Janesville Jets?? How is that original, see CoHL circa 1981. It will be interesting how this team does. Janesville is not typically a hockey town and they have an older facility. If the Caps and Fighting Saints couldn't make it, I give this team about 2-3 years before they move. Then the city will be stuck with the bill for the facility!

I keep hearing that song from "West Side Story" in my head.

Yes there was a team named the jets that played here. GO JETS

I seem to remember a hockey team by that name which played here in the early 1980s. Anyone else?

I am already suffering from Jet lag.

Brett Favre is thinking about unretiring to be their goalie

Was there a contest at Kinder Care Learning Center to see who could come up with a name for the hockey team? Janesville Jets?!?!?!?? Typo, right?

http://www.usajuniorhockey.com/jrhockey.... what is junior hockey? use this link to find out. will it work in janesville? will the jets be flying high or crash land in an ice storm of apathy.

what is junior hochey?http://www.usajuniorhockey.com/jrhockey.asp

http://www.nahl.com/

Janesville Jets? Ties to Janesville? Oh I get it, Its because shortly all the families that have lost their jobs will be leaving Janesville (like A Jet), hoping to escape to another community that will understand our economic times that won't spend spend spend tax dollars, that we no longer have! Groceries for the family,nope can't afford them this week gotta save for more taxes! Luxuries are fine when economic times can support them, I hope the games will be free to go to, as we the tax payers will now own the Ice Arena and won't be able to pay for both.

i love how just about every article sets off stupid little arguments by a bunch of morons who half of the time don't even know what they are talking about. go jets

wheres the logo i want to see it

Whydoyouask,

Tony DiNicola designed the Jets' logo on his own time.

He designed several earlier logos on our time to accompany a feature story by sports reporter John McPoland, who was having fun with the topic and suggested names for the new team. None of those was picked.

The Gazette has no financial or other interest in Tony's logo or the Jets, and we will cover the team and any news it creates objectively.

Scott W. Angus
Editor

Oh yeah, the logo is great. Like the colors alot.

J-E-T-S JETS, JETS, JETS!!!!!! Can't wait for the season to get here so negativity from others can troll somewhere else. Hockey is alive and ready for takeoff. Don't like it?Find something you like and promote it, because the Jets are a part of Janesville, like it or not. :)

Because the deck was stacked for this whole Hockey BS

I like the Janesville Jokers for a name.

It's too bad that you have to go to the Channel 15 website to actually see the logo.

Thank you Stacey...I gratefully stand corrected.

I really can't believe all the negativity. Most of you people won't even give this a chance, just because you don't like hockey you automatically say it is going to fail. The whole city of Janesville is going to fail with attitudes like these.

whydoyouask: I didn't see the article you refer to, but since you acknowledge that the DiNicola logo was among "several others", I suspect they were part of a news release to the Gazette for those in the running. Would your line of thinking then mean that the Gazette had something to do with all of them, since they published them in an article?

ChsMkr: Heed your own advice. The logo in question, along with several others, was featured in a Gazette sports story a few months back. Want to further your argument that this is a freelance job?

Whydoyou .. . Why don't you think before spouting off? I'm sure that the logo wasn't designed on company time. Have you ever heard of artists doing freelance? Anybody could've done it including you or I. It by no means constitutes a connection and your wild assumption is very unfounded.

From the official press release:
"The Janesville Jets logo was designed as part of a collaborative effort. The initial design was conceptualized by Tony DiNicola, a Janesville Gazette designer, and then graphically edited by Christy Kapellen, a senior graphic designer at Print Max in Milton."

So, in other words, the Gazette now has some sort of ties, financial or otherwise, to this team. That makes it hard to objectively cover the team's actions, both on and off the ice, doesn't it? What if, for example, the team defaults on a payment to the city for use of the ice arena, or if the team's general manager gets caught in a compromising situation, and team officials want to keep it out of the paper?

Not exactly the position I'd want to be in, Angus & Co.

And the sign for the J-Hawks has been outside the rink for more than a year, certainly not new!

See you at the game!

NO>>> the J-Hawks is the Youth program, The Bluebirds is the boys co-op high school name

http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/4704...

Because the Janesville J-Hawks is the high school co-op team that has been playing there for years.

I'm confused...You mention the team name is the "Janesville Jets" by why is the new sign outside the arena door say "proud home of the Janesville J-Hawks ??

The Rock County Gladiators average about 700 fans per game....I'm sure once word spreads even more about a junior hockey team, it will pick up also. Have hope :)

My vote was for the "Janesville Jokers".

These "Jets" will never take off in this city. Not enough interest or fan support. Will be more of a black hole than it already is!

I wonder if the city will conduct underage buying stings at the beer stand, or if the Ice Arena will be off-limits for such testing?

OK, the alliteration is cute, but it's too bad that there's no connection between Jets and Janesville. I suppose it suits our lack of identity (no longer a "GM town") now.

this jet is destined to crash land on an expensive icy runway! paid for by the taxpayers, most of who wish not to have it land in their neighborhood.