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Post by lenny on Mar 19, 2015 10:57:14 GMT -6
I like the look of that Moose.Notice the subtle red and blue maple leaf type horns and of course the oval.
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Post by jetsorbust on Mar 19, 2015 11:56:21 GMT -6
Ahh a good old name discussion. This brings me back. If it's not Moose I'm boycotting... m. It does take me back! But whereas I was staunchly on the side that believed TNSE would be making a crazy mistake to name the team anything but Jets, I really only have a passing interest in what the name of the AHL team is. Maybe if anything I lean towards thinking they should call them the Moose. Only because this way, maybe at least the SECOND TIME the Moose leave town, they'll take they're damned mascot with them and we can get a real one! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 12:34:20 GMT -6
A friend of mine last night said they were going to be called the Arrows. Is that just a rumor? He said he heard it online somewhere. Anyone have of an idea of what they are actually gonna be called? i can easily see them using Arrows as a name. i like it. I like Arrows |
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Post by Tim on Mar 19, 2015 17:54:41 GMT -6
Sarted ground work in T.Bay looks like go time around the corner.
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Post by donwood on Mar 19, 2015 19:05:09 GMT -6
Funding deadline in Thunder Bay is March 31. Whtever they're doing the city's money isn't committed yet.
And MOOSE
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Post by luke on Mar 19, 2015 19:56:54 GMT -6
Manitoba Polar Bears. Powder Blue jerseys. I love Mr. Chipman, but thank all things good this didn't happen...... Not a bad AHL name though. |
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Post by cheswick on Mar 19, 2015 20:36:15 GMT -6
I thought Chipman had a logo with a Polar Bear on it that he once considered for the NHL team? Manitoba Polar Bears. Powder Blue jerseys. Polar Bears was never a consideration. Chipman himself said not Polar Bears, but bears was considered. |
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Post by Tim on Mar 20, 2015 5:09:11 GMT -6
Funding deadline in Thunder Bay is March 31. Whtever they're doing the city's money isn't committed yet. And MOOSE As I said work has started! |
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Post by Tim on Mar 20, 2015 5:22:27 GMT -6
Full speed ahead on event centre
Thursday, March 19, 2015
IS sticktoitiveness even a word? Regardless, that’s what the City of Thunder Bay is doing with its event centre proposal. In a carefully orchestrated media conference Wednesday designed to impart a concise message, Mayor Hobbs and his administrators made it clear the city will not back away from a 5,700-seat arena with attached convention centre on Thunder Bay’s lakefront.
The presentation was designed as much to counter “misinformation” as to signal determination at a pivotal point in the process.
A report going to council Monday is large but the takeaway messages in proposing to move to Phase 5 are these:
1. No potential funding partner has said no. In fact, said Hobbs, federal point man, MP Greg Rickford and his provincial counterparts, Michael Gravelle and Bill Mauro — all cabinet ministers — remain in active talks with him and supportive.
2. Winnipeg Jets hockey team owner Mark Chipman remains on board with the concept of moving his AHL farm team to Thunder Bay to be closer to home. The event centre plan has been delayed by government funding inaction so the team is moving to Winnipeg for the time being. But in Winnipeg it will play second fiddle to the Jets; here it will be the main attraction.
3. The federal Build Canada Gas Tax Fund recently expanded its categories for eligible infrastructure to include sport, cultural, tourism and recreation projects. It will not fund a professional hockey arena but city manager Tim Commisso took pains to point out the apparent eligibility of the contiguous exhibition and convention centre. The province, the city and its partners would pay for the rest of the $114-million project.
4. Most mid-sized municipal event centres have been built with borrowed money whereas this one would require 40-per-cent city funding sources.
Public concerns also revolve around affordability — and a cost that has risen from a 2011 estimate of $80 million. Hobbs and Commisso were joined by financial services director Lynne Martin to itemize the direct impact on homeowners — a $17 annual property tax increase on a $100,000 house and 50 cents a month on hydro bills to pay for moving an electrical substation.
A majority of city residents have indicated support for this project. With nothing much changed, and council’s overwhelming support expected to continue Monday, all that remains is help from other governments to get construction started this summer. We are all waiting
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Post by babs44 on Mar 20, 2015 18:11:56 GMT -6
Or would it be Aeros ?
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Post by Lions67 on Mar 20, 2015 18:35:39 GMT -6
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Post by Rocky Mountain Jets Fan on Mar 21, 2015 9:43:02 GMT -6
I think that they should stick to Moose due to past history but team names like Bears aren't bad considering you have names like Ducks, Pelicans, etc out there when you think about it are pretty lame. Either way it would be great to have the ahl team in TB...
How about Manitoba Beers we all like it and think of the marketing haha!
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Post by sportmentary2012 on Mar 21, 2015 10:44:31 GMT -6
I think it should be Manitoba muddy waters or the frozen pipes!
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Post by sloth on Mar 22, 2015 2:48:17 GMT -6
I thought Chipman had a logo with a Polar Bear on it that he once considered for the NHL team? Manitoba Polar Bears. Powder Blue jerseys. Thanks Darren.  |
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Post by babs44 on Mar 22, 2015 8:34:24 GMT -6
Manitoba Catfish.The Cats. Bigger than Goldeyes |
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