Gawdzukes Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 4 hours ago, Lil B From The Pack said: Just an educated guess here. The NBA jerseys sold in stores don't have the ad patches the player jerseys do. I assume the NHL would be the same. Either way it's funny to see people get outraged over a tiny patch on a jersey that you won't notice during play. It's not like the Canucks logo is being replaced by a massive "VISIT RWANDA" ad on the players chests. LOL hilarious indeed, people have paid (wasted) hundreds and thousands of dollars for crap jerseys in the past and a little logo has them all pissy now. Way to take a stand. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86Viking Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 what is with all these errror and technical error pages that keep happening when opening or posting on the site!?!? I know I am disliked on the board but still... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Heffy Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 4 minutes ago, Canuckster86 said: what is with all these errror and technical error pages that keep happening when opening or posting on the site!?!? I know I am disliked on the board but still... I keep hoping either Petey or Hughes signed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post brownky Posted August 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2021 26 minutes ago, Lil B From The Pack said: When it came to your post I wasn't talking about ads on jerseys. My bad on that. The prime motive is money and I think we can both agree on that. Maybe I'll DM you about why I think the game needs to grow. Basically in the gist of things I wanna see the league try and get into untapped markets. (Probably via international broadcast deals. We don't need more teams.) Personally I wanna see more inclusiveness towards other communities like the LGBTQ or people of color. There's Hockey Night in Punjabi, I believe teams do things for pride month as well and it's a good start. But why not expand on it? Maybe this is just me but having more eyes on the product and marketing the game towards various groups of people isn't a bad thing at all. Growth is always good. I agree with the majority of the "why" in your post. But undefined "growth" is not always good - growth comes with a price, and the benefits certainly don't extend to who it is costing. Perhaps it's just a difference of nomenclature or definition, but I do not believe "more" is better. *Better* is better. Higher 'quality' eyes versus just more. For example, I wouldn't mind seeing the racist/etc ***holes take a hike and be replaced by the 'different' eyes. I like the HNIC Punjabi, I don't like the "Pride month" necessity - not because of what it is, but because it shouldn't be necessary at all. I speak for myself when I say I don't give a **** whether someone is "black, white, orange, green, blue or purple", or what sort of dangly bits they fancy or have or fancy having. People should be free to enjoy whatever they want so long as it does not impact on others - and that's a blanket statement to me. And if they're stupid, they should be (and be able to be) ridiculed for their stupidity, not their skin, gender, or any other reason. That's my dream, anyway. Now back on track, I'm not opposed to "growth" - particularly organic growth. What they're doing here is "growing" the money pile for somebody else under the guise of "growing the game" - a game which does not need artificial growth. "Enough is enough" on that one - If Connor McDavid makes 12 or 14 or 18 million "next contract"... or if Poolman gets 1.5 Million or 2.5 Million a year to play... it doesn't make Poolman any better or worse. Or the billionaire owners collect another hundred million bucks on their "investments". There's no benefit to the game. Growing the National Hockey League does not need to be done. It's just straight money to them. They don't give a **** about hockey, it could be badminton, as long as it brings in the $$$, they're happy. Growing "the game" should be done at a grassroots level, but with ice time / coaching / equipment costs what they are, hockey is effectively (with some exceptions) an exclusive 'upper middle class and above' sport. That's the challenge, growing through that. /soapbox rant over 2 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownky Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 1 minute ago, 6of1_halfdozenofother said: That's a game I'd like to see played - badminton players on ice skates with six players a side, and 30-90 second shifts complete with power plays and shootouts. At least then when someone makes the inevitable shuttlecock joke (hmmm I wonder if that will pass the CDC censor as a real word... lol) on live TV, nobody will have grounds to be offended. But yes, that does sound somewhat entertaining. Particularly shootout badminton. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKNuck96 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Suitable Ads done well can help cement a team and time. The Newcastle Brown Ale sponsorship on the NUFC top in the 90s screams the entertainers era. It’s synonymous with it. That said the current ones for newcastle are just bad. tbh it was only a matter of time and once it’s there it will only get bigger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AV. Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Good to know advertisements, and not the incessant losing on the ice and frequent mismanagement of the team, is where some fans draw the line on supporting the sport. Makes you wonder... 