Delicate Genius

Vegas is wearing the shiny gold helmets tonight.

Alex Chiasson's name is spelled wrong on his jersey tonight.

It was reported in September that Verizon would be the helmet sponsor for the Sabres this season, but this logo is on Buffalo's home helmets tonight (as it was during preseason): KeyBank was on their white buckets during the preseason. Arizona, Columbus, and Ottawa are also without helmet sponsors to begin the season and are just using their own logos instead. That's six teams so far (Colorado and Edmonton are the other two).

No helmet ad for the Oilers.

Based on games this week, here's what I have for helmet ads. Ads (18) Boston, Buffalo, Carolina, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Montreal, New Jersey, NY Islanders, NY Rangers, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Tampa Bay, Vegas, Washington, Winnipeg Team logos (12) Anaheim, Arizona, Calgary, Colorado, Edmonton, Florida, Ottawa, Philadelphia, San Jose, St. Louis, Toronto, Vancouver Nothing (2) Minnesota, Nashville

The Elks are in the Eskimos' EE alternates today, with a new helmet. The gold numbers/letters are a welcome sight. The Stamps are wearing the barbed wire helmets on the road tonight.

Update:

Since the standings are for this past season, it will stay as the Howling Head until the new season begins. NHL.com uses season-specific logos for that stuff.

There have been issues with the logo since the Coyotes brought it back three seasons ago. At least both skate blades are the correct colour this time.

The "Edmonton" wordmark on the front of the jerseys is also from the Eskimos era.

The logo on the pants is the Eskimos' version of the EE logo (white letters, drop shadow, green oval). The Elks have an EE logo, but the letters are slightly modified and changed to yellow, and the oval/shadow were dropped.

Also, not sure if it was pointed out, but the Elks didn't get new pants this year; the Eskimos logo is still on the upper right leg. I'm guessing Covid had something do with that. Still a little surprising they didn't remove or cover it up.

They look like the Packers. I hope the gold numbers return.

The Argos need some stripes on their jerseys.

Quick fixes.

I'm missing the gold numbers already.

Yeah, that's really ugly. That uniform set looked a little better when they wore the black helmet with the homes and the orange helmet with the roads. I didn't mind these:

The Lions need to go back to something like the 2012-15 look. The 2016 redesign was pretty bad, and the current uniforms are a downgrade from that.

A couple more pics of the Elks:

The only time this matchup occurred (February 19, 2011).

Gold treatment for The Finals.

Is there any talk of the Avs ditching the black numbers/names on the away jerseys?

If the Oilers are going back to the dynasty uniforms again, they should stick with the single outline on the numbers they currently have (and had for their first two years in the league). That was one improvement adidas made in 2017. It looks cleaner and would help with reading the orange numbers from a distance.