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| Peoria Rivermen | 12 |
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Posted 2013 December 10
The four different incarnations of the Peoria Rivermen have had four different logos, and every one of them have had one or both of the following:
- All or part of a ship's wheel, usually with the Peoria skyline (as seen from across the Illinois River) inside the wheel
- A river pilot holding a puck in his mouth.
I could, if I wanted, rag on the team (which is technically a different organization from the AHL team that left Peoria over the summer) for being so unoriginal...same name, similar logo, and all that. But to be honest, I don't see a lot of reason to change anything. The AHL Rivermen were not an unsuccessful team. (They had attendance of over 5,000 in 2012-13, which put them in the top half of minor league hockey attendance and in the middle third for the AHL; from what I've gathered the move had more to do with a dispute between the arena and the team's new owners than with ticket sales.) The name is popular. Why do anything radical? Rivermen is a reasonable (not great, but reasonable) name for Peoria. The logo makes perfect sense for the name. So I think they did the right thing here.
And I do like the new logo better than the old. The pilot always looked a little strange to me. Sure, they could have found a way to have a non-strange pilot in there, but why not go for something a little simpler, a little more elegant? The new logo has a clean, classy look to it. It doesn't need anything more. It may not make you go wow, but it's still a good logo.
Final Score: 12 points.
Penalties: Compound, 13 pts; Name-Logo, 2 pts.
Bonuses: Local, -3 pts.