Dan O'Mac wrote:

Those stripes for Blackduck have a very Green Bay Packers feel to them.

I may or may not have blatantly ripped off the Packers stripes from their old uniforms for Blackduck, not gonna say if I did or not... definitely maybe

New Hope is making their first adjustments, simplifying their by removing the puck and city name to allow the crossed sword and stick to take primary status. The original logo is still used by the team in other capacities as a secondary logo.


The Raiders also made adjustments to their uniforms, tweaking the striping and making the away uniform only black and silver. The crossed stick and sword logo takes center stage on the chest.

The final team to make changes to their identity are the St. Cloud Bearcats who received a large donation from a business owner in St. Cloud who was a fan of the team. The Cats took the chance to create a bold new look, replacing the SC Paw with an SC monogram and paw being moved to secondary.


The donated money went almost exclusively to new uniforms where the Bearcats implement the new SC logo on the chest, retiring the Bearcats script the team had used since 59. The Bearcats new uniforms feature a new stripe style, replacing the standard solid stripe the team has used since their inception. The biggest thing about the new uniforms though is the inclusion of a matching helmet for all members of the team. Helmets have been gaining popularity in the sport over the last decade or so and some players have made the decision to get a helmet for their own safety, but there is not a policy currently in any league within the MAHL. This is the first time an entire team will have helmets and I have a feeling it wont be the last.

Steelman wrote:

Blackduck's new unis look great. I think the logo still gets lost on the home sweater though. I feel like they could really use a script or monogram of some kind for that home.

Burnsville is big downgrade for me. I liked the geometric buck a lot and the new look and scheme seems like they missed the mark on actually wanting to be different versus making a change for changing's sake.

I am a sucker for good roundels. I like the new jet logo for Grand Forks. I wish they'd kept the monogram as an alternate though. The updates for New Hope are good, but the logo loses a lot of impact with just the crossed sword and stick.

The new St. Cloud logo is nice, I like it a lot but I think an opportunity to add a STL Cardinals-style "t" in the middle row of the S was missed.

I definitely see something replacing the logo in the near future, not sure if it'll be a script or text or what though.

I'm also a big fan of the geometric buck logo and I will say that it is not gone for good. I personally didn't like that 3 teams all used green but Lakeville is the only other team used blue (unless you count Hastings as well) and I honestly prefer these colors together.

Thanks for the feedback on Forks and New Hope, I'll keep those in mind.

I actually tried to add a t in the center but couldn't seem to get it without it cluttering the logo or looking forced so I ended up just going with SC.

North St. Paul is a town of just under 12,000 right in the heart of the East Metro Hockey League so it was only a matter of time before the town was granted a team. The Ramparts will play their home games at 1,200 seat Polar Arena, sharing a home with the Lake Elmo Bluejays.

There was a fair amount of questions surrounding NSP and what they would be called. Rumors of the Snowmen and Kangaroos were among the most widespread and believed. It wasn't until late August that the team finally announced the name "Ramparts" which was chosen to honor the towns history, originally going by the name "Castle". The Ramparts colors are black, red, and blue.