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20 hours ago, dont care said:

How do the oilers look dated? Those same arm stripes are used by half the league, shoulder yokes have been used in hockey throughout their it’s history and not tied to any specific time to look “dated.” It’s not the colors because you already stated the islanders don’t look dated in the same colors.

It's the logo with the dumb 70s font and yes, the colours. The Islanders use the same colours in wildly different proportions. The double outlines on the numbers look kinda dated as well. Nothing wrong with the striping when they use navy instead. Otherwise it's too busy and it looks garish when they use two bright colours and not enough of white

11 hours ago, Point1 said:

Frankly, for a younger generation of fans the royal blue jerseys don't bring memories of the Gretzky years - they bring to mind the constant failure of the 2010 to 2016 Oilers.

 

Even if I wasn't huge on the orange primary look, at least it was kind of acknowledging that and building a new look for a new era. Navy + orange could have been a very sharp McDavid-era identity if they stuck to it (and made a navy version of the classic sweater the primary)

Also this. This is McDavid's team. Time to move on from Gretzky. It screams "hey we suck now but remember when we were good??"

11 hours ago, VampyrRabbitDesign said:

The aspect of the Oilers jersey that is most tied to a time period design wise is the logo with it's very 1970s font, and I see no calls to change that

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1 hour ago, Nordiks_19 said:

Between the royal blue and the stealth becoming primary home, i'd choose the Royal blue anytime. But yeah, these would've been perfect.

 

Here's what it'd look like compared to the navy blue. Classic look that would never have to change. *Sigh* maybe in 5-6 years they'll understand

I would prefer without the orange cuffs or maybe with white name and numbers, cause there's just way too much orange on that jersey, but even as is, this is still much better than royal blue

32 minutes ago, Ridleylash said:

The problem is the Oilers and Islanders' royal looks are both tied to incredibly iconic teams and franchise legends; for both franchises, the navy stuff is mostly tied to failure, and extended periods of it as well. In terms of marketing, you're probably better off linking your guys to Wayne Gretzky and Paul Coffey instead of that time in your franchise history that you nearly :censored:ed off to Houston or Kansas City or that one Cup Finals run that died as soon as your goalie got injured.

 

Besides, if we can have multiple red/black/white teams in the NHL, I think we can afford two royal blue/orange/white teams as well, especially since the striping designs are completely different and one team uses a shoulder yoke while the other doesn't.

Red and black is super generic across all sports, and we complain all the time that those teams look too similar to each other so I have no idea what you're talking about

It's pretty simple really, the Islanders don't look dated but the Oilers do. Time to move on, or at the very least, fix a couple small things that would make it look less dated

Yawn

This is what they should be wearing, minus the orange cuffs. Keep the orange as an alternate and scrap the stealth jersey. Their current white jersey is one of the best they've ever worn

I don't care what anyone says, the royal blue jerseys are extremely dated and Gretzky left the team 40 years ago, it's time to move on. Leave dark royal blue and orange to the Islanders, they look much better than Edmonton in those colours

If it was up to me, they would be wearing navy and copper. If there's ONE team in the league that needs a drab and dark colour scheme, it's the team called the Oilers ffs.

Oh well, gotta sell some jerseys to suckers trying to relive their glory years, eh?

Could you find time to do the Expos when you're done with active teams? Your concepts are all outstanding! I love the template

1 hour ago, WSU151 said:

The Avs wore slate blue-on-burgandy numbers for their Reverse Retro and it looked fine despite burgandy and slate not touching in the vintage logo...of course it looked better with burgandy pants, but the numbers were the exact same layered combo....and with that said, that means that the Nordiques probably had vibration issues with their lighter blue/red numbers that no one ever complained about.

I am lol. I have many problems with that jersey

I would usually agree with you @Sport as I hate when royal blue and red touch (especially with shiny/reflective twill names and numbers), but in this case, there is more than enough contrast between the burgundy and slate blue imo. I do agree that a silver outline would be better, but it's not a dealbreaker imo. I also agree that if they changed the colour of the shoulder patches on the away jersey, it would be another little improvement that makes a huge difference and makes the whole thing look more cohesive and well thought out

The other small thing they need to do asap is to switch the white cuff roll on the gloves to either silver/gray or burgundy

I may be a biased homer but Montreal is wayyyyy too low! I do agree that the new helmet was unnecessary though

16 hours ago, WSU151 said:

All-Star logo is phenomenal.

