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Wearingabear · 08-21-2020, 08:50 AM

I think that it's a shame to keep Colorado out of the SHL. I get having a SJMHL team in Idaho, Montana, SLC, but to keep a pro team out of Colorado seems like such an oversight to it all.

I propose to the Colorado ManBearPigs.

Yes, it's a bit of a fictional creature, but if there can be Predators, Renegades, Specters, Rage (like what even is that?) there can be the MBPs.

The colors would be Kelly Green, Crimson Red as the primaries, and Granddaddy Purple, Deep Black as the secondaries. Those colors all represent different aspects of Colorado. Kelly Green is the beauty of the trees, Crimson Red is the color of the blood spilled by MBP, GDP represents the lucrative Cannabis industry, and Deep Black is the color of the sky when all hell breaks loose.

The unofficial mascot of the team is obviously Al Gore, who will be looking to help spread the word of the Colorado MBPs across the land. If you need a vote for a new team, this is them. MANBEARPIG IS REAL.

Huck24 · 08-21-2020, 09:30 AM

I am not all that creative, so this PT is a tough one for me. Being able to see my first two expansion teams come into the SMJHL was an eye opening experience for me. The amount of thought, work and dedication that goes into coming up with an entire new team blows my mind. I am very excited to see what our two new SHL franchises will bring to the table next season. All that being said, I've still got this PT to do, so here goes. As mentioned earlier, I lack quite a bit in the creative side of things, and since my favourite NHL team is the one and only Montreal Canadiens, and my player hails from Montreal, I'm going to go with the Montreal Marauders. With no Montreal representation in the SMJHL or the SHL, I think the hockey mecca of Montreal should have a team. I went with the Marauders cause I think it sounds cool and let's be honest, with a definition like this, 'one who roams from place to place making attacks and raids in search of plunder', who wouldn't want a hockey team to go by this name. And from what I can tell, there are only two other sports teams that go by Marauders, one being a university in Hamilton, Ontario and the other in Bismark, North Dakota, so I don't think there would be too much of an issue with confusing these teams. For team colours, since I'll I can think of on the day of another potential elimination game for the Habs is the bleu, blanche, rouge, I'll go with these, I love these colours together already and it would be a nice nod to the original Montreal team.

Paq · 08-21-2020, 10:00 AM

Pursuant to my response to the mini-PT for this week, my expansion team would be the Morgantown Crawdads, located in Morgantown, West Virginia. Why there? I don't know, why not. You think a bunch of hicks wouldn't get wasted and go scream their lungs out watching professional athletes hit each other and get in fights? Not to mention they already burn couches when their local college football team wins a game. So pretty much the environment or culture surrounding the team would be absolute pandemonium. That's what you want. Why the name Crawdads, though? I guess because it's just how I assume a hick would refer to a crayfish, so why not. I thought about calling them the Morgantown Gumption, which is apparently a popular word with hillbillies, and doing like a shrimp logo a la Bubba Gump. The branding would pretty much just embrace all ridiculous aspects of hillbilly life. Goal song would obviously be Country Roads by John Denver. Colors, I don't know. Like a reddish-Pink and black, maybe. Whatever color actual crayfish are.

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***sve7en*** · 08-21-2020, 10:18 AM

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Y'all ever want to put Jazz on a hockey jersey?

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venice v i b e

Inspired by the best and worst parts of the 90s, the v i b e embody a lost time where Y2K was a real concern. The colors and attitudes of the decade were bold and unapologetic, just like the newest expansion team. Jazz design fuels the team's main colors, where white is the primary color. The team would have a white home jersey decorated with crayon like color blocking and piping, use a black vice-ish themed alternate when the white isn't viable, and the Los Angeles market is big enough to support an additional team with a teal color in their branding.

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Duff101 · 08-21-2020, 11:38 AM

I actually thought about this one a lot, because I wanted my expansion team to be absolutely the worst in every single way because it’s funny. First, I looked at the worst city to host our next SHL Team. Initially, I was going to go with Gary, Indiana, but I decided against it as it’s too basic. Finally I settled on California City, California. With a high poverty and crime rate and a population of 13,495, it’s perfect. Next, I decided on colors. After consulting the Manhattan locker room, (special shoutout to Luke) I decided the new colors for our team are Puce and neon green. Puce, for those who are unaware, means “flea” in French. It’s the color of flea blood and droppings. This ties into our final part of this team’s branding, the name. The California City Fleas. They will be coming in YOUR next SHL expansion.

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Mook · 08-21-2020, 11:39 AM

Head Office Vagrants

All Head office member will be a part of the team, the only way on is by joining HO and the only way off is by leaving. Their uniform conists of jeans turned into shorts (Jorts) and mustard stained white t shirts with the necks stretched way out. Also the pits are brown with sweat. The only draft picks they recieve are the ones forfeited by GMs due to their fuckups. If you are drafted by the vagrants then you are given a spot in HO as an intern and once you make the roster you are given an official spot. Their goal horn is just white noise since it's all anyone hears when they announce rules which is why there are so many punishments handed out. As for the location, I'd say someplace obscure like Iqualuit, Nunavut because it would make them "on top of the world" and no one willingly wants to go there

awils13 · 08-21-2020, 11:51 AM

I would probably put an expansion team in Pittsburgh and I would probably choose some corny name like Pittsburgh Shooters. Why shooters? I'm really curious what would happen if someone drafted exclusively players who can't make a pass for the life of them, but love to shoot the puck and are good at it. It might seem a bit weird but it might be just weird enough for it to work? Who knows. Just get the puck and shoot. So that would be my roster strategy, and it explains the name. I also agree that Pittsburgh is underrepresented in hockey sim leagues despite being one of the most successful nhl teams over the past 15 years, and it would be cool to have an expansion team there. My first selection in the draft would be Ben Waters for his ability to create goal songs, and our goal song would be just Waters yelling at our player to shoot the moment they get the puck. Team colors would probably be white, gray and light blue.

