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You're good. Based on what you've said, this wasn't your run of the mill troll job. This was clearly pulled off my someone who is familiar with the site, the knowledge of members, and how these leaks get confirmed. Ironically enough, I've always wondered if Teal was involved in the hoax. We know he has experience with leaks and has contacts in the industry. And his demonstrated pettiness/penchant for trying to get back at members of the site for perceived slights against him is what got him banned.

See, I actually like this logo. I guess it's one of those all in the execution type deals. This one leans so heavily into a cartoon style bird that I think having non-anatomically correct teeth works. Whereas the Phoenix one is caught in the middle of trying to be a cartoon and a tough 2000s logo, and it just looks bad.

We have a special treat, as it's "alma maters of 2000s-2020s AFC Hall of Fame Quarterbacks day"! First up the Miami of Ohio Redhawks. Miami had a nice little team during the 2000s and early 2010s. That is, until April 11th 2009. On that day, the Redhawks were but a minute from their first national title, holding a 3-1 lead over the Boston University Terriers. 43 seconds later, the score was 3-3, and the Terriers would steal the title in overtime in what is the second most memorable last minute playoff loss to a Boston team after the Maples Leafs' 3 goal collapse against the bruins in 2013. Miami would go on to the frozen four the next season, as well as a few other title appearances, but they haven't made a real title push in the years since. Miami's uniforms have always been pretty simple. During their title hunt years, they wore basically what Cornell wears but with Miami on the front. In recent years they've worn a two stripe design as well as an offset design (kind of like the Merrimack one above but in red and white) with an opposite color shoulder yoke. I decided to combine these looks into another asymmetrical striping design. The bottom stripe is inspired by the thick stripe on both the title hunt jerseys and the recent offset stripe, while the two smaller stripes above are inspired by the double stripe design. I also kept the contrasting shoulder yokes as it further helps them stand out from other red and white schools. ------------------ Our second team is everyone's* least favorite* school, the Michigan Wolverines. As a Big Ten alum, I am contractually obligated to despise Michigan. However, I'm not so petty as to make them not look good. The thing with Michigan is that they seem to forget they have the perfect formula for their jerseys across all sports. On white jerseys, a connected blue-yellow-blue triple stripe with navy blue letters outlined in white. On blue jerseys, yellow only. The number of stripes can change, but I believe the perfect balance is a disconnected triple stripe to match the helmet except on cuffs and collars, where it should be a single yellow stripe.

Hey thanks for the comment! This project has been a real fun challenge for me so I'm happy to see that at least so far the quality has been up to snuff! On the specific points. I've had that cross design hidden up my sleeve for years now, just waiting for the right time to use it, and I knew immediately that Holy Cross was the perfect time. I've always liked UML, they've been a fun alternative to BC and BU over the years, and I could not agree with you more about the Phoenix designed logos. The teeth on the bird is bad enough, but a wordmark that is literally Impact font is brutal. Thanks! It really is too bad that submitted designs are pretty much a legal non-starter since the whole Ravens fiasco. Here's the thing about the Cornell design. You're right, and I know you're right. But my brain just refuses to read it as Cornell. You could not believe the amount of time I spent going back and forth on this. I'll probably end up changing it to the top version as you suggested. Thanks for the C&C on that.

