SportsLogos- The Ottawa Senators are draggggging out the process of getting a new logo for the team, but at least it looks like they’re consulting with their season ticket holders for what they should do if anything at all.
Despite using their alternate “O” logo, based off of what the original Senators wore in the 1930s as if it was a primary logo last season, the team has made no changes to their primary logo, nor to their home and road uniforms for 2018-19. The topic of the team’s identity came up at a town hall-style event the team held earlier this year with team owner Eugene Melnyk discussing how fans loved both the “O” logo and the centurion’s head logo and that they needed to think more about it. Thanks to a Tweet from TSN 1200 on-air radio personality Shaila Anwar, we appear to have gotten a look at some of the options the team has been considering. ------ Knowing full well that beggars can't be choosers, I suppose Ottawa Senators' fans that have basically been on bended knee pleading to have their own thoughts, feelings, and concerns heard by a franchise whose status appears as dark as the soul of Mike Hoffman's fiancee should appreciate the opportunity to help pick their team's logo. After all, something is universally considered to be better than nothing. It's just that, having come a year and half after the owner threatened the fans with a potential relocation of the team, a poll enlisting those same fans help in picking said team's aesthetics feels at least mildly disingenuous. Imagine being told your car could potentially blow up at any wrong turn...and then being offered a free oil change. I perceive that's how the Senators most loyal supporters might be feeling as they ponder what they want their losing team with the uncertain future to be buried in. I mean, even asking for a show of hands in favor of doing everything in their power to keep Erik Karlsson is pointless at this point, for it's only a matter of time before his transcendent talents are taken elsewhere. Therefore, if Eugene Melnyk truly wanted to make things up to those that are unfortunate enough to find themselves fiscally and emotionally invested in an organization that often seems self-sabotaged then there's only one question whose answer would be appropriately crowdsourced, and that's when to pull the plug on what's looking like the slowest of slow deaths. Honestly, I bet if an "Olympic Athletes of Russia"-esque option were offered so that the paying customers were temporarily freed from having to directly identify with the team they were hopelessly rooting for then it might be the sneaky sleeper pick of a set of logos that fittingly spells 'SOS'. That's how dire things currently are in Ottawa, and throwing a bone the size of a toothpick to a slight majority of Senators' season ticket holders certainly isn't going to make home ice feel like a happy place.
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