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How exactly did Ottawa get it wrong? I've actually come around on the white lines. I think it matches better with the white outlines on the numbers and the white in the logo.

That sounds good in theory, but that's how we ended up with the Sabres in navy with silver armpits, the Ducks wearing Frankenstein jerseys for their 25th anniversary, or the LA Rams trying to make "bone" a thing. In most cases it's better to just not overthink these things and give the fans what they want.

I don't think this is necessarily true. Plenty of NFL teams with strong brands use multiple pants for their primary home & away uniforms (Chiefs, Browns, Bills). Often a team will choose contrasting pants at home to avoid a monochrome look, but it sticks out when used with the white jersey. We only saw it briefly last season, but I wonder if Columbus will keep the navy pants with red trim around to use on the road. It helps balance the uniform better, and keeps them from looking too much like the Rangers: Also, with the Oilers promoting their navy alternate to primary home status, I wonder how they handle the pants. Their primary uniform has stripes on the pants, but the alternate is solid navy:

I agree that they should have kept the silver outline on the blue numbers, but the away jersey sleeve numbers have always had blue outlines touching the burgundy background. It's a weird inconsistency that they use white outlined in blue on the burgundy sleeves, but white outlined in silver on the burgundy jersey. It's a bit like the Bruins' pre-Edge set that had yellow numbers on the black jersey, but white numbers on the black sleeve.

I think the Quebec Remparts' best look was when they went with the Minnesota Wild-inspired roundel set, complete with a cream jersey to match the red.

You might be overthinking things here. The rumours have always been that the Blues will bring back their inaugural white jerseys, and the teasers we've gotten so far match up with that look. The first teaser is clearly a close-up of the hem/sleeve stripe, and the other is a closeup of the logo or maybe the numbers.

I guess they've already taken down the episode and edited out the ad read. Bill has been dismissive of pretty much all Marvel movies, and comic book movies in general. I think he was trying to make a pretentious point like, "I'm so above superhero movies that I don't even know what the name of this one is". I don't think he is an intentional, overt racist, but maybe all of his time living in Boston has given him a bit of a blind spot when it comes to casually offensive comments like this. You'd think he'd know better during a season where multiple members of the media have already had to place their feet directly in their mouths in regards to comments they made about Ohtani.

I think Winnipeg & Columbus need to sit down and have a conversation about their respective brands. The Blue Jackets are a navy & red team with a double-blue fauxback alternate that most of the fanbase seems to prefer. The Jets are a double-blue team with a navy & red fauxback alternate that most of the fanbase seems to prefer.

All of this confusion is exactly why it was smart of them to just narrow the colours on their uniform to green, red, and wheat. Before they replaced the original pants, they really clashed with the fauxback red jerseys.

Saying that "metallic wheat" and "Vegas gold" are different colours seems like splitting hairs. While the moon in print versions of the logos is shown as athletic gold yellow, on the actual jerseys it's a metallic gold. The stripes & font on the original jerseys is much closer to the moon than it is to the wheat used on the outline/river mouth.

It looks like the state outline with an MN abbreviation on it. Kind of like this patch from the Rangers Winter Classic jersey:

I think they've realized it's redundant to use both gold & wheat together in a set. The original uniforms only used wheat as the outline of the logo, and used gold everywhere else. The first fauxback alternate swapped this, with gold only being featured in the logo and wheat being used everywhere else.

Back to some actual uniform news for this season, Minnesota has just released a teaser for their upcoming Winter Classic jerseys. Looks like I was wrong when I assumed it would be a green version of their reverse retro:

I guess I should clarify, my opinions regarding double outlines only applies when the middle outline matches the base colour of the jersey (like Montreal). I don't have a problem with teams like St. Louis using 2 outlines that stand out from the jersey. The NOB should be kept simple though. I don't mind a single outline if it matches the numbers (Calgary, NYI, Washington, etc.), but double outline's just turn into a mess. On Dallas's old set you could barely read the name unless you got a super close-up.

Well there must be a reason that there hasn't been a single rebrand since the Preds 10 years ago that introduced double-outlined numbers. We've also seen teams like Colorado, Edmonton, Dallas, and San Jose switch to single outlines. Vegas & Seattle both could've used multiple outlines considering they both use 4 colours in their scheme, but they kept it simple and look much better in the process. Exceptions do exist, but I think they're few and far between. This is the only one I could think of:

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The numbers have nothing to do with the template. You said the red & blue look like purple when they touch, so why isn't it a concern on the home numbers? The Blackhawks jerseys avoid having black & red touch on the striping, but I wouldn't want to see a white inner outline on the away numbers.

Except that when they first introduced these numbers the blue on the collar touched the red shoulder yokes. Also no one seems to have a problem with blue & red touching on the home uniform.

Care to elaborate? The away numbers were blue outlined in red for 55 years. It matches the home uniform better, and almost all of the team's championships were won with that look.

Montreal really needs to go back to the single-outline numbers on the road. I'd also like to see Nashville use white/gold as the base for their numbers with thick navy outlines.

Sorry for quoting an 8 month old post, but Chara was my favourite player when he was in Ottawa, and the first jersey I ever owned was the original red 3D jersey with his name & number on the back, so I figured I should give my two cents. At the time he was traded, Chara was starting to develop into a decent shut-down defenseman, but nobody was projecting him to become a 40-50 point Norris caliber player. If you ask most casual fans, they wouldn't even realize that he played for the Islanders. Yes, he definitely had a lot of success during his time in Ottawa, but he played over 1000 games in Boston, was the captain for every single one of them, won the Cup, and got his Norris while he was there. It's just a matter of time before 33 hangs in the roster of TD Garden. So yes, he does belong in this thread.

The Cambridge blue pants & numbers clash with the helmet. The updated boat logo is mostly Oxford & white, so the lack of white numbers and/or pants is jarring. Maybe if they added a stripe to the helmet or used Cambridge blue facemasks that would make the set more cohesive.

Their aviator blue jersey was essentially a recolour of their '90s jersey, so a '90s themed RR would've been redundant.

They were just recreating this goal he scored against the Sabres: