Winnipeg Jets Thread

[Leafaholic99]

The Winnipeg Jets were busy on Monday signing seven players including right-winger Blake Wheeler to new contract. Wheeler signed a two-year deal worth $5.1 million total.

Wheeler scored seven goals and 17 points in 23 games with the Thrashers last season after being acquired in a trade with the Boston Bruins. He scored 18 goals and 44 points in 81 games overall last year.

Brett Festerling, Riley Holzapfel, Arturs Kulda, Spencer Machacek, Ben Maxwell and Kenndal McArdle also agreed to terms with the Jets.

Pretty good deal for the Jets with Wheeler, still weird saying the Winnipeg Jets in NHL transactions though.

 

[Crucialness Key]

Very much looking forward to seeing the new uniforms/logo.  Hope they change things up so they're not so similar to the Rangers.

One concept I saw floating around online was loosely based on RAF designs... looked nifty.

 

[Derk]

I certainly hope Winnipeg isn't temporary....

;D

 

[seahawk]

The logo has been released. They are at the bottom of the page at this link. Seems like they went with a bit of an Air Force theme and appear to have kept the old colors.

http://jets.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=569911&navid=DL|WPG|home

 

[Leafaholic99]

The logo has been released. They are at the bottom of the page at this link. Seems like they went with a bit of an Air Force theme and appear to have kept the old colors.

http://jets.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=569911&navid=DL|WPG|home

I am not a fan of it, but most of the fans of the team seem to like it and thats what matters.

 

[bustaheims]

I really like the secondary logo and I don't hate the primary one (though, I don't love it either), but I really dislike the way they've done the team name in the text logo. It just doesn't look right.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

I don't know, it looks like something you'd find in the AHL. Although that isn't terribly surprising.

 

[ZBBM]

I really like the secondary logo and I don't hate the primary one (though, I don't love it either), but I really dislike the way they've done the team name in the text logo. It just doesn't look right.

Really?  I kind of like the different face they use there -- nobody else has anything like it.  The whole thing is retro. 

The whole effect doesn't bowl me over but it is well thought out.  At least we've gotten past the cartoon craze.  (Well, still plenty of those at the AHL and elsewhere: snarling moose and the like.)

 

[Spare Change]

It looks like a decent enough jersey. The logo itself doesn't matter if the jersey layout's terrible.

But as far as logo's go, I'd agree with Busta on the 3rd logo, the writing doesn't seem right.

 

[bustaheims]

Really?  I kind of like the different face they use there -- nobody else has anything like it.  The whole thing is retro. 

I have the complete opposite impression of it - it's trying too hard to be modern, and, well, more and more teams are going retro. On top of that, the J looks really stupid, doesn't flow into the E naturally and the T does not flow into the S smoothly, and that's really jarring. Honestly, it looks like something a high school kid fiddling around in Photoshop came up with.

 

[maplesyrup]

I really like it - especially that primary logo.

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

I really really like the primary one, with the military feel to it. Always happy to see the troops being honoured somehow.

 

[67royalstar]

Not a fan of these designs at all.  The took the RCAF emblem and superimposed a jet over it ~ not exactly very creative.  The other two look very AHL.  They're not team Canada, and they're not team Air Force.  The reference to the RCAF is admirable, but as a hockey fan I feel let-down.

Not my team anyway.  Go Leafs!

 

[anton girdeaux]

I can't say I like them very much, especially the primary logo which (to me) doesn't look like a sports team logo.

 

[AvroArrow]

*sigh*
Should have been an AvroArrow.

 

[Mr. Leaf]

I'm sad to say it, but I'm not a fan of the primary logo at all.  It looks rather bland, and the jet over top of the maple leaf (with the sharp, triangluar stem?) is just a convoluted looking mess.  :-\

 

[Kin]

I'm not crazy about either logo, although I think I'll need to see them on the uniforms before I make up my mind completely, but the lettering is really bizarre. If I didn't know that the team was named the Jets I'm not sure that first letter of the cursive script would immediately jump out to me as being a J.

Just a shame that they didn't go retro. I'd probably have bought something that looked more like this:

 

[Wendel's Fist]

I don't know if this is what they were doing but were they trying to make the maple leaf look like a jet in the primary logo? If you turn the logo upside down and really, really use your imagination, the leaf kind of looks like a jet.

Otherwise, I don't see why they put a point at the bottom of the leaf and then covered the one at the top.

Either way, I really don't like it. I don't mind the secondary one but the primary one looks very plain to me.

 

[Leafaholic99]

I really like the secondary logo and I don't hate the primary one (though, I don't love it either), but I really dislike the way they've done the team name in the text logo. It just doesn't look right.

THe secondary one reminds me of the Capitals shoulder patch.

Also in the primary one, not sure if anyone noticed, but part of its a compass that points True North.

 

[Tigger]

Isn't a hockey stick in the form of a 'J' kinda like found money in advertising? I don't get the resistance to all things Jets with these guys, it writes itself.

I don't mind the actual jet in the bolder logo, a nod to the Arrow?