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Colorado Nordiques makes absolutely no sense. Especially with the fleur de lys plastered all over the jersey. I didn't like the RR1.0 either for the same reason Hard pass

If I were in charge of the Red Wings, they'd switch to the top logo. The inverted version looks so much better imo. Or at the very least I'd find a way to use both

Sure. Why not lol. Whiteouts are cool. Is that what they do in the AHL?

They don't care. They didn't care about the sponsor patch backlash either Let's face it, people will complain for a few days and completely forget about it. We're the only ones on this forum that are gonna be complaining for a decade lmao

The simplest solution to this debate is to simply imitate the AHL. Wear white at home for the first half of the season, color at home for the second half and playoffs There, everybody's happy, even the equipment managers. Win/win/win/more win situation It would also encourage teams to bring back white alternates. We haven't seen too many of those in recent years. My Habs could finally wear the 1945 jerseys again (reverse version of home jerseys with the chest stripe)

They don't HAVE to have a patch. Plenty of teams choose not to wear one. They can support tribes and cancer research and all those noble causes without polluting the front of the jersey with ugly patches in mismatching colors That's what warmup jerseys are for

Wow it's almost as if the constant barrage of ads make the game nearly unwatchable Especially the glitchy digital ads on the boards and the disgraceful jersey sponsor patches. If there's any justice in this world, the greedy bastards who came up with these ideas will suffer from having ingrown nails for the rest of their life

Yup, the Remparts look good... for a junior team wearing a recolored Wild template. The standards should be higher for NHL teams The Sabres, I can live with that. Maybe because it's royal blue and the jersey is far from drab despite the vintage white or maybe because it's a one-off game, and it's outdoors, par for the course. The Blues in 2022 also get a pass for the same reasons. The navy blue Rangers helmets look terrible and stick out like a sore thumb. Excellent example of a dark helmet completely ruining the whole uniform and looking bush league when paired with a light jersey. In fact, hot take maybe, but that whole uniform is ass. They don't even look like the Rangers The Sens also looked like a CHL team with those vintage white =0= jerseys with the black helmets

Vintage white is a meme, and a trend that's overstayed its welcome and stay polite, old man lol Besides, I'm not saying you can't have a home jersey with vintage white on it, if it's just a trim color it looks alright. I'm just saying the away jersey has to be pure white or you end up in the same situation as the Rams when they wear bone and it just looks like a dingy white uniform that's never been washed @seasaltvanilla demonstrated a few replies earlier why cream helmets don't work. It looks absolutely disgusting and just looking at it makes me feel ill So the only other option is a dark helmet and it looks amateurish

Vintage white helmets This is why vintage white away uniforms will never work It would just remind me of dingy old appliances yellowed by years of grease and cigarette smoke. No thanks And pairing dark helmets with light jerseys is also a bush league move, they'd just look like a low budget minor hockey team that can't afford two sets of helmets

That and the shells that were often too short ahah It was a simpler time but I absolutely agree, the team gloves need to make a glorious comeback Or maybe even let the manufacturers feel free come up with weird, one off stuff like that Player gear in general has become very boring in the last decade. Thank god for Russian players lol

Why do I feel like we're all gonna be hugely disappointed by Philly? I feel like they're gonna try way too hard and end up missing the mark by a mile when they only had to fix the shade of orange, drop the stupid contrasting nameplates, hollow captain letters and revert back to solid black gloves to have a 10/10 uniform

I've always liked the idea (in theory at least) of bringing back an old jersey and fixing a few minor details or quirks to make it less dated but teams obviously can't be trusted with that Like Pittsburgh for example, their 80s set with the 12 different striping patterns should have been fixed before being brought back as full time jerseys imo. If they had brought it back as a pure 80s throwback to be worn a handful of times then I can live with the dated quirks for accuracy's sake but that's not the case. The only teams that have done it right off the top of my head are Buffalo (both the current home/away set and Goathead alternate were updated/modernized tastefully) and Arizona (the original collars looked ridiculous and were almost turtlenecks but they had the good sense to leave everything else alone). There are probably more examples but more often than not, the general rule of thumb if you're bringing back an old beloved uniform is to leave it UNTOUCHED! Half assing things to please everyone ends up never really pleasing anyone at all

I'd say it looks more like a recoloured version of their last alternate, roughly inspired by their 1970 jerseys I'm guessing?

It will always be remembered for the immense butthurt it caused to the Leafs fanbase, at the very least lmao And then the fact that the Habs finished dead last the year after that. Boring, sure. Forgettable? I don't think so But I can see how people who haven't followed the Habs on their whole playoffs run and only watched the Finals where most of the team and especially Price, Weber and Byron were barely hanging by a thread and pretty much ended their own careers by playing through serious injuries might find the Final series a bit underwhelming. Regardless. No team was beating Tampa that year. The Golden Knights wouldn't have given hockey fans a better show, it would have been over just as quick Or maybe I'm just incredibly biased lol

It feels wrong cause it's the Devils but in a vacuum it's a gorgeous hockey uniform, even the pants and gloves look great Red/white/blue/athletic gold is a very underutilized and underappreciated colour scheme in pro sports imo. In fact, I love most variations of the RWB+unusual trim colour combos (silver, lime green/volt, baby blue), but this is probably the best and safest bet

It was better before. I struggle to put it into words but with the greenish seafoam tint, it looked like a charming, old timey quirk, now it just looks unintentionally mismatched and stupid. If they wanted to correct the mismatch, why not go with a true silver instead of another different shade of silver/blue? It gives them a completely different feel, they don't even look like the Cowboys to me anymore. Imagine if the Packers went from athletic gold to Sol. It just feels off

I'm glad to see I'm not the only gear nerd on here lol. Those gloves are some of the best ever worn by an NHL team. Up there with the Rangers and Mighty Ducks imo Too bad it's a detail most teams overlook when designing a uniform, but it can make or break it

Mfers looked at a plastic beer can ring and figured "yes, this is it. this is the optimal cage design" lmao

Couldn't find answers on google, how come White Sox players can get away with wearing red gear? Is it because they were a RWB team at some point?

The orange pants look fine it's the black gloves that stick out like a sore thumb. With their first RR it was the dark socks and the solid eggplant gloves that ruined the uniform for me, this time it's just a slight annoyance

Out of all the RR uniforms we've seen in action so far, the Caps' is hands down my favourite

If Buffalo had reversed their white jersey instead of the black one and recoloured the yokes in blue, the blue helmet might have made more sense! Braindead really sums it up nicely. Such a wasted opportunity, with a few tweaks it could have been a top 5 RR imo

Now that you mention it, it's weird that the Panthers could pull off the triangular yoke just fine but not Pittsburgh. Which means you can't even blame it on the template or cut of the jersey. And I do agree that solid black gear would have looked better The more I look at the picture you posted, the more I'm convinced this is the best look the Penguins have ever had. Or maybe it's just the player you chose ahaha