monkeypower

I'm a couple years younger than the baseball Rockies so I don't know what, if any, issue there was with the baseball team taking the hockey team name back then, but I think if your name has been taken by a different professional team in a different professional sport, you're a bit irrelevant as a franchise. I can't even say that the hockey Rockies held much of a position in the "vintage hockey apparel" world that some other teams have until the Avs started playing dress-up (again, also a bit of a sign of irrelevance if an unrelated team starts wearing your logo and nobody has a problem with it). When I think of the Rockies, all I know is that Lanny MacDonald and Wilf Paiement played for them.

They went with white again and they're only wearing them at home twice, which is odd to me. Also both times, they had a minor change for the worse. Last time with the dark socks with the white jerseys and now the orange pants instead of black. That doesn't fit the colour swap and is going to extend the bottom of the jersey going from orange into orange pants instead of stopping at the hem like with the old Mighty Ducks set. Watch them break out the dark socks again this time too.

I really doubt this, but I hope they go with a 1995 throwback and not a 1993 throwback because I want to see the shoulder patches. Maybe frame it as a 2003 jersey, but I don't know if any of the other RR's were in middle of years as opposed to being the first year of the jersey.

I don't like that the white of the logo, the Stanley Cup and the background are all the same colour/diamonds. Everything gets lost.

Here's Icethetics 2022-23 Jerseywatch. Personally not a fan of it being a 21 minute video instead of an article, but hopefully it'll get turned into one later.

Notice the wing on left side (when viewing) being longer than the wing on the right side. Can't imagine that was intentional considering the rest of the plane is equal and straight on.

Absolutely brutal decision. Huge downgrade. Everything else appears to be the same with the Blades besides this new logo. This blue does strike me a darker than what the logo used to be and what the jersey blue is, but that could just be a digital application thing for this logo.

The CHL doesn't have any regular jersey ads to my knowledge (minus some special event jerseys for some events that are sponsored), but Jr. A definitely does. Maybe not the Canucks, but ads are all over the Jr. A circuit and have been for years. These pictures are from three different leagues, including the AJHL.

There's going to be so many.

I don't really like that they kept orange around. there was a blog article I read where a supposed source said the goalies had been instructed not to use orange on their pads this year, but I do like those jerseys. I could honestly take or leave the grey but I've always had a bit of a soft spot for jerseys like these where the middle stripe is the main jersey colour so it looks like negative space (not the right word for it, but gets the point across I think).

I know there's been some discussion here about the Sharks dropping the black equipment, and I'll have to see it in the physical, but right now I like the mockup of the all teal look.

Couple Jr. A changes I've come across. The Calgary Canucks switched from the blue and green they've used since they started in the '70s to red and yellow, making it so they look like the Flames and not Vancouver. There's also this colour flipped version which doesn't look good at all. The Whitecourt Wolverines also made a change, old on top and new on bottom. And the Melville Millionaires dropped red. I don't know if I like the blue dollar sign on the blue jersey, especially since they use a white dollar sign in the blue shoulder patch.

The overuse of CGY stinks, but they seem pretty inoffensive for what they are and they kind of fit in with the striping of the home jersey.

If West Side Story was set in the Rust Belt.

Hoo boy Arte... It will be good when he is gone. He did a lot for the team and then did just as much, if not more, in the opposite direction. Complicated legacy is right. Will a new owner fix everything? Probably not, but we can only hope it couldn't be worse.

No, it's probably going to be like every Ducks concept ever and be a colour swapped version of the Mighty Ducks jersey.

Those jerseys are so bad.

While I'm not super jazzed about the Ducks going with white again, it makes sense if they wanted to go the route they appear to be going with the Mighty Ducks in current colours. They already wear black jerseys so it makes sense they wouldn't go that way and an orange RR in this style would just look like the current alternate. One could hope it's something similar to the current alternate so it could be a tryout for making that set, with the orange alternate, the primary set (with the new uniform supplier, the Ducks 30th anniversary and the opening of the renovated Honda Center/surrounding area all scheduleded to happen at around the same time)? I will say if that is the case, the Ducks should standardize the Mighty Ducks logo because including this Reverse Retro, there's three different Mighty Ducks logos floating around right now, which is somehow worse than back in the day when they had two for some reason.

LA and Ottawa... and Anaheim, Arizona, Boston and Pittsburgh. Carolina is the swing vote here now making it 7-7 in terms of red vs black from 8-6 in favour of red.

They couldn't decide if they wanted to keep the Vegas gold or match the Pens by updated to the yellow so they did both, then added a throwback inspired alternate for good measure (I assume the red and black is supposed to be a Wheeling Thunderbirds/early-Nailers nod).

The Ducks would have been even weirder if they did also go with the dark helmets along with having the dark socks with a white jersey. I wonder what the reasoning was?

I kind of like that Blackhawks jersey. Is it a RR? Maybe? (which is why I'm less bullish on the second go around of RR).

I don't like it. It looks more like a team called the Wichita Flames than it does the Calgary Wranglers.

I agree with @Sport, the only real "Original 6 dress-up" are the Lightning because it was so deliberate and intentional to look like the Detroit Maple Wings. Every other instance of supposed "Original 6 dress-up" are just teams looking at the platonic ideal of a hockey jersey, which most of that ideal stems from the Original 6 and "old time hockey", and then trying to emulate that ideal. It's not Original 6 dress-up for a team to use Northwestern stripes or Brashier stripes or a chest stripe or a team colour/jersey colour/white/jersey colour/team colour pattern, that's just what a hockey jersey "is".