For the Thunder Bay Walleye's giveaway, I would definitely have to give out some fish. Now, should this just be a plushie of the walleye mascot, walleye fish, or something similar? No, I say that we should give out real fish in the stadium and have a fish toss at the beginning of the game.


Of course, we'll need some kind of way to control the smell. So distributed with each real fish, each fan will receive a mask, hand sanitizer, a personal air freshener, and if that is not enough, we will also give out bags for people who are feeling ill due to the smell of thousands of fish in one area.

Once the fish toss is complete, the fish will be collected and cleaned again. Then, fans could pick up some free fried fish during the game once all the preparations and cooking have been finished! This may not be realistic, but I think it fits the Walleye well.


the Thunder Bay Walleye will be harnessing a secret and obvious weapon this season, the fish. Visiting teams will have the lovely smell of fish when they enter the visiting locker room of the Thunder Bay arena. As well, as a further act of psychological warfare, the visiting dressing room and clubhouse will be fully decked out in an aquatic Walleye theme showcasing the incredible power of the Great Lakes. As well, visiting teams will be supplied with a steady diet of fish, despite the fact that the stench of fish will likely be getting to their minds. All in all, fish should prove to be an effective weapon.


As the new official fun director of the Thunder Bay Walleye, I would definitely be required to stick to the fish team. I would personally host the team and any staff that wanted to join on a fishing trip. Now given that the team is in Thunder Bay, I could probably just phone it in and do a Great Lakes fishing trip. However, since I am actually from the Vancouver area, I would love to take the team on a Pacific fishing trip on Vancouver Island. I think it would be a great experience to go and catch some salmon on the west coast!


Something that people may not know about the history of the Thunder Bay Walleye is how their identity changed from the Regina Elk and what the other potential options for the team identity could have been. While many professional sports teams may have turned to marketing firms to redesign their team, fan polling, or other similar types of research, the idea for the new team identity was actually selected by the team themselves! There were two choices for the move from Regina, one being obvious (the current home of the team, Thunder Bay), and the other being Tacoma, Washington, which would have put the team in close proximity to the Seattle SHL team. While there were many potential identities available, the team first settled upon the move to Thunder Bay over Tacoma, then selected the Walleye identity which better fit the Thunder Bay Area. Hopefully the fans will enjoy this change while respecting the heritage of the Elk.


For this prompt, I will be talking about the name of my player - Jon Garfield. While there are many brilliant and better names than my player's name in the SHL, I am most familiar with the meaning behind mine. First of all, the lore of my player is that his family is extremely obsessed with Garfield, but mainly just because of the last name that they have. Now, there are not too many human characters in Garfield compared to animals, so when his parents wanted to name their child after something related to the Garfield universe, they ended up settling on Jon.

While this is a great and obvious reference to the Garfield universe, it is also a rather unfortunate name. Everybody knows about Jon, but most people know that Jon is actually one of the most pathetic human characters ever written in any literary work. He is constantly being rejected by every woman he talks to, and many fans found it repulsive that the authors decided to give Jon a girlfriend just because he had gone so long without one. While Jon is a very pathetic guy for a multitude of reasons, the hockey player Jon Garfield hopes to forge his own better path.

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