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34 minutes ago, LMU said:

Well, something happened apparently…

 

It's tricky because you don't want to substantiate the ridiculous rumours by acknowledging them, but at the same time you need to make sure you're protecting the 18 year old face of your franchise from harassment. They have a presser called for 4 pm CT, so we'll see if they say anything more than what was in the statement.

10 hours ago, Morgan33 said:

Agreed.  The Skate should be a special event jersey, worn a couple times a year, and not be a part of their main identity package.  Moving away from blue and green is where the Canuck's identity problems began and I don't want to see history repeat itself.  Their primary set looks great, especially now that the script is gone.  Also don't see any problem with the team owning the Agency font...  Enough teams use a Bloc already.

I don't mind the skate jersey in a vacuum, and actually prefer the current version to the throwback, but I hate how every post about the uniform gets flooded with, "They should be wearing these full time" comments. I would hope that the Canucks marketing team know better than to actually bring them back as the primaries, but as Don Draper says, nostalgia is delicate but potent.

37 minutes ago, CreamSoda said:

maybe the jerseys ditch agency?!?   What a dream 

That would definitely be an improvement. But upon a little digging it seems like they've been using the block numbers on the helmets since the start of this season.

It's odd because they were previously using the matching font.

44 minutes ago, JohnnyCowboy5 said:

The matte shouldn't make too much of a difference, but I'm not sure why they switched to block numbers on the helmet when they jerseys use Agency.

20 hours ago, lopernv said:

Why does it not "work" for hockey? 

I cannot understand this overwhelming desire to maintain the status quo of quite possibly the most boring uniform in all of professional sports - the NHL road.

The NFL made helmets mandatory in the ‘40s, and teams were using designs on them not too long after. Helmets didn’t become widely used in the NHL until the ‘70s, so they were never considered a focal point of the uniform. 
 

Helmets are the most iconic piece of equipment in football, and are often the only place where a team displays their logo. With a big logo on the chest, along with more space on the sleeves for stripes, the sweater does most of the heavy lifting in hockey.
 

19 hours ago, the admiral said:

It's funny, because I know I've said before that I could have envisioned the Hartford Whalers making a play for a low-density national fanbase through sheer idiosyncrasy: "a team for the rest of us," kind of what the Oakland A's have done. Someone here told me I was wrong and delusional and such a thing would have been impossible, but the Hurricanes seem to have done precisely that by being Weird Twitter: The Sports Team, and I can't help but think what ever sort of wackiness I had envisioned for a staying-put Whalers would be nowhere near as insufferable as what these McMansion sprawl-creatures have given us.

What makes you think the Carolina Hurricanes have any sort of national fanbase? They seem to only live rent free in the heads of hockey fans who are perpetually online. 

10 minutes ago, nash61 said:

First off, new helmet sponsor. 

 

Second off, WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY

The NHL has arranged for separate helmet sponsors for these Global Series games. Ottawa had a different one on their helmets yesterday too.

Glad they decided to make a choice between teal & sand, instead of trying to do both, and the A on the chest of the home jersey is much better than the D-Backs wordmark. I don't mind the D snake, but would've preferred the updated one they used when they first switched to brick red.

16 hours ago, Ark said:

Is this what MLB fans said when they first introduced the AL and NL Championship Series?

There's a difference between an expansion of the existing championship/playoff format and a gimmicky tournament that's basically bribing players to care about regular season games in November & December. 

Your analogy would make more sense if we were discussing the recently added play-in rounds of the playoffs, which have been much more well received than this tournament.

5 hours ago, BeerGuyJordan said:

If the PWHL wants to tout itself as a professional, top-tier product, it should really start acting like it.

From what I've heard it seems like the players have been the ones pushing for the league to start this season. I think if it were solely up to the people running the league, they'd have delayed it a year to get all the logistics ironed out without rushing.

Obviously the generic placeholder jerseys aren't great, but considering the team names that leaked it might be better for them to get back to the drawing board.

On 11/7/2023 at 5:07 PM, neo_prankster said:

What's up with the Winnipeg Jets' attendance issues lately?

 

The way everybody's talking about it, it makes the Jets seem like they're vulnerable to being moved again.

 

I really don't want Winnipeg to lose the Jets again like they did in 1996.

It seems like a combination of a few things. They lost around 2000 season ticket holders during the pandemic, which was due to people cutting spending, changing entertainment habits, and issues around vaccine mandates. They started their first season ticket campaign since initially moving from Atlanta this spring, but I don't think the veiled threat of "buy tickets or the team might move again" went over very well.

The honeymoon period of the NHL being back in Manitoba is over, but their owner is still one of the richest people in Canada, and is committed to keeping the team there. I think we're still a long ways away from relocation being a realistic option.

42 minutes ago, ruttep said:

Nostalgia aside, Cooperalls are objectively dangerous and (in my opinion) look terrible. In other words, par for the course for this franchise.

 

Also, the Whalers nostalgia money grab continues!

