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The Avs are trying way too hard to be a two-color team. Either brighten the burgundy or keep black in the color scheme.

Take off your tin-foil hat. It's just a bad aesthetic choice. There's no penny-pinching conspiracy here.

The original Wild Wing socks were knit. The Reverse Retros are modern material. It wasn't the Ducks being cheap, it was a bad aesthetic decision. This debate is stupid.

That’d be more passable, imo. Uniforms that are this experimental are okay for a game or two, not a full-time look.

Vertical striping and combined pants/jersey elements aside, I think the most intriguing part of that first Mighty Ducks concept is the helmet striping. The fact that any of that even made it into the concept phase is insane.

I agree with all of this, but the difference between any and all of these teams and the Habs is that none of those colors clash as much as blue and red do. Double outlines don't always look bad, and they don't always look good. In these cases, they look bad. In the Habs' case, they look good.

The Kachina logo is on the ice at Gila River Arena, and the team seems pretty proud of it. https://www.nhl.com/coyotes/news/coyotes-new-ice-originally-classic/c-326027538

The jerseys pushed the envelope of the Panthers' brand, rather than overall jersey design. They took the Panthers' identity, which has always been known as bright, flashy, jagged, detailed, and 90's-esque, and simplified it. They toned down the striping, went for a reserved color palette, and simplified the logo. They pushed the envelope in the opposite direction than it usually gets pushed, making the Panthers seem more traditional than their overall branding. And maybe it's because I've only visited South Florida a couple times for very brief periods of time, but the double blue reminds me of the ocean I saw there. The beaches are that lighter, more tropical blue that fades out into the deeper, darker ocean waters. One could even say that the white stripes represent waves or ocean foam that differentiates the two.

These jerseys are actually really solid, and fit in well with south Florida hockey. I get that people don't like them because they strayed too far from the Panthers' normal branding, but isn't that the point of alternate jerseys? To push the envelope? Regardless, these jerseys don't deserve the crap they get. They look really slick.

I live in a college town. Believe me, this $#!t is everywhere. Young people are more loyal to their favorite brands than we are to most any religion or nationality.

Not to split hairs, but people are shelling out upwards of $275 for this shirt, solely because of how many Nike logos are plastered all over it. I count 14 swooshes on the front of this thing alone, and there's probably just as many on the back. People care about brands. They're powerful. The NHL knows this, and we'll probably see some teams try to cash in on the whole phenomenon. I bet $20 that the Maple Leafs slap an OVO logo somewhere on their jerseys in the near future.

These jerseys suck. The Flyers belong in orange.

Not even. Throw the effectively unused alternate logo on there and it's one of the best jerseys in league history.

I can't find any images of it, but the Coyotes and Islanders faced off during the Yotes' inaugural season, and the Isles' only season with the fisherman jerseys.

Found this jersey on Mia Tyler's Instagram. No idea who she is, but she had this picture of an obviously unreleased Isles jersey. The NHL crest and logo stitching look too good to be fake, and I haven't found that jersey on any of the usual fake jersey websites. Maybe an alternate/RR for next year that just got leaked by an influencer a bit too soon?

Anybody know how to create arched text with a straight top in Photoshop? Example attached:

It's gonna be the Lady Liberty.

I don't get why teams use their alternates in the playoffs. You're gonna get national attention, hundreds of thousands of more eyes on your team, and potentially a Stanley Cup. Why would you opt for a tertiary, often experimental design instead of the primary jersey your team is associated with?

Well s***, I feel stupid.

I think one of the weirder things that nobody's talked about yet is the fact that Icethetics has reported that the Islanders will be getting a new logo next year. I can't imagine that either Lou Lamoriello or the Isles fanbase at large is going to let them put out a whole new identity, so I imagine it'll just be a touch of gold to their current logo. Here are a few quick and dirty mockups I made of what I think is possible. All that being said, the Isles are known for their awful logo/jersey changes, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

I don't hate the Bridgeport Islanders' identity, but I do agree that it's a downgrade. It would've been suitable if the team had moved to an actual island, but since they're still in Connecticut, it's just unnecessary. Is it clean and polished? Sure. Is it bad? Not really. Is it good? Also not really.

... So just this jersey with their modern logo?

Palmieri and Zajac just look weird not wearing red and black.

... Why?

I was scrolling through Instagram a couple weeks ago and stumbled onto an account reselling vintage Grateful Dead t-shirts. Turns out that somebody bootlegged an old Grateful Dead hockey jersey concept I made years ago, added some text to my design, sold it, this Instagram account found it, and is now reselling it. I can't embed Instagram posts, so just click here. I know that bootlegging is a huge part of the Deadhead scene, and I say that as somebody who makes bootleg Dead merch myself, but it sucks seeing someone bootleg your bootleg.