Morgan33

2007/08 was far and away the NHL's ugliest season.

Agency looks horrible with an outline, especially if said outline is indistinguishable at a distance of more than a few feet... And they didn't even use the same silver as the logo... Anyone know if there will still be Authentics*? *with the fight strap

Why is it too late? They've essentially had the same primary set for 16 years, which is the longest they've stuck with anything...

It's a problem if the two schemes are complete opposites of each-other and one of them is a carbon copy of a divisional rival. Sure, the Flames dropped black from their main jerseys but its still prevalent on their alternate. The reality is that their entire identity amounts to never being able to decide on an identity. And putting the Skate back into full rotation is the latest chapter in said crisis. Usage of the Skate should be confined to a direct throwback on special events only. Everything Chromatic said about the new version is correct. The Skate's appeal is entirely rooted in nostalgia. I've come to really like the way agency looks on the back of their otherwise traditional looking uniforms. It's become impossible to separate from Burrows slaying the Dragon. Would I be upset if they switched to a Bloc? Not really. But the only way a green outline would work is if it was separated from the blue base with another white one. Blue and Green should never touch.

Agreed. The Skate should be a special event jersey, worn a couple times a year, and not be a part of their main identity package. Moving away from blue and green is where the Canuck's identity problems began and I don't want to see history repeat itself. Their primary set looks great, especially now that the script is gone. Also don't see any problem with the team owning the Agency font... Enough teams use a Bloc already.

Seattle looks great. Vegas would look passable if they had incorporated grey into the striping. As it stands? Just another modern striping-configuration that pays little to no attention to contrast.

I can understand preferring the coloured homes over the road whites... I have that preference myself with some exceptions like Seattle and Columbus (just to name a few). But calling it the most boring uniform in all of sports seems a bit harsh. Especially considering that white uniforms were previously worn at home and were arguably held in higher regard than their coloured counterparts when this was the case.

I'm not. Teal, silver, black and white was the perfect scheme for Shark-based team. It was so perfect that it's frankly baffling why they ever changed it in the first place. Making the middle stripes silver and getting rid of the gimmicky wave pattern would improve the set exponentially.

I'm more impressed with his mask... Shades of Jon Casey. Still, no one will ever convince me that this scheme isn't exponentially improved with black. And that the final green North Stars jersey isn't one of the best looking sweaters of all time. Just needed to ditch the black pants.

This is exactly what they should be wearing. Well done!

I also miss the orange waist-stripe. The black stripe on the new uniforms is entirely redundant, they're already wearing black pants.

A black Leafs jersey could work... If any effort was put into it what so ever. The laziness of that design borders on offensive. All they did was take their road jersey and swap white for black ending up with something entirely devoid of contrast, creativity or a reason to exist outside of the Justin Bieber product placement nobody asked for. Gotta love how it features black numbers on a black base... Just to hammer home its complete aversion to basic design principles.

This Rangers jersey has got to be up there with the Turd Burger, the black Islanders script and the Devil's current third "Jersey" as one of the most unapologetically hideous alternate designs in recent memory... This abomination, and I do not use that term lightly, is not fit for a minor league team let alone an Original Six franchise. What was the goal here? To take the most universally loathed uniform in Rangers history and make it exponentially worse? Using any of the three Liberty designs would have been a better direction to take. Absolutely hate it!

I can see not liking the italicized font... But what does getting rid of silver accomplish besides making them look like every other red, black and white team?

The Wild definitely have a cohesive set, even if the jerseys don't match stripe-for-stripe. The chest band serves a functional purpose in helping the logo stand out better on a green background. I would also argue the other differences (like the yoke on the road and the thin waist piping on the home) were well thought out and necessary. They could stand to have matching shoulder patches though.

The Hurricanes are now at 10 seasons without a matching home and road. The first Adidas set was close but no cigar. So of course the best jersey they wore last season doesn't come back...

The colours might have been influenced by 90's colour fads individually, but collectively there hasn't been anything like them before or since. Other teams might have used purple and teal together but none of them could be mistaken for the Mighty Ducks. Even the shades of purple (Eggplant) and teal (Jade) were unique as was the decision to compliment them with such a small but effective amount of yellow. I would say their original uniforms have transcended 90's fads. Why could it not work as well in 2023? Nostalgia has been the main driving force in NHL uniform design, since the aftermath of the Edge debacle, and it has been recently expanded to include the 90's. The Ducks current colours and logos look more dated with each passing season.

