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3. Canyon Ridge Riverhawks - Est. 2009 - Twin Falls, ID - Classification: 4A The youngest high school in the Great Basin, serving to take the heat off of Twin Falls HS' enrollment, I know nothing about this school. Another case of little overlap with my school, but I do, or did, have quite a few coworkers that were from the Twin Falls area that went to Canyon Ridge. Canyon Ridge Riverhawks - Logos: Right off the bat, I had an innate sense of the Atlanta Thrashers. So the school's existing logo sticks around, with a wordmark and number font set that was really similar to the old Atlanta Thrashers look. The school's football team has also been floating between using a medium shade of grey and a pretty dark shade, probably black. I chose to use a middle ground of that, combined with a not-quite shade of crimson. Canyon Ridge Riverhawks - Uniforms: Some of the Riverhawks' athletic teams have used a pointed, single color stripe. I turned that into a slanted, two color stripe on the sleeves of the three uniforms. On the home and away uniforms, the stripe looks like the Mighty Ducks uniforms hem stripe does in a way, Riverhawk logo on the chest. On the alternate uniform, it took me 15 teams, but we finally have a roundel logo. the hem stripe becomes a chest stripe, moving the Riverhawk to the shoulders. Socks match their sleeves. Grey helmet and pants, with a slanted stripe on the sides, crimson gloves. C&C welcome!

Font ID's aren't helping here. Anyone have any clue what the ARIZONA font is or is damn close to?

26. New York Rangers I don't hate these. Lady Liberty looks really good on royal blue. My problem overall with this being the Rangers 2.0 choice, is that it came 2 years after they somewhat lazily brought it back for the first go round. Now, I get it, the Rangers don't have a million choices to work with. But come on, a little effort never hurt. Going outside the family for the Rangers wasn't my first choice. I already tried a reverse of a uniform deep in Rangers' history, the college wordmark style jersey, which flipped to white. But beyond that, nothing else IMO was different enough to reverse (though now that I think about it, a blue version of their current white's might not have been a bad idea). Anyways, like Philly, we look outside the team's history and use something from another NHL New York team: the long gone Americans. The uniforms go royal blue, with a reworked Amerks crest on the chest, scaled down to 4 stars for 4 Stanley Cup championships. To keep it Rangers, the era appropriate shield sits on the shoulders. White sleeves, red trim at the ends. Kept the pants pretty much the same as they currently wear. Socks are a bit goofy, but its a solid color flip. C&C welcome! I'm gonna try not to be a stranger next time! (plus it would have helped if I hadn't packed my team list on accident )

\ After a week long drive, longer weekend stay with some friends, my wife and I are now technically Florida residents! And it took a lot longer than I would have hoped to have WiFi again. But all that is in the past and I'm back to posting here! 2. Burley Bobcats - Burley, ID - Classification: 4A Burley is a great truck stop town. Like in all seriousness. It's the last major stop before you decide if you're going to Salt Lake City or eastward to Pocatello and Idaho Falls. But a great, growing place to stop for gas and lunch. And my old graphic design coworker's dad lives and drives truck from there. So that's cool. Burley Bobcats - Logos: Currently, Burley makes use of the Ohio Bobcats logo, which works, but I personally don't love. Rather than go with another bobcat logo, I opted for a scratched B logo, with three claw marks through the crossbar of the B. Ended up with a font pretty similar to the new NOB font for the Blue Jackets, which also extends to the number font. Burley Bobcats - Uniforms: You could call these a modern take on what the Flyers will be departing from after this season, okay, that's a bit of a stretch. But you get the idea, shoulder length stripes with a smaller stripe underneath it. B logo on the chests of the three jerseys. Socks match their jerseys. It was bound to happen eventually, white gloves for the uniforms, black helmets and pants. C&C welcome! I'll try not to be away as long this next time!

It would certainly be nice to see Boise State finally get the jump. But it's not all about football, though BSU's basketball program seems to be on the rise. What sucks is Boise State finally brought the baseball team back, just for Covid to shutter it again. If they had the baseball team, I feel like it would help athletic matters. As for the academics side, we certainly aren't Truck Drivers University anymore but there's still a lot of work to be done, and Boise =/= huge market. Though I have seen some reports the Big XII has interest in Boise State and Memphis but I don't know how true that is.

I don't think its about NLL vs PLL. The Championship Series is played with Olympic Sixes rules. If anything, its a test drive to see what kinks need worked out before 2028 when lacrosse will be at the Olympics

1. Buhl Indians - Buhl, ID - Classification: 3A I'm going to be honest with you. I was mentally getting Buhl confused with Bliss, ID. Bliss is a truck stop town, about hour and a half from where I live (for the next 3 days at least). They just recently got a McDonalds and I have to say, freshest French Fries i've ever had. But that is not Buhl. I should have known it wasn't Buhl. And after looking at a map, I can say that I've never been to Buhl. So that is the extent of what I know about Buhl. Buhl Indians - Logos: So Buhl will be the first of a few high schools in the south central section of Idaho that use the non-descript Indians as a nickname. So navigating that was certainly interesting but Buhl came prepped with their long-time logo which stays on unchanged, and a new wordmark joins the brand, along with a similarly styled number font. Buhl Indians - Uniforms: As for the uniforms, I used the repeating nature of the headdress from the logo to create a striping pattern, found on the sleeves and shoulders of the home and away uniforms, with secondary, single color stripes on the hem and bottoms of the sleeves. Logo front and center on the home and away jerseys. The alternate gets a little more wild, if you wanna call it that, A larger solid stripe, with the same stripes, just now in single color underneath them. Logo moves to the shoulder, BUHL in the big chest stripe. Socks match their respective jerseys, solid black pants for all 3 uniforms, black helmets and black gloves with orange fingers. C&C welcome!

So one last bit for the Inland Empire and this is something I decided to do after I started this After completing the IEL and seeing there's a lot of color overlap, and in one case, teams with the same basic color scheme, I wanted to track the color schemes across the conferences and divisions, just to see most used colors and things like that. Plus its a fun looking circle! So that's something you can now expect for every conference. and speaking of conferences: Next up is the Great Basin Conference! Mostly settled in the south-central region of Idaho, the majority of these teams fill in from the 4A and 3A classifications, and largely settle in around the Twin Falls metropolitan area. There are some notable geographical outliers in this conference: Mountain Home sits just 45 minutes away from Boise so logically you'd think they'd play against the Boise area schools. While that did happen for a time, the Boise schools grew into the 5A classification and MH did not, and with the majority of the 4A schools in the Nampa area and further out, 45 minutes becomes closer to an hour 30 or longer. Plus the Boise area has added 3 high schools in the last 10 years so more and more competition is added closer, Mountain Home just fits better IMO in the Great Basin Wood River HS serves the Sun Valley area which is the biggest town in the area. The closest competition in the area is 2A or lower which doesn't serve a 4A school well. But they do have a quick route down into Gooding and Jerome via highway 75/93. Preston is a curious case for me. Logically, they should play against the Pocatello/Idaho Falls schools. However, that metro area suffers from a similar problem as Boise: it's growing at a rapid pace. Because of that, Pokey and IF have both added new high schools in their districts. With that area's conference (High Country) already sitting at an even 12 teams, Preston gets sat in the Great Basin. First team up in the Great Basin coming up shortly!

they just needed to tone it back or make it much more subtle

27. Colorado Avalanche I don't have an issue with the colors, which I love honestly. For me it's a similar situation with Carolina, the jerseys are too similar (or don't qualify as retro) to the current look. Plus I wouldn't have gone with the C on the chest, even if it is technically a recolored alternate logo and fits with the theme. That being said, it feels weird flipping a Reebok Edge alternate, but with the Colorado down the chest, it just worked better in my head. So like I mentioned, the Avs blue Reebok jersey gets the reversal here, sticking with the Colorado flag theme. Biggest changes from the original uniform, since Reebok wasn't a fan of hem stripes, added a hem stripe, similar to the style of the yoke stripes. Also used the C logo on the shoulders opposite the recolored A logo. C&C Welcome!

