2014-2015 NHL Jersey/Logo Changes

[GFB]

Those Ducks jerseys are awful. The jersey is white, the shoulder yoke is black, the stripes are orange, and the crest is gold. Nothing matches... It's like they're all competing for attention at once.

[mafiaman]

Those Ducks jerseys are awful. The jersey is white, the shoulder yoke is black, the stripes are orange, and the crest is gold. Nothing matches... It's like they're all competing for attention at once.

So much potential...and so much disappointment.

[monkeypower]

These are still the best jersey the Ducks have ever worn.

But no, Disney had to sell the team and Brian Burke didn't think they were truculent enough.

[daniel75]

eh Ducks jerseys are ok not very well balanced however and the crest looks HUGE.

[oddball]

faux laces as in they dont actually tie up?

Or are they not literally there and just sublimented?

If they are like my Drew Doughty Stadium Series jersey, they are two laces sewn across the neck. There's no tie as they are sewn on the inside.

[twi]

I like them. Better than what they are replacing imo.

[Kevin W.]

The Ducks' jerseys are better than I expected but the fake laces need to go. Now.

[The_Admiral]

But no, Disney had to sell the team and Brian Burke didn't think they were truculent enough.

The Ducks would have looked so cool in dark green and orange, but stupid Brian Burke had to be all I'M IN THE ARMY NOW HUP TWO THREE FOUR WE'RE GONNA INSTILL SOME WEST POINT DISCIPLINE AROUND HERE I WATCHED A MOVIE ABOUT THEM OR SOMETHING and so we got stuck with black and beige.

[Sport]

I really hate those numbers.

[Roger Clemente]

A few observations:

1. The crest has a black outline around the silver, and wearing my replica of the (now former) third jersey, I realize why. The crest on the third has a black outline to it that is sewn to the jersey. You don't notice it because it and the jersey are both black. They just simply used the exact same crest.

2. The pointy serif that was always in the top left corner of all the numbers of the Ducks jerseys is noticably smaller now on that new white jersey.

3. It ranks up there with the former mid '00s Gatineau Olympiques jerseys jersey as a jersey that had dark shoulders, but big orange cuffs as a jersey who's mismatch I can't explain as to why it works, but it just does. I really like this jersey, even though I didn't expect to.

[MDGP]

It's like they stitched together two different uniforms. The numbers and yoke are primarily black with orange accents and zero gold. The sleeves and side panels are orange with lots of gold. As someone said earlier, the uniform isn't in sync at all, and is extremely poorly executed.

Honestly, I don't know if it's even an upgrade over the previous template. I'd have much rather seen the old uniform with the current crest (and different numbers).

[hockey week]

Off topic right now, but I wondered if anybody had heard anything about this. I'm reading Eddie Shore: And That Old Time Hockey by C. Michael Haim, and he has an aside to Howie Morenz's time with the Chicago Black Hawks. Right after talking about the 1936-37 All Americans failure, he says,

[Frederic] McLaughlin had earlier let his wife, Irene, design the Chicago uniform, and, according to reports, she "spent considerable time in museums and art galleries studying the war paint, feathers, and art of the original Black Hawk Indians. Then she incorporated her findings into her husband's team's uniform. As a final touch she had specially made hockey gloves with tessellated doodads similar to those worn by Buffalo Bill." One night [Howie] Morenz had sheepishly shown Frank Patrick the gloves and said, sadly, "You never thought, Frank, did you, that I'd finish my career rigged out like this?"

That WOULD explain the major change in uniforms:

1936-37 1937-38

But tassels on the gloves? Tell me a photo of this exists somewhere! Anybody confirm this story?

[Generic]

I don't see why a lot of people tend to say the Ducks now past set was so horrible... the script logo definitely wasn't the best but imagine if it was the D in place of it. That'd be pretty solid if you ask me.

As for these, they're... something. Forever the set from before will mean the most to myself in the Ducks history, even more so than the Mighty Ducks and that raided my childhood. Best I can say is that they got the crest right.

[Orgo]

I really hate those numbers.

Have they made them much thinner than last year's set? That's what it looks like to me.

[Sodboy13]

Off topic right now, but I wondered if anybody had heard anything about this. I'm reading Eddie Shore: And That Old Time Hockey by C. Michael Haim, and he has an aside to Howie Morenz's time with the Chicago Black Hawks. Right after talking about the 1936-37 All Americans failure, he says,

[Frederic] McLaughlin had earlier let his wife, Irene, design the Chicago uniform, and, according to reports, she "spent considerable time in museums and art galleries studying the war paint, feathers, and art of the original Black Hawk Indians. Then she incorporated her findings into her husband's team's uniform. As a final touch she had specially made hockey gloves with tessellated doodads similar to those worn by Buffalo Bill." One night [Howie] Morenz had sheepishly shown Frank Patrick the gloves and said, sadly, "You never thought, Frank, did you, that I'd finish my career rigged out like this?"

That WOULD explain the major change in uniforms:

1936-37 1937-38

But tassels on the gloves? Tell me a photo of this exists somewhere! Anybody confirm this story?

Note it doesn't say "tassellated", it says "tessellated". This means there wasn't fringe on the gloves, but likely some sort patterned design made of geometric shapes. The triangular inserts on the 1936-37 pants may lend some insight into this.

[zpqmaowl]

vs.

Looks more like the stretched Stadium Series numbers:

[Quillz]

The Ducks made the change they should have made years ago.

[WSU151]

The number change (thinner numbers) is a huge improvement. The overall font is still meh.

[WSU151]

So besides Nashville and the Hurricanes road, every single other team is going with laces.

That is absurd.

The Habs won't neither

I was referring to every team that unveiled new uniforms in the past couple of years, excluding the original batch of new RBK edge jerseys from 2007.

"every single other team" is a really poor reference to "teams with new uniforms in the last couple of years".

[ColeJ]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Julius Honka was given a Stars jersey with solid 1-color numbers... Contrary to the EA Sports screenshots. Still too early to officially call it though...