The main set gives off similar vibes from when Pittsburgh used Vegas Gold... On the good version, not the one they lifted 2 Cups in. Still, this seems like an extremely bizarre way for an original 6 team to celebrate its centennial. I wish they'd just replaced the logos on their current set, with the simplified versions, brought back the yellow socks and called it a day. These feel more like gimmick jerseys than a celebration of 100 years of Bruins hockey.

I feel confident in saying that this is the best looking jersey in the team's history. The new metallic material is such a monumental improvement over the sparkle trim they used on the originals and it just elevates the design to a new level. As for the Reds they're going with? They've always just seemed like just a lesser version of what they lifted the cup in. Why sublimate the most distinctive part of the design and why downgrade the only colour (silver) that separated your scheme from all the other red-and-black teams to such a degree. Close, but no cigar.

It can be explained rather simply. The Los Angeles Kings switched to this in time for the arrival of the most famous hockey player in the world and subsequently became the undisputed leader in merchandise sales. Other teams wanted a similar revenue stream and hopped on the bandwagon. The two most egregious examples were the league's two "Green Teams," The Minnesota North Stars and Hartford Whalers... Both teams jettisoned their bright palettes for darker bases and metallic highlights. The Northstars rebrand even employed a similar, italic, text-based logo while the Whalers borrowed the Kings silver trim and went with a Navy base so dark, it often appeared black on the ice. From there Darker palettes became the trend. The Stars would make their green even darker, after their move to Dallas, and the Oilers, Islanders, & Sabres would go down a similar trajectory. It wasn't until the aftermath of the RBK Edge debacle that brighter colour palettes came back into fashion.

The Stars actually use a darker shade of Green than what Minnesota used. "Victory Green" was created by splitting the difference between their original shade, used for the 1993/94 season, and the Forest Green they used after. It was brightened for print applications in 2021 but just so it more closely matched the colours of the sweaters themselves. This is photo I took comparing two jerseys I own. An authentic Dallas Stars one from 2018 to an Authentic North Stars from 1976. The difference in shades is pretty negligible They've always used a metallic gold, this is correct. But the jerseys of the last North Stars and first Dallas Stars teams are almost identical. The only change they made was adding the Texas shoulder patch so there's a through-line there. I just think the Dallas Stars should use Green, Black and Gold in some capacity. Whether it's athletic or metallic. It's a unique colour scheme with a significant amount of history and a championship behind it. The current Stars uniforms look great in a vacuum but replacing Gold with Silver was a mistake. It just doesn't feel like the same franchise.

This is the colour scheme the Dallas Stars should be using. Acknowledge that second-six history. You won your only championship in a darker, 90's version of this scheme and it's not hard to imagine the North Stars ending up with something similar, had they stuck around. Since the Red Wings can be Red & White while the Devils are Red, White and Black... Why can't Minnesota be Green, Yellow and White while Dallas is Green, Yellow, White and Black? It's not like Green and Yellow is an overused scheme. The Stars current uniforms look great. Adding athletic gold would make them even better and play into their history perfectly.

I'm torn on the Wild going with those colours full-time... Up close, they look fantastic. Particularly in the leaked photo with the State of Hockey patch. But sometimes, on the ice, they look downright awful... Maybe it's lighting but this photo makes me think this scheme is in some desperate need of black. Maybe not as much as what the late 80's to early 90's set had but just a small sliver for some contrast. But then again, that would lead to unwanted "are they infringing on the Dallas Star's identity" discussions so I'm not sure what the solution would be. Getting rid of that hideous clash advert would be a great start.

The late 2000's was such a dark time for NHL jersey design... It looked like things were heading in the right direction in 2004 with Minnesota's All Star jerseys, the Flames going back to red, the re-emergence of lace-up collars, the only "howler" jerseys worth remembering and the phasing out of the wackier 90's designs. Then the lockout arrives and the two big re-brands to emerge after are this and this... And I can't think of a more appropriate jersey to sum up what came after than this...

As someone who's been drinking this soda since 2012, I absolutely hate the new can design and logo. All the personality and charm of the product has been sanded down for something painfully generic and soul-less. The new font is nice but every other change they made frankly sucks. If they had just incorporated the new font and left everything else the same, they'd have something. But I really miss the sublimated bubbles and absolutely can't stand the wavy, pepsi-esque background they employed.