Score one for the KHL ad dept.

by James Mirtle on May 28, 2009 2:41 PM CDT Comment 66 comments

NHL.com's got it's latest promo graphic up for the Stanley Cup finals, a good little faceoff between Zetterberg and Captain Crosby in anticipation for Saturday's big game:

It's not bad, certainly, and gives top billing to the stars.

What it lacks is a stick-wielding bear and snow leopard, like this impressive KHL promo for the Gagarin Cup between Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and Ak Bars Kazan earlier this month:

Someone could probably pull that off with an octopus and a penguin, no?

Thanks to cubanpuckstopper for the image.

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wow

insanely cool

Why is there not a Bears hockey team? Bears are the absolute coolest animals.

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by IAmJoe on May 28, 2009 2:47 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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by James Mirtle on May 28, 2009 2:51 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

You're no fun, James.

Besides, I’d have just gone with the direct approach.

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by Doogie2K on May 28, 2009 3:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

>_<

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by IAmJoe on May 28, 2009 4:39 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

bru·in

n.

A bear.

That made my night.

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by Mr. Plank on May 29, 2009 1:15 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

How about the “Southern Ontario Bears” ?

by mc keeper on May 28, 2009 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

Bears playing hockey, eh?

http://withleather.uproxx.com/2008/11/bears-playing-hockey

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by Aleksandr on May 28, 2009 4:00 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

Anything with a penguin in it automatically rules, since penguins are the coolest of the animal kingdom.

by Gerald on May 28, 2009 2:54 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

little known fact

But the platypus is actually the coolest of the animal kingdom.

by delooper on May 28, 2009 10:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Southern Ontario Platypi!

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by Back In Black on May 29, 2009 6:38 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I nominate the wood frog, Rana sylvatica. How many animals can spend the winter frozen solid as a rock and then thaw out in the spring and go about the business of mating as though nothing unusual happened? Plus they have that cute little dark mask that makes them look like bandits. :)

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by Baroque on May 29, 2009 7:50 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

This qualifies as Gerald’s strangest comment yet.

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by James Mirtle on May 29, 2009 12:04 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Evidently you didn’t see Madagascar, James.

by Gerald on May 29, 2009 5:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I actually don’t even know what you’re talking about, so, no didn’t see it. Wasted my money on the new Terminator flick instead.

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by James Mirtle on May 29, 2009 6:34 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You should watch it. Penguins are funny.

Terminator any good? I am a huge fan of the series.

by Gerald on May 29, 2009 6:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Don’t watch it then. I am a big fan, too, and was extremely disappointed. Saw it Monday and am still cursing McG’s name.

It’s far worse than T3, which is saying something.

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by James Mirtle on May 29, 2009 10:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

who wouldn’t curse a jackass named McG?

{Trying not to make a Pierre joke….}

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by boutros23 on May 29, 2009 11:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

LOL

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by Fauxrumors on May 28, 2009 2:54 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I love that the shadows are already engaged in combat

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by boutros23 on May 28, 2009 2:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I’ve got no clue what the stars are doing … intergalactic hockey fans?

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by James Mirtle on May 28, 2009 2:57 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

They might be in the shapes of the teams’ respective oblasts. I don’t know.

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by Doogie2K on May 28, 2009 3:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bingo.

The darkish shapes are reservoirs/lakes and the bright spots indicate the positions of the cities (Kazan/Yaroslavl) within the oblast/raion in question.

Wicked graphic.

by Hopfenkopf on May 28, 2009 3:28 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Cool.

That was a total guess, but that is a pretty awesome way of doing things. Subtle and clever.

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by Doogie2K on May 28, 2009 3:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wonderful stuff.

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by Mr. Plank on May 29, 2009 1:17 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Actually, it looks to me like they are buddies waving at us together.

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by Gerald on May 28, 2009 10:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

the NHL should hire whoever produced the Bruins commercials for the MTL series.

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by poploser on May 28, 2009 2:57 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

That reminds me of those shirts with like the wolves on them. It’s a work of art. Sheer amazingness.

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by wrap around curl on May 28, 2009 3:13 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

In Soviet Russia.....

….oh, I can’t even do it.

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by Afino on May 28, 2009 3:20 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Thanks to International hockey Forums member Lvivske for leading me to the image. I will raise a mug of Kvas in his honor.

by cubanpuckstopper on May 28, 2009 3:28 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Is there a high-res version? That would be my wallpaper today if so.

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by Doogie2K on May 28, 2009 3:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don’t see that as a download on the Lokomotiv site.

http://lokomotiv.yar.ru/doc.aspx?Doc=bonus

The bear theme there is noticable.

Losing to Ak Bars Kazan might be a factor that minimized that poster’s appearance.

by cubanpuckstopper on May 29, 2009 8:23 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wow.

So when does this movie come out, and will it get a full release in America?

