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As much as I miss the Waldo jersey, the 2006 set (including alternate) overall is till probably my favorite set. I recall most of 2006 Nike sets being pretty on point. Since 2011, I feel like Nike's off-World Cup sets have been better than their World Cup sets.

On 8/6/2022 at 8:52 PM, TalktoChuck said:

The well for Blackhawks throwbacks has run dry.

Symbolic of where the Hawks are as a franchise right now, unfortunately. 

2 hours ago, AnPheitseog said:

CCM has switched  away from the EDGE template to their own CCM quicklite.

 

I own both the replica and authentic quicklite and, tbh, if CCM gets it and brings quicklite to the NHL i'll be ecstatic.

 

Also, regardless of who gets the contract SP sports is STILL likely to be the ones making the jerseys. As they did for CCM, reebok, and adidas. just slapping a new logo on it

 

 

 

EDIT: It's also worth mentioning that fanatics already makes the retail NFL jerseys and they're not half bad.

 

 

Yeah, most likely. My understanding is that SP Sports has been making University of Minnesota’s jerseys since 1999, whether those jerseys were tagged Nike, Mission, or Easton.

If it’s Nike and the jerseys look more or less like what their output in college hockey has been the past years, I can live with that. Each jersey manufacturer has its own quirks, and in recent NCAA hockey, it’s been truncated sleeve stripes. But other than that, the Nike schools in B1G hockey—Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan State—generally looked pretty good. Or at least, no worse than the average NHL team. It also shows that if the client wants a traditional look, Nike can do that, too.

17 hours ago, M4One said:

 

This jersey would only rank above the flying V.  Giant front numbers and a wordmark do not belong in hockey.  

2 hours ago, chcarlson23 said:

Clearly you’ve never watched any college hockey…

 

 

Wonder how he feels about diagonal letters or cursive word marks… 

On 7/20/2022 at 1:22 PM, AFirestormToPurify said:

I had to google yellow hockey pants and honestly, with the white jersey, I think it could look alright. As a once in a while thing, of course

Gophers wore them for their 100th anniversary set and they looked great.

20 hours ago, oldschoolvikings said:

 

When we're on this website, this is what we can call a good question.  If you ask this question anywhere else on the planet, you will be looked at as though you've got a squirrel living on your head, and everyone will slowly back away.

 

But since you ask here... good question!!

 

 

I tend to agree with your first definition. Technically to be a northwestern stripe, it needs to go thin - thick - thin, all one color, separated by the jersey color underneath.  I think that puts us in the minority these days, as I read people on this site pretty much refer to any three part thin - thick - thin stripe as a northwestern stripe.

 

I know why it's so regimented in my head, and why I'll probably never be able to think of it any other way.  It's because of a job I had right out of college back in the late 80's.  For a few years I worked in a silkscreen sweatshop, doing art production. Pre-computer, everything was cut and pasted by hand, lettering hand set, photographed on a giant production camera, and projected on to silk screens. We did t-shirts, hats, etc. But we also did jerseys (and football helmet decals... that was the best part of the job!) for high schools and the occasional d-3 college. The jerseys were offered from a catalog. Of course, for more money we'd do custom stripes, but the catalog had template stripes that could be applied in whatever colors to a jersey sleeve, in about a dozen different pre-made configurations.  In the catalog, there were offerings like "Double-stripe" (two stripes, same color, separated by jersey) and "Double-fill" (two stripes, same color, separated by a second color). And we offered a few variations on the Northwestern Stripe. IIRC they went something like this;

 

Standard Northwestern Stripe- three stripes, all one color, thin-thick-thin, separated by jersey;

 

 

Northwestern Stripe, trimmed  - three stripes, all one color, thin-thick-thin, separated by jersey, with a second color trimming each stripe;

 

 

 

There was a listing we referred to as a USC Stripe (because, obviously, this is what USC wore at the time - three stripes, center stripe a different color, thin-thick-thin, separated by jersey;

 

(I think most people would probably just think of this as a northwestern stripe, but I can't help thinking of it as something different.)

 

 

There was also a variation of the Northwestern Stripe (I remember it that way because we used the NW stripes screen as a starting template) the catalog advertised as a "Standard Pro Stripe" - a NW Stripe with a second color stripe floating in the gaps of the three same color stripe... similar to what Green Bay, Cleveland, Miami, and others wore.

 

 

 

That's how these things got locked into my brain in my 20's, so that's how I always think of them. It's pretty much just semantics, anyway.

 

 

It was kind of a fun job, but the pay was terrible and I think I was breathing in some horrific fumes.  I got fired for talkng about a union.

