chcarlson23

I do really like the Bears uniforms, however their pants needs to be tweaked. The whites should have a pattern that matches the white jersey stripes, so N-w-O-w-N, and the navy pants should be W-O-W rather than the other way around. The Bears even had that pattern in 1940!

I love the Blues white numbers, but the Bruins black socks don’t look good. The gold shoulder yoke makes the whole look super top heavy without gold socks. If they ditched the gold yoke it would work a little better with the black socks. The Happy Gilmore jerseys look decent with the gold socks, but would have worked with black as well. The biggest issue about those socks is the color balance. It’s way off without the gold socks. I love that the road socks are updated, but the home’s is awful…

I like the double stripe on the Lions, however I would ditch it on the helmet logo. It would be a great helmet stripe on top of the helmet, but it’s too cluttered along with the logo. I’d have it as the “primary” logo, but not actually on the helmet.

The home sweaters look really nice with the added blue breezers, gloves, and helmet. But the breezers and gloves look really out of place on the road uniform that has almost no blue. The striping really just needs to be fixed and it will look a lot better. If you look at the Avs waist down on the road, the blue breezers work well with the socks, which have blue. But it doesn’t match the rest of the sweater. They should have fixed that first, along with changing the numbers. The classic striping patter would have been enough to fix everything… Even with blue gear and numbers.

Well the Wild had their best season in franchise history, and got bounced in 6. And not because the Blues were that much better than the Wild, but because the Wild really just couldn’t play hockey the same way that had all year. “It’s all about winning” What a shame, and welcome to Cap hell

What flaws do the Rangers have?? At least on the blue sweater… The blue sweater is a fantastic design. Even almost 100 years later.

To follow this, I hate the sanitary sock look. I’d love to see more stripes on socks, but I’d much rather see the full color all the way down to the cleats. I mean the days of practically needing sanitary socks is over. Those dyes in the socks aren’t gonna kill anyone anymore. The way NFLers should wear socks these days is a full tube sock essentially, with the stripes on it, if the team has it. Baseball should be like this too, but stir-ups are an option I guess. Socks can add so much if they’re worn right, and I think having half of the socks be white really takes away from what they could be.

I feel like over this season, including everything that happened in the offseason, the Knights went from this unlikeable squad to this really villainous franchise. They were pretty unlikeable for me, because they just have had so much success, and honestly it was jealousy for my team to be even close to that But this season, they’ve really treated their players as just basic commodities, and ditched them when it was more convenient, like with Fleury. And like they didn’t even make a good hockey trade with that, they just kinda dumped him off. And along with everything with Dadonov, and even how DeBoer treated Lehner over the stretch is just odd, and doesn’t seem very professional. They’ve become very villainous this season, so I’m very glad that they’ll be watching the Stanley Cup playoffs from their living rooms this season…

Man, three games, three heart breaking losses in the shootout for the Knights. Hey congrats Vegas! Now you know what if feels like to not have success… Just like the rest of us

So the Blues wore their Winter Classic jerseys again last night, which I think is the third time outside of the WC that they’ve worn it. And the Preds and Bolts have also worn their SS jerseys another time outside of the game, and even the Sabres wore their Heritage Classic jerseys… Does anyone know if the Wild will wear their WC sweater again? It was way to good to only be worn once

Yeah the supply chain is actually crazy. I work for a hockey store that also carries community lettermen jackets and both have had massive supply chain issues. We recently changed jacket manufacturers to make the time to get the jackets a lot quicker. They’re only supposed to be a few hours away by truck. It was supposed to change the delivery time from 6-8 weeks to 3-4… However since October, letter jackets have take roughly 14-16 weeks to get in. And the manufacturer has nothing really to say to us other than they don’t have the stuff yet… And it’s the same with our various associations’ apparel orders. Everything is months behind. So it makes a ton of sense that random, very specific colors are really hard to come by especially in the quantity needed by an MLB team. I guess it’ll only be time until various teams start running out of grey and white jerseys too.

They did, at least according to TruColor, in 1999. Right at the everything darker is tougher phase of sports design.

They should have used the red helmets or something. The color balance looks all off. I guess it’s my assumption of the Canes being a red team rather than a red and black team, but this is just weird. They either need a shoulder yoke or just stick with the red breezers.

Yeah that’s a really bad look. The red breezers look much much better. The Hurricanes look better when they’re red dominate over black.

Well the Devils logo is an all time classic similar to the Habs logo. It’s not gonna change… And I guess I was saying that in the changes the Leafs have made are along the same lines that the Bruins have made too. It might be a B on a spoked wheel, but it’s had font changes and stroke changes. Which isn’t as significant as the change from the Ballard Leaf to the current one, but for most people that wasn’t even something they noticed. It’s still just a blue leaf that says Toronto Maple Leafs on it

I hate these and love these at the same time. I’m not even fully sure how to explain it. The black with the royal blue accents somehow looks great together. And I usually hate black and blue color schemes, but I like this jersey. And the fact that it’s reversible is fun. And I hate the fact that this 100+ year old franchise that’s been nearly exclusively royal blue and white, is coming out with a black jersey. But I also love it…

Yeah I’m very happy with what Billy G did with the Wild this year. The next 3 seasons are going to be absolutely rough unless the Cap goes up. But the returns and losses from this deadline deal is great. Going for it this year isn’t a bad idea. And the Wild have a deep prospect pool, so the next 3 years might honestly just turn the Wild into contenders again coming out of all of this.

I think these three are for sure never changing again, barring a color change. And if the Leafs are on the maybe change list so should the B’s. They’ve had some updates fairly recently in their history as well.

So the Wild are big movers at the deadline this year too… Fleury is coming in for a conditional 2nd rounder, and then they shipped out back-up goalie Kahkoken for a depth D man in Jacob Middleton. I had heard the Leafs and Panthers and even the Avs had some interest in Middleton, so I’m surprised that the Wild got him. All around this is very interesting. Not as terrible as some of the Chuck Fletcher trades, but definitely interesting. Kahkonen was a serviceable goalie, but was really struggling this year. It seems that Wallstad is going to be the goalie of the future for the Wild. And the one good thing is that there wasn’t too much given up. So if this year is a dud for the Wild, they’ll still have some decent picks and prospects. And while both Fleury and Middleton will probably just be rentals, what the Wild gave up shouldn’t hurt in the long run.

Well the Caps can’t put their ad on their road jerseys because of different state laws on sports betting. So the Blue Jackets are the first to have it on all their jerseys…

Yeah I was hoping that the Wild Fans banner would have silently been dropped. And with Koivu it was tough, because while he wore both, I feel like the block font is more synonymous with him. Honestly they could have gone with a red banner matching that era too…

I think the idea with the Koivu banner is that the striping matches both the other banner, and the actual jerseys Koivu wore. I definitely associate the block font with Koivu more, so I’m glad they used it.

I don’t particularly care how this affected the outcome of the game, but watching this play on Steve’s dang it’s, it looks like the crossed all the way just before Lee’s stick knocked the puck back out. The freeze frame shown on the broadcast seemed to be just after it started to move back in the other direction, aka just touching the goal line again. That picture would make me say no goal, however, I’m pretty sure that was after Lee’s stick had already pushed it back, so who knows. Definitely one of the weirdest plays of the year…

So there’s only two colleges in Minnesota here, and none in the Twin Cities??

Someone mentioned earlier that the antlers would look better being light on a dark background and I agree. I think a green helmet with yellow antlers, possibly with a white outline, would look great for the Elk. I could see a white helmet working too, but that doesn’t really feel like Edmonton…