Next up, teams 30 and 31. Mercyhurst are the nations other Lakers, this time Lake Erie. Often when a team is green and blue, they take the easy way out and just base themselves on the Hartford Whalers. Mercyhurst has previously been no exception to this. I wanted to move away from the Whalers and give the Lakers something unique. The home jersey is all about focusing on green. The hem and sleeves feature a striping pattern I live to refer to as Southeastern stripes, as they're the inverse of the Northwestern stripe, with the jersey rounded out by a green shoulder yoke and green numbers. The road jersey is out first truly different design compared to the home. Barber pole stripes are back, inspired by the striped shirt, this design had to take some liberties in order to make it sufficiently dark. As opposed to alternating green and yellow stripes, this jersey alternates between green, blue, and white. For the logo and numbers, I found this weird phenomenon where despite what seemed logical, white numbers partially on a white background were actually the most visible of the options, so I went with it. --------------- Our second team are the Merrimack Warriors. They play, not in Merrimack, NH and also not in Merrimac, MA, but in North Andover, all of which are located in the Merrimack Valley, and the Merrimack River is where the UML Riverhawks get their name, and also runs through North Andover which is where we established the Merrimack Warriors play. Basically this is for all you Midwesterners, all the schools between UNH and Boston are really really close. So this one is actually a double logo redesign. For the primary letter logo, I have never liked the current MC logo that Merrimack uses. It has always felt lazy and out of date, even back in the 2000s. The head design below was actually completed first, and I wanted to create a design that could work in tandem as an actual logo set. The design features a letter lockup partially inspired by the helmet and partially inspired by the contrast of sharp and curved lines of the St Augustine cathedrals in the area (Merrimack is a Catholic school). The M and the C are joined together, with the center of the M crossing itself to create the C below. So, the head logo is a weird story. I used to go to the hockey east semifinals and finals every year. During the 2011 season Merrimack made the finals of the tournament before losing to Boston College, as most teams did during the era. During that game the team logos were displayed on the ice with lights. The Merrimack logo featured a skating warrior logo. I also remember seeing the logo a few years later on google at about 65 x 65 resolution. Since then, I have never seen this logo again. I cannot find it anywhere online, and I know that none of the jerseys they wore have this. If anyone knows of this logo and can access it, or just likes the whole lost media treasure hunt and finds it, please post it below. However, I always like the idea of the Merrimack Warriors actually using a logo that depicts a warrior. They also used to have a very 1970s style logo, but I'm not a huge fan of it, so I came up with something new. As I noted with the MC logo, this logo takes inspiration from the cathedrals near the school. Overall the design is pretty simple, a warrior wearing a simple gold helmet with navy shadowing on the left side of the face. It has some similarities to the my Augustana design, but rest assured, the Augustana logo is rip-off, as this logo was designed much earlier. The Merrimack jerseys take a simple theme throughout, an offset white stripe within a larger blue stripe. This features on the sleeve stripes, hem stripes, and shoulder yokes. This jersey also features the unique situation where the yellow jersey is actually the road jersey with a white jersey at home, kinda like the Nashville Predators. The thinking behind this idea is that almost nobody else in the nation has a yellow home jersey, and none of them play in Hockey East. In this situation Merrimack could wear the yellow jersey in pretty much every game, home and away without any issues. In any of the exceptionally rare instances there would be yellow vs. yellow, either Merrimack could wear their white jersey on the road or the home team could wear their blue jersey. The white jersey is also available just to give Merrimack the option to wear white as well.

Got a couple more teams from Massachusetts for you tonight! We're a full 72% of the way through the state! First up, the UMass Minutemen. As would be expected from a team that didn't couldn't field a D1 team from the late 1970s through 1993 because the school didn't have an indoor rink, UMass hasn't experienced much success until recently, when Cale Makar led the Minutemen to a national final appearance in 2019 and a national championship in 2021. UMass isn't changed very much. The biggest changes are with the striping pattern, the logo coloration, and the chest wordmark. The striping pattern on the roads has flipped between silver and white on the outside, and I return back to primarily silver. The logo removes all black outlines and replaces them with silver and white for a more modern, cohesive look. Finally, the real-life chest wordmark reads Massachusetts, which I'm not particularly a fan of. It's too long and the letters become stretched and hard to read. So, I altered the UMass wordmark and placed it arched across the front. ------------------------ UMass Lowell were the best team in division 2 when they made the jump to Hockey East in 1984. They've been okay since. They've had their fair share of national tournament appearances, and a frozen four appearance in 2013 backstopped by the greatest college goaltender I've ever seen in Connor Hellebuyck. Having seen plenty of UMass Lowell hockey over the years, I've come to the conclusion that they don't really have primary and secondary colors, they have multiple primary colors. Unlike pretty much any other team, the Riverhawks have seamlessly moved between red and blue, with an heaping helping of white on every jersey they've ever worn. I wanted to create jerseys that continued this trend, specifically focusing on jerseys in which red in primary at home and blue is primary on the road. The road jersey is primarily blue with a unique striping pattern featuring a white-red-white triple stripe between two smaller white striped. The home jersey keeps the same design, but the white stripes become phantom stripes, creating the appearance of a blue-white-red-white-blue northwestern stripe. Now, red is the primary on the jersey, while gear and numbers provide the blue as a secondary color. Like UMaine, the UML logo has been changed, but was done previously, so check that out here.

