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5 minutes ago, M4One said:

 

No jersey retirement.  They are being inducted into the team's hall of fame.

Too late to delete my posts?

9 hours ago, spartacat_12 said:

I'm not sure what you think nepotism is

"The practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs."

Not strictly related to retired numbers but I still stand by what I said about the NHL being an old boys club

Just because retiring numbers of undeserving players isn't new doesn't mean I should like it

The Habs have too many retired numbers, it doesn't mean they won't have any numbers available, it means that won't have any GOOD numbers available. I'm pretty sure we lead the league in players wearing ugly football numbers in the 60s and 70s

No need to try and prove me wrong, it's just my opinion, you don't need to have a counterpoint to everything I say lol. I'm aware of everything you said, I just don't like it

9 hours ago, philly97flyer said:

MOD EDIT: Let's not go there.

MOD EDIT: Let's stick to jerseys in the jersey thread.

10 hours ago, Ridleylash said:

I don't see the harm in retiring Numminen's number in Winnipeg, honestly

You're right, no real harm. Except having your number retired loses a bit of prestige when Dustin Brown's number stands alongside Gretzky's, Robitaille's and Dionne's in the rafters. Even next to just Selanne, Numminen isn't even close to being in the same ballpark. Just my opinion. I'm arguing because I'm bored but don't go thinking I'm taking all of this super seriously or that I'm offended or anything, it's just that in the dog days of summer, there isn't much news about hockey uniforms lol. I have nothing Numminen or M. Koivu or Rinne, I'm sure they did great things for their community

7 minutes ago, Klondyke said:

They nearly have the most banners in the entire NHL, yet the original incarnation of the Jets only won a 7-game series just one time in their existence. 

I can't stand this new trend of retiring the numbers of very-good-to-decent players and it really goes to show that nepotism and the Old Boys Club™ mentality still runs rampant in the NHL, even if this isn't the most nefarious symptom,  and just to make sure my comment is still on topic lol, I hate that in a few years more and more players will be forced to wear ugly offensive linemen numbers as all the traditional hockey numbers below 20 will be retired or highly sought after by veterans

No offense to Numminen, but this is a new low. This honour should be reserved for legends and HoFers imo

1 hour ago, dont care said:

 

I know very well what that word means. It's just that my opinion also happens to be OBJECTIVELY right most of the time

;^)

On 8/13/2022 at 1:10 PM, TBGKon said:

You know, in outdoor lighting these are actually not bad. Not perfect, but far from bad. I know they're not traditional but Washington had to move to the polar opposite when making this change.

 

 

Nah those are objectively bad because there's next to no yellow from the neck down and no black on the helmet. Also the plain white pants and socks don't help the situation at all. They didn't have to go with traditional uniforms but those are just straight up bad. The good news is that they're only a few small fixes (pant stripes on white pants or burgundy pants and colour socks) away from looking decent, so not all hope is lost

5 hours ago, TBGKon said:

The Hockey Lodge is the Wild's official team store.  It makes sense if their jerseys will have the patch, much like the NBA rule where the ad is only on jerseys sold at the official team stores and no where else.

I know.

People who buy jerseys should still get themselves a nice seam ripper though lol

4 minutes ago, dont care said:

The last part no because they get to keep gate revenue, everything sold outside the arena goes into the shared revenue pool

Interesting. Thanks

Invest in a seam ripper, if you don't have one already

1 minute ago, dont care said:

The league uses revenue sharing, I’m gonna bet it’s a requirement to have one.

Even for ads? How come not every team had helmet sponsors last season then?

What about concession stand sales? Do they still have to share revenue for every hot dog sale? lol

11 hours ago, M4One said:

Or, do what a couple of BCHL teams did for the league's 60th anniversary and put the patch in the weirdest location on the back hem.

This is depressing

4 hours ago, WSU151 said:

but it also likely means special event/anniversary patches will be smaller and simpler than usual. 

