Victoriaville Tigres Logo PNG
The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (French: Ligue de Hockey Junior Majeur du Québec, LHJMQ) is one of the three major youth leagues in North America, which is part of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). It features teams from four Canadian provinces: Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. One of the strongest teams in the league is the Victoriaville Tigres from Quebec.
Meaning and history
The QMJHL was established in 1969. At that time, it included eleven teams, and today their number has grown to 18.
The championship structure remains classic for North American hockey: two conferences and four divisions. The top eight teams from each conference advance to the playoffs, where they compete for the President’s Cup.
The winner of the playoffs gets the opportunity to advance to the Memorial Cup, which also includes the winners of the Ontario Youth League and Western Hockey League, as well as the team that hosts the Final Four. QMJHL clubs have won the Memorial Cup 13 times in its history.
The league’s 18 teams are divided into two conferences: the Western Conference and the Eastern Conference. In turn, each conference is split into two divisions: the Eastern Conference is split into the East and Maritimes divisions, and the Western Conference is split into the West and Central divisions.
The Victoriaville Tigres represent the Central Division. The team from a small town of less than 50,000 people was founded in 1982, 13 years after the creation of the QMJHL.
The most successful year in the club’s history was 2002. At that time, Victoriaville won the President’s Cup and competed for the Memorial Cup, but lost in the final. However, the Tigres also managed to take the League champion title in 2021.
What is Victoriaville Tigers?
Victoriaville Tigers is the name of a youth hockey club from Canada, founded in 1982 and playing in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). The club has won the league championship twice: in 2002 and 2021.
In terms of visual identity, the junior hockey club from Quebec, Victoriaville Tigres, has kept the original design concept of the logo but reflected the growth and progress of the team with several redesigns held throughout the years.
1987 – 1991
The first logo for the Victoriaville Tigres hockey club, created in the 1980s, was executed in a vivid light-blue, red, and white color palette, and featured a combination of a contoured tiger’s head, and a solid geometric letter “V” on the background. The additional lettering was written in a contoured serif font above the graphical part, and decorated by sharp red strokes.
1991 – 1999
The redesign of 1991 has played with the color palette of the Tigres’ visual identity, keeping all elements in their shapes and their places. The blue “V” from the background of the badge turned solid gray, while the red contoured head was now depicted in acid yellow and black. The same yellow and black scheme was used for the uppercase “Tigres” wordmark on the top of the composition.
1999 – Today
Another redesign was held by the club right before the millennium, and it was supposed to symbolize the progress of the junior hockey club. The concept of the Tigres logo remained the same — the head of a wild cat on a background with the bold geometric “V”, yet both elements were redrawn, and the additional lettering was completely removed. The black letter was enlarged and contoured in yellow and white, while the tiger is now executed in a more modern and detailed style. The animal now looks to the right and has a broken hockey stick in its open mouth with sharp fangs.
Font and color
The primary version of the Victoriaville Tigres logo is composed solely of graphical elements, with no lettering on it, hence, there is no official typeface. As for the color palette of the hockey club from Victoriaville, it is composed of the shades, most commonly associated with tigers: orange and black. Their combination creates a bright and confident composition, full of strength and determination.
