWNS ONLY.
Scenario: The SHL is expanding again, and you’ve been lucky enough to get the chance to start up one of the expansion teams. As such, you've been tasked to first present the new team concept.
Written Task: Write about the expansion team you've decided to create! Where are you putting it and why, and what is the team branding/concept? What's the mascot? Must be at least 150 words and include team name and location.
Graphic Task: Design the logo or the jersey for the new team!
PLEASE NOTE - Submissions that are clearly not original work will receive reduced or no TPE depending on the severity of the plagiarism. This will be up to the discretion of the graders.
This PT will close Monday, June 11th, at 7 PM EST.
Any questions or concerns, please feel free to PM me directly.
[Thank you to <a href='index.php?showuser=2262' rel='nofollow' alt='profile link' class='user-tagged mgroup-34'>Ghost</a> for the PT submission!]
- crutch - 06-04-2018
The Phoenix Screamin' Cacti will play out of the Talking Stick Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. It was a successful franchise in the PHL and deserves to carry over to the SHL, where they will win 14 consecutive Challenge Cups, anchored by Connor Blackwell. The logo is a cactus with a hockey stick (you've seen it, you know it), and the jerseys are a gross neon green colour that strike fear into every person on the opposition. I'm putting the team in Phoenix because I think hockey in the desert is a beautiful thing, and the Cacti were my first ever love. The only thing stronger for my love for the cacti is my love for <a href='index.php?showuser=2548' rel='nofollow' alt='profile link' class='user-tagged mgroup-14'>Dweaves08</a>. The mascot is the same as the logo, a gigantic cactus with a hockey stick that screams at the opposing bench. I think that this is easily the best idea for an expansion team that has been in this thread, and i've read all of them.
please give me an expansion team.
- Ghost - 06-04-2018
I was thinking about you when I made the suggestion <a href='index.php?showuser=2005' rel='nofollow' alt='profile link' class='user-tagged mgroup-74'>crutch</a>
- JSS - 06-04-2018
An SHL expansion team you say? Well, for starters, the location of the team would be in Washington, DC in the United States of America. It's beyond me how there is no Simulation Hockey League team over there in that great city. The reason why I choose Washington and not some other city? It's pretty simple, it's a hockey loving patriotic city that needs an elite hockey team aka an SHL team. The name? The generals! The name Washington Generals has a pretty nice ring to it if I do say so myself. I choose Generals because the city itself is full of government and military workers and choosing a name like Generals honours the workers and soldiers in my opinion. The mascot is regular american soldier, his name would be Arnold and he'd wear a casual army attire and he'd walk around with a hockey stick. Arnold is a pretty nice guy and he'd be one of the best mascots in the SHL.
- FlappyGiraffe - 06-04-2018
INTRODUCING, THE SASKATOON SNAKES!!!!
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- karey - 06-05-2018
Mars Rovers
The Mars Rovers, the new expansion team of the future when humans decide that the futile state of our plastic enriched wasteland we call Earth is no longer sustainable, the richest of our society decide to move their talents to the 4th planet in our Solar System, Mars. The burnt rusty red, aptly called MARSoon, along with Space Grey and White complete the colour scheme for both their home and away jerseys. As for third jersey, the Rovers pay tribute to the future President of Earth, Elon Musk by having a spacesuit themed jersey, resembling the aesthetics of the Falcon Heavy that took our race to the stars.
As for a Mascot, the Spaceman currently in orbit in the Tesla Roadster is appropriately still listening to David Bowie and is a fundamental symbol of both the Mars team, but human avheivement.
And you know what, the distance between Mars and the rest of the planet is still not as much as West Kendall, Florida and the rest of the fucking Eastern Conference.
- Leafs4ever - 06-05-2018
So the SHL is expanding again, eh? I'm sure this will work out just fine.
