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Cause the gloves are made by Bauer and not Nike

Gotcha, yeah I agree

What do you mean?

I know, right? I'm glad he listened to my suggestions cause I think he did an incredible job on these

How about those?

lmao well you can't really expect normal people who don't post on this board to have good taste in sports uniforms when even some posters on this very board liked the Stars neon alt! But then again, what do we know, we're just two whiny and out of touch millennial boomers

Okay I get where you're coming from I think. I had forgotten about the corny jumbotron memes. Fair enough, that's a good point

You're absolutely right, New Era's QC is NON-EXISTANT. So frustrating. Forget about ever buying hats online

Well, the Jersey isn't that awful, just extremely disappointing imo. They were this close to having a really nice alternate but they blew it Dad hats look weird on my head. I see nothing wrong with fitted hats if you curve the brim and remove the stickers as Chromatic said. I think you meant snapbacks? Well. let's put it that way, if you were a Devils fan, would you buy that jersey? Yeah that's what I thought lol Agreed, they should probably shelf it before the joke gets too stale

I know I was just joking, although they tried pushing Monarchs as a fashionable sneaker a few years ago but those will NEVER be cool lol. Besides, I already have two pairs of white New Balance sneakers and a pair of relaxed fit light blue jeans so I'm set if I ever wanna rock some dad outfits!

I'm turning 30 soon, all I need now is some crispy white Nike Monarchs and I'm officially an old out-of-touch man Hmm. I dunno, I think they just jumped on the stealth bandwagon. Or possibly a Color Rush attempt to gain the approval of NFL/Cowboys fans, which was even more obvious with the mono white RR. But I'm curious, I'd like hear your opinion on that

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

I just hope it doesn't become a trend. Making crappy jerseys on purpose just to gain some meme internet points/notoriety that probably won't even lead to more jersey sales, just something that people will quickly forget once they decided it was no longer funny anymore and have run the joke into the ground. Or maybe they were incredibly misguided and genuinely thought people would like them? Not sure if that would be better or worse Instead of wearing it as a joke, they should have taken the overwhelmingly negative fan reception into account and decide against wearing it. Something about wearing a crappy jersey ironically and then pretending they're in on the joke is incredibly pathetic to me. I don't find any of this amusing at all Or maybe I've just become a millennial boomer

Okay so have I become an old man who yells at clouds and should I just chill or is this deeply disrespectful and childish? It's one thing to make tweets as a fan or even as the NHL's marketing account aimed at a younger crowd but to actually treat a professional team's jersey as the butt of the joke and paint that on your mask when you're employed by the team? Doesn't sit right with me Makes the whole thing a joke basically. A meme jersey

Too close to the Bucs imo, if anything they need to double down on that nice shade of blue and use it on their helmet as well. I'm also getting Eagles vibes from the dark grey and silver

Agreed. To be fair, earlier in the thread I described the template as slightly boring ahah. But I mean I still prefer basic/boring to offensively ugly and wacky Stadium Series style

No you're right, that's all they had to do. It would have been a decent jersey with that logo instead

I do. Just kidding, but yeah, I can't stand that jersey either lol. Not my idea of a good looking hockey jersey at all. I much prefer stripes

I can't do that? Says who? You? I absolutely can say that if both jerseys were blank, Nashville's would be better because traditional horizontal striping will always look better than asymmetrical futuristic gimmicky crap and I'm not exclusively fixating on the logo like you are. I can absolutely say that an easy fix would have been to just use the regular logo since the jersey itself isn't that bad You're just arguing for the sake or arguing, don't bother replying I'm done with you

In the same way dog vomit is 100x better than human excrement? I'm not just talking about the logos here, I'm talking about the uniforms. They both suck but at least the Preds jersey looks like a hockey jersey, and from the nosebleeds or on a small TV, if you squint hard, it might even look semi-decent. The Bolts jersey is just the average Stadium Series "futuristic" garbage. I have nothing nice to say about it

My point is that the Smashville script ruins an otherwise perfectly fine and traditional hockey jersey with horizontal striping. If they had released the same exact jersey but with their regular logo on it, do you think it would have been so poorly received? Not a chance The Bolts jersey on the other hand is an asymmetrical mess that looks like an 8 year old's drawing, let alone the dumb nickname logo/script, which to me automatically makes it worse than Nashville's jersey. You can't even redeem it by slapping a normal hockey logo on it, it's that bad Not sure what you're talking about here, this has nothing to do with what I'm saying

Gotcha. Honestly I find the Bolts jersey worse because even if you swapped the dumb script for a logo, it'd still look like hot garbage for all the reasons I stated earlier. The Smashville jersey itself looks okay, with the usual sabretooth head logo, it would have been perfectly fine I think. Maybe a bit boring but not offensively bad Arguing about which jersey is worse is kinda pointless as they're both terrible

Fair enough, that's a very good point lol. So yeah, terrible year for new-new jerseys

Which one, Jersey or Smashville? lmao. Either way, not exactly a good year for new jerseys. Other than the Blues and Coyotes maybe? Definitely more bad than good, just as I thought the league as a whole hadn't looked that good in decades, the crappy new jerseys keep on coming and coming and coming

I usually keep it polite, as unbiased as possible and try to avoid sounding like an arrogant douche who thinks his opinions are facts (granted, I often still sound like an arrogant douche lol) and just say "well, personally I don't like it" or something along those lines, but that Lightning uniform is pure dog. Literally not a single redeeming thing about it except maybe the silver trim. The stripes suck, the font sucks, the Bolts script sucks, the huge logo on the pants sucks, it's just a terrible jersey. Legit in the top 10 worst jerseys of all time. An objectively bad jersey, if you will.