We've reached the end of the Inland Empire, with the last team up, the Timberlake Tigers: Timberlake can be found in the Lakeland school district, and to be completely honest with you, I didn't know anything about this school until I started doing this project. They've been open for close to 25 year now and are the smaller high school when compared to Lakeland. Timberlake Tigers - Logos: I like the use of the Detroit Tigers old "tiger-wrapping-around-a-letter" idea the school borrows and rolled with that. In a bit of an odd decision, I went with a more forward moving and futuristic wordmark, which doesn't get a lot of use but I liked the duality between the classic logo/font and the wordmark. Timberlake Tigers - Uniforms: So in a departure for me, but not anything unexpected, I don't remember my influences here for Timberlake. I originally had them in a recolored Mighty Ducks uniform, but I didn't like how it was turning out, and so I flipped it, going for the popular upper sleeve fill with stripes underneath them, a single color double stripe on the home and away uniforms, which is matched on the hem line. Main logo on all three uniforms, and the only real difference on the alternate is the double stripe becomes a full triple stripe. Gold helmets, navy gloves and pants. And as a bonus, in the spirit of things, I thought I'd run through a hypothetical district/conference tournament for every conference, ending with a hypothetical state tournament. mostly for fun for me and maybe someone here will get some enjoyment out of it: With some help from wheel spinners randomly assigning teams to high schools and NHL 23, we have our first conference tournament. (left score corresponds to top of bracket, right to bottom) First Round - With the exception of Lakeland/Timberlake, all chalk, as the higher seeds advance in some exciting games. Quarter Finals - First round bye beware! None of the top seeds make it to the semifinals. Semi Finals - Timberlake's luck had to run out eventually, and Moscow tames CDA Charter Finals - In a championship game with no scoring until the 3rd period, Moscow gets one more and claims the Inland Empire and the trip to Boise. C&C welcome!

28. New York Islanders Look, I'm of the opinion that the Fishsticks uniforms should never have existed. The Islanders feel like one of those teams that should have worn the same uniform style since day one and never deviated, think Red Wings, Blackhawks, Canadiens. But I digress. That isn't how it worked. But these uniforms are complete bastardizations of uniforms that have oddly grown on a lot of people. In keeping with what Lou has wanted and done for the team's Reverse Retros, I kept it largely still in the current colors, but added in the teal from the actual fishstick uniforms. Beyond that, it's a much truer take on the reviled uniforms of the 90's. C&C welcome!

Hey hey! Looks great. Love the classic feel

Figured I could get one more team up before Super Bowl Sunday: Sandpoint is way up north in Idaho (though not as far up there as Bonners Ferry) and is a 4A powerhouse, though there's only a couple other 4A schools within 200 miles (in Idaho) so they fill their schedule with Washington and the occasional Montana schools. That aside, they were on the losing end of the state football championship during my last year in high school which is about the end of my interaction with the Bulldogs. Sandpoint Bulldogs - Logos: oh how to deal with the Bulldogs problem. You know, how every high school with the bulldogs nickname has had this as their logo? Yeah, and while I don't normally condone high schools using pro/collegiate logos, I did that here, using Gardner-Webb's recently rebranded Bulldog head as Sandpoint's new logo. Along with a sans-serif wide athletic font with a paw print replacing the 'o' in Sandpoint. Sandpoint Bulldogs - Uniforms: The Bulldogs keep things pretty simple when it comes to their uniforms in their respective sports (football | basketball | baseball) and I kept that trend intact. Opting for a Red Wings Winter Classic style uniform with a bold chest stripe and matching stripes on the jerseys, pants and socks. As for the alternate, which does break the trend a touch, that one is actually inspired by the building (I think its the school itself, could be the gym). With that in mind, an adapted stripe pattern makes its way around the uniforms, the full pattern on the chest and socks, an abridged version on the sleeves. All the uniforms use red helmets and gloves, home and away use red pants, alternate uses black shells. C&C welcome!

