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The font and colors are clean.  Not sure about the huge circle NBC/time/down placement.

1 hour ago, spartacat_12 said:

 

You're right, I can't believe what drastic changes the Oilers have made to their dynasty uniforms.

 

 

The shoulder yoke into collar looks ridiculous on the Gretzky uniform compared to the McDavid sweater.

12 hours ago, B-mer said:

Well I mean have two teams,  not four. This year each team had a blue and a white jersey so they could make sure one team had the other no matter which divisions advanced. 
 

I much preferred East v West or even North America v World. Revisit the fantasy draft maybe? Full teams, normal game.  Then each team has one uniform and you won’t have weird mismatching pieces like this year. 
 

If sticking with the 4 division format then 4 uniforms that any could face each other would be cool. 

I agree with the uniforms.  I saw highlights of the same player in both the blue and white uniforms....  Just make 4 unique uniforms if you want 4 unique teams. 

Why does USA have white numbers on a white background?! So hard to read and looks dumb. 

The Kraken have a great identify.  Too bad they aren't successful like Vegas and we really wont be seeing them in prime time games very often for a while.

1 hour ago, AFirestormToPurify said:

Sure but what makes more sense, a team in southern (edit: not THAT southern apparently) US Colorado honoring a past franchise by wearing the jersey of a team called the Northerners filled with French fleur de lys OR a team in southern US Colorado honoring a past franchise by wearing the jersey of a local defunct team called the Rockies for the Rocky Mountains and with a logo that resembles the state flag?

I personally found it a little disrespectful that they even chose burgundy for the fleur de lys on their RR when blue is part of their colour scheme. Well maybe not disrespectful but I think it made no sense at all.

 

I hope next year's RR is a steel blue based pre-Edge jersey with burgundy (the original mid 90s lighter shade of burgundy for extra throwback points and more obvious difference between those and the current jerseys maybe?) sleeves and black gear

Why would I honor a team that is currently playing in New Jersey?  A team that played only 7 years here and with no success?  

Or I can about a team that Joe Sakic and Peter Forsberg actually played for.  A team that has direct franchise records associated with it.

1 hour ago, DCarp1231 said:

Nope

 

Definitely not

 

 

Not at all

 

Not one bit

 

 

I mean I can play that game too:

11 hours ago, Cujo said:

BEFORE AFTER

 

Sure it may look a tad better, but it doesn't look like the Cowboys anymore...

14 hours ago, QCS said:

Teams honoring their city's history in a sport >>>>>> teams honoring their "franchise" history.

 

The Avs should throw back to the Rockies, Jets 2 to Jets 1, et cetera. Any new Quebec team should throw back to the original Nordiques, any Hartford team to the Whalers, any KC team to the Scouts if they so choose.

nah, as an Avalanche fan for 26 years, I can more about the Nordiques history than I do about the Rockies.  

The Avalanche have no ties to the Rockies.....

1 hour ago, Ridleylash said:

Im not saying it’s not real but that tweet is ridiculous.  It’s not a rendering issue that perfectly fills in just one random stripe.  

3 hours ago, YelichGraphics said:

 

What happened to the red  waist strip on the right side....

Woof, #27 is rough

Why isn’t the Olympic sweater the same as

the WJC for team USA??

14 hours ago, Echo said:

 

They did use the shield logo as a crest briefly in the late '70s.  It wasn't well-received.

 

the shield isn’t the problem here.  The striping and touching colors are. 

16 hours ago, tBBP said:

I must be the one person on Earth who prefers the Robopenguin over the skating penguin...

 

...Don't @ me.

Big fan of the Robo Penguin 

The home jersey should say "Penguins" and the away should say "Pittsburgh" and then that set is perfect. 

15 hours ago, IceCap said:

I guess my micro point is I think they look bad and my macro point is I think they look bad because of an annoying trend where teams or designers (or both) fall so in love with local references that good, solid design comes secondary. 

Thats why every Avalanche concept or redesign always has to have the mountains in it.   It's annoying because theres only so much you can do with mountains and a hockey jersey.   Wish the Avs could have a none mountain/local themed jersey.

7 minutes ago, andrewharrington said:

Did I say that?

 

Someone said they don’t mix different letters in the same word when setting wood type, which is false.

 

But what the heck, I’ll bite: a poster is a good idea for a jersey when your city is well known for its show posters and the most famous show poster print shop on Earth is located a half-block from your front steps (inside the Country Music HOF & Museum lobby).

So it was taken as the inspiration…

This poster was super popular back in 1995-96 for the Avs:

So I created the next Avs alternate!  The clipped heads much remain to keep it true to the original.

16 minutes ago, andrewharrington said:

Might want to do the research on that again, and use actual Hatch prints as reference lol.

 

Since when is a poster a good idea for a jersey?

Just a giant swing and miss from idea to execution on the Nashville sweater.    Just because Nashville has some weird font posters that doesn't mean it will translate well to an NHL sweater...  

Someone along the way had to see that it wasn't working and change direction....  

8 minutes ago, AFirestormToPurify said:

My point is that the Smashville script ruins an otherwise perfectly fine and traditional hockey jersey with horizontal striping. If they had released the same exact jersey but with their regular logo on it, do you think it would have been so poorly received? Not a chance

The Bolts jersey on the other hand is an asymmetrical mess that looks like an 8 year old's drawing, let alone the dumb nickname logo/script, which to me automatically makes it worse than Nashville's jersey. You can't even redeem it by slapping a normal hockey logo on it, it's that bad

Not sure what you're talking about here, this has nothing to do with what I'm saying

lol what?

the lightning jersey is 100x better than Nashvilles.  

The Lightning sweater is actually pretty solid.  Love the blue bolt for the striping.  Nice!!

Love that Pens alternate.  The current sweater is too busy and I much prefer this striping.