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Neon green is my favorite color. However, even though I think these Dallas Stars unis are really cool for special occasions, I don't think this is their best look ever. Their current jerseys with victory green and traditional stripes are the team's top set in their uniform history. What they're using now is the best fit for the regular home and roads. The bright neon colors shouldn't be overdone, for NHL teams to preserve the more standard aesthetics. For alternates, then can do whatever they want! IMO, their 2nd best look was the 99 green ASG inspired look.

Nice win for the Lions. I wasn't expecting them to eliminate the former champs this early.

Last night's 30s Golden Knights vs 80s Flames was a gorgeous uniform match up.

New Bolts 3rd...

I AM THE TABLE

I don't watch the CFL much. But it's great that Montreal has a Championship title, after a long drought. Tonight was a really cool moment.

The Texas Rangers have been uncursed.

It does suck. But other players have stepped up big time.

I feel really bad for Kirby Dach. Even if he fully recovers for next season, it's hard to feel confident that he could play a full season, given his long history of being sidelined. That's a lot of time missed for a player who is only 22.

This is another good one from the black flaming C era. The template fit wonderfully for a western canadian hockey team.

For the home jersey, they made the arm numbers in the same style that they made the nameplates: black on white. They now have some sort of consistency with the black letters. They no longer wanted huge overlapping orange numbers with a black outline like they used to have. So single color smaller block numbers are the option they went with. For the away jersey, I agree that a black outline around the arm numbers would look better. I would have been fine with keeping the home intact and to add the outline to only the road set digits.

There's always time to turn things around. But so far, the 2023 NHL Draft has been the worst draft that I've ever experienced, as a Habs fan. The several preaseason games haven't helped either of the Habs top prospects stand out as credible 1st and 5th overall picks.

I'm surprised it took this long for the Jets to use the RCAF jersey with their logo on it. The Manitoba Moose wore that powder blue heritage jersey a while back.

They would have to come up with an excellent design for both the home and road that uses each color the right way, to make something visually appealing. To do what Vegas did with grey, gold, black, and red, but with the Mighty Ducks colors. I think their 90s heritage jersey is magnificent as a special occasion uniform. On the other hand, they would be replacing their championship colors that they've been using for almost as long as they wore teal/eggplant. And also, if nostalgia is a driving force, they might as well go all in and become Mighty again. Then again, maybe there's a generation gap between older fans and younger fans who grew up remembering the Ducks in black and bronze. But that's debatable. Creating a concept in 90s colors that's better than the current jerseys can be done. But I honestly feel like it needs to be a bit more than just straight up the throwbacks. A few minor adjustments at least. The Sabres new/old jerseys are top-tier. Something along those lines.

Teal and eggplant screams 90s color fads to me. That scheme wouldn't work as well full-time in 2023 as it used to in 1996. Black and orange for an Orange County team is a fine update for the Ducks brand. Black primary jerseys set them apart in a way from the Flyers who use the same colors.

It's so awful that the entire left side is preserved for the advertisers ad. And everything else is thrown on whatever space remains on the right side. Because non-hockey related corporations are more important than what a team accomplishes throughout the course of decades. Imagine how horrible it would have been for the Canadiens, had they celebrated their centennial anniversary this year, by slapping their 100th anniversary patch next to the Captain's C, so that the RBC patch could have all the visibility it needs. Like selling out the Montreal Forum for 70 years doesn't mean anything. I'm glad ads were not introduced in 2009.

Damn, I didn't notice that Dallas changed their shade again in 2021. The 13-21 shade is clearly different than the North Stars. The other thing though is that the every concept I've seen of the D-Star with yellow/metallic gold included does not look very good. Green and yellow without black is pretty neat. But adding yellow to the current Stars uniforms would reek of 90s outlandish fads that age quickly and poorly. I agree with you. Throwback nights. This jersey, but it 99 colors...

Dallas currently uses a different shade of green that's lighter than that North Stars green. If yellow is added, the shades would be off a bit. It may not look as good as it does in that Minnesota image. The Dallas Stars never used North Stars gold/yellow. They always used a shade that contains a bit of bronze. When they rebranded to the D-Star logo, they considered adding their shade of copper/gold, but felt like it muddied the victory green. So they went with black and green, which is what their jerseys have been for half of their tenure, prior to the new uniforms.

Minnesota Wild has a nice ring to it, it's original, and it's fitting with the region. Northern Lights is no way a better name than the Wild. Even if they were called the Northern Lights, it's still not the North Stars. Some people would still complain that it's not the absolute original name. They already added a northern light in the sky of the Wild crest. That's a good enough tribute to their roots that the designers could do.

Maybe the league thinks "North Stars" and "Stars" are too similar and they want distinct identities. Replacing one of the league's top identities with a 2nd star crest that's already being used (sort of) is a step down logo-wise, imo. The D star is enough for me. Save the N star for throwback nights.

For real? I didn't realize that.

Agreed. It's always cool and special to watch a Final with a franchise that has the chance to clinch their first title, sometimes after decades without much or any success. That certainly beats Warriors win lol or Yankees win lol.

When the league has 32 teams, it's better to have unpredictable outcomes than to have the same big markets in the finals every year.