Lucky me, I was chosen to pick the location and name of the new SHL team. I researched the potential places and scoured the world to find just the place that the SHL should join next. After much deliberation, I have chosen a place that sports a cold climate and resides in the Great White North. The new SHL team will be located in North Bay, Ontario. I picked North Bay because it has a rich history of minor hockey and I think the population is ready to support a major league team. As for the name of the team, we are going with the North Bay Blades. I like the Blades name because it can refer to the blades of a skate or the blade of a hockey stick. Very versatile. The mascot is going to be a black bear because they frequent the area of North Bay.
The colours of the team are going to be blue, black, and green. Blue and black is my favourite colour combo and adding in the green connects it to Nipissing University, the city's top school. I believe the colours, the name, and the jersey will be one of the best in the league and really start off the franchise on a good foot.
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- GoonerBear - 06-05-2018
I propose the West Virginia Miners, located in Huntington, West Virginia, the state's most populous metro area.
For one, it's time to forge into currently unoccupied territory in top-flight professional sports in North America. Also, I wholeheartedly invite "Miners/minors" jokes to flood in so we have that one team in the big leagues. The area itself is surrounded by interested people in the sport, so perhaps it's time for an outbreak of hockey fever into Appalachian country. The branding would entail promoting the region's status as one of the primary sources of coal in the United States.
The mascot will even require minimum prep time to dress for public appearances and gameday duties. All he needs to do is get himself a fake beard (or grow a real one), get a prop pickax that can't really harm anyone, dress in overalls, toss some soot or mark it up like soot and stick a stuffed canary on his shoulder. No heat-trapping, cartoonish costume required.
But mostly, I want the "Miners/minors" jokes, especially in down seasons.
- enigmatic - 06-05-2018
My suggestion for an expansion team is the Québec Nordiques. We all know it's a team that already existed but I'm hoping the SHL blessing that brought back the Winnipeg Jets will also apply to the team with some of the sexiest jerseys in NHL history.
Some states and provinces in the SHL have two teams while Québec has none, which would make one of its cities a logical place to welcome a franchise. Montréal would be the more obvious choice for a team but it's already been used by one in the SMJHL.
Branding the team would be easy because it's all already done. The SHL is super hostile to some teams that are based on others that already exist but it also doesn't want to change others, even if it now exists in the NHL. I'm hoping the league will show the same level of interest for the fact that this franchise already existed as it does for fixing media grading.
- Thunder39 - 06-05-2018
For SHL expansion I would propose a team in the capital of Canada, Ottawa. I would name them the Ottawa Outlaws. The brand would stick the boring but typical Red/Black theme that’s is synonymous with Ottawa sports teams. They can bring back a logo similar to the old CFL Ottawa Renegades logo, just updated a bit. The mascot would be a “outlaw†or cowboy I guess and his t-shirt cannon would be decked out in the shape of a revolver, because I think that’s cool. This brand could be used for any sport, the concept of bringing a MLS franchise to Ottawa has been hit and miss but if they could come up with a decent badge logo this would be a good brand to get behind, something different from the typical Ottawa FC. They would play out of TD Place along with our CFL and OHL teams as well, the facility is top notch and easy for the team to establish themselves in.
- bluesfan55 - 06-05-2018
If I was to be at the helm of an expansion team, I’d put it in Philadelphia. Why? Because Philadelphia is one of the biggest cities in the US that doesn’t have a hockey team, and it’s a city with a rich hockey history, so I’d think that a lot of people would come to the games at the Wells Fargo Arena. They’d be called the Philadelphia Bells since the Liberty Bell is a famous landmark in the city. The logo would be a huge version of the liberty bell, since that’s what the team is named after. The mascot of the team would be Bellie the Bellmaker. He’s the guy who made the Liberty Bell. The color scheme of the jerseys would be blue and yellow, since those are the official colors of Philadelphia, and they represent the heritage of the Swedish men and women who settled the city in the 1600s.
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- Ace - 06-05-2018
Sorry Edmonton, I have been given the opportunity to have a blank slate and to start clean with a new expansion franchise. I am starting up a team up in Portland Maine, and they’re going to be called the Portland Wild Blueberries. Just to clarify, I am basically recycling some of the rumored concepts for the new ECHL team that went into Portland Maine recently, who elected to call themselves the Mariners.