Finally back to two concepts in one post! First up, college hockey's most colorful team, the LIU Sharks. LIU is one of college hockey's newest teams, and they certainly look like a new, smaller team. Unfortunately, their use of white helmets and navy blue pants gives them a real small town high school kind of feel. I decided to have some fun with this one since LIU is such a new team. I figured, LIU is so bright that they should just embrace it. So no navy blue, no black, just sky blue and yellow. We also go away from straight stripes and break out some curved ham and sleeve stripes inspired by ocean waves and the dorsal fin of a shark. Finally, I took some 90s inspiration with a triangular shoulder yoke. --------------- Tonight's second team is my childhood favorite, the Maine Black Bears. Technically the logo is a redesigned logo, but I redesigned it years ago, so if you want to check that out, you can see that here, as well as my alternate logo design that didn't make it onto the jersey. I also hope you weren't expecting anything particularly new, because that's not happening. Maine has the best jerseys in college hockey, full stop. The only change I made outside of the updated logo package was making the shoulder yokes match the sleeve stripes more closely.

I've actually completed NoDak already. And I do take some influence from these jerseys, which I do like a lot, but the overall look is going to be more like the traditional look than these ones. Thanks! I'm glad you like it. Also, thanks for pointing out the two blacks, I had made some last second changes to the logo and missed that.

It looks like another logo redesign is up for the Lindenwood Lions, so only one team again today. This is another school you might ask, "who even is Lindenwood?" Thankfully, I have all the information you need. Lindenwood is a school in Missouri and I know a guy who won a national championship in Rugby. The women's team is also in the CHA. Sorry if you were looking for any useful information. Being a PSU alum, I've spent a good amount of time looking at the Lindenwood logo on the banner at Pegula Ice Arena (Penn State women's hockey also plays in the CHA). I've always known it was an overly cartoony and pretty poorly rendered logo (look at that hair!), but it wasn't until I worked on this project until I realized the logo is an absolute mess (specifically, look at the eyes zoomed in). I legitimately thought the vector file I downloaded was screwed up, but I've confirmed this is actually how the logo is designed. This is one of those logos in which I wanted to update the overall design but take influence from the original logo. In order to do this, I took the lion's elvis hair mane on the original logo and made an updated flowing mane, with the gold hair lines thicker, better reflecting the actual color of a lion mane. I also tried to keep the general shape the same. Otherwise, I don't think there's much else to discuss that isn't obvious. Overall, it's meant to be a cleaner, more simplified render of a lion logo. The secondary logo is inspired by the current LU letter lockup but with a drop shadow added. This drop shadow is a major part of the theme of the jerseys, with all letters and numbers (aside from the name on back) featuring the drop shadow. The stripes take inspiration from the mane on the new logo as well as the New Orleans Saints' good jerseys. I'm also realizing as I write this that these are extremely similar to the Bruins' centennial jerseys (It's pretty ironic that they're my favorite team and it didn't even cross my mind).

Thanks Griff, that's some high praise coming from you! I'm also a big fan of the jerseys, got those classic Winnipeg Jets vibes. It's really too bad LSS has gone away from this look in favor of something so generic.

