Matchup No. 9
Victoria Royals vs Prince George Cougars
Victoria Royals
photos courtesy of victoriaroyals.com
MT – Well how is this for a matchup, the new Victoria team against the old Victoria team. Since moving from Chilliwack in 2011 and becoming the Royals, Victoria has made no changes to their logo or their colour scheme. Blue, silver, white & black. Take away the black and I think you’ve got a good set of colours. The Victoria team is only 5 years old so they take advantage of the new style jerseys with the new piping. Another logo that is dominated by a wordmark which is unfortunate. While I really love Victoria’s alternate logo, even without the wordmark I find the lion to be too blocky. It’s not terrible, it just looks like something that came off a playing card. The red eye and red tongue to me seem like a bad after thought. I also don’t think the lion needs the maple leaf tattoo, you play in a league that is predominantly a Canadian league, it’s unnecessary. Maybe in the coming years he can get it laser removed.
PF – This jersey is one of my favorites, the logo itself is original. I quite like the colour scheme here and it makes sense in my mind to have the ROYALS wordmark although it is quite predominant in the overall look. Top grades here in my mind.
Prince George Cougars
photos courtesy of pgcougars.com
MT – Prince George managed to squeak by Kelowna in the first round by just two votes (a lesson in how important voting is). Things don’t get any easier for them in the second round, up against the Victoria Royals. Victoria hockey fans may be out for a bit of revenge after the Cougars left Victoria in 1994 for Prince George.
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Matchup No. 10
Lethbridge Hurricanes vs. Swift Current Broncos
Lethbridge Hurricanes
photos courtesy of lethbridgehurricanes.com
MT- A franchise that has been in three different cities and now calls Lethbridge home sports the very common red, white, and blue. The Hurricanes have had six different logos in the 30 years since moving from Calgary. We can all be thankful that the Looney Tunes Taz no longer sits on the front of their jersey. The most recent being the only of the six that was not predominantly a wordmark and likely their best yet. This is another team that I am a bigger fan of their alternate logo than their primary. They adopted the most recent logo in 2013 after the Washington Capitals requested they change their logo as it was too similar to theirs. Their overall look still mimics that of the Capitals very much, in fact take the logo off the front and the jerseys are pretty much identical.
PF – I have been a huge fan of this logo since it was adopted. It is just very simple in its appearance and while it still looks a lot like the Washington Capitals jersey, who doesn’t aspire to be like an NHL’er at this level?
Swift Current Broncos
photos courtesy of scbroncos.com
MT – The Broncos had a pretty dominant first round beating Brandon by 14 votes. I like their chances in the second round too, although I think it may be a bit tighter.
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