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by Justice and Rule on May 28, 2009 3:44 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I would totally see that movie. Awesome poster. :D

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by Baroque on May 28, 2009 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The bear has to win. It just has to.

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by Yankee Canuck on May 28, 2009 4:37 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

no way

the snow leopard has speed and quickness. the bear is old and plodding. leopard in 6

by averagejoe on May 28, 2009 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

It’s like boxing with hockey sticks. I’m still sticking with the bear, he’s got anger and a better reach. Bear in four. And no handshakes at the end.

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by Yankee Canuck on May 28, 2009 5:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The tast time a snow leopard fought a bear, the panda won…

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by Back In Black on May 29, 2009 6:48 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The Leopard plays the trap apparently.

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by James Mirtle on May 28, 2009 4:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

(Bear trap.)

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by James Mirtle on May 28, 2009 4:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Considering the bear is several times larger than a hockey arena, it’s probably a Grizzly. And there is no way some pussy Snow Leopard is taking down a Grizz, they are beasts.

by Its Cold In Here on May 29, 2009 9:04 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wasn’t Ak Bars Kazan the Flames AHL affiliate when they were out in Omaha?

by WCHBlog on May 28, 2009 5:03 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs

Wow. I just… Wow.

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by Mike @ MHH on May 28, 2009 5:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wasn’t Ak Bars Kazan the Flames AHL affiliate when they were out in Omaha?

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by Robert Cleave on May 28, 2009 6:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

It was actually the Ak-Sar-Ben Knights.

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by James Mirtle on May 28, 2009 6:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Damned cool indeed. Russia 1 N.A. 0

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by Sean Zandberg on May 28, 2009 5:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

It's possible

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by Aditya T (smashville) on May 28, 2009 5:35 PM CDT reply actions 6 recs

I’m pleased the penguin, for want of opposable thumbs, has decided to peck the eye out of the octopus.

To be honest though, neither of the posted graphics would pass muster in a first year design class.

by hallock on May 28, 2009 5:39 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Eh, I tried

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by Aditya T (smashville) on May 28, 2009 5:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm only 15

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by Aditya T (smashville) on May 28, 2009 5:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Kinda has the whiff of inter-species romance about it.

by Robert Cleave on May 28, 2009 6:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I didn’t mean yours, I meant the NHL and KHL ones posted by James.

by hallock on May 28, 2009 7:06 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think it’s awesome. :)

Somehow I don’t think either animal would be especially good at skating, though. The penguin would be slow and waddly, and the octopus would fall over its non-skating legs. I think it would be hilarious to see them try, though.

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by Baroque on May 28, 2009 7:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Is there anything in the rules about a player only wearing two skates? Maybe the Octopus could wear 6 skates!! Talk about stable!

by hockeycountry on May 28, 2009 7:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe he’s a left handed shot, a left handed shot, and a right handed shot.

by J. Michael Neal on May 28, 2009 8:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If you waved one stick in the goalie’s face a la Sean Avery, would it be legal if the other two sticks were on the ice or had possession?

by Hansmoleman on May 28, 2009 8:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

He’d need a special exemption from the rule against only playing with one stick. But then if one broke he wouldn’t have to go to the bench for a replacement.

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by Baroque on May 29, 2009 7:46 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The penguin doesn’t need skates, or a stick. It just grabs the puck in it’s beak and slides into the net on it’s belly.

by Its Cold In Here on May 29, 2009 8:57 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Awww man that’s so freaking cool! I wish the NHL would be as cool as the KHL and other leagues not only throughout the states, but also the world. The NHL sucks! Everything the League and Bettman do sucks! Fire Bettman!! NOW!!!
You know, I don’t how many times I’ve read that the NHL should promote its stars. Here the NHL is doing that, and yet more complaints about how the NHL isn’t like the KHL.

by auxlepli on May 28, 2009 10:21 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

You’re getting a little worked up over what was really just a good excuse to post a picture of a snow leopard with a hockey stick.

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by James Mirtle on May 29, 2009 12:05 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

“Lighten up, Francis.”

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by Milo. on May 29, 2009 9:29 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Little bit of an overreaction to a poster, don’t you think?

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by furcifer on May 29, 2009 9:49 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

it looks like

a bruins vs. predators matchup.

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by serrapadre716 on May 30, 2009 6:28 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Meh

Nashville Predators…Florida Panthers…Minnesota Wild…Hamilton Tigers…take your pick.

by TD O'Dell on May 30, 2009 6:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey, watch your mouth

Our Preds are staying right here in Smashville, thank you very much

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by Aditya T (smashville) on May 30, 2009 8:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have no doubt

But maybe the team’s official graphic designer could have drawn the logo less like the Panthers and more like the guy with the giant biceps who hunts aliens (and I don’t mean Sigourney Weaver).

by TD O'Dell on May 30, 2009 11:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs