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From being at the game, the Stampeders look really nice in just red and white. The anniversary helmet with the mismatching decals is kind of dumb, but whatever.

Portnoy says Barstool is in talks with one of the Big 4 to air games. Now this being Portnoy, "talks" could be anything, but still something. It's got to be the NHL right? Hoo boy, I can't wait to see the storm on Hockey/Blue Checkmark/Hockey Blue Checkmark Twitter if this does happen.

Now where have I seen those Ottawa jerseys before?

From what I understand, the lawsuit came about after Kirk Minihane had one of his interns read through the entirety of her book live on his show (or maybe it was just a YouTube stream or something), but I have no idea, nor do I care to look into, if the lawsuit is for a defamation thing or a copyright thing.

Don't like the different decals on different sides. I think it'll look fine with the normal aways, but it's going to look out of place with the retros. I don't think they needed to do full retro helmets with the old leather striping pattern, but just the normal helmets would be okay. Also, I posted a page or so back about the horse logo the Stampeders use on the helmet and jerseys being different from the primary logo (and being SMU's logo) and then they go and change the horse in this helmet anniversary logo to the helmet/jersey horse. So I guess they intentionally are using the different horse logo and are keeping that consistent? I don't know what's going on there. This looks really good and the general reaction to the dropping of black has been good, so I hope the Stampeders are paying attention. Especially with the Flames going retro and dropping black (besides the alternate), maybe CSEC might be thinking about doing the same for the the Stamps? (But who knows based on CSEC)

Well this is underwhelming. I think using the Blackhawks template is worse now with a new logo. With the previous logo, you at least had the history of why they were playing Blackhawks dress-up but now it just looks like they picked the Blackhawks template out of a catalogue because it happened to match the logo colours. Why not make a clean break from the old brand with new jerseys? I still don't like going with metallic gold in the logos instead of flat.

2/32. Washington.

I'm a fan of the new Winterhawks logo, but I don't like the metallic gold in the beak. Should have been flat. Yes, Tri-City (non-plural) does. It came in as the primary in 2003 and was relegated to secondary in 2008.

Vancouver Giants new third jersey.

Icethetic's Jersey Watch says the Flames aren't going to have an alternate this season and the Black C jerseys are on a 50% off sale right now on the Flames/CSEC teams store. The Jersey Watch does say that one is planned for 2022-23 though, so the Black C might still come back. One issue with wearing a Cowboys jersey is that the Cowboys jersey is just a Blackhawks jersey without the black. The Flames also haven't ever, directly, acknowledged the Cowboys either and the old Stampede Corral itself is rubble now, so tying it in with the closure of the rink is gone. I say directly because the Hitmen played three games at the Corral two years ago now and wore Cowboys jerseys in one of the games. (The other two jerseys were the Wranglers and Centennials, old WHL franchises who also played in the Corral)

I just kind of noticed this now, but the horse the Stampeders use on their helmets and jerseys is different than the horse in their logo (and that's used everywhere else). Dropshadow notwithstanding, but look at the direction of the tail, the face shape and the "spikes" in the mane. The one on the helmets and jerseys is SMU's logo. I don't know if this has always been the case, but I can't not see it now.

Not a great pic, but an early look nonetheless. I'm a sucker for these kinds of helmets (Rams, Bengals, Vikings, Eagles, Barnstomers) but I don't know if I'm a fan. The decal looks too small and thin to me. The Stamps are wearing the normal helmets, so no idea what that helmet Mitchell was wearing is about.

Not according to what Andrew just said. I still stand by what I said before. The Reverse Retro program is really cool and a, rare, really good idea from the NHL and I have a Getzlaf Reverse Retro in my closet right now that will be my go-to Ducks jersey for the foreseeable future, but the program has a shelf life. I would rather it end after one (generally) good and well received go-around instead of cheapening it after another season or two with the reactions being "I guess that's a jersey that team wore in the past" or "That's the Reverse Retro they had last year, but in a different colour" or "That's just pretty much what they're wearing right now all the time already, but in a different colour". That is a concern of mine, if you can even call it a concern. These aren't just supposed to be alternate jerseys, these are "Reverse Retros" and I think they should occupy different spaces and themes. If it gets to the point where the jerseys aren't "Reversed" (even though that's an already loose term) nor "Retro", the program has run its course.

So it turns out this whole thing might have been a stunt because Addison posted she got fired and then some dude from something called Front Office Sports said they reached out to a source who said she was never employed by UFC. This is the dumbest thing ever and an insane overreaction. Big-J journalists got to protect the industry or whatever.