Only one team today, the boys out of Sault St. Marie (the one across from the one you're thinking of), the Lake Superior State Lakers! If you don't follow NCAA hockey history very closely, you probably don't know about Lake Superior State. From 1988-1994 weren't just good, they were historically good. They won a title in 1988 and from 1992-1994 lost a single game, the 1993 National Championship to the University of Maine, in one of the all-time great NCAA hockey games. They may even be the beneficiary of some patented NCAA rat:censored:ery with a 2019 (pretty dubious) claim that a National Champions plaque was awarded to them despite the loss. They've done nothing of note since their 1994 national championship. Why this story? Well for one it's interesting, but more importantly, it aligns with a philosophy I have: If you were historically good at any point in time, you should probably wear that design or at least something like it. Lake Superior State currently wears "Buffalo Sabres but not as good" jerseys which is probably fitting for a team of its stature. I however, wanted to return their jerseys to their look of glory, which also happens to be a pretty unique look. The Lakers' championship look included shoulder stripes with very wide piping and matching hem stripes. That look is brought back almost exactly, though I did switch from drop shadow numbers to regular block numbers for visibility's sake. However, that logo just isn't salvageable. Much like Bentley's logo, the Lakers' logo falls into the "barely at home in a middle school gym" bin. It's not quirky, it's just boring and ugly. So, I redesigned it. I actually like the anchor iconography, so that stayed as the primary focus. However, I modernized it, giving it new shadowing that depicts a stylized L on the right side of the anchor. I initially thought of an updated 'LAKERS' wordmark across the front, but it just didn't work in execution. In its place, I tied a rope around the anchor, that forms the letter S. This, combined with the L forms a subtle LS letter lockup.

Thanks! I totally agree, I wish there was more college hockey stuff on here too. But I guess that's the price one pays for loving something as niche/hyper-regional as NCAA hockey.

Took me a bit to find it at first too. The stripe being horizontal due to the player squatting threw me off.

Headed back east to Massachusetts today. First up, the Harvard Crimson. For Harvard I wanted to bring back a design based on the team's 1989 National championship. The striping on the home is follows the design of the original, however the shoulders yokes are changed, now featuring a black outline to match the sleeves and name/numbers. The away jersey now includes a white shoulder yoke to match the home jersey. The final change is updating the fonts and logo to the university's new designs. ------------------ For the second team of the day we head west to Worcester for Holy Cross. Remember back during the Reebok Edge era, when several teams broke out awful designs in which shoulder stripes that cut off traditional sleeve stripes? I took the idea of those designs, and rather than cutting off the stripes, I combine them to create a cross design. Though Holy Cross includes black in its design, I wanted to focus more on purple, and included a phantom shoulder design on the road jersey that matches the sleeve striping on the home jersey.

A couple variations on Red and Gold today First, up: The Nine-Time National Champion Denver Pioneers! I'll be straight with you, this was one of the toughest for me to design in a way that felt like it was a legitimate change to the jerseys. Between the late 1950s and early 1970s, Denver was THE dominant team in college hockey, winning five national championships and playing in three more title games between 1958 and 1973. However, in 1977 the NCAA levied unprecedented sanctions on Denver after Denver's refusal to comply with the governing board's extortion policy regarding Canadian Junior Hockey players. This combined with the retirement of their longtime head coach, sent Denver into a spiral that they would not truly emerge from until the 1990s. Following this, Denver was BACK and would go on to win 4 more national titles between 2004 and 2022. During those periods of success, Denver wore the same look. Maroon and gold, with triple sleeve stripes that had the opposite color arrangement as the letters and numbers. When you win 9 championships (tied with Michigan for most all time) in slight variations of one jersey design, that should be your look. In order to make this an actual redesign, I made several changes. First, Denver's more maroon color has become almost cherry red in recent years. I reverted that back to the old look. I also added a triple stripe collar and cuffs to the jerseys. Finally, I took the pretty traditional radial-arched team name and adjusted it, giving it a flatter top and more arched bottom. I also took the radial arch idea and added those to the name on backs. Ultimately, I'd call this a redesign that the average person would never notice, which sometimes is the exact kind of redesign you need. ---------------- Ferris State is a team that exists. Outside of the 2012 season they're pretty irrelevant in D1 hockey, so much so that I thought they played in Minnesota before I did this project (they're from Michigan). From what I've seen, Ferris State's identity recently has switched between a series of red/yellow/black jerseys with Ferris State written in a top arch, flat bottom (see Boston College above for reference) on the chest, and a Clagary Flames jersey with the bulldog logo on the chest. I actually felt like combining the two ideas could make for an interesting and unique look. First, the Ferris State on the chest wordmark prevails however, I decided to arch both words. It's the sort of thing I think looks good but is also unique to Ferris State. Both jerseys feature Red and Yellow as the primary colors. The home includes an alternating, separated triple stripe, while the home jersey takes those tripe stripes and makes each of them yellow. On both jerseys black is used subtly as outlines to the words, numbers, and stripes (think dallas cowboys sleeve stripes, but consistent across the entire jersey). The bulldog logo is then used on the shoulders and shorts. Got a bit traditional this time around, but I promise that one of the team in the next post will push the envelope again.