I suppose an originalist would go back and look at what Northwestern originally wore to determine what people were calling a Northwestern stripe. And I think the original jerseys support the monocolor interpretation, but since most people also apply it to the USC version, it’s futile go against common usage. (And yet every day a grammar teacher will get after someone for ending a sentence with a preposition or splitting an infinitive.)

Northwestern–Purdue from 1932:

22 hours ago, the admiral said:

 

I'm glad no Chicago teams are doing ORD stuff. I suppose the Chicago Wolves could. 

I think a lot of people don't know IATA has city codes for multiple airport cities, so if you're searching for flights to a city  and are indifferent about airport, many search engines will allow you to use these codes: Chicago's is CHI (covering ORD, MDW, and RFD, though apparently not GYY), New York's is NYC (covering JFK, LGA, EWR, and HPN), DC's is WAS (covering DCA, IAD, and BWI), London's is LON (covering LHR, LGW, LCY, STN, LTN, BQH, and SEN).

So in that sense, the White Sox are wearing Chicago's IATA code CHI on their City Connect uniforms, which as you mention is a little better than the alternative ORD or more locally-fitting MDW.

Anyway, list of these IATA codes here: https://wikitravel.org/en/Metropolitan_Area_Airport_Codes

3 hours ago, BJ Sands said:

 

I know I've been here for a long time and should know this, but I thought Northwestern stripes technically meant monocolor stripes--i.e., a thin stripe with offset thin stripes all of one color. Or maybe it's other way around--i.e., a thin stripe with offset stripes of a different color. Either way, if Northwestern stripes only mean one or the other, then either the black jerseys or the purple and white ones aren't Northwestern stripes.

On 6/7/2022 at 10:51 AM, WSU151 said:

 

The only problem with this particular set was the striping was different on the shoulders (thin white stripes) and the pants (thick white stripes). If they had made them more similar, it would have looked better. 

 

The Marshall Faulk unis are an iconic look for SDSU...wish they'd just use that look (modernize for templates) full time. 

Agreed 100%. Match the shoulder and pants stripes, and those uniforms would improve from being solid to great. But no matter what, SDSU needs to be referencing the Faulk era in their uniforms (more than just color scheme).

As an aside, I was at the game Faulk ran for 299 at BYU. Easily the best single performance by any player I’ve ever seen. It was one of those typical no-defense WAC games—BYU ended up with 560 total yards and still lost.

On 6/2/2022 at 8:29 AM, MJWalker45 said:

I'd like to se them go with something based on the Marshall Faulk era uniforms, at a minimum as an alternate. I like the current helmet, but the old school helmets looked better for everyday wear. 

 

On 6/2/2022 at 11:23 AM, plobrien said:

 

The helmets just look plain red unless you see them up close. A modernized Faulk era uniform would be way better. 

The Aztecs had a set that was on point. Then they ditched them.

16 hours ago, the admiral said:

yeah and those high-flying run-and-gun Devils of the same era

 

Yeah… that reminds me…

On 5/20/2022 at 5:01 PM, FinsUp1214 said:

There’s a good reason for that; they were originally headed towards being called Utah Polytechnic State University (UPSU) and would’ve used “Utah Tech” informally for short, but backlash to the UPSU name was so strong (the UPS memes were too easy) that Utah Tech became the formal name across the board instead.

@ups_university is an Instagram meme account that started right after the original name was announced and, well, you can get an idea of why Utah Tech won out altogether:

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQKQnMrLcmA/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
 

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQKMzGZLVpt/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
 

 

EDIT: Can’t get the IG posts to embed right for some reason, sorry for the extra clicks.

I get it. But it still doesn’t explain why they didn’t choose Utah Institute of Technology or Utah Technological University, or even Utah Polytechnic University. As far as I recall, Utah doesn’t maintain separate U and State U systems like California or Minnesota, so there was really no need for the “S” in the UPSU.

On 5/15/2022 at 2:37 PM, RevNet said:

Utah Tech University, the former Dixie State University, has revealed their brand.

 

 

I like the name change, but I'm surprised they went with Utah Tech University as their official name. Not Utah Institute of Technology. Not Utah Polytechnic Institute. Not even Utah Technological University. Just Utah Tech University. Of all the other "tech" schools out there--MIT, Caltech, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Michigan Tech, IIT--they had to follow the lead of Texas Tech.

11 hours ago, JayMac said:

I loved that black sweater but I regretted it once they made that the primary.

I think that’s the general consensus. 

On 5/5/2022 at 11:01 AM, spartacat_12 said:

 

Philly is an orange & white team with black trim. Anaheim's alternates are orange & black with gold & white trim.

And may it always be that way. Seems just like yesterday that the Flyers were subjecting us to this (and its hideous Edge cousin, which I refuse to post): 

On 5/4/2022 at 8:03 PM, habsfan1 said:

 

I would move that matchup above New York/Pittsburgh because the Penguins straight up 90s uniform has visible flaws stemming from a dated product that should have been tweaked.

