2021-2022 NHL Jersey Changes

[damnyoutuesday]

Ducks should blow everything up and start over

[monkeypower]

2 hours ago, AFirestormToPurify said:

Funny, the mostly orange socks are one of the very few things I like about that uniform. Reminds me of when the Bruins still wore yellow socks with their black jerseys

 

I like the socks too. It's just that the striping is wrong.

 

2 hours ago, AFirestormToPurify said:

It was probably inspired by the 03-06 alternate with the script logo and black base which was extremely popular with the fan base and even became the default home jersey near the end of the last season and playoffs as the Mighty Ducks IIRC

 

Yes, it was the home jersey for the 2006 playoffs and I would have to imagine that it had an impact on the 06-14 set.

 

I dislike these jerseys immensely.

[AFirestormToPurify]

10 minutes ago, MNtwins3 said:

Ducks should blow everything up and start over

Nah

And then maaaaaybe bring back this one with a few tweaks as a permanent 3rd jersey to acknowledge the logo they wore when they won their only Cup. But they really only need two jerseys

 

[AFirestormToPurify]

Just now, monkeypower said:

 

I like the socks too. It's just that the striping is wrong.

 

 

Yes, it was the home jersey for the 2006 playoffs and I would have to imagine that it had an impact on the 06-14 set.

 

I dislike these jerseys immensely.

Yeah you're right about the socks but since this isn't my team and I'm not watching them 82+ times a year, it didn't really bother me ahah. I didn't even notice the inconsistencies until you pointed them out. Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of that alternate either, it badly needed some jade stripes. Or maybe swap black for eggplant and eggplant for jade, I dunno. It was way too close to a Kings jersey. I'm just saying that while I can't prove it, I feel like this jersey is probably the reason why they went with another script logo for the rebrand

[RyanMcD29]

Guess it's time to dust off the "Nike alts were the best jerseys the Ducks/Mighty Ducks have ever had" take. I dunno, jade as a primary works a little bit better than eggplant as a primary

[Ridleylash]

I think you could get away with tinkering with the Mighty Ducks look a smidge, maybe by replacing the silver stripe with orange and putting the orange sticks on the primary (and also using the jade triangle on the dark jersey), like so;

 

This solution marries both eras together pretty well, I feel. Orange adds a nice burst of bright color to the design while not being overwhelming, and the Ducks get to have a totally unique color palette in the league.

[AFirestormToPurify]

1 hour ago, RyanMcD29 said:

Guess it's time to dust off the "Nike alts were the best jerseys the Ducks/Mighty Ducks have ever had" take. I dunno, jade as a primary works a little bit better than eggplant as a primary

I'm a huge fan of the white version from 1999-2000 with the eggplant gear and jersey-specific socks. Very underrated uniform imo

But I think the jade version was a bit underwhelming with the black gear and regular away socks

 

 

[AFirestormToPurify]

54 minutes ago, Ridleylash said:

I think you could get away with tinkering with the Mighty Ducks look a smidge, maybe by replacing the silver stripe with orange and putting the orange sticks on the primary (and also using the jade triangle on the dark jersey), like so;

 

This solution marries both eras together pretty well, I feel. Orange adds a nice burst of bright color to the design while not being overwhelming, and the Ducks get to have a totally unique color palette in the league.

Yikes. No thanks lol

[DTConcepts]

Yeesh. Those Nike jerseys are rough.

 

The Ducks got it right the first time.

[monkeypower]

Continuing Ducks talk, they have warmups for Dia de Muertos night.

Gibson also has a mask for it, though he did wear it for the first two periods of their last game on Halloween and switched to his usual one for the third. I don't know what that was about.

The sugar skull in hockey helmet and sugar skull duck mask have been around for at least a couple of seasons now.

[DTConcepts]

The crest on those jerseys is rough. Looks like a DHGate knockoff with all those air bubbles.

[Patchey13]

3 hours ago, Ridleylash said:

I think you could get away with tinkering with the Mighty Ducks look a smidge, maybe by replacing the silver stripe with orange and putting the orange sticks on the primary (and also using the jade triangle on the dark jersey), like so;

 

This solution marries both eras together pretty well, I feel. Orange adds a nice burst of bright color to the design while not being overwhelming, and the Ducks get to have a totally unique color palette in the league.

That would look pretty good. I think I'd cut the thickness of the orange stripe by like 50% however. It's all my eyes can focus on with the current amount. Having just a small touch would be a better alternative.

[spartacat_12]

15 hours ago, DTConcepts said:

Yeesh. Those Nike jerseys are rough.

 

The Ducks got it right the first time.

 

This was my favourite uniform in sports growing up, but if they were to go back to this they should really update the logo colours. Doesn't make sense to have a black, jade, and yellow logo on a eggplant, jade, and silver jersey. Change the black to eggplant, and make the sticks silver, and it would be perfect. Also the triangle should stay jade on the dark jersey.

[GFB]

I'm firmly in the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim > Anaheim Ducks camp myself, but it's probably because the Mighty Ducks were actually fun with Kariya, Selanne, 90s Disney, Wild Wing setting himself on fire, etc and the mid-aughts Anaheim Ducks were an affront to everything enjoyable about hockey. 

[tigerslionspistonshabs]

Loved those Ducks jerseys. The set that replaced them has to be up there for the blandest unis in sports history. 

[Patchey13]

1 hour ago, spartacat_12 said:

 

This was my favourite uniform in sports growing up, but if they were to go back to this they should really update the logo colours. Doesn't make sense to have a black, jade, and yellow logo on a eggplant, jade, and silver jersey. Change the black to eggplant, and make the sticks silver, and it would be perfect. Also the triangle should stay jade on the dark jersey.

I think the yellow can stay, but the black for eggplant might be a good choice.

[AFirestormToPurify]

1 hour ago, spartacat_12 said:

 

This was my favourite uniform in sports growing up, but if they were to go back to this they should really update the logo colours. Doesn't make sense to have a black, jade, and yellow logo on a eggplant, jade, and silver jersey. Change the black to eggplant, and make the sticks silver, and it would be perfect. Also the triangle should stay jade on the dark jersey.

Your Sens have gold on the logo but nowhere else on the uniform. The Blackhawks and Wild have like 32 combined colors on theirs logos that aren't found anywhere else on the jersey and they're routinely considered some of the best logos in hockey. The 90s Ducks, Sharks, Coyotes and Panthers are all uniforms that a LOT of people like and have the same "problem". You can probably even include the original Thrashers jerseys on that list, I think a fair amount of people would say they were nice uniforms

 

Why does it not make sense exactly? I think the gray triangle in particular makes perfect sense. I've seen plenty of Starter jerseys from the 90s that had the jade triangle and it didn't look all that good. Again, the Leafs and Flames flip their logo colours on their jerseys and nobody seems to mind?

 

The Mighty Ducks jerseys from 1996-97 and 2000-03 were absolutely perfect and I will die on that hill lol

[DTConcepts]

9 minutes ago, AFirestormToPurify said:

The Mighty Ducks jerseys from 1996-97 and 2000-03 were absolutely perfect and I will die on that hill lol

 

Personally, I think the Mighty Ducks looked better without shoulder patches than with. This:

 

Looks much cleaner than this:

 

Plus, I think that shoulder patch is a bit too cartoony, which is saying a lot for the most cartoony brand in hockey history.

[monkeypower]

No, the shoulder patches were a great addition.

[Kevin W.]

18 minutes ago, monkeypower said:

No, the shoulder patches were a great addition.

That is one of the best looks in league history. Period.