Meet your “Fighting Walleye”
As we mentioned two weeks ago, Cavaliers Hockey Holdings, LLC, filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the wordmark Fighting Walleye. Cavaliers Hockey Holdings is a group of investors headed by Cleveland Cavaliers’ owner Dan Gilbert, who purchased a dormant American Hockey League franchise for play in Cleveland.
Today, we find out from Sidearm Delivery that this may be just a rumour. They reference an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer from this past Sunday, in which Cavaliers President Len Komoroski said that all the talk about the team being named the Fighting Walleyes is premature.
“We’ve been getting a lot of suggestions, and we expect to have a nickname by the early part of 2007.”
That’s not really a denial now, is it? “Premature” does not mean “false information.” Along with the fact that they spent time and money to trademark the name, “Fighting Walleye” is a serious contender.
In less exciting news, the Cavaliers officials confirmed that the Cleveland franchise will be the top affiliate of Colorado in the NHL.
We’ll try to keep up with the avalanche of speculation that surrounds the AHL’s newest, fishiest team.
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I notice a visor-less Walleye — thought the ‘A’ was mandating those?
Team name isn’t going to mean much in the end. With prices like they are now offering, don’t expect Cleveland to last long. Management is definitely deluded here. Glass seats for $60. $9 seats now $20. Its unfortunate because marketed correctly, even in a major league city, AHL hockey could be successful in Cleveland again. They really missed the boat here though. Do you think Joe Average is gonna regularly pluck down $30 for a decent seat to a minor league hockey game? I’m sure opening night will be packed, but by the middle of the season, it’s gonna be a sea of empty seats as usual. In the poorest big city in America, they definitely have no idea who their true market is. Looks like they are more concerned with recouping their money from the purchase of their franchise as fast as they can, rather than building up a fanbase and ensuring hockey can ultimately last in the city. Very unfortunate indeed.
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So they *will* be the Cleveland Big Green!
(Please tell me someone other than my gf gets that incredibly obscure hockey reference.)
It’s real tough to stickhandle without hands or claws, but only flippy fins. Not to mention skating . . .
OK, this is only tangentially related due to its Walleye reference, but I think this old SatireWire link is hysterical:
http://www.satirewire.com/charts/tellbob.shtml
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