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Colorado Throwback Thursday: Avalanche Logo

Surprisingly, the Colorado Avalanche logo is a polarizing topic for many Avs fans. Quite a few criticize the logo as looking “too 1990s.” Well the design was created in the 1990s — 1995, to be exact, since that’s when the team got relocated to Colorado from Quebec. Strangely, a lot of these same fans have no problem with the 1970s Quebec Nordiques logo.

The 2015-16 season marks the 20th anniversary of the Colorado Avalanche. In honor of that occasion, let’s look at how the Avalanche logo came about.

Rocky Mountain Extreme

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As I noted in a previous post (see below), the original team name was the Rocky Mountain Extreme.