Starting to fall behind on the posting, time to catch up with a Big Ivy League Special! First up, Cornell. Cornell is the epitome of traditional college jersey. Outside of a few dalliances, the Big Red have worn the same simple single stripe jersey with an arched Cornell across the front for its entire history. However, I needed to come up with something different, so I embraced those dalliances. The base of the jersey is almost identical to the current look, utilizing a single stripe throughout the jersey. However, I altered the front jersey into a new logo based on a few designs from the past, named the 1900-1901 jersey with the letters HC surrounded by a larger C and the early 1970s jerseys with a partial wraparound C. My design uses the full name and frames it with a larger C. Originally there was not an extra C, but the arrangement looked like "Ornell", so I decided to bite the bullet and spell out the full name with the extra C at the frame. A sort of old school style quirk. Ultimately, I realize this would never fly, and honestly it shouldn't, the current look is a classic. But I had fun with this one trying something a bit weird and new. --------- The Dartmouth Big Green also wear a traditional hockey design, but more in the "hey look at this boring green jersey with double stripes" way that doesn't particularly stand out in any way. I decided to fix this by asking myself what if the late 1960s Philadelphia Eagles were a hockey team? Several pairs of double stripes throughout the jersey, and I decided to include the hyper-elusive hockey shoulder stripes as an added bonus. The helmet continues this theme, bringing the football team's iconic helmet design to hockey (note, the design would include the D on the front, I just found it was entirely illegible from this angle, so I left it off for clarity's sake, but it IS there canonically).

As it currently stands, I didn't have any plans for them. I guess I have the opposite take regarding helmet logos and wordmarks, in that I find they're always so small that they're barely noticeable and kind of pointless. That being said, I'm perfectly happy adding them to helmets if people want to see them.

Hey, thanks! Actually, interestingly enough I was going back and forth on this with Bemidji because of the fact that they, from what I've seen, use white and green helmets pretty interchangeably, so I went with a white helmet with the general implication that they could be interchanged with the darker helmet. I actually meant to mention that, so thanks for bringing that to my attention!

Kind of a simple round today. Colgate is home to one of the oldest, but not one of the most successful hockey programs in the country. Outside of a National Championship game appearance in 1990, the Raiders haven't been particularly relevant on the national scene. Colgate hockey's general brand just kinda floats between pretty traditional looks, but my personal favorite is the 1970s maple leafs style design. I decided against the name and number look that they often use in favor of the C'Gate logo on the chest with matching floating outline numbers. As an easter egg, Colgate's other C logo is utilized as the captain's patch on the chest. Finally, the design is capped off with some barber pole style socks. ------------ Colorado College's heyday was in the 1950s with the team appearing in 4 National Championship Games during that stretch, winning in 1950 and 1957. After 1958 the program fell off a cliff, having only 3 winning seasons until 1995, when they returned to their 5th national championship game. The Tigers would then make the NCAA tournament 12 times between 1995 and 2011. They've never been back. CC recently unveiled a phenomenal new logo that takes center stage of this design, which features an angled yellow stripe on a black background. This angle takes inspiration from the shield of the primary logo, itself inspired by the mountain landscape of Colorado Springs. While the Tigers' identity does include white pretty prominently, I actually preferred the all black and gold look on the road, which features slightly larger striping than the home jersey. Finally, I chose against using a C from the CC logo as a captain's patch, as the CC logo was already used on the shoulders, and I felt that 5 different Cs in the same font on the jersey was too much.

