Kevin W.

Edmonton Oilers - Alternate

Is this a shameless ripoff of this year's Reverse Retro? Yes. Yes it is.

Los Angeles Kings - Alternate

This one takes cues from a few different eras.

Arizona Coyotes - Alternates

I decided to lean a bit more heavily into the turquoise with this one and brought back both the howling coyote and the pattern that was on the Coyotes' collar in their first Adidas jerseys.

San Jose Sharks

With thanks to @Lumbergh for an assist on the shoulder logos. This now completes 32/32 primaries!

Winnipeg Jets - Alternate

This one pays tribute to the original franchise. I may yet add a Jets Heritage set as well.

I'm tired of hearing about exit velocity and launch angle on every single home run. FFS, not everything needs to be examined through the analytics lens.

16 hours ago, DCarp1231 said:

Disliking your favorite team’s rival’s uniform simply because they’re rivals is such a dumb argumentative point.

 

I’m a Commanders fan, but have always held the Cowboys navy uniform as being one of the best in the league.

 

Surely there’s some Ohio State fans out there who appreciate Michigan’s uniforms and vise versa.

 

The “well you’re just not a true fan!” high horse crowd can gtfo, too. I’ll show love to whatever uniform I see fit.

I don't hate ASU's uniforms purely because they're a rival. I hate them because maroon and gold just doesn't look good.

Well, on the bright side, today's events basically mean that Arizona's loss to a 15 seed is irrelevant.

Arizona Coyotes

Not much to report here. Why mess with perfection?

They've been using the same manufacturing facility for MIC jerseys since at least 2000.

On 3/6/2023 at 2:32 PM, BuckDancer said:

To be fair, both the Panthers did their big rebrand and the Penguins went back to their dynasty era set in 2016-17 right before the switch to Adidas. And the Ducks themselves did their rebrand in 2006-07 right before Reebok took over.

Yes, but there wasn't a considerable difference between the final Reebok Edge jerseys and the first Adidas jerseys given that they were essentially shifting manufacturing from one division of the company to another. Changing to a completely different parent company will likely be more drastic. Additionally, the Leafs did their redesign one year before the changeover as well.

2 hours ago, adsarebad said:

second on list, the diaper tail,  and the hem stripes that also follow the diaper shape, like a wave 

Fortunately Nike has both of those covered. As for the laces, you're kind of SOL on that one.

12 hours ago, MJWalker45 said:

And I just realized there's probably an episode of either the Simpsons making fun of these two teams playing each other.  That's flipping crazy!

 

It was South Park. Specifically, it was the infamous episode "Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus."

The Ducks' anniversary announcement video included a shot of Paul Kariya laying on the ice after being laid out by Scott Stevens during the 2003 SCF.

I get that it's not a business decision per se but I couldn't think of a different place to post this because :censored:ing YIKES.

A good jersey completely ruined by an awful sponsor.

1 hour ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

This might have been the nadir of MLS design:

 

 

That's the Buffaslug of MLS logos.

At least the Buffaslug had some character. 

3 hours ago, officeglenn said:

Chicago Fire secondary: 

 

At first glance, I wasn't sure about it. But it's growing on me.

I love it. That’s a definite buy for me. 

It's very telling that the only person that came to his defense was his (I presume) significant other.

Pittsburgh Penguins - Heritage

This one was easy. The Penguins have brought back both of these looks IRL in some way recently while the RoboPen is already a part of the team's permanent look in-series.

3 hours ago, the admiral said:

Now that vivid colors are in and clunky beveling effects are out, it's time for the downward orange NHL to come back.

Gonna have to disagree with you on that one. I can definitely do without the metallic gradient but the silver upward version is far superior.

Buffalo Sabres - Alternate

The Sabres' look pays tribute to the early 2000s butterknives alternate since that is already in use as the secondary logo on their primary jerseys. Also, I've updated their nameplate font on all four of their jerseys since I realized that I've been using the Buffaslug font this whole time.

New York Islanders - Alternate

This was bringing my teal-ified versions of the Islanders' alternates on the original template to the new template. Not much has changed.

13 hours ago, spartacat_12 said:

The Yotes have never worn block numbers since moving from Winnipeg, even when they simplified the colours/uniforms in '03.

The 2003-15 number font was about as generic as a block font without being a block font, and the namebar font wasn't even unique - it's the Law and Order font.

18 minutes ago, seasaltvanilla said:

 

Manufacturer's marks should be removed from jerseys along with sponsors, agreed.

Never gonna happen.

52 minutes ago, maz said:

My guess is, as far as the four division issue is concerned, they have white and black ones for each conference, and will switch out when necessary?

That's what they've done for every four-division ASG with only two jerseys. That's actually happened more than the one jersey per division format, which they've only done twice.