I'm almost certain they won't be worn during the game. The Flyers wore them in warmups with their reverse retros last season, so I'm guessing Carolina will do the same thing.

22 hours ago, Ridleylash said:

I mean, just slip it into the striping like the originals had it instead of just having nothing in the middle. Just having the two outer colors and nothing in the middle just makes the stripe look unfinished; there's a reason teams with two-color striping like this tend to follow the formula of having the outermost stripes be one color, then having the jersey base color, and finally having the largest stripe be a second color.

I don't mind it. It mixes things up a bit from the traditional Blackhawks or Northwestern 3 stripe design. 

On 11/2/2023 at 5:07 AM, adsarebad said:

In Texas we have a whole row of people trying to draw attention to themselves, wearing yellow banana suits and the likes.

In Arizona we have a seating placing behind home plate (and only behind home plate) that looks like it was placed there with the sole purpose to distract the pitcher/TV audience!!

You don't have this in Basketball, Hockey or Football.

...... what the  are they thinking when they build these new arenas??

Basketball games literally have fans sitting on the court. When a visiting player is shooting free throws you get multiple sections of fans trying to distract them. The Clippers are purposely designing their new arena to have no clubs/suites behind one of the nets to maximize the amount of fans that can create distractions.

Hockey has fans sitting right up against the glass, frequently banging against it whenever the play is close. You also get people sitting directly beside the penalty boxes.

Professional athletes don't even notice this stuff.

@andregunts questioning why everyone is so critical of uniforms on a logo & uniform forum.

12 hours ago, FiddySicks said:

Sharks might just be the worst NHL team ever. 

If the Sharks had been allowed to carry over every goal from the previous games they still wouldn't have won last night.

The fact that they're using single layer captain's patches on the orange jerseys (which I don't think they've ever done) is proof that there'd be no legibility issues with white names on the back.

I wonder if we'll see any players publicly complain about these courts. Although Adam Silver might have a sniper ready for any players saying anything negative about this stupid tournament.

When the Capitals first entered the league they wore white pants with their red jerseys before eventually switching to blue.

I came across someone selling a book that was used by the Nets when they were pitching Carmelo Anthony to sign with them as a UFA. This was when they were prepping for their move to Brooklyn, but hadn't completed their rebrand. It includes an unused Brooklyn jersey in the old Nets colours photoshopped onto Carmelo.

3 hours ago, tigerslionspistonshabs said:

Can anyone give me a quick rundown of this in-season tourney? Seems absolutely mental to risk injuries for some Dollar Tree trophy.

They're just designating certain regular season games as "tournament games", so they count towards both their regular season records & tournament group standings. Only the two teams who make it to the finals will play an extra game.

It remains to be seen whether or not the players will actually care, but there is a financial prize, and the league is likely pressuring the PA to make sure guys know that this is important to the league.

12 hours ago, ruttep said:

 

This is dumb -- there's a reason that every single league in the world makes players wear their actual last names.

Well MLB did do the Players Weekend jerseys that had nicknames on the back, and the NBA did nickname jerseys 10 years ago as well.

It would just be boring in hockey because 95% of the jerseys would just have a 'Y' or an 'ER' added to the end of the guy's name.

15 hours ago, kimball said:

This is the DUMBEST reason for a design element I've heard in quite a while.

Between this comment, and the Oceans Eleven inspired 'Heist' ad that the league has been running, they really seem to be leaning on the finals in Vegas as a selling feature for this gimmicky tournament. What are they going to do once Nevada inevitably gets their own team and the novelty of the league being there isn't around?

58 minutes ago, ruttep said:

I do think that the punishment should happen anyway, because one of the consequences of acquiring a faulty organization is dealing with the fallout of the previous regime. The fact that a new owner took over in Ottawa since this happened does not change the fact that they (allegedly) screwed Vegas over in the trade. I won't speak on whether the punishment they decide on is valid (it sounds like they will be getting more punishment than the Blackhawks did for Kyle Beach), but there should still be some consequences.

Well like I said, there is precedent for a reduced punishment due to an ownership change. 

On 10/28/2023 at 9:35 PM, ruttep said:

What does this even mean???

Vegas allegedly were misled to believe that Dadonov hadn't submitted a no-trade list when they acquired him from Ottawa. They tried to flip him to the Ducks later that season, but found out that he actually did submit a list of teams, and Anaheim was on it, so the trade was not allowed to go through. 

There are rumours that they may have to forfeit a 1st round pick, but Elliotte Friedman believes that because ownership has changed since the violation occurred, it likely won't be that steep. He compared it to the situation with New Jersey & the Kovalchuk contract issue. New ownership was in place, so the league reduced the penalty.

5 minutes ago, Cujo said:

The NBA is really wasting their time with this tournament. Players don't care. Fans don't care. Yawn.

I can't wait to see the reaction when we see the first team raise an "NBA Cup Champions" banner to the rafters. It'll be even better if it ends up being a non-playoff team.