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I mean, that didn't stop the Coyotes last season.

God, it's nice to see this look back full-time.

Light-on-light numbers cause terrible readability issues like dark-on-dark numbers do.

Pretty sure you can only get NBA jerseys with ads on them through the team stores directly, IIRC? That would likely be the NHL model.

I mean, Edge jerseys as a whole were garbage, it's hard to really find one that's good. Personally, I think the CCM version of that Oilers set was perfectly fine. Not better than the royal blue and orange, obviously, but as an alternate it'd be a pretty nice change of pace; Plus, it's a better application of navy than the they've been doing with it now, in any case. Navy and pylon orange do not an attractive color combo make. Like, even if they used the original shade of orange as the base, it'd be more bearable than the jerseys they have currently just because it's not so goddamn intense.

Both that and the fact that Sarver is a dickhead who wouldn't let them into Footprint even if it was suitable for an NHL tenant.

My guess is they hole up in the Memorial Coli while a new arena is being made in Tempe, ala the Isles holing up in Nassau while Belmont was being constructed. Tempe wants a pro sports team there, and literally nobody else in the city needs a new place to play right now; that plus the gambling revenue and the NHL having a vested interest in the market makes a move unlikely. If anything, I see Houston as the Western Conference Quebec; a threat to dangle over cities to get them to cooperate.

See, I disagree; the best look is the best look, context or not. The Islanders have always looked better in royal than navy, and same with the Oilers (though they at least managed to pull it off when they had the copper). The winning legacy helps, but to me navy doesn't work with either team's orange; the contrast is too extreme. Royal blends better with the orange and forms a more cohesive design; as the Oilers have demonstrated with their bashing heads against a wall trying to get the navy-bright orange combo to connect. Even on an orange-dominant jersey, royal just works so much better than navy;

I just don't think they play well together, is the thing. The navy has always come off as more black than anything on TV due to just how dark it is in contrast to the bright neon orange. The royal works a lot better.

If the rumor mill is to be believed, the Oilers may have finally wisened up to that.

Honestly, I think the current identity might have reached the point where entirely replacing it isn't even a good idea; the team's had a consistent theme for the last 30-odd years, changing it up drastically might backfire. I think the Sens nearly got it, they just picked the wrong dark uniform to return to and didn't do enough updating to their logo.

Personally, I love that they're going full throwback and not really :censored:ing with it, because :censored:ing with it in modern sports design can often result in an inferior design than what fans were asking for. Most of the 'Yotes fans I've seen have been ecstatic about the return of the originals as they were.

It's beautiful.

The foot doesn't make sense in their brand anymore unless they change it to a pawprint for Bernie, though; the foot made sense then because their mascot was a yeti. They haven't had a yeti mascot for decades at this point, and the C is more generally-applicable. And I disagree that black being so prominent was "getting it right" when overall it's a pretty minor color in their brand identity even then; it was only on the puck in the primary, after all. I think if they'd gone with navy instead of black for the jersey accent, it could've worked pretty well; but black was a trendy color in the mid-late 90's, so they just kinda put in without really thinking about it.

The team never actually said what was coming until now; we all just inferred it based on all the evidence. This is the first direct tease/confirmation we have from them about the matter.

The Coyotes are teasing the white Kachinas now, which makes me think a reveal is coming sooner rather than later.

By the "they're mountains" logic, white would make more sense than burgundy as the sleeve color on the home, since the Avs generally use snow-capped mountains as their iconography. Also, burgundy sleeves on the dark jersey would've been pretty bland since then the only breaking of the burgundy would be on the hem;

A loss and a brutal injury. Today sucked for the G-Men.

I think the main issue is black has never been prominent in their colorway; so the solid black equipment looked really out of place in a uniform that was 99% burgundy/blue/white. The black equipment felt very last-minute because of that, and I think the burgundy works much better as the dark color for the Avs' colorway, anyways. It'd be like making the Ducks' buckets, gloves and pants gold; yeah, gold's part of their colorway, but it's not anywhere close to prominent enough in the jersey design to justify making it the equipment color.

I think the logo itself is fine, but I agree that the alternate jersey itself isn't the answer to solving the Avs' problems. An Avs primary jersey without the mountain pattern just feels wrong in a primal way at this point.

Honestly, I'd be fine with them dumping the silver from the jersey and going burgundy/powder/navy/white.

It's pretty good, but honestly kinda disappointing next to the creativity Minnesota had with their design. I was hoping they'd follow the Preds/Stars example and we'd have a St. Louis Flyers-inspired jersey.

There's 2015, I guess? Washington used a fauxback that year but Chicago used a '50's throwback.

It's because those are the same socks the original Wild Wing used; The RR only reversed the white and jade on the jersey itself.