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Leafs to unveil new logo & uniforms for 2017.

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So this means We will never see the ballard leaf again? When they were showing the leaf players in the room watching it, you see that it's everywhere. So you're telling me that the ballard leaf will never be used as a leaf logo from now on?

nice, but I am sure some shirts and posters will still use it, right?
 
Hoss said:
So this means We will never see the ballard leaf again? When they were showing the leaf players in the room watching it, you see that it's everywhere. So you're telling me that the ballard leaf will never be used as a leaf logo from now on?

nice, but I am sure some shirts and posters will still use it, right?
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I'm sure we'll see the "Ballard Leaf" again in some official capacity. Perhaps as a "third jersey" somewhere down the line. Even if it's not the most aesthetically pleasing of all the various versions of the Maple Leaf this franchise has had, and even if that logo's history includes no Stanley Cups and the two of the darkest periods in the team's history (80's & '05-'15), a lot of fans have grown up with that logo. A lot of all-time Leaf greats spent pretty much their entire careers wearing that logo too.

As for whether merch with that logo will still be available to buy---St-Pats gear, and jerseys and apparel with Leaf crests from the 20's, 30's, 40-60's & 1967 have been readily available to anyone who wants to buy them over the last 20 years or so especially. I doubt that's going to change.
 
I like the new logo, though I'm not that surprised by how it looks (and it IS the leaked logo) ... I think all in all, for a storied organization like the Leafs, you can't (and shouldn't) change too much with the logo. Going back to the classic design is the right way to go.

I do wanna know how the new jerseys look like ... and I'm definitely getting one if an official 91 jerseys becomes available :)
 
"New" logo. It's like they changed a straight line to a curvy line and pumped this up like the unveiling of a new Mona Lisa.

Big deal.
 
As it should have been. Going back to the original logo, and getting rid of the Ballard logo was exactly what they should have done.

They should have done this decades ago.
 
Why would we want them to do anything more than "barely change" the logo anyway? The crest we wore from the 40's to the late 60's was perfection. All they needed to do was go back to that logo, with minor tweaks at the most, which is exactly what they've done.

And sure, there is a bit of a cheese factor to having a TV special and videos with dramatic music to unveil a hockey team's new logo. But in the hockey world, it is kind of a big deal when one of the NHL's two remaining ~100 year-old original franchises changes their logo for the first time in almost 50 years.
 
I didn't say I wanted them to revamp it.

They turned it into this huge production, with several days of lead-up hype, and then presented something that is almost identical to the crests of years past.

I mean, just draw up a press release with Shanny's letter and send it out when it's ready. The presentation that went into this thing was pretty silly.
 
Yeah, I hate when people turn things into fun little entertainment. Entertainment ****ING SUCKS!!!


Historic team changes logo for first time in 50 years --> don't make a big deal of out it.


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