*80s. The 90s Pens were Robo-pen.

Of course, if being dated is your primary critique, you’re ignoring the 900 lb, straight up 40s gorilla on the ice. The Rangers uniform has arguably as many flaws, it’s just that it’s had 70ish years to become endearing.

For the record, I think Rangers–Pens matchup is the best-looking first round matchup.

9 hours ago, dont care said:

This is like wondering how gun crimes are able to occur in 2 of the strictest gun law cities in the the nation (New York and Chicago). They buy them outside the city and bring them in and/or buy them from their buddy who already has it. 

Oh, absolutely. I say it facetiously because visitors always complaint about how stone cold sober Provo is and yet every year a BYU athlete will get busted, not by the university but by the Provo cops and local media. Of course my friends on the football team back in the day used to claim Provo cops would follow them around, and it wouldn’t surprise me if that were true to a degree. The city of Provo’s has a love-hate relationship with the university that is very different than, e.g., an SEC school and it’s town.

8 hours ago, FinsUp1214 said:

You’re absolutely right on both counts. A Winter Classic in Provo is an idea that sounds awesome in theory but would have a lot of roadblocks. That said, if by some miracle it worked? I’d pay whatever dollar it took to go. I live just minutes from the stadium and would be thrilled.

 

EDIT: I will say this, I have seen more and more Knights fans pop up along the Wasatch Front in the last few years….not overwhelmingly, but it’s evidence that hockey is starting to interest at least a few more people here.

I get why the Knights put their AHL team in Henderson, but I do think they missed a huge opportunity to spread their brand up the I-15 corridor by not putting the Silver Knights in Salt Lake City. Because of geography and history, Utah has more of an affinity towards Las Vegas than Denver anyway, but putting an AHL team there combined with the buzz the Golden Knights already generated would solidify the growing Utah market for the Knights.

12 hours ago, spartacat_12 said:

 

 And some out-of-the-box ideas:

• Washington vs. Philadelphia at Camden Yards 
• Minnesota vs. Chicago at Lambeau Field
• Vegas vs. Colorado at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo, UT
• Pittsburgh vs. Washington at Mountaineer Field in West Virginia
• Carolina vs. Rangers/Bruins at Rentschler Field in Hartford (not sure how former Whalers fans would feel about this though)

As much as this BYU grad would love to see NHL in Provo, there are at least two problems with this:

1. They don’t sell beer at LaVell Edwards Stadium. Or pretty much anywhere else in Provo (and yet BYU football players somehow are able to find it and consume it in front of either a cop or the media).

2.  More importantly, there aren’t very many hockey fans in Provo. I know, as I was one of the few. In fact, for being a winter sports haven and a former Winter Olympics city, Salt Lake City is a surprisingly mediocre hockey market. That’s not to say there aren’t hockey fans there doing the Lord’s work spreading the gospel of Howe, Orr, and Gretzky, it’s just that there aren’t enough of them to even make a smaller venue like Rice Eccles Stadium work. 

1 hour ago, Dilbert said:

Boston again? God forbid they go someplace new like Columbus, or Seattle

Isles-Devils in Piscataway. Make it so.

If the Hurricanes insist on wearing black alternate jerseys, they should differentiate themselves from every other black alternate team by wearing red breezers. I know the Wings and Rangers are currently the only red-breezers-only teams, but Carolina (and Columbus) should join that club and wear red breezers regardless of jersey.

On 3/29/2022 at 3:49 PM, DTConcepts said:

Gonna add to the C discourse by saying that the Avs should use their secondary logo as a captain patch.

12 hours ago, WSU151 said:

 

Only if they remove it from the shoulders. 

Good. Then they can bring back this:

7 hours ago, DEAD! said:

The reversible jersey reminded me that I wished I had bought the Manchester United centennary kit from 20 years ago..

Makes me wish I would have bought a Getafe Burger King jersey:

On 3/10/2022 at 10:15 PM, DEAD! said:

The Carolina-Edmonton final was quite forgettable.  Still hilarious that they put 'Eastern' on the left side and 'Western' on the right.

Looking south from Canada, east is on the left.

On 2/16/2022 at 2:42 PM, aawagner011 said:

There appears to be heavy smoke around Georgia updating its font and dropping Bulldog Bold.

 

 

 

Georgia's proprietary font suffers from the same problem as Wisconsin--their lines are too thick giving them a bloated appearance. If they went from Bulldog Bold to as hypothetical "Bulldog Regular" or even "Bulldog Semibold," I'd probably be fine with.

Maybe I'm a sucker for art deco, but the numbers on the throwback uniforms Washington used many years back (no to mention the originals on which they were based) were fantastic.