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Hartford Yard Goats unveil logo, pay homage to Whalers in colors

The Hartford Yard Goats are channeling the city’s hockey history.

The Colorado Rockies’ Double-A affiliate unveiled their colors — an homage to the city’s former NHL franchise, the Whalers — and logo Wednesday during a press conference, according to the Hartford Courant.

The colors — green and blue — pay homage to the city’s former NHL team the Whalers, who relocated to Greensboro, N.C. in 1997, becoming the Carolina Hurricanes. The logo is a green-bearded billy goat gnawing on a chewed-up, broken baseball bat. The firm that designed the logo also created ones for the Richmond Flying Squirrels and Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs.