The Columbus Blue Jackets are turning 20 years old. Like most sports teams when they each a milestone, they have a special logo for next season.
With the exception of the Vegas Golden Knights, the Columbus Blue Jackets are the NHL’s youngest team in franchise age. They entered the NHL along with the Minnesota Wild back in 2000. The Blue Jackets decided to celebrate in the way most sports teams do by creating a commemorative logo for the occasion.
The commemorative logo features the Blue Jackets current logo along with their infamous cannon. The appearance of the cannon makes the logo look like a mix between the team’s current logo and alternative jersey design, since the cannon is featured prominently on the third jersey. The logo maintains the same blue, gray and red color scheme the team already has.
What is surprising is that the commemorative logo makes no use for the original Columbus Blue Jackets logo used back in 2000. The team began using the current star and wrap around Ohio state flag logo in the 2007-08 season.
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Prior to that the team used an odd logo that had the letters “C’ and “B” spelled out in continuous red banner with stars and a hockey stick right down the middle to form a “J” for the team’s initials. Apparently nobody noticed that the team’s initials “CBJ” came out looking like “CJB”.
The Blue Jackets old logo just had way too much going on. The history behind it was that the “red banner” that spelt the “C” and the “B” had 13 stars on them for the 13 original colonies. The fans who wore those jerseys were more likely yelling at Rick Nash to score than noticing the historical significance of it. A re-design by Reebok gave the Blue Jackets their current jerseys. The old star spangled hockey stick logo hasn’t been used since.
Also missing from the 20th anniversary logo is Blue Jackets mascot Stinger. Stinger was originally on Blue Jackets jerseys and was their alternate logo up until the 2003-2004 season. The logo looks better without Stinger, to be honest. The Blue Jackets are named after, and take pride, in their home state Ohio’s civil war history. The 20th anniversary logo makes use of that with the addition of the cannon. A cartoon bee would be too much and out of place.
Even if the 20th anniversary logo look like a combination of the team’s current and alternate logos, but it looks clean. It looks sleek. Unlike that crazy logo the Blue Jackets started off their franchise with in 2000, this one looks stylish. That will send fans to the gift shop to buy t-shirts and jerseys with the commemorative logo, much to the delight of the front office.
Players will wear the logo as a patch on both home and away jerseys. The same logo, with a different color scheme, will be used on the team’s alternate jerseys. Although the team’s press release didn’t mention it don’t be surprised to see this logo used at center ice as well.