I always appreciate the feedback! I personally had thought it would have been a little much having the Greek pattern on the hem, but I think it ties together much better now. So here's the full set based on the alternate. Honestly might be better than the initial set I posted. In this case, the orange jersey gets the Trojans script on it now. For reference, this was my concept I based Post Falls' (original) alternate on. Much better executed almost 6 years later now. I'm gonna stick with the outline on Lakeland. It brings the logos off the colored jerseys just a touch more, even though the black does contrast pretty well enough. In this case, the stripe was too busy for the hem, so IMO the solid color hem works better here. Did change up the logos though, which looks good. And the MHS was pretty good beforehand, but it thought it would have looked a little too out of place compared to the logos and the number font. Oh all right. Changed the hem stripe to match on the grey alternate.

29. Ottawa Senators Ottawa ranks lower than some jerseys on this list mostly because of my personal disdain for the team's choice to full send back to the inaugural look when there were better options and concepts available. Plus the Sens 2.0 attempts come off as lazy to me. As I have written on my rankings/notes, "white would go a long way here" White goes a long way here, and takes over the whole uniform. The stealth idea of the IRL uniform initially dissuaded me from reusing this uniform, but it realistically was one of the few options I felt I had left. The OG Sens don't provide anything other than a barberpole. The 1.0 uniform was basically just an alternate uniform. So the swooping alternate was the last plausible choice. If you think I'm leaving out the laurel leaf uniform, you can see my previous stab at that here. Plus as a bonus from my 3 Acts, what the Sens could have done with 2.0. C&C welcome!

My alma mater, Bishop Kelly HS (Boise, ID), sometime within the last 5 years unveiled this clip art/stock masterpiece: a quick reverse image search doesn't pull it up for a pro team or college team, but other high schools use it so it's not unique to BK. in the past, various teams at BK have used recolored versions of these: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/ucf_variations.gif nothing wild. If it were up to me, i'd have stuck with the UCF knighthead or gone with the updated Rutgers logo:

30. Philadelphia Flyers In all honesty, the bottom half of my rankings of RR 2.0 feel interchangeable. A lot of teams ended up down here due to laziness or lack of true options. Something Philly ends up with, which is unfair given the true lack of options the Flyers had to work with. But the Cooperalls in warmups really should have moved them up a little. So instead of sticking within their NHL history, the Flyers reach out to a team that lasted for just one season in Philly, the WHA's Philadelphia Blazers. In Reverse Retro fashion, the Blazers wordmark now reads Flyers, with a slight change to the shoulders which now have the Winged P logo and move the numbers down from the shoulders. I did offer up a second option just because, going more for an orange heavy look, with orange pants and gloves, similar to what Edmonton did with RR 1.0. C&C welcome!

Nope, you're not seeing double. I expected there would be something like this that would happen, with schools from classifications and divisions merging into combined leagues, but back to backing them like this wasn't honestly anticipated. And also, in the time when I created this project to actually getting it posted, Priest River actually dropped a classification from 3A to 2A, which would have put them in the A division, but in the interest of as even conferences/leagues as possible, I left them here in the AA group. Priest River Spartans - Logos: So the other black and orange team with a helmeted mascot of myth and legend, the Spartans also make use of the black and orange color scheme, this time focusing more on orange than black as a primary color. Michigan State isn't using it much, so I figured Priest River could, referring to the forgotten Sparty head MSU rolled out to shelve. Priest River Spartans - Uniforms: Where the Trojans uniforms were pretty contained, the Spartans uniforms get a little wild with it. Home and Away uniforms have a spartan pattern as the sleeve stripes with a little more reined in double stripe on the hems. Socks matching those jerseys. On the alternate jersey, the spartan pattern multiplies and is featured across the chest as well. Orange helmets and gloves, black pants. C&C welcome! Mattoa. I did some tweaking to the T in Trojans, since the default option was a little too goofy for this in my opinion. https://creativemarket.com/BombasType/1521298-Mattoa

