My expansion team idea that I was most married to when I submitted my application and one that I hope to one day get to champion in the future is the Portland Pioneers. I have long felt that Portland deserves another shot in the SHL with how unceremoniously their last stint ended. As far as the colors are concerned I want to incorporate the natural wooded colors of the pacific northwest so green and tan would be the main colors prominent on the jersey. As a primary logo I wanted to have a wheel, similar to the logo of the Boston Bruins, but one that is made of wood like a wheel for an old wagon that could have been on the Oregon Trail. In the center of the wheel would be the letter P. For a secondary logo I would want a bearded man in a trapper's raccoon skin hat. I think that in perhaps two or three more real life years it will be time for expansion again and I will take another shot at getting my idea approved.

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