Eastern Finalists Revealed
Thursday . 23 July 2009 . 11:21 AM Welcome to the IceHL blog. From now on, this is where you'll find everything related to our fantasy hockey league project, so keep checking back here for what's new.
As promised, it's time for the unveiling of the Top 3 finalist logos for each of the IceHL teams in the Eastern Conference. I'm not revealing the final ratings for any of the logos so as not to taint the voting results. Logos are displayed randomly.
Atlanta Arsenal | ||
 Joey Light |
 John Wriston |
 ogre39666 |
Baltimore Blue Crabs | ||
 John Wriston |
 Joey Light |
 Chris Smith |
Boston Colonials | ||
 Eric Poole |
 Chris Smith |
 Shawn Steadman |
Chicago Hitmen | ||
 Six Zero |
 Roccot |
 Craig C. Wheeler |
Detroit Motorheads | ||
 tdog |
 Craig C. Wheeler |
 Chris Smith |
Hamilton Steelcats | ||
 Chris Smith |
 Roccot |
 Sean Cox Tattoo |
Milwaukee Lagers | ||
 Eddie Ray Design |
 JFred |
 Craig C. Wheeler |
Minnesota Mammoths | ||
 LLP |
 Tone Loc Productions |
 Chris Smith |
Montreal Olympiques | ||
 Craig C. Wheeler |
 Eddie Ray Design |
 Southpaw Design |
North Carolina Nighthawks | ||
 Six Zero |
 Emilis Acus |
 Nick Matarese |
New York Guardians | ||
 tdog |
 Craig C. Wheeler |
 Roccot |
Quebec Armada | ||
 Chris Smith |
 Jason New Era Usher |
 Craig C. Wheeler |
St. Louis Archers | ||
 Roccot |
 Craig C. Wheeler |
 Sigma Kappa |
Tampa Bay Barracudas | ||
 Craig C. Wheeler |
 Six Zero |
 Chris Smith |
Washington Sentinels | ||
 Six Zero (1) |
 tdog |
 Six Zero (2) |
The Western Conference finalists will be revealed tomorrow and voting will then begin this weekend. By the end of August, we will have logos for all 30 IceHL teams. That's when the fun starts — jersey designs! Before I start taking submissions on those, we'll have a poll deciding whether third jerseys should be introduced alongside the home and road sweaters or if they will be created later and only for select teams.
After that, there are a lot of options. We can make the uniforms available to be used in video games such as NHL 09. We can expand the league and add new teams, as has been suggested. Some of you have even put forth the idea of creating the IceHL's development league.
All great ideas, but all for the distant future. As for what's next, voting kicks off Saturday. Team polls will be posted here in random order. When you vote, you will have the artist's complete branding package available to make your decision.
Notes: While voting is taking place during the next few weeks, I'll be setting up an image gallery where you can view all logos submissions created for this project that weren't selected as finalists. Also, please be aware that the Chris Smith who designed many logos for the IceHL project is NOT me. It's just a ubiquitous name we share.
Reader Comments (13)
Very very cool stuff here. I'll immediately throw my vote in for NHL 09 integration! That would be beyond awesome. :)
My favourite is Joey Light's design for the Atlanta Arsenal. I think the voting will be pretty easy for me, some designs are obviously better than others.
i love most of the designs. i remember some ones i really loved. i guess they must have been in the western conference
Really glad this is back. This is a nice bunch of logos here. Can't wait for the jersey designs.
my favorite logo so far is the TDOG's one for the Washington Sentinels.
Classy, not too much stuff on it.... and I've always liked a big letter in the logo !
What happened to the designs for the Hamilton Steelcats team?
Dude, you're right. How did I manage to miss that? It's been taken care of. Thanks RM.
I am really excited about the return of this ICEHL project. My favorites of these Eastern Confrenence primary designs would be Eric Poole's Boston Colonials, tdog's New York Guardians, and last but not least Craig C. Wheeler's Quebec Armada design, all are in my oppinion big league quality primary logos, although all of the other Eastern Conference designs were very nicely done as well, to me these ones stood out the most. I really can't wait to see concept Jersey submissions, esspecially for the teams and logos I previously mentioned.
All of these are really good looking.
love em....and this idea i've loved from day 1......but when can we get some hi-res bigger images?
Wow. Almost all these logos are incredible, and the sets for the Colonials, Armada and Barracudas are just amazing.
Glad to see at least one of my designs made it. I did really terrible in the long run. Colors could have been a downfall too though.
Glad this is back Chris, can't wait to see who wins and then get the next part moving.
wow....these logos are amazing. Really kickass.