 

NHL Draft hats posted on Fanatics:

 

https://www.fanatics.com/?pageSize=72&sortOption=NewestArrivals&query=nhl draft hat

 

Solid design.

 

Ducks still have webbed D as the logo, despite Twitter rumors posted here weeks ago that they’re going back to Mighty Ducks logo. 

 

Edmonton hat not shown yet. 

 

I hate that my Habs use navy blue. It's NEVER been in our colour palette. Why do teams act like dark royal blue is interchangeable with navy blue? You never see red teams use burgundy as a replacement for true red. So dumb

2 hours ago, TalktoChuck said:

Worst Case Ontario. New band name, I call it!

I take no credit, it's a Trailer Park Boys reference ahah

3 hours ago, Ridleylash said:

Eh, I disagree; the old logo didn't work in the modern day with all the small-sized text in it, and the white text on light blue wasn't a great design choice either. This cleans the whole thing up and makes all the elements more well-defined while keeping the necessary elements intact; the way the S is shaped even looks like a flowing river, like the one that the city itself is right on.

 

Besides, you're giving modern Create-A-Team logos way too much credit lmao

It just looks so corporate and soulless. Same as every logo designed in the last decade. Broad, thick lines, heavily computerized, full of meaningless Nike Speak. No distinct personality, it looks like every new logo is designed by the same few people in the same design firm

Who cares about how logos look on twitter.  I don't see anyone calling for a redesign of the Blackhawks and Red Wings logos because they look bad in tiny thumbnail versions. I know you and I have had this same exact argument before but a hockey jersey logo is 12"x12", it looks GOOD when there's lots and lots of details

Worst case Ontario, why can't they just come up with simplified logos specifically and exclusively for ant-sized applications? Why do they have to touch the main logo on the jersey?

2 hours ago, Dante_X said:

New Chicoutimi Saguenéens logo

 

 

And the jerseys (which are the same as before except for the logo and the stupid vertical pipes now in silver instead of white/blue)

 

Looks like a soulless and generic Create a Team logo. This sucks

Worst case scenario for the Cup finals

Oilers vs Hurricanes '06 rematch. For obvious reasons. Both teams look very underwhelming at home

Best uniform matchup imo

Rangers vs Avalanche. Slight edge over Rangers vs Blues. But both matchups would look great

I'm sure only gear nerds like me care about that kind of stuff but they also had some of the best looking gloves in the league before the Torontroit Blue Maple Wings redesign with the generic Maple Leafs but with black text gloves and I wish they'd go back to that pattern. I thought it was such a wasted opportunity last year when they got lazy/cheap and wore the black storm alternate gloves with the reverse retro

1 minute ago, Ridleylash said:

I posted this image last time this whole Ducks identity debate came up, but may as well do it again with a white version this time;

 

At this point, the orange is too tied into the branding of the team to completely remover it.  The orange adds a pop of brightness to the jersey, ties into the Orange County thing that the owners have a predilection for and perfectly mixes both eras into one solid identity.

 

Black and orange is too Flyers, gold is Vegas' schtick now, so why not just replace black and gold with eggplant and jade while keeping the orange as a tertiary color? Nobody in the NHL (or sports, really) owns that combo.

Nobody owns that combo because it looks awful lol

Just make the sticks orange instead of yellow, like on the 25th anniversary jersey if you want orange so bad, but leave that poor jersey alone!

48 minutes ago, FinsUp1214 said:

Honestly, I get that the original Mighty Ducks stuff was cartoony and overtly 90’s. Totally get it. But it was also kind of the whole point; it’s exactly those parts of the identity (and the connection to the movies and cartoon) that got me hooked on them as a kid.

Same. And I see nothing wrong with that. The Flyers look like a team straight from the 70s and I don't see anyone complaining. Most people want the Oilers to go back to their 80s uniforms. The Coyotes just went back to their 90s jerseys and it's been almost unanimously welcomed by everyone. There's plenty of other examples but the point is, there is nothing wrong with the very 90s looking jade and eggplant Mighty Ducks uniforms. Sure it looks a bit dated but in a good way, like you said, that's the point

20 hours ago, VancouverFan69 said:

 

Totally agree. The darker red and royal blue doesn't have as strong of a contrast as the classic lighter red. Also, the Canadiens need to go back to the single red outline around their blue font on their whites. There was no need to update on of the most timeless uniforms in pro sports history.