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistolPete13 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 5 hours ago, Alflives said: We can have refs that have whistles that MOO! Maybe the refs can wear advertising so we can know who bought them 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubik Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 (edited) it really is a first world problem, especially that the jerseys will be sold in the stores without ads, but god i just wish the players would make a stand against this and refuse to play until the owners back up or whatever. it just sucks that money talks and corporates can do whatever they want and there's no pushback. i just wanted the jerseys to remain this one little sacred thing, like that's the limit. but no, corporates win in the end. and from here it's a slippery slope. the number of ads will only increase, not decrease, we can be sure of that. you either say no to ads on jerseys, or there's always gonna be some blank space on the jerseys to put another logo on it to squeeze out a few extra bucks.... and don't tell me they don't make enough money already, the boards and ice are plastered with ads, so it's all about greed... so &^@# 'em, this is disgusting. Edit: and look, i'm not a complete moron. i'm well aware that since the NHL was founded in 1917, it was about money from day one. It is a business not a charity organization. Always has been, always will be. But up until now the NHL at least had this one little moral victory: that the jersey is an exception. and that's my main point here: that there was sth above all this, that sth is still bigger than money or even the league itself. well, not anymore. Edited August 17, 2021 by Rubik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share Posted August 17, 2021 I don't think it would look too bad if it's something simple like this: 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 12 minutes ago, PistolPete13 said: Maybe the refs can wear advertising so we can know who bought them Evander Kane’s new jersey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonoman Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 I can accept this but only if Las Vegas quits wearing those awful gold helmets 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainhorvat Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 can someone photoshop a Durex logo on to a canucks jersey? I just want to see something. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustard Tiger Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 13 minutes ago, captainhorvat said: can someone photoshop a Durex logo on to a canucks jersey? I just want to see something. Along with Pollock Clinics on the other side 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bishopshodan Posted August 17, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2021 Welp. The NHL will not get another cent from me. I'll still watch games from home but no more live games, no merch, nada. Go Nucks. 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB5 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Based on his outrageous comments a decade or so ago and current fact he is now a senior statesman in the league, I hope Viagra sponsors the Panthers as Thornton needs that on his jersey. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishopshodan Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 The fans are the true bosses. These greedy owners need a wake up. I used to tolerate wearing my Whitecaps t-shirts despite the giant Bell logo. Then Bell just destroyed a radio station that I enjoyed, putting people out of jobs without care. I used to go to the game and stand with the Southsiders. I haven't watched in the last year, even on telly. Partially cause they suck, but the Bell issue was the little extra push I needed. I enjoy my free time I used to use watching Kerfoot's gang. I wonder when the Rogers logo will replace the Orca? I suppose some around here might be happy. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Mad Bro? Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Vagisil - Itching to win 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishopshodan Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 1 hour ago, AV. said: Good to know advertisements, and not the incessant losing on the ice and frequent mismanagement of the team, is where some fans draw the line on supporting the sport. Makes you wonder... Yeah, It's way worse. I'd rather lose forever than have some of the corporations I hate on my team's sweaters. I'm so surprised at some peoples take on this. I suppose it's that I'm the kind of guy that doesn't wear logo's much at all. I try to have them removed from my vehicles as well. I don't advertise for anyone for free and I wont support corporations that suck. I do enjoy a giggle now and again at some folk driving around in nice fancy cars with their license plate holders displaying the used car lot they purchased it at. Switch that sh&t out so I might think you're a baller. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-AJ- Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 1 hour ago, -Vintage Canuck- said: I don't think it would look too bad if it's something simple like this: Personally, it's still too much of a foul to me. I can live with a single small ad on the helmets, but I feel like the jerseys are too far. Also, there's the slippery slope case which I think is legitimate. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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