ManillaToad

Bring back the Ranger ball as an alternate logo

If Gary wills it, it will happen

All I'm saying is, imagine the Scouts' KC logo on the kachina pattern jersey. It's worth the embarrassment of a mid-season relocation. Gary, give me this one thing before I stop watching next year and never have a good thing to say about you again. Praise Gary

16 minutes ago, IceCap said:

Patrick Roy probably helped there. 

 

First,  the Detroit Red Wings. 

Second, any division that's "Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto...oh and also Tampa Bay and Sunrise, FL" is a joke. 

Third, the Metro is a dumb name. 

Forth, so is the Atlantic if you actually look at where the teams are located. 

Fifth, these divisions have led to a dumb playoff format compared to the relatively simple one before. 

Sixth, the NHL is so in love with these dumb divisions they're going to keep a team floundering in the Sunbelt just to maintain them. 

Seventh,  the Detroit Red Wings. 

Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto...oh and also Nashville, TN and Raleigh, NC doesn't sound much better tbh. The EC division names aren't good, you're right there

3 hours ago, IceCap said:

The Wings were the Leafs' biggest rivals after the Canadiens but I think the Bruins have supplanted them in that spot in recent history. 

 

I wouldn't miss them if they went out west, is what I'm saying. 

 

The NHL division alignments are a joke anyway. And if moving the Coyotes to Quebec City is what blows it all up and forces the league to start again then so be it. 

 

I've never seen such a blatant attempt at artificial crowd inflation then sticking Tampa and Florida in a division with Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. 

And yes I included Tampa. They draw plenty well on their own, but there's always a strong visiting fan contingent when a team from up north comes down, and I have to think the league was aware of that revenue influx. 

 

Point is the current NHL divisions are dumb, and should be redrawn anyway. 

I don't see what's so bad about the divisions. The Pacific and Central are as good as you can get them geographically, the Metro has the 6 core teams that all have good rivalries with one another, and the Atlantic has the three Canadian teams + Bruins who should all be together. Nothing about where Buffalo, Detroit, Carolina, Columbus, and the Florida teams are placed seems egregiously bad to me.

1 hour ago, kiwi_canadian said:

and one of either Boston, Florida or Tampa to the Metropolitan Division

Boston definitely isn't moving out of Montreal's division. I imagine Tampa would pull the "Screw you we won back to back Cups" card and Florida would be forced to hop divisions

Zimmer is getting fired lol

GARY YOU KNOW WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE!

3 hours ago, DTConcepts said:

 

$20 says that in an alternate universe where the Islanders didn't have the most dominant dynasty in hockey history, the fisherman jerseys would be looked back at just as fondly as the Caps' screaming eagle jerseys, the Mighty Ducks' inaugural jerseys, or the Coyotes' Kachina jerseys. Each of those designs are recognized as some of the best in NHL history, and they each do something outlandish and/or entirely new in the confines of jersey design.

 If you're arguing that people only hated it because it replaced the dynasty logo, then that means the "trying something new" aspect you praised was literally the worst part of the uniform lol. Dynasty logos have been replaced before. People hated this uniform because it is UGLY

This is straight up minor league. It's embarrassing to look at and doesn't belong in the NHL. Comparing it to the kachinas or the screaming eagle is crazy.

1 hour ago, DTConcepts said:

In a vacuum, the logos were good and the jerseys were stereotypically 90s.

The logo is terrible and the jerseys are sterotypically 90s in the worst way possible lol. What's the point in giving something credit for doing something new if that new sucks?

9 hours ago, AFirestormToPurify said:

And to no one's surprise, they're just as underwhelming in action. The red outlines are barely visible. Too many thin stripes. It's a shame cause they were about two or three red stripes and a classic NJ logo away from being decent

 

Fisherman is still worse

8 minutes ago, flyersfan said:

Also, something I noticed on the Browns, is the 7 having half of the serif missing. I know it was a nod to classic looks on the primary, but they kept it consistent on the throwback too. Awesome attention to detail and if it wasn't applauded for before, I'm applauding it now.

I didn't get the hype for the throwbacks at first but once I saw them on the field I was a big fan

Baltimore having 8 wins despite how poorly they've played in some of their wins is a testament to their good coaching

9 minutes ago, DoctorWhom said:

Poor Lions. They ruined their perfectly good Tank. 

Even when they win, they lose. 

?? They still have the #1 pick

10 minutes ago, dont care said:

It’s navy, not midnight navy but navy none the less. It certainly isn’t royal or anywhere close to it. And with the limited number of textiles available to teams going with navy is by far the better choice.

The color of the flag notwithstanding, certain RWB teams would look better with brighter blues than navy

6 minutes ago, dont care said:

Well the flag is navy so yea that makes sense.

Nah it's brighter

2 hours ago, flyersfan said:

The RWB scheme is almost overused in American sports (esp. Baseball).

I hate when teams say they have a RWB color scheme but the blue is navy. It makes sense for the Texans because the Texas flag uses navy, but it's so stupid for teams like the Pats and Nats who are obviously trying to evoke the US flag colors

Just when everyone was starting to forget about the banner debacle, Nashville reminds everyone how lame they are

8 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

Okay, who is the paste-eater that thought putting Smashville on a jersey wouldn’t be cringe on the level of the Gordon’s Fisherman Isles jersey?

Does this mean people born right now are going to be clamoring for the Preds to bring back the Smashville jerseys in 20 years?

Absolutely grim

39 minutes ago, dont care said:

Probably Detroit, they seem like the biggest outlier for the Atlantic.

Detroit's avowedly anti-western conference though. I think they'd bully the BJs into it

Who would switch to the Central if the Yotes moved to Quebec though

22 minutes ago, Claystation360 said:

Not to mention they still do events back in StL to stay in touch with the franchises past. 

They do??

1 hour ago, MJWalker45 said:

Aesthetically, they don't look worse than they did, they just happen to be where people didn't want them to be, because "tradition"

 I told you what my opinion was and you're still telling me it's actually something different.

So glad the aesthetics literally (literally) remained the exact same after the switch.

Love my Ŕangers and my Ŕeds.

What nike logo? It blends in so seamlessly, the aesthetics are arguably better!

1 hour ago, MJWalker45 said:

Those logos are in their traditional location

The NBA first put the manufacturer logo on the front of the jerseys in 2017

1 hour ago, MJWalker45 said:

It's annoying that people are still clutching the pearls about a baseball jersey having a logo on the front, or anywhere on a uniform at all, when it's something that has been in use for greater than 50 years now across multiple sports. 

It has nothing to do with "muh tradition muh sanctity" and has everything to do with it looking worse aesthetically. NFL jerseys would look worse with the checkmark on the front instead of the sleeves, NHL jerseys would looks worse with the adidas patch on the front instead of the back. Those soccer and basketball jerseys you linked look terrible btw