Alright, I missed a day, but we're back with two more teams. Lots of yellow today as we first have the Canisius Griffins. Canisius is one of the several yellow at home teams in college hockey. I've always liked this quirk so it sticks around. Recently, the team has worn a road jersey with a white chest stripe outlined in yellow. I like the general idea, but not the color execution, so I decided to flip the yellow and white. This also allows for the stripe to wrap around the entire jersey and maintain white letters. I generally don't like cut-off chest stripes on jerseys, so this was ideal. The hem stripe on both jerseys maintains the top half of the chest/arm/sock stripes as well. For the crest, I've never particularly liked the team's C logo or the roundel. I think it hides the strongest part of the logo behind a bunch of filler. So I used the griffin on its own. Finally, I went back and forth on what to do with the shoulders. Canisius doesn't really have a logo without the griffin, and I didn't want to repeat the same image three times on the jersey. I also found that a shoulder yoke made the jerseys too samey. Ultimately, I decided to just put nothing. I think it makes for a pretty clean look overall. ---------- Our second team are the three-time national runners up, Clarkson Golden Knights. For this jersey I wanted to try something sort of out there. This jersey is inspired by Clarkson University's seal and academic logos, which feature a yellow bend containing three circles. This look is surprisingly ubiquitous in the university's branding and is even featured on the armor of the knight in the logo above. So, I decided to eschew traditional striped for shoulder stripes with the three green circles on the sleeves in a sort of Washington Capitals stars on the sleeves design. Both jerseys feature yellow shoulder stripes and helmets, as Clarkson has historically worn, and finally the jersey features some sock designs that don't match each other, but fit their respective jerseys.

Good call, I initially thought it would be a bit too much, but I do like it better with the B. The update has been made and noted in the above post.

I hope you like Brown, because today's uniforms feature a lot of brown. First Up, the Bowling Green Falcons. Bowling Green has a tendency to flip back and forth between orange and brown. In this case I went with brown, no other reason than I just liked the look I was going for with brown compared to orange. In the past the falcons have worn alternating color double stripes that I've always liked. In order to make the look a bit more unique I added parallel shoulder stripes to the sleeve stripes, creating a sort of framing with the sleeve numbers. I've always liked the few instances where teams wore shoulder stripes this way, and I wish more teams used this. --------------- Up next, the ultimate brown team, the Brown Bears. https://imgur.com/kS8xsMV Brown, obviously, wears brown primarily. The Bears have worn brown jerseys with a white-red-white triple stripe across their various sports. In particular I based this set on an alternate hockey uniform the team wore. However, I felt the stripes were far too thin so I bulked them up. A also updated their old script logo and placed it on both jerseys, rather than the old block letters. EDIT: B logo now featured on the shoulders per stumpygremlin's suggestion.

The first nine schools of this project had a combined 0 national championships. The next two have 10. It's a Boston double special! The Boston College Eagles, New England's most hated* college hockey team! The Eagles were THE standard in college hockey from 1998 to 2016, with 11 frozen fours, 8 national title games, 4 national championships, and the dreams of countless young hockey fans brutally murdered. Despite being a veritable blue blood, BC tends to jump around with their uniform designs. Some years they've worn Penguins style stripes, they've worn numerous iterations of double stripe designs, they also have a five stripe design with a rangers style front? It's surprisingly a mess. So, I decided to lean into that with a sort of eclectic style of sleeve stripes reminiscent of early hockey jerseys that didn't quite land on uniform striping. This design is also meant to have the red portions sort of appear and disappear to give the home and away jerseys seemingly different appearances without actually altering the stripes in any way. The success isn't the only thing I hate about BC. I'm not at all a fan of BC's modern logo package; it's just a poor update of the classic version. So, I got rid of the identity entirely and brought back the classic logo in modern colors, and replaced the custom font with a more traditional block for the front jersey partial arch. ---------- Despite being considerably much more likeable* than BC, the Boston University Terriers are historically just as successful, themselves with 5 total national titles, though only one coming after the turn of the millennium. While I was growing up, BU wore two iconic jersey designs. The first a contrasting sleeve design reminiscent of the Detroit Red Wings, and a double stripe design they wore when they won the 2009 National Title. These designs are equally iconic to me, so I wanted combine the two looks into a jersey that still screamed Boston College. The solution was to create a contrasting sleeve block on each jersey with a double stripe that matched the jersey color at the bottom of the contrasting area. The hem stripe and socks eschew the the contrasting portion and just feature the double stripe. *Likeability may vary per person

