2022-2023 NHL Jersey Changes

[Ark]

7 hours ago, monkeypower said:

 

So scratch what I just said.

 

What a dumb franchise.

 

How are they dumb for wearing their best uniform?

[fortunat1]

14 minutes ago, Ark said:

 

How are they dumb for wearing their best uniform?

I think it's just the culmination of all of their strange uni-related decisions that makes the Canes dumb. Yes it's aethstