The name is a pretty good one. It just sounds tough: a head made of steel. What can be tougher than someone with a head made of steel? The logo designer thinks of this, and figures making a logo is going to be easy.

But then someone ruins his day by pointing out that a "steelhead" is actually a kind of fish. A trout, to be precise. Suddenly, this thing doesn't sound so tough.

So what's a designer to do? Try to make a fish look fierce? Nah, that's too much work. Just totally ignore the fish motif, and draw a steel head. Or at least draw a steel goalie mask -- it's not a head, but you put it on one, right? And then, just to emphasize how hard this steel mask is, add a puck flying off the helmet with such force that the puck is actually knocked out of shape. (Look closely at the puck if you don't believe me.)

Lame? Well, maybe. But when you compare it to various attempts in logos to actually make a fish look fearsome, I can see why the Steelheads went with this approach.

Aside from the lopsided puck, I like the attention to detail that this logo has. Having rivets holding the face cage onto the helmet is a nice touch. And if you look closely -- I've lightened the logo here to make it easier to see -- you'll notice the goalie's right eye. Of course, when you consider the fact that there is clearly no body below the mask, that fact becomes a wee bit disturbing. So does that little swoopy thing that indicates the head has been bobbing back and forth before getting hit with the puck. Is the goalie a ghost? I suspect that if we could see the back of the mask, we'd see "Ichabod" written on it.

Unless...could it be? Maybe that swoopy thing is actually the goalie's body. Maybe they got Plastic Man to play for them. Well, that must come in handy. Out of position? There's no such thing as out of position for Plastic Man. For that matter, he can just change his shape to cover the net, and there's nothing the other team could do to score. That would be a brilliant plan. That is, it would be until the San Diego Gulls signed Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four. That's a game that would never end.

Final Score: 12 points.
Penalties: Region (egregious), 5 pts; Name-Logo, 2 pts; Equip-Logo (egregious), 8 pts.
Bonuses: Local, -3 pts.