Roseville introduced a new home jersey with a new stripe style and red shoulders, the sleeve numbers also match the back numbers now. The road uniform is almost the same as before, only now with red shoulders. The Rockets also decided to swap out their gloves for black and their breezers for red.

Grand Rapids has been a MAHL mainstay since their inception in 1935. They have used the same logo of a brown Moose head outlined in orange with a button eye for nearly 45 years now, but it is time for an update. What the Moose unveiled was nothing too crazy, just a simple modernization of their classic logo.


The new logo finds itself in the same place as its predecessor on the iconic orange and brown of Grand Rapids. The only other change to the uniforms is the addition of 2 stars behind the back collar to signify their 2 Kellogg Cups.

Throwing this in here too, Edina added a star behind their collar similar to Eveleth and Grand Rapids, to signify their Kellogg Cup win. The Cake Eaters also paid extra to get a special shade of yellow for their new helmets, leading to some local newspapers referring to them as the "Gold Domes"


I'll post the expansion teams either later tonight or tomorrow, but let me know what you think of the offseason so far, comments are appreciated!

So far, so good!

1. Glad the Vulcans are back to the "Twin Cities" name which the fans obviously prefer-though I do hope St. Anthony gets an expansion team soon.
2. RIP Weston I...say hi to Conrad when you get to the Rainbow Bridge.  I trust Weston II will continue the legacy well, and I know Hector and Charlie will grow to be quite popular in their respective fanbases.
3. The Bronze Otter is going to be one of the most underrated and competitive rivalry series out there (right up there with the Giant Fork and Sioux Cup series)
4. Nice to see NSP embrace blue as their primary color (a lighter shade than the V's and WSP to be unique)
5. Neat new alt logo for Ely...though the city wordmark will always be the primary, I could see the alt being on the chest of the team's third jersey whenever they start being introduced.
6. I am gonna miss the Moose's old logo (it just has a more "classic/timeless" feel to it), but if it absolutely had to go, this is a good direction to take it.
7. REALLY like the new Buffs logo...it can stand out anywhere you put it on a jersey (Hope we get an updated bison as a shoulder logo again at some point)
8. You know where to e-mail 'em at. 

Expansion Teams

Brooklyn Center is a city found right between Minneapolis and Brooklyn Park with a population of over 31,000. The Cats were formed by a few former Brooklyn Park Panthers who wanted a team in their home town rather than the next town over. BC will play their home games at 2000 seat Northland Community Arena, sharing a home with Brooklyn Park. The rivalry between Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center is sure to be intense and immediate as the two face off for the first time in the upcoming season.

They will be called the "Catamounts" which is another name for Panther. This was done intentionally to take a little bit of a poke at their neighbors to the North. To make things worse the team has decided to fully embrace the "Cats" nickname, a nickname often used by Panther fans in the past. The Catamounts logo is a script "Cats" with BC for Brooklyn Center in the tail. Their team colors are purple and gold.