2022-2023 NHL Jersey Changes

[AFirestormToPurify]

7 minutes ago, Davey said:

I enjoy the 2023 NHL All-Star jerseys. Brings back some good memories of growing up and, being able to see them again.

The icing on the cake would be if the teams kept their current glove colors of their current team. I loved that subtle detail of being able to pinpoint a player on the ice based on the team colors of the gloves they wore. 

That and the shells that were often too short ahah

It was a simpler time but I absolutely agree, the team gloves need to make a glorious comeback

Or maybe even let the manufacturers feel free come up with weird, one off stuff like that

Player gear in general has become very boring in the last decade. Thank god for Russian players lol

 

[Sodboy13]

3 hours ago, tBBP said:

 

Of course not following the Coyotes I didn't know anything about any of this or who a Rhuigi was, so I did a little background research and it turns out dude's been in the fashion design/streetwear biz for quite a while now.

 

For anyone else curious about this Rhuigi Villasenor, here's a Forbes article on him, which also partly tells how he became involved with the Coyotes:

 

Rhuigi Villaseñor Of Rhude Becomes Head Creative Of NHL’s Arizona Coyotes (forbes.com)

 

Back to the jersey...seeing his previous work with paisley does indeed explain the stripped-down kachina pattern (which I feel like the Coyotes could use to pretty great effect so long as they don't go too far out the box with it). As for that chest script, thanks Andy for explaining the inspiration. The final execution doesn't really do it for me personally (but then, these weren't designed for me either ), but at least now I know what led to the styling of the final piece. 

 

 

 

Rhuigi Villaseñor gives us a hockey jersey fashioned after paisley bandanas.

 

The style of Virgil Abloh gave us Los Angeles Rams uniforms with name tags and intentionally off-centered rough stitching.

 

Alexander Julian gave us pleated basketball shorts.

 

The worlds of fashion and sports fashion no doubt have some overlap, but there definitely needs to be some pretty firm separation between the two as well.

[tBBP]

1 minute ago, Sodboy13 said:

 

Rhuigi Villaseñor gives us a hockey jersey fashioned after paisley bandanas.

 

The style of Virgil Abloh gave us Los Angeles Rams uniforms with name tags and intentionally off-centered rough stitching.

 

Alexander Julian gave us pleated basketball shorts.

 

The worlds of fashion and sports fashion no doubt have some overlap, but there definitely needs to be some pretty firm separation between the two as well.

 

I'm still waiting on those clear side panels...

 

(Then again, given what that's led to with the hotpants some women wear these days, ehh probably not.)

[andrewharrington]

3 hours ago, tBBP said:

 

Of course not following the Coyotes I didn't know anything about any of this or who a Rhuigi was, so I did a little background research and it turns out dude's been in the fashion design/streetwear biz for quite a while now.

 

For anyone else curious about this Rhuigi Villasenor, here's a Forbes article on him, which also partly tells how he became involved with the Coyotes:

 

Rhuigi Villaseñor Of Rhude Becomes Head Creative Of NHL’s Arizona Coyotes (forbes.com)

 

Back to the jersey...seeing his previous work with paisley does indeed explain the stripped-down kachina pattern (which I feel like the Coyotes could use to pretty great effect so long as they don't go too far out the box with it). As for that chest script, thanks Andy for explaining the inspiration. The final execution doesn't really do it for me personally (but then, these weren't designed for me either ), but at least now I know what led to the styling of the final piece. 

 

 

Just imagine if the uni was black like the Arizona night! Lol, I get it. We worked through the crest for a looong time trying to figure it out, trying alternatives, old things, new things, etc., but they kept coming back to the rocky Arizona wordmark.

[The_Admiral]

Love the Coyotes embracing looking like a dude from East L.A., it's such an on-point nod to their fanbase of 3,000 suburban redditors whose parents moved down from Denver.

[Discrim]

Just read the article about the new Coyotes alt, and what they were going for with the script reminded me of a concept I did about 15 years ago....namely, @bohob's constructive criticism of the script I'd made for it:

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I don't necessarily think "raw" is a design quality one wants to pursue when designing for the highest level of professional basketball in the US, if not the world. I really think the script could work, if it were a little more polished.

 

And now I see a third jersey at the highest level of professional hockey in North America, if not the world, with a script explicitly pursuing "rough and raw" as a design quality.  Not that I really aim for stylistic messiness that often, but it felt simultaneously nostalgic and ironic.

[CaliforniaGlowin]

"rough and raw"? I would love to see that on a jersey. This ain't it.

[nash61]

Now that they mention the bandana connection, I can clearly see it and really like it.

[pepis21]

On 1/21/2023 at 2:25 AM, ebod39 said:

What am I supposed to be seeing here?

One line is missing compare to original logo.

[M4One]

The socks for the Coyotes alternate have the same pattern as the sleeves and hem.  Wasn't expecting that.  Added picture.

 

 

 

 

[B-mer]

Love the Coyotes in all red again. I feel like this jersey is a few tweaks away from actually being a great set. But as an alternate it’s certainly a novelty. 

[Ridleylash]

Honestly, the Yotes third looks pretty nice. Feels like a blend of the 03-07 jerseys with Kachina branding and a retro-styled wordmark. The only thing I might change is filling in the cream on the top and bottom of the stripes to make them pop a bit more.

But otherwise, this kit looks pretty slick as an alternative look, almost like a look into a world where the Coyotes came about in the WHA;

[The_Admiral]

No it doesn't. No one in the WHA was doing linework that sophisticated; everything was more or less a palette swap of a template that was already in the NHL. If you're thinking of anything, you're thinking of the Nordiques, who heat-pressed a few fleur-de-lis decals above the hems on an almost otherwise blank sweater. I'd like to look into a world where they replaced this useless team, which I almost got to do ten years ago.

[ebod39]

16 hours ago, pepis21 said:

One line is missing compare to original logo.

oh no, the humanity!  The logo was completely redone & streamlined,  that minor line was extraneous

[charger77]

Would the Coyotes alt be improved if the logo was just a white/cream (can't really tell the color) line/outline drawing of the Coyote logo instead of the word mark or would it be too jumbled to see?

[spartacat_12]

Normally I think a standard block font looks good on just about every uniform, but with this Coyotes alt it just feels lazy. It's like they were about to submit the final design then realized they forgot to put numbers on the jersey. 

 

The Yotes have never worn block numbers since moving from Winnipeg, even when they simplified the colours/uniforms in '03. A custom font with rough edging similar to the wordmark would've been nice. Even just using the font from their home & away uniforms would've been better.

[Sport]

Sorry, guys, but I love that Coyotes alternate. The cactus on the pants is something I would've done in the concepts board when I was 14. 

 

Also, I'm watching Blue Jackets-Flames right now. First time seeing the Flames nu-blasty uniforms. Again, sorry, but I love these. I think I'm getting soft and less critical  in my old age. 

[Kevin W.]

13 hours ago, spartacat_12 said:

The Yotes have never worn block numbers since moving from Winnipeg, even when they simplified the colours/uniforms in '03.

The 2003-15 number font was about as generic as a block font without being a block font, and the namebar font wasn't even unique - it's the Law and Order font.

[Survival79]

On 1/23/2023 at 12:26 AM, ebod39 said:

oh no, the humanity!

 

Exactly!

[WSU151]

12 hours ago, Kevin W. said:

The 2003-15 number font was about as generic as a block font without being a block font, and the namebar font wasn't even unique - it's the Law and Order font.

 

Arizona basketball says hello.