And that's the thing here, it's not even a real "job". I fully assume this is just her doing ringside interviews for a single fight night and then both her and the UFC will go on their merry ways after. I do not think she's joining the UFC media corps. It's no different than any other actor or athlete or celeb doing an appearance, but these people were so incensed by her joke about her single semester in the journalism program, at LSU I believe, before her internet fame took off that it crossed their wires. If she hadn't commented at all about her former schooling, or she isn't famous for the way she is, it's a non-thing beside maybe a couple people making the usual "internet famous/talent" comments. Just from my two years-ish in the biz, I don't think it's that bad yet in all places, at least from my knowledge about the Canadian markets near me. Some of the smaller towns sure, those probably weren't too big to begin with, but there are still journalism jobs out there. But it's definitely a saturated market with people like the admiral was getting at who were Good At School and social media/Twitter has broken a lot of those people's brains where they think local news is beneath them because they want to opine.

First the TikTokers came for the dancers, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a dancer. Then they came for the singers, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a singer. Then they came for the actors, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a actor. Then they came for me the broadcast journalist - and there was no one left to speak for me. The, mostly "aspiring", news and sports media people are mad online in the replies and quote tweets. A Celeb gets to do some on-air presenting?! Well I never!

The collective we. Toronto, Detroit and Chicago are the big ones. This is exactly what I was getting at. Despite how generally well received it was, the Reverse Retro well can only be drawn from so many times before it stops becoming a "Reverse Retro" and ends up being something more akin to a normal alternate jersey or it ends up being simply a flip of (of an already flipped) existing Reverse Retro jersey. The freshness can go away quickly. (the collective) We widely panned the Toronto, Detroit and Chicago jerseys and it will get to the point where, if the RR continues with new jerseys, other teams will find themselves in the same spot where they don't have much to choose from. I'm not saying that there's not still RR possibilities out there, it's that it's a limited resource and could get stale very quickly. Lets look at Calgary for example. They went with the Blasty jersey for the Reverse Retro, which really only entailed removing the red at the bottom of the jerseys (and a swapping of the shoulder patch colour). Where do they go next? A white version of Blasty? Well that's just a flip of what they already did. There's no new ground there. A black or a yellow version of the current jerseys as a Reverse Retro to 1989? Well that's just essentially an alternate jersey. A black version of the 04 set? That's just the Blasty jersey but with a Flaming C this time instead A black pedestal? If there's going to be a second Reverse Retro, do they or (the collective) we want another black jersey? So what are we stuck with then? A pedestal jersey in the current colours? I'd wager that if you sat down and really thought about it, there's not that many teams with another (good) Reverse Retro option that can still be considered both Reverse and Retro. A team like Florida has pretty much already exhausted their Reverse Retro catalogue, unless they want to go with the current colours on that double blue alternate. There is the opportunity to go with something from a previous hockey franchise in the city/area, I also think that will eventually also stray away from Reverse Retro conceit if teams aren't throwing back to themselves. No it doesn't. Your link even shows that. Nothing about low quality or poor design. The barrel has run dry and we are literally scraping the bottom of the barrel to try to get the dregs because it is all that is left.

I would wager most teams could have a second jersey choice if the league/Adidas decides to run the RR program back again. The issue would be if the teams should have a second RR. I mean, we kind of scraped the bottom of the barrel already during the first go-around and I don't know if a team simply flipping the RR they had last year nor going with something that is pretty close to what the team is currently wearing brings enough oomph to a second RR effort. I could see the RR quickly becoming something that looks like a normal alternate jersey and not a special "modified" throwback. Like some of the hypotheticals posited in the post above, many of them are just colour flips of what they are currently wearing.

Back when the reveal happed, I believe they said the original plan was for the jerseys to be up for sale at around the expansion draft. I don't know if that is still the case though.

Or maybe they realized how bad the original logo was.

Nothing on the Elks yet that I've seen. The player graphic they're using for a recent ticket pack campaign is one from last year with the old Eskimos wordmark edited out. The Stamps anniversary jerseys have supposedly been selling very well with the store at McMahon picked clean and more shipments have been ordered. I doubt it, but maybe it'll show the team that the black isn't needed because it's not just us here on the boards that don't like the black,

Icethetics' JerseyWatch says a source told them the Flames are planning for no alternates for the 2021-22 season. I passed by a brick and mortar CGY Team Store (CSEC's apparel store for the Flames, Stamps, Hitmen and Roughnecks) when I was at a mall last weekend and there was a sign out front saying 50% off all Black C jerseys (and maybe some Black C apparel too, I don't remember). Just looking at the online store right now, it's there as well. I have to go back to that mall tomorrow, so I'll look closer I guess.

The Cranes

(Since I can't seem to find the offseason thread because this is a bit more than just OITGDNHL) Alleged assaults of Blackhawks players ‘an open secret’: source