Next up we have two storied championship programs... at lower levels, before rising to D1 in the 1999-00 season to mixed results. Bemidji State, a 5-time Division 2 champion, has had minor success at the top level, with several NCAA tournaments and a frozen four bid in 2009. Since then however, it's been mostly nothing. Despite this, Bemidji is an historic team with an iconic (general) look dating back to the 1960s. I have (partially) eschewed that classic look by combining eras to create a (partially) new, but familiar design. The home jersey goes from a single stripe to a single stripe on contrasting sleeves, as the team wore for about a decade in the 1990s. The Beavers won 3 of their 5 national titles in those contrasting sleeves, and the team has brought them back in some capacity many times over the years as an alternate. However, I decided to go away from the script design and combine the contrasting sleeve look with the modern look with the number bracketed (not sure what the actual terminology is) within the school name on the front. Ultimately the only changes to the away jersey is the new collar featuring a green-white-green pattern, as well as the significantly enlarged shoulder logos. If you'd like to view the jerseys I referenced, Vintage Minnesota Hockey actually has a great history of the team's jerseys that I used myself for research. Our second team tonight was a former two-time Division 3 National Champion who has done literally nothing of note since their move to D1, amassing a whopping one conference finals appearance resulting in zero conference titles and zero national tournament appearances. Bentley, another small school from Massachusetts you've probably never heard of, is actually a team I've redesigned in the past, which serves as the basis for this redesign. Like many small schools, unfortunately, Bentley's investment in their logos is basically non-existent. Their current logo, while better than the previous iteration, is the love child of the Brooklyn Nets and the logo for an unlicensed team in FIFA. Their alternate logo meanwhile would be right at home in a junior high school gym. For the new look, I placed the redesigned peregrine falcon on the chest and finally brought back the split shield design as @Jake3roo suggested all those years ago. The jersey design itself implements a split double stripe design with black taking primary status. Fun fact, change the pants stripe to a lightning bolt and swap in the proper logos, and this jersey design is basically how I'd outfit the Tampa Bay Lightning. That's all for today, I hope you enjoyed looking at some of the smaller and newer teams in college, because tomorrow the scourge arrives.

"Who the hell is Augustana?" was the question I asked earlier this year. The Augustana Vikings are one of D1 hockey's new teams for the 2023-24 season, and the first team in this project to get a full logo redesign as well as a new jersey! Augustana's logo is loaded with problems. First, it is much too wide, and one side heavy to be an effective sports logo. Second, it depicts what I would describe as a hay demon in a helmet rather than a Viking. However, I do think there is a base to work with. First, I reduced the with of the flowing hair to still allow for the logo to be visually centered on the face without it being egregious. Second, I cleaned up the beard and face, maintaining aspects like the general nose and beard shape, shadowed eyes, and the helmet shading style, while cleaning it up overall. I also liked the kind of overlap effect with the hair blowing in front of his beard, so I kept a version of that as well. For the changes, I gave the viking's face actual structure, cleaned up many of the unnecessary details on the helmet, and added some war paint to further accentuate the shadowing on the face. I did debate adding yellow to the left hair, but it never looked correct with how the shadowing works. For the Jersey's Augustana currently uses a script above the current logo, which is a pretty weird and unique look I can appreciate. I decided to alter the look however, as I felt that a baseball style number fit that spot better than a detailed logo, and fit the wordmark-number aesthetic that is prevalent in college hockey. With a navy and yellow color scheme, I wanted to be careful to not have the look appear too much like Michigan. So, I altered the team's current thick yellow-thin white-thin white striping patter into an asymmetrical triple stripe. The home jersey features contrasting sleeves, while the road look is all blue. Finally, I gave the Vikings a floating outline look to further set the identity apart from those of other navy/gold teams.