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Eh, I see the black pants for the North Stars' green jerseys in the same vein as the Rangers using red pants for their white jersey, honestly, and nobody complains about the Rangers' mismatched pants; Sometimes uniforms just...look better like that, and it's hard to articulate why they do. Like, objectively, blue pants clearly make more sense given the color heirarchy. But something about the red just kinda works.

I think wearing those Seals throwbacks may have caused San Jose to be possessed by the soul of the Oakland Seals.

I disagree, personally; I think the wider yoke is a better look because it contains the numbers far better. If there's one aesthetic thing that will always kneecap a uniform for me, it's when a team's TV numbers are poorly-contained, because that just screams "we designed this jersey without TV numbers in mind". The hem striping, I could see, since that's really the only part of the 90's set the Flyers are clearly aping I think is better on the Tigers.

It's...a standard block font? I don't see what the big "yikes" is for. Unless it's for it being single-color, but even then they've done that before with the 80's-2000's white;

Coyotes just edge out the Habs to secure the W, but damn that was a scary end. With the win, that puts them at 3rd in the Central with 11 points in 10 games.

The Calgary Wranglers still don't have their secondary Blasty logo on the site, just the primary logo and wordmark;

Can only assume that it probably involves their Blasty logo, like the NHL club's third, given the use of black.

If that was the reasoning, it's stupid since their expansion brothers prove you can have both blue pants with a stripe and a black stripeless shell for the alternate without causing much of an issue.

Kassian and I believe Boyd also had matte helmets last year, though in that case it was likely down to helmet model since they both used a Bauer 4500 instead of a CCM or Bauer ReAkt like the rest of the team; I guess the team liked how it looked and decided to adopt the matte look as standard.

Hawks @ Yotes tonight in a nutshell;

Welp, make it a tough 48;

I mean, the problem with Toronto is their extremely limited color palette makes it absurdly difficult to come up with interesting alternate ideas that aren't just "throwback to something before" or "slight alteration of look we had before". That, or something that looks nigh-identical to what they already wear (which at that point why even bother with the alternate at all). Which is fine for a while, but fans will inevitably want to see a team do something bold and new (take the rising demand for a black Detroit alternate jersey as an example) with an alternate jersey; and when a team starts heavy experimentation with their identity, you're inevitably going to have some duds. The problem is that at least Toronto swung for the fences and tried a unique idea, even if the execution was kinda mediocre. The Rangers...just did a worse version of a Devils jersey that was already not that popular. It's like instead of trying to swing for a base hit or homer, they just bunted.

Please, please, puhleaaaaase let that just be a scrapped alternate that somehow found it's way to market.

Seems he was using a proxy bettor to make bets using his own insider knowledge. The fact that he and the PA are not appealing it also means that Pinto was clearly guilty of something, because why else would Pinto not try to appeal a 41-game suspension?

Well, that's not a good thing for the Sens.

Meanwhile, in Alberta... ...the Oilers are, uh, not having a fun start to the year.

If you want to go to the World Series, maybe win the games you need to win to get there first. If you can't win the DS or CS, you don't deserve to go to the World Series, simple as. You don't win baseball games by putting up prettier stat numbers than the opponent.

I cannot even begin to fathom why someone could possibly be mad at this scenario. We have one of the longest-suffering teams in baseball, a team that took 36 seasons to make the playoffs for the first time and attempting to claim their franchise's first World Series in 63 years, going up against a young, hungry team that has took down two of the top teams in the NL and attempting to win the franchise's first World Series in 22 years. Frankly, this is probably the most exciting World Series since Nats-Astros in 2019, to me, because I'm going to be happy no matter who wins. If you can't enjoy that because of a simple goddamn number, you're really just looking for reasons to be mad at the result.

If they wanted to keep that jersey around, they could've made that their alternate this year instead of their former home red, like Minnesota did with their RR 2.0; but they didn't, so clearly it wasn't popular enough to bring back. The anniversary reds, though, were apparently popular enough and sold so well as to really make the Canes look at it and the white counterpart for use as a major part of their future uniform lineup. That, to me, suggests it's far more likely any new red Canes jersey would have a strong resemblance to that original red Canes jersey.

When the Astros lose in the playoffs, America wins.

Exactly, a small market with a weak dollar is never going to be appealing to the NHL, or any major sports league really, when it comes to future expansion. They want the big buck markets if they're having expansion or sale prices be in the range of hundreds of millions to billions of dollars, because it makes it easier and more likely to actually get a benefit from that investment. There's a reason that the only Canadian cities with major-league franchises outside of the NHL are Vancouver, Toronto and Montréal, the three largest markets in the country; and even then, two of those only have MLS teams outside of the NHL at the moment.

Aaand Tampa chokes a multi-goal lead to the Leafs...again. Tampa's looked very pedestrian to start the season.

Heavily disagree on both accounts; the italicized font is a unique thing for the Canes now, and was a fun bit of flair for the Canes that made their jerseys feel even more distinct, it was a bad decision to move away from it in the first place. And the silver was a good way to help distinguish the Canes' color palette from the Hawks, Sens and Devils, who all also use red and black as their main colors. Plus, well...there is a certain association with both italicized font and silver in the Canes' history;

Honestly, maybe a controversial take; I think the Devils going back to red+green as their main look would've been the better move coming out of the Lou era than anything they've done since for exactly that reason. They needed to change the branding more than they did if they want to move on from the Lou era.