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New England Wolfpack currently lay claim to the majority of New England, but Portland is a budding city and has the resources to potentially support it’s own team. Plus, putting another team this far east shifts some of the more traditional Western Conference cities back into the Western Conference. I am looking at you, Minnesota.
The mascot is the one and only Blue Barry – he’s home grown in the forests of rural Maine! What better way to represent the state of Maine without going full cliché with a lobster themed team. I’ve included a snapshot of mock ups for Blue Barry below.
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Keep your head up, SHL, as the Portland Wild Blueberries are going to ruin your day.
- Whikadoodle - 06-05-2018
How in the flying fuck do we not have a team in Chicago? We have teams in NYC and Los Angeles. We have teams in Toronto and Boston. Fucking two teams in Alberta, one in San Francisco, and another in a suburb of ill repute. Heres the deal, Chicago is the big time. The windy city. The home of the Ditka, the green river, and the greatest sports fans of all time. If Chicago is not selected for expansion this league is re.... Wait, rule change. Can I call the league dumb? Is that an insult to the stupid people of the world? See, this is why you can't police language itself, this is America. This is Chicago.
Wed be the Chicago Hitmen (Sound Familiar?). Or maybe the Chicago Sausage Eaters (Shout out to SFP just cause I like grapes and I don't want the league to think that just because I made a joke that I'm somehow trying to offend everyone because everyone is so offended about everything that it's impossible to make a joke.) But seriously we do enjoy our sausage in Chicago and we put plenty of hot giardenara on it. How about that? The Chicago Hot Giardenara? I would, but this league needs more teams that end in an S. Everyone thinks their so cool with their Blizzard and their Wolfpack (two teams I love and played for. Don't suspend me because I used you two as examples.) But where are the Bears? Where are the Cubs? Where are the Bulls, or the Sox.... Wait, Sox doesn't end in S? Well it sounds like an S, which is good enough! Fuckin South siders, you crazy shits. Now don't suspend me for making fun of South siders, they just have a couple of screws loose. Unless that makes fun of mental illness, something that by the context is pretty fucking obvious I'm not insulting. But to be safe, I guess I got to call them delightful people, since every accurate insult ever made could be used to make someone somewhere with thin skin get offended and because of the fact they can't take a joke were not allowed to have jokes anymore. Chicago people aren't like that. So I guess we'll just call ourselves the Chicago Kits
- StaticShocked - 06-05-2018
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One interesting place I’d like to see the SHL expand to would be Utah. While there’s one hockey team currently playing in the state (the Utah Grizzles of the ECHL), I feel like the state itself would absolutely love the idea of a professional hockey team. It’s an untapped market that I feel could work. If I had to put it somewhere in the state, I’d shoot for Salt Lake City. This new franchise could be a nice alternative for people who want to watch something other than the Jazz. As for the name, why not the Salt Lake Miners? Utah has a large history of miners coming from various places across the country to mine for different metals and minerals. The logo could perhaps be a miner wielding a pickaxe, or just a pickaxe itself. The Miners could play in the same arena that the Jazz do as well. The mascot would (obviously) be a cartoon miner, and the team colors would be some combination of gold, silver, and white or black.
- ErM - 06-05-2018
My expansion team is going to take the SHL to Florida. While the majority of teams around the league are based in the north where hockey is more popular, the amount of people and retirees in Florida could probably support a team. Meet the Miami Melt. The branding concept is pretty obvious, as they will use a bit of word play and capitalize on the tropical heat of Miami. The team colors would likely be bright, with some red/orange and maybe even some green/blues. I think it would be key to have a less serious, more fun and retro color scheme going to harken to the glory days of Miami.
For the mascot I think we would head a bit west to the Everglades and get an alligator that wore a tank top and sunglasses. The gator would not really scream melt but it would be clear that it’s a Florida thing and it is sunny and hot. The logo would probably just be some sort of sun or fire operation that would tie in well with the color scheme.
TIL: There's a team in Florida already....lol.