Post Falls sits roughly 15 minutes from Coeur d'Alene, and is the first town you drive through after driving through Spokane to get there. It's cute, though one could make a strong argument that it gets overshadowed by the more-popular CDA, which makes sense. Post Falls doesn't have a lake to profit from. As for the Trojans, they fall into the category of "no interaction". didn't play a sport they did, and they're a division above my alma mater. However, they have one of my early favorites in terms of identities. Post Falls Trojans - Logos - The black and orange color scheme is the first part of what I love about the Trojans. it's an underrated color scheme in my opinion. two, they have a unique logo. I've praised that with the few teams so far that have those, but theirs is fun, kinda bouncy in a certain way that works for them. All I had to do was add wordmark that I felt captured some of that same essence. Post Falls Trojans - Uniforms- Around 2013, the PF Trojans football team wore pants with a cut Northwestern stripe on the pants and that was enough for me. The northwestern stripe becomes the focal point and makes its mark everywhere it can, on the shoulders, sleeves and hems of the primary jerseys. down the sides of the pants and on the socks as well. As for the alternate, this was an idea I tried for the Flyers in an NHL concept series that most everyone hated, but for a high school team, I thought it tied in nicely with the established jerseys and was still different enough. C&C welcome!

31. Carolina Hurricanes Only reason this is higher than CBJ is because it's actually a decent jersey. However, it is a reverse, but not a retro when you consider the fact that the jersey its based off of is less than five years old. Unlike Columbus, the Hurricanes only get one option, but they really only needed one. No more Whalers re-colors, went back to their Cup-winning uniforms with a back base this time. This also includes the helmet, gloves, pants and everything else. Not really much else to say about these. I had done these in grey previously, which you could see here if you want. C&C welcome! The third option definitely has more of a Winter Classic vibe to it, but I had a jersey from the 2 of the 3 major cities and I liked the look of the Barons unis so it rounded it out nicely.

If you think I'm posting this to distract myself from the fact I'm moving across the country in like 2 weeks, you're absolutely right. It's All-Star Break, feels like a good time to do something NHL related. Now, I don't know if it was just me, but RR 2.0 feels like it didn't quite live up to what we got with 1.0. Just my opinion, which there's going to be a lot of in this thread. Basically, I went and looked at all 32 uniforms, made a list of how I viewed them 1-32 and will go off of that. Probably gonna have to some homerish picks, some biased picks. It's my opinion and that's how it's gonna go: 32. Columbus Blue Jackets: The black felt shoehorned on the inspiration jersey. It didn't age any better on the Reverse Retro. Also something I just noticed, is the difference in blues between the sleeve blues and the logo blues. I have more thoughts but at risk of trouble on here, I will keep those to myself. If you're expecting a Cleveland Barons RR: click here. If you're expecting a Columbus Chill RR: click here or here. The new options for Columbus come from 3 of the larger cities in Ohio, each with some degree of hockey history: Option 1: The Columbus Checkers had an IHL lifespan of just 4 seasons, but made up for it with some really fun uniforms. The Blue Jackets carry that over in navy, red and white. Option 2: The Cincinnati Stingers had a slightly longer lease on life. For this take, the Blue Jackets flip the 1977 gold uniforms into their colors and gets some electric green in the recolored logo Option 3: "but I already did a Cleveland Barons Reverse Retro". I did, for the NHL team. Not the AHL team that had an impressive run of 10 Calder Cups before their dissolution. The Blue Jackets take their 50's era uniform and add some red to it. C&C welcome!

