Welcome!
TRENTON DEVILS SEASON LESS THAN 2 MONTHS AWAY!
I'd like to welcome all of you hockey fans to the Trenton Devils blog here at the Trentonian. My name is Rob Chakler and I will be covering the team throughout the season. I encourage all of you to respond to my posts, as your comments are greatly appreciated.
Obviously, the biggest story of the offseason was the name change from the Titans to the Devils. I would like to get some reaction from the fans in the city on here, so if you like the change, hate the change, or are indifferent, let me know.
As of now, all is quiet on the Devils front. The roster will be completed sometime before Oct. 1, but here are two guys that they have signed.
Matt Cohen became the first player to officially sign a contract with the Trenton Devils two weeks ago. He played nine games with the Titans last year (0 points and 8 PIMs), and will start his first professional season in the ECHL in '07-'08.
Tony Zancanaro played in eight games with the Titans last year (1G, 2A) and signed a contract with the T-Devils a day after Cohen.
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DEVILS GEAR NOW AVAILABLE
Fans can purchase hats, jerseys, t-shirts and sweatshirts featuring the new T-Devils logo with the red & black color scheme. Go to http://www.trentondevils.com/, then under the "Fan Zone" area, click "Merchandise." If you haven't had a chance to see what the new sweaters look like, look no further.
That's all for tonight, my next post will be coming soon.
Again, I'd like to welcome everyone to the blog. I'll be posting here all season long and look forward to hearing from all the Devils fans.
I'd like to welcome all of you hockey fans to the Trenton Devils blog here at the Trentonian. My name is Rob Chakler and I will be covering the team throughout the season. I encourage all of you to respond to my posts, as your comments are greatly appreciated.
Obviously, the biggest story of the offseason was the name change from the Titans to the Devils. I would like to get some reaction from the fans in the city on here, so if you like the change, hate the change, or are indifferent, let me know.
As of now, all is quiet on the Devils front. The roster will be completed sometime before Oct. 1, but here are two guys that they have signed.
Matt Cohen became the first player to officially sign a contract with the Trenton Devils two weeks ago. He played nine games with the Titans last year (0 points and 8 PIMs), and will start his first professional season in the ECHL in '07-'08.
Tony Zancanaro played in eight games with the Titans last year (1G, 2A) and signed a contract with the T-Devils a day after Cohen.
...
DEVILS GEAR NOW AVAILABLE
Fans can purchase hats, jerseys, t-shirts and sweatshirts featuring the new T-Devils logo with the red & black color scheme. Go to http://www.trentondevils.com/, then under the "Fan Zone" area, click "Merchandise." If you haven't had a chance to see what the new sweaters look like, look no further.
That's all for tonight, my next post will be coming soon.
Again, I'd like to welcome everyone to the blog. I'll be posting here all season long and look forward to hearing from all the Devils fans.
posted by Rob Chakler at
9:18 AM
8 Comments:
Hi Rob -
The name change sucks! It looks like another ploy to get us to buy all new merchandise! It seems teams change logos every couple of years or make changes to colors just so that all the fans need to run out and buy new stuff! I'm done with hockey! It is no wonder we can't get a national TV contract. Hockey sucks!
Thanks for the response. The overall change came as a result of a couple things.
1) To align every part of the Organzation with the New Jersey Devils (last season the Philadelphia Flyers also used the Titans but now have aligned with the Wheeling Nailers).
2)I'm sure some part of the reason is to increase merchandise sales.
3) To give some added energy to the city by having an NHL brand here -- as to whether or not it will work -- time will only tell.
As far as the a national TV contract, here is an interesting link I found from the Sports Business Journal
http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.main&articleId=55770
Please don't lose faith in hockey, it's die hard fans like us that actually keep it going. Hockey as a whole has trouble attracting the casual sports fan.
Yeah, sure Rob, call me cynical, but I see the Thunder just released a new logo today also! First they name the team after a sound which makes coming up with a visual image pretty darn difficult. Then after flopping around with a few ideas for Logos and an idiot mascot in Boomer, they come up with a muscular cloud holding a lighting bolt??? Maybe for Tampa Bay Lightning that would work. They should change the name of the Thunder to a visual object, not the Titans. We should have used the Trenton Mudpuppies!
So tell me Rob, if the NHL has another lockout does Scott Gomez stay here or does he go back to Alaska? It was fun to see him play against the Titans...
Scott Gomez is now in NY, he signed there in the offseason and is no longer on the Devils.
The previous post was correct. Scott Gomez signed a seven-year deal worth $51.5 million with the New York Rangers.
As for your logo comment, the Cleveland Browns only use a color and it works. The Minnesota Wild isn't exactly a "normal" nickname, but they've done a good job with the logo. Like you said, the Tampa Bay Lightning use a lightning bolt and that works, so why can't the Thunder use it?
Rob -
Thunder is a sound not a sight! TB Lightning can use a bolt because they are named after a visual object. The Thunder named themselves after a sound. We can stretch a lightning bolt to a sound, but the reality is of all the Trenton teams, the Thunder is the one that should have changed names. Titans was at least a throw back to Trenton's industrial past, and Rivet was a cool mascot. Boomer is an idiot. What kind of mascot do we get now? Jason Voorhees with horns on? Face it - whether we are affiliated with the Newark devils or not, changing the name of a minor league team to the major league affiliate is dangerous. Think about this, if the Thunder had done it, we would have had the Trenton Tigers, Trenton Red Sox and Trenton Yankees. They should have kept the name, logo and mascot! I kind of like the Mudpuppies, so I agree with anonymous. Mudpuppies at least are a Delaware River animal that we can relate to.
skaten here
like the new thunder logo. that cloud looks like one bad mother humper. it's the best logo yet and as far as thunder just being a sound well there is some mean thunder that'll stop you in your tracks bouy.
as a Flyer fan i am sad to see them go but the Trenton Devils will be the class of the league.
Fire um up Killer !
Hey Rob,
I agree with the other responses. This is all a silly little game to get us fans to pay more for Devils merchandise. Do you think the new logo will draw more fans this season? I'm just getting back from a summer of sailing and I'm def ready for some hockey. I cant wait to see Barry Melroses' mullet.
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