Eastern Finalists Revealed

Welcome to the IceHL blog. From now on, this is where you'll find everything related to our fantasy hockey league project, so keep checking back here for what's new.

As promised, it's time for the unveiling of the Top 3 finalist logos for each of the IceHL teams in the Eastern Conference. I'm not revealing the final ratings for any of the logos so as not to taint the voting results. Logos are displayed randomly.

Atlanta Arsenal


Joey Light

John Wriston

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Baltimore Blue Crabs


John Wriston

Joey Light

Chris Smith

Boston Colonials


Eric Poole

Chris Smith

Shawn Steadman

Chicago Hitmen


Six Zero

Roccot

Craig C. Wheeler

Detroit Motorheads


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Craig C. Wheeler

Chris Smith

Hamilton Steelcats


Chris Smith

Roccot

Sean Cox Tattoo

Milwaukee Lagers


Eddie Ray Design

JFred

Craig C. Wheeler

Minnesota Mammoths


LLP

Tone Loc Productions

Chris Smith

Montreal Olympiques


Craig C. Wheeler

Eddie Ray Design

Southpaw Design

North Carolina Nighthawks


Six Zero

Emilis Acus

Nick Matarese

New York Guardians


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Craig C. Wheeler

Roccot

Quebec Armada


Chris Smith

Jason New Era Usher

Craig C. Wheeler

St. Louis Archers


Roccot

Craig C. Wheeler

Sigma Kappa

Tampa Bay Barracudas


Craig C. Wheeler

Six Zero

Chris Smith

Washington Sentinels


Six Zero (1)

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Six Zero (2)

The Western Conference finalists will be revealed tomorrow and voting will then begin this weekend. By the end of August, we will have logos for all 30 IceHL teams. That's when the fun starts — jersey designs! Before I start taking submissions on those, we'll have a poll deciding whether third jerseys should be introduced alongside the home and road sweaters or if they will be created later and only for select teams.

After that, there are a lot of options. We can make the uniforms available to be used in video games such as NHL 09. We can expand the league and add new teams, as has been suggested. Some of you have even put forth the idea of creating the IceHL's development league.

All great ideas, but all for the distant future. As for what's next, voting kicks off Saturday. Team polls will be posted here in random order. When you vote, you will have the artist's complete branding package available to make your decision.

Notes: While voting is taking place during the next few weeks, I'll be setting up an image gallery where you can view all logos submissions created for this project that weren't selected as finalists. Also, please be aware that the Chris Smith who designed many logos for the IceHL project is NOT me. It's just a ubiquitous name we share.