Probably the reason why they went with a minimalist design for the new Cup patch

I'm still hoping that the richest teams/owners go sponsor-less. At least for a while. I still haven't gotten over the helmet ads

From the Icethetics video posted earlier, they were prototypes, apparently

Quick thoughts

I'm glad Ottawa went with a red jersey instead

Toronto's jersey would have looked a million times better with that logo

So dumb and baffling that Anaheim never even considered white socks

Those red Jets jerseys look incredible, it's a shame that they went with drab grey instead

The Whalers jersey in Hurricanes colours fit the spirit of the RR program better than what they went with, even if imo, they should have never worn a Hartford jersey

The fisherman jersey in black is a terrible idea and their actual RR was safe/boring but at least it looked good

Detroit with white pants... yikes

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

3 hours ago, Hambone792 said:

I’m not entirely thrilled with the idea of Nike taking over but what really peaks my interest is which (if any) teams use the brand switch to change or tweak their looks.

 

when adidas took over a few teams made small changes most stayed the same and some swapped more than a handful of things.

 

I wonder if any teams opt to go “throwback” similar to what the Yotes just did, if any team changes primary Jersey color (similar to Edmonton) etc.

 

personally I hope the Bruins add gold socks and have a proper 80s throwback as an alternate 

 

Dallas goes back to cup winning template with “victory green” instead of darker green

 

Columbus goes cannon for home and away 

I just hope the last remnants of the Edge years are phased out for good this time and that the Ducks go back to eggplant and jade and the Caps keep the same basic design (I think the logos, font and colours look just fine) but de-Edgify it and go for a more conventional stripping pattern. Same goes for LA, get rid of the piping and you end up with a pretty decent uniform. The Sharks badly need some waist stripes at the very least but I can picture them being one of the handful teams with a stale jersey that could get a disastrous Nike makeover. The Hurricanes also strike me as a strong candidate for a complete makeover for some reason. Their uni set with 3 completely different jerseys is a mess and none of them look particularly good

The league has never looked better imo. I hope we don't see too many drastic changes from teams I didn't mention. It would be nice if Boston brought back yellow socks, NJ went back to their Cup winning set with waist stripes and Tampa started wearing black gear again but I'm just wishful thinking

1 hour ago, Kevin W. said:

I don't see them doing the same base design twice in a row.

I know 

A man can dream!

My unsolicited wantlist for next year's RR, since we're on the subject

Ana: Eggplant version of late 90s 3rd and 4th jerseys. Or eggplant Wild Wing

Ari: Hunter green Kachina

Bos: Anything as long as it's brown!

Cgy: All-red Blasty! With red gear 

Col: Blue version of OG jerseys. Compelete with lighter shade of burgundy and black gear

Clb: Neon green jerseys. Why the hell not lol

Dal: Do the 2000s jerseys right this time! Black star patterned jersey with victory green gear 

Det: Just reverse the home jersey, including the logo

Edm: I wonder if a copper based jersey would look good...

LAK: Purple OG jerseys with gold swapped for a sparkly silver

Mon: The Expos inspired RR rumours really got me excited, not gonna lie. Powder blue base? Montreal script? 

NYI: Teal Fisherman jerseys, obviously!

Ott: White version of 2000s black alternate

Phi: Black version of current/70s jerseys

Pit: White version of Robopen gradient!

SJS: Black version of OG jerseys, like those Starter fashion jerseys

TB: Stealth version of storm alternate. Someone posted a concept on here, wish I could namedrop him but I completely forgot his username, it looked incredible!

Wsh: OG jerseys in slate blue, bronze and black

Post yours!

8 minutes ago, WSU151 said:

 

What would your comment on the main page accomplish? 

What do our posts here accomplish?

On 8/1/2022 at 5:56 PM, MJD7 said:

Arizona Diamondbacks Cooperstown Collection

I couldn't not go back to the purple & teal, so I went with a purple jersey inspired by an alternate the team wore from their inception in 1998 until 2002.

 

I'd kill for a purple hat with that rattlesnake head on it! The colours look so good 

1 hour ago, Lights Out said:

 

They didn't put 3 stripes on every jersey, sure, but they still made sure to put their stamp on every single jersey with those ridiculous-looking collars.

