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What if the Washington Capitals merged with the New Jersey Devils in 1982?

So as we know the Colorado Rockies announced to be moving to New Jersey in 1982, Well at the same time the Washington Capitals were not doing so well and were in plans to merge with the Rockies as they moved to New Jersey. So here we see the team take visual clues from the incoming Caps while still keeping their new Devils identity

10 minutes ago, VyCade said:

(15/30) Memphis Grizzlies

 

The current color scheme for the grizzlies doesn't have enough contrast.  I decided to simplify the old Vancouver scheme down to black, teal, and red.  I also wanted to make the M-E-M cuff pattern from their recent alts more pronounced, so I put it on the side panel.  The first alt takes more inspiration from Vancouver, using a modified version of the old chest script and replacing the side panel design with old cuff pattern from their original kit.  Then there's a straightforward teal alt.

 

This is what the Grizzlies should look like

Toronto Oilers

Then we have the other side of the aformentioned relocation with the Oilers swapping with the Leafs and moving to Toronto. Here is the potential look if they were to try and look more like a Toronto team visually, but more likely they would've just kept their blue and orange look

11 hours ago, MJD7 said:

What if... the Athletics relocated to Atlanta?

Charlie O. wanted to move the A's to Atlanta in 1964, but was rejected by AL owners due to fears about travel costs. Inspired by the Hawks, green is replaced by red for a more "Atlanta" color scheme.

 

 

 

 

Looks great and what's crazy is that in 1964 this would've predated the hawks and the flames by a few years

3 hours ago, MJD7 said:

I wondered about that as well, since Pittsburgh isn't necessarily close to the coast itself I don't think it'd be too big of an issue. If they did change the name, though, I think it'd result in a pretty good version of the Rockies:

 

 

 

I added pinstripes because, although it's easy to forget, road pins are something the Pirates actually shared with the Rockies during the 90's. I might honestly like this version better than the original.

 

Yeah, but there was precedence for them being called the Pirates, when a player from the A's joined the Pittsburgh Alleghenys people began calling the team "Pirates" and it stuck. I think the modified Rockies version is the better way to go. Either way great looks 

What if the Toronto Maple Leafs relocated to Edmonton?

So probably the most interesting relocations that almost happened was the Oilers and Maple Leafs swapping locations in 1981. So let's look at the Edmonton Maple Leafs. So there's two options; one, and the more probable option, is that they take what they'd been wearing and just put edmonton on their uniforms. The other being that they want to appeal to the fans already in Edmonton and make their uniforms resemble what they were already used to seeing in Edmonton; this is less likely with the history behind the Maple Leafs, but still an interesting option.

43 minutes ago, MJD7 said:

What if... the Pirates relocated to Denver?

Finances, attendance, and quality of play were all down in 1985, so the Pirates owner expressed that he was interested in selling the team to a Denver group. Black & gold is so entrenched in Pittsburgh, so I replaced gold with purple.

 

 

 

 

While I like the color change and think it works well; with Denver being landlocked would they have kept the Pirates moniker? I know it's more common in MLB for relocation teams to keep a team name, but this one doesn't quite fit for me.

What if the Montreal Maroons relocated to Philadelphia?

The other city that the Maroons looked into was Philadelphia. If the transaction had gone through the Maroons would be rebranded and beome the resurrection of the Philadelphia Quakers. Interestingly; If this did happen and the Quakers stayed around we wouldn't have gotten the Flyers.

8 minutes ago, MJD7 said:

The Padres were founded in 1969, so this move would have pre-dated them.

That's what I though. So it does make you wonder how that would've affected their look if this verions of the Browns existed.

1 hour ago, MJD7 said:

What if... the Browns relocated to Milwaukee?

Once the Busch family bought the Cardinals, Browns owner Bill Veeck knew he couldn't keep his team in St. Louis, so he tried to move to Milwaukee in 1954, but it was blocked by AL owners. Brown is paired with gold for this version.

 

 

 

 

I don't know my baseball history as well, but were the Padres a team by the time of supossed move? If so would that have forced the browns to choose a different colorscheme/identity or if the Padres came later what would they have looked like (hypothetically of course)

25 minutes ago, VyCade said:

(9/30) Detroit Pistons

 

For as much as I love the Pistons' teal uniforms and believe they're the best ones Detroit has ever had, I can't deny that their standard color scheme is more intrinsic to their identity.  However, there's been so little innovation outside of that five-year stretch in the 90s that it's made their current kit very stale.  I mean, if you take away their teal kit, these uniforms have been the same for pretty much ever, barring that bizarre lightning bolt phase that made no sense.

 

I still obviously created an alt with their 90s colors, but as for the primaries, I added silver as a tertiary and used it to highlight the numbers and text in a similar fashion to the gold on the old teal kit.  I didn't overhaul the design itself too much, but the addition of the silver accents, to me, does enough to modernize the look to where it feels new.  The other alt, in spite of my distaste for black alts being given to teams that don't use black, is indeed a black alt.  I think it, when using the silver accents, creates a really nice contrast with the text and numbers.

 

I love how this feels like a merging of eras; well done. I am with you on the distaste of black alts; so how about maybe a very dark slate/grey to tie into the motor city theme?

What if the Montreal Maroons relocated to St Louis?

Staying in Montreal, in the early years of the NHL there was another team in Montreal the Maroons. In 1938 the team was in financial danger and looked to relocate. One of those cities was St. Louis. In this reality the team did move to St louis and originally stayed as the Maroons; with the MLB's Cardinals, dressed in red, and the Browns they felt Maroons fit with the themeing of the teams already in the area. After a few years and the departure of the Browns they decided to rebrand into the Blues as they felt it connected better to the city. They kept marron but moved it to a secondary color

What if the Montreal Canadiens relocated to Cleveland?

In 1935 the Habs were put up for sale and were in talks of moving the club to Cleveland, but a group of Montreal investors stepped in and bought the team. Here we see what if the team had actually moved to Cleveland. Not much changed visually except the team adopting the Cleveland Indians C logo that they were using at the time and their shades of red and blue.  As far as the name goes I thought what would be an Americanised term of Montreal Candiens and came up with Cleveland Americans, but in the 30's we already had the New York Americans. That then led me to Patriots instead. Why then is the logo still a C and a H? Well just as the Habs say the logo stands for le Club de hockey Canadien; Cleveland says that it stands for Cleveland Hockey

I love @MJD7 Multiverse series where he looks at what would've happened if proposed relocations in the MLB had went through. So that inspired me to do the same for the NHL. 

• Montreal Canadiens/Cleveland Patriots
• Montreal Maroons/St. Luois
• Montreal Maroons/Philadelphia
• Edmonton Maple Leafs
• Toronto Oilers
• Washington Capitals/New Jersey Devils
• Saskatoon Blues/Moose
• Washington Capitals/Seattle Metropolitans
• Los Angeles Stars
• New Jersey Devils/Nashville Cowboys
• Houston Oilers
• Kansas City Emperors (Penguins)
• Pittsburgh Penguins/Hamilton Tigers
• Nashville Predators/Hamilton Tigers
• New York Islanders/Kansas City Mavericks

Here is the championship ball for the Nuggets recent win

Pittsburgh Penguins

Philadelphia Flyers

Ottawa Senators

I'm glad you decided to come back to this thread I was waiting to see what you would do with the Pats

The Brown and red really works

New York Rangers

New York Islanders

New Jersey Devils

Nashville Predators

Montreal Canadiens