Monday
Aug272007
Poll: Avalanche vs Wild
Monday · Aug 27 · 2007 | 1:22 AM PDT |  | |
AVALANCHE | WILD |
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| Poll opening date Aug 27 @ 4:22 AM | Poll closing date Sep 3 @ 11:59 PM |
07CHTRN | #W2A | COLvMIN
Reader Comments (55)
I really like both of these logos, but what won it, to me, for the Wild is the landscape and shooting star inside the head. It's great that they used both a wild animal and "the wild" in the logo.
The Avalanche logo is great, but it just can't compete with the Wild.
This one is gonna be the tightest poll yet.
I voted for the wild because it's my favorite logo in the league. It's amazing.
I honeStly cAn't belieVE that this poll is so CLOse. I thought the AvalaNchE would win by a landslide (no pun intended). I just tHought the WIld moved ahead because they were aGainst the crappy ducks logo. I voted the AvalancHe because I like their colour scheme way more. If the Wild didn't have a Christmas look I would've voted for them but burgundy and blue beats green and red IMO.
Very clever logo from Minnessota, love it!
LOOK closely at thw WILD logo its in the shape of a animals head looks like a cougar or something!
Actually the Wild logo is in the shape of a wolf.
A reference to another Minnesota team. The Minnesota Timberwolves.
i'm pretty sure it's a bear, not a wolf. if it was a wolf, the snout would be longer and the ear would be more triangular.
Am I the only one who thinks the wild logo looks more like a BEAR head (rather than a wolf or a cougar as suggested by others?)
The Wild logo is a bear silhouette with the wilderness motif inside. It's really very clever and well done and as I've never been crazy about the Avalanche logo - it seems unbalanced to me somehow - I give my vote to the Wild.
IT"S A BEAR, DUH!
and it wipes its butt with the Av's logo (in the woods)
The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Their symbol is a bear made to look like the wilderness
whoever designed the wild logo is a GENIUS. it is incredible and is easily one of my favorite logos in the league.
upon further inspection, it could just be a really fat rat.
The Wild logo has so much going on. Notice how the sun could actually be a moon and the streaks coming from they eye of the bear and the streak from the outline could be clouds in front of the moon. I predict The Minnesota Wild will have a great season based solely on their new logo.
-Keith Harris
No surprise this vote is split 50/50. Both of these logos are pretty weak. I voted for the Wild because it looks a bit more 'professional' than the minor-league looking Avalanche logo.
A logo should be a logo, not a friggin' http://pcmedia.gamespy.com/pc/image/article/699/699819/bob-ross-the-joy-of-painting-20060403115238486.jpg" REL="nofollow">Bob Ross painting. Happy little trees, happy little river, etc...
The Avs logo reeks of the mid 90's, but at least it's simpler.
My vote's for the Avalanche, though I hold my hose as I do it.
The Wild logo is overloaded, sometimes less is more. I’m going with the Av’s
wow so tight man go wild
wow you people are absolutely nuts, avs logo is much nicer as well as the colour scheme
imo the wild have one of the worst logos in the nhl, i can't believe this is so close
Wild all the way. I don't see how it is the weakest in the league. The av's logo is so plain. An "A" with a snow swipe going across.. WOW! ON the other hand the wild is a bear head with a north star, trees, a river, and the moon. Don't see how the Av's could be them out.
the wild logo is too busy and the color scheme is horrible. If this were a contest for images those 3-d images that have a hidden sailboat in them, then maybe the wild logo would be a good choice, but it's a sports logo, it's supposed to be emblematic and simple, easy to decipher and easy to recognize. the wild logo is emblematic, if I have 20 minutes to spare making out all the 'clever' bits and pieces, but I'm watching a hockey game and all I see is a mish-mash of christmas tree excrement.
The Minnesota logo may have the Star in the beast's eye (which is actually a reference to the previous Minnesota hockey franchise), but overall way too much clutter. So Avs get my vote.
I can't believe this is even close! While I do like both logos, the Wild logo is sheer brilliance. Best logo in all sport... with the only one even close, imo, being the old Milwaukee Brewers logo (M,B that formed a baseball glove with ball inside).
upon further inspection, it could just be a really fat rat.
Comment of the day!
This ain't even close. The Avalanche easily beats the Wild, any day. Think about it, who the hell thinks that Minnesota is anything close to Wild. The name has no base within the state. When I think of Wild I think of the West, mountains, rapids, cougars, bears, wolves, lynxes, forests, snakes...you know, WILD! Not Minnesota. It's the most boring place you could pick to be "Wild" next to Iowa. Just about the same level as Memphis having the "Grizzlies".
Second point- It is incredibly hard to design a logo based on a natural disaster. Look at the Hurricanes (both NHL and NCAA) and the Lightning, both good attempts, but it is so hard to encompass the sheer scale of the event into one logo while not enraging victims or their families.
The ability to link a region to a specific event is limited. There are no hurricanes in Montana, no tornadoes in California. You could even make the argument that the Wild could very well be the name of the Colorado franchise, but they chose something that happens, locally, something everyone is afraid of. The fact that the Avs have been able to have the name Colorado Avalanche (even though there are hundreds of Colorado avalanche deaths a year) and not be knocked for it for so long with such a good distinct logo should be applauded. I vote for the Colorado Avalanche.