Not that big a deal compared to Reebok's stamp. The collars don't ruin the jerseys and they're actually more comfortable imo. Or maybe I've just gotten used to it

12 hours ago, WSU151 said:

 

I highly doubt it, on a per capita basis. NBA games seem to have less fans wearing jerseys than NHL games. 

I live in hockey-mad Montreal and I see way more people wearing basketball jerseys casually. And I like that you also added soccer later lol

I guess the only way to tell would be to look at pictures of crowds in the playoffs but that doesn't account for people wearing jerseys in casual settings and you just never see anyone wearing a hockey jersey to go to the supermarket to buy some milk. A tanktop or short sleeved shirts with or without buttons will always be easier to wear than a boxy long sleeve with a 12"x10" stiff logo on the chest

2 hours ago, WSU151 said:

NHL fans probably buy more jerseys than any other sport outside football.

Hmm. Basketball?

Remember how we all (or maybe it was just me?) thought Adidas was gonna completely ruin NHL uniforms like Reebok did and force 3 stripes on every jersey?

Well it didn't happen. The league looks better than ever

It's probably gonna be Nike but I'm not too worried. Maybe I'm naive but I'd be a lot more worried if it was a smaller brand with minimal HS/NCAA hockey background trying to make a bold statement like Under Armour or New Balance.

In an ideal world it would be Bauer. Looking at the AHL and CHL, I'm not sure I want that contract to go to CCM. It looks like the Edge template with flat Adidas collars, worst of both worlds, basically

5 hours ago, Ridleylash said:

The franchise is nearly 25 years old, my dude. I dunno about you, but any team over 20 years old seems like an old team to me.

 

Besides, it seems incredibly closed-minded to say that only teams from a specific time period can look a certain way. That's kinda taking away the fun of sports branding, isn't it?

What I'm saying is, teams from the 60s look like teams from the 60s. So do 70s teams. And 80s teams. And a lot of 90s teams. And so on

Except the Wild. The Wild can't look like a Y2K team for some reason, they had to do the faux-retro thing out of nowhere when their original uniforms were perfectly fine

20 years old is not that old (25 lol), up until Vegas, they were the most recent expansion team

Just now, ebod39 said:

 

He meant the state itself, The State of Hockey,  which has produced more NHL players than any other.

Hockey is religion in MN. 

I know. I'm fully aware of that. But it doesn't change the fact that the Wild is not and will never be an old team. It's not even like they're the same franchise as the North Stars. I think it's a stretch to say that because the state of Minnesota has a rich hockey history, the Wild should be wearing jerseys that make them look like a team that was established a hundred years ago or that their jerseys should have a retro look. It's a team established in 2000 called the WILD, the buzzsaw/fuzzy numbers were perfectly acceptable and on brand. The rest of the uniform was still tasteful and simple enough that it wouldn't look dated today, unlike say, the original Predators jerseys that screamed "late 90s x-TrEmE"

@Jamesizzo

You alright bud?

You know instead of disliking every single one of my posts and often making sure you dislike posts that are several months old just to drive the point home, you could just block me

I know I often have unpopular opinions but you're being weird lol

On 7/29/2022 at 2:39 AM, Kevin W. said:

No. Minnesota has a rich hockey history - probably more than any other state in the country with the exception of Stanley Cup wins

0 Cups and established in 2000 lol. Try again

On 7/29/2022 at 2:39 AM, Kevin W. said:

Those jerseys were a bad product of the late 90s/early 2000s and not something that should be brought back.

Yeah unlike their name, you mean? Come on

The OG uniforms were great. And the thinner sleeve piping when they switched over to Reebok made them even better. It's a shame we never got to see the green version and got the phantom yoke and waist-stripe-free boring "olde tyme hockey" third Edgified and then promoted to full time home jersey instead. The numbers were the only wacky thing about them, and even then, it wasn't that bad, it's not like they were impossible to read or anything. Much more fun and fitting than just going with a custom block font used by every other team

They got it right the first time and they will never be the North Stars