CementHands · 08-21-2020, 01:05 PM

I'm going to keep one of mine close to heart, who knows may need it some day :eyes:
So ever since the Platoon made the move to Baltimore, there has been a hockey void in southern Florida. Taking the team there would reinvigorate the battle for Florida, as well as add some great media option for future free agents to hold press conferences so they can announce they are "taking their talents to South Beach"! Keeping in theme with the Platoon we are not going to simply represent Miami, that's lazy. Instead we will be proudly representing South Beach as the Sharks! Or the Sting Rays. I like S animals for this one. Now one may ask "why in the hell South Beach, where are you going to erect a rink? There is a perfectly fine rink in Miami already". Well let me tell you we have secured funding for a man-made island just off the coast from a wealthy Qatar based Oil Baron. Looking to invest in this place to be, the new island will host a state of the art arena, hotels, restaurants and a healthy span of beach that is self maintained with a flat $10 entry fee toll on the island for all visitors.

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raymond3000 · 08-21-2020, 01:11 PM

Montreal deserves a SHL team, and its honestly a shame that the most hockey mad city in the world has never received an SHL team. Montreal ticks all the boxes for a great location, with a large metropolitan population and a great hockey market. While Montreal had the Impact and later the Militia in the SMJHL, that franchise never felt legit, perhaps due to the ripoff Impact branding at its inception. Team names that spring to mind immediately are the Voyageurs and Huskies. Voyageurs was a french term for people, primarily French-Canadians, who adventured via canoe throughout North America, partaking in the fur trade. On the other hand, Huskies is perhaps less relevant to Montreal, but its just an awesome team name. Huskies as a brand would also be easier to create a logo. In terms of colours, its hard to go away from Montreal's standard, traditional colour scheme of blue, white, and red.

Fitted2106 · 08-21-2020, 01:36 PM

My team would be the pittsburgh pierogies because the burgh needs a team and pierogies are what make us go. If people cant understand that michael fitted needs a team in his home town then there all a bunch of doo doo heads. Our goal song would be anything by donnie iris as his soul is what makes it rain down in Pittsburgh. Once established our team will be offensively heavy as that's what Pittsburgh knows, no d all o and we would continue to play this way even if it meant losing in the first round of the playoffs. as for our draft expectations we only draft quality centers and play them out of position because that's what the fuck we do. If you cant get jiggy with the Pittsburgh platform maybe you should drive into a primantis. That's all we have for you today folks remeber to get out and vote for a burgh team.

mastersheep · 08-21-2020, 01:44 PM

My idea for expansion is to put a team in Washington, D.C. I know, you are probably thinking, “But, you are on a team in Baltimore! It’s a similar market!” Well, no, it’s not really. There’s not much distance between the two cities, but you can’t just ignore the huge population in Northern Virginia that is most definitely not in Baltimore’s market. Anyways, the NFL and MLB seem to make it work (although the latter is very much up for debate), so why not the SHL and I’m always up for creating a new rivalry in the league to spice things up.

I would call the team the Washington Justice partly because it was a team in a league I used to GM, but it also goes with the theme of most of the sports teams in the area like the Capitals, Nationals (formerly Senators), Valor and Freedom (RIP to both). I would have to use either navy blue as the primary color and red as the secondary or perhaps swap them to really make them look like the Capitals.

trella · 08-21-2020, 02:34 PM

If I were to be grated the spot of a brand new expansion team in the SHL, I would base the team out of my home state in Rhode Island. Rhode Island is an underrated market for sports, as we may be small but we are very passionate and loyal to our sports teams. The team would be based out of the state's capital of Providence. Providence is a good location, it even currently supports an AHL team and has for years. The Providence Bruins have a great amount of support from the state of Rhode Island and an SHL team would have the same if not more support. For a branding, I think that the team could be called the Anchormen. The Anchor is a state symbol of Rhode Island and I think that Anchormen is a very fitting branding for a hockey team based out of Rhode Island.

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Former USA Fed Head, Carolina Kraken Co-GM, Tampa Bay Barracuda GM

**esilverm** · 08-21-2020, 04:19 PM

So I'm not a creative person but I think a great team would be the Atlantic Ocean Body of Water. Some interesting things about this location is that it is a body of water so the name works and is funny. Big laugh. I feel that this namer works since it really follows thee culture of this region since it is mainly water. The team is just water. It is ironic since we have water on ice. Does the water freeze into ice? I think so. The team colors would be blue and trash color since there is a lot of water pollution and the team is mean to spread awareness of this because it is very bad. Goal song would be Pitbull's Ocean to Ocean which notoriously ruined Toto's Africa. The jerseys would have a puddle on them as a joke. I think it would be funny because the ocean isn't a puddle it is a Body of Water. Speaking of bodies of water, that is why I want to make the Atlantic Ocean Body of Water.

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MP7 · 08-21-2020, 05:03 PM

If I would get an expansion team I would bring back the Portland Admirals. I know many of you think they are cursed and to be honest there has been many strange and bad situation the Admirals have been in. A tampering case, fire sales, cap circumvention, gm firings. But that all is gone and a long time in the past now. Time to bring back the boys in black and yellow. The Portland Admirals color scheme was brilliant, that combination of black and yellow fit the Admirals logo so well. It was one of the best logos of the SHL and it's a shame that it is gone. The city of Portland and all the Admiral fans out there, if there are a few left, deserve a second chance. To show the SHL universe that they could do better and break the curse. As expansion GM I would not bring up something new, I would bring back something old that has something to proof.

**Lime** · 08-21-2020, 06:05 PM

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Mascot: Demogorgon

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