Moscow is unique in the teams that we've seen so far, in that, I've played against them! Well, their travel team at least. But the Moscow area isn't large enough to support a separate high school and travel teams, so many kids from one play on the other. My brother on the other hand, 7 years younger than I, has played against the team, both in a high school and travel tournament. He won both times. I have a less favorable record, unfortunately. Moscow Bears - Logos: Despite the high school having a pretty classic looking logo, I opted instead for the travel hockey team's logo, replacing the Palouse Youth above it with Moscow. The secondary logo is reworked MHS logo from what the football team currently uses, and the number font is done in the same font. Moscow Bears - Uniforms: The decision to lead with black or lead with red was tricky. Next to shades of blue, black and red is one of the more popular color combos in the state. I opted to lead with red for the Bears. The three uniforms use a stripe that is something reminiscent of the Buffalo Bills throwback uniforms, with a little more oomph. This stripe pattern uses two smaller triple stripes flanked by a single stripe on either side. The white jersey has a red yoke, with the MHS shoulder logos, and a red hem, the red jersey has no yoke, shoulder logos and black hem. The black jersey is a recolor of the red jersey, logos swapping places. Red buckets for the uniforms, black pants and socks match their jerseys. C&C welcome! At least as an outsider, and someone who's had to experience a hockey league that is run like, well, :censored:, Minnesota has it done right. It makes me sad, but also hopeful that maybe in the future Idaho could at least have a slightly well run program.

Good old Lewiston. The former territorial capital of Idaho, until it was moved to Boise. Then they were going to get the state's first college, until it was given to Moscow. Though I'd say things have worked out okay, becoming the second-largest city in Northern Idaho. As for their high school, despite having some LSU knockoff qualities, they have a solid identity IMO. Lewiston Bengals - Logos: I didn't have to do much, with a tiger logo I personally didn't recognize, even though from what I could tell they don't make much use of, while the HS football team does somewhat shamelessly use LSU's helmet design, save for a changed letter or two. I made some changes to their L-wordmark logo, with a tweaked font from what they've used at some points. I also went with a simple one-color font. Lewiston Bengals - Uniforms: Despite the LSU connections, I went with a stripe more similar to the Cleveland Browns, just in purple and yellow. Tiger logo on the home and away uniforms, Bengals wordmark-logo on the shoulders. I kept the helmet gold like the football team. I thought it was a nice way to stand out. The alternate jersey sees the tiger head go away for the Bengals-L logo but stays pretty true to the other uniforms. C&C welcome as always!

Lakeland HS sits about 20 minutes/miles from Coeur d'Alene, and has a pretty large enrollment for only encompassing a population base of roughly 7500 - 8000 people. Beyond that, I don't have a lot of experience or familiarity with Lakeland. Playing two club sports that the schools in the northern part of the state don't offer, doesn't give a whole lot of interaction. Lakeland Hawks - Logos: Much like Kellogg, the Hawks come equipped with a pretty unique logo (at least by my research) and they break up the blue/purple parade we've been watching for the first 5 teams. All I had to add was a wordmark logo, which stacks Lakeland Hawks. I did revisit their number font, because yikes. Lakeland Hawks - Uniforms - I'd be lying if I said I didn't initially struggle with the uniforms. Lakeland didn't have a unique thing I could jump on and roll with. What I did end up with was two different uniform styles that got somewhat blended into one look. For the home and away, shoulder to cuff stripes, one color. At the end of the sleeves a thick double stripe, that is mirrored on the hem. Primary logo on the chest. Socks match their jerseys. The alternate was the other option, with more traditional stripes on the sleeves, but also having half a shoulder stripe as well to kind of marry the whole uniform look together. C&C welcome! I love the decision to promote their light blue and only use Bucky's head, but I am not sure if I like it more than the classic "BADGERS" with the number below it on the chest. The letters feel more traditional, and that seems to be the goal for this school. I agree about the traditional/classic feel of the letters/number combo, but I do feel that the primary jerseys should have and look better with the logo. For the home I'd suggest swapping the navy and light blue on the arm. The light blue would pop so nicely off the navy. To me that defeats the purpose of elevating light blue to being the primary color. Also, I was curious about your decision to outline the mascot name but not the number on your alt. The inconsistency just feels off. A missed detail on my part. I prefer the single color on the home/away, but the numbers should have been outlined on the alt from the beginning. equipment is part of the uniform and IMO, can make or break a uniform set, and that goes beyond hockey. As for the Lake City alt, I just wanted something slightly different on the alt.