The Senators do not have ice girls. Officially.
But there is at least one pictures of an attractive girl working for the crew.
See what I mean?
They are there, just not promoted. That seems odd to me. I can understand if you are just anti-cheerleaderish girls. That's one thing. But to actually have them and not promote them? You are missing out on a golden marketing opportunity.
And don't misunderstand. I'm not saying just because you have a pretty girl working a job automatically means exploit them. But you are already doing it. Just own up to it. Did you see what she's wearing? It's not as revealing as some of the other ice crews, but it's tights and a baseball style tee. If it were a legit, no thrills, strictly business operation you've got going on the ice then she should be in a wind breaker with jacket because, dammit, it gets cold at hockey games. That would be more appropriate for a working crew. You knew when she put that on that she's making the job "sexy".
Sens, may I remind you of how you've screwed things up before in the past visually? Not everything, but a few things that needed tweeking.
Let's talk about the Senators' history. After all, they helped set the precidence for calling a "new" NHL team the "old" NHL team's name in a city.
The Senators were one of the original teams of the NHL in 1917 (not to be confused with a member of the Original Six which started in 1942). They folded in 1934 winning 11 Stanley Cups during that time.
When the NHL returned to Ottawa in 1992, the team renamed themselves the Senators (and keeping Frank Finnigan's number 8 retired from the original Ottawa team).
They chose the same colors and have gone through some changes in their home jerseys. They started in an era when the home team wore white.
Thank God they didn't completely copy the original Sens jersey from 1917-1921.
The reborn Sens decided to go with a big swoosh on their away jerseys in 1999 that became the homes in 2003 when all the NHL went to colors for home jerseys.
They had an awesome third jersey from 2000-2007.
Then they went to the new Reebok Edge jerseys in 2008, like everyone else. Here's the home.
After a season, they added a third jersey. Here's where they screwed things up. One of my least favorite jerseys ever.
Really? Just the word Sens? Are you dumb? That's almost as bad as putting the word Dallas or Thrashers or Bolts or Colorado. It doesn't work if you don't have the history of doing it.
Rangers?
They can get away with that because they have done it for so SO long. It's classic. It is history.
So Ottawa, you finally got rid of those. Good for you. Now the new Sens are honoring the old Sens with a new third jersey for this season.
I'm just glad it's not those barber stripes for the entire jersey.
Do you see what I mean Senators? Even if you screw up (like having attractive girls in cute outfits but not acknowledging them), you can redeem yourself. You did it with the third jerseys. You can do it again by acknowledging and marketing your ice crew of cuties. If they don't want to acknowledge the cute girls working for them, fine. We'll just shift our attention to some females that want the attention.
They dress up in costumes specifically for that reason.
All of these pictures have been seen before on this blog, but here they are in one spot. It's girls from 2010 Dragon*Con.
See Senators? We don't need you for pictures of attractive ladies.
Not saying that won't be a welcome addition in the future though.
...I do hope that girl in the picture up there actually works on the Senators ice crew or my entire argument holds no weight.
-A full list of ice crews can be found here.-
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