The double outline was absolutely necessary on the white jerseys. Blue and red never touched except on the numbers where they bled into each other and looked like crap. It was an absolutely necessary change and the updated (since '97) name and number font is also much better than the thin generic block font they used prior to that

Also, I prefer the darker red because we're the only ones wearing that shade of red. Most people won't even notice that their jerseys are darker than the Red Wings or Flames unless you point it out to them so it's not like it's burgundy or anything

The only thing they need to fix is the chin strap on the blue helmets lol. Make em white instead of black. That's it. Otherwise it's perfect. I wouldn't even touch the mismatching shades of blue on the pants and jerseys. End of rant

I support the idea that more teams need striped socks. Mostly because I hate the solid white socks look (even more than the leotard look)

This is what comes to my mind when I see solid white socks with dark pants:

Quakers

Foos (the higher the socks, the downer the foo)

So yeah, more teams need striped (or contrasting) socks

24 minutes ago, LA Fakers+ LA Snippers said:

NO BLACK!

 

I like black for the 49ers, but if O had to remove black from the logo, or add it to the jerseys, i would pick the former. Black doesn’t belong on the jerseys.

I could live with just red and gold but then remove black from the logo!

15 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

Not sure why anyone would want to add black to the 49ers jersey. They tried that already and it wasn't great. The jersey is obviously a classic.  I wouldn't change it because it is just what it's supposed to be. But the idea of making the swooshes gold is actually a good one.  Subtle and clever. The swooshes don't factor in in terms of the true design anyway.

Meh, they tried but with gaudy drop shadows. If they only used subtle black trim on the shoulder and pants stripes for example, it might work. I generally don't mind when teams have colours on their logo that they don't use anywhere else on the uniform but in this particular case it kinda annoys me. It would annoy me a lot less if the jersey had a bit of gold on it I think

I dunno maybe I'm just biased, I never liked the 49ers or their uniforms

That concept is a 9.5/10 to me. Add a black outline to the 49ers logo above the numbers and it's a 10. Either that or black swooshes maybe? But I'm afraid that would stick out like a sore thumb

14 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

I think if the stripe was just red they wouldn't need to change anything, but I think pant stripes need to match it. 

Yeah exactly. I'm not a fan of having no outline on names and pants, single outlines on numbers and double outlines on the helmet now? I think it's gonna a bit messy. The rebrand has really grown on me and I have learned to appreciate its simplicity, especially compared to the really, really busy 2000s look (especially near the end of its life when they started experimenting with white helmets and the weird gradient helmet) but the current one is starting to feel a bit disjointed now with the new helmet and possibility of a new red jersey

I like it but the oversized logo was better

Unless they're also changing the pants and possibly numbers, the new helmet is gonna look out of place with the rest of the extremely minimalist uniform. They also need to start wearing white pants with the navy jersey

2 hours ago, oldschoolvikings said:

Only one job left for the 49ers.

 

And add gold and/or black trim on their jerseys. I'm guessing this is an unpopular opinion but the red and white jerseys are too plain imo

51 minutes ago, LA Fakers+ LA Snippers said:

This is a really rough edit (done on an iphone at work, and is not reflective of my photoshop skills) but i think it conveys what it would look like if they moved the stripe down, removed the logo, and stretched the numbers

Meh. Now they just look like the 2000s Lions with black numbers

Yikes. I've posted before that I wished teams went with alternate pants/gloves/helmets with their regular jerseys from time to time but this isn't what I had in mind

Now they just look like the Blackhawks, Devils or Senators. Hard pass

On 3/25/2022 at 3:55 PM, spartacat_12 said:

 

From my understanding, last year most of the companies that were advertised on helmets got those stickers for free. Because of the shortened season, teams would have had to provide partial refunds to in-arena sponsors, as they didn't get a full season's worth of exposure. Instead of refunding these partners, a lot of teams offered free helmet ads instead.

 

This year those companies had to actually pay if they wanted the helmet ad space, so they most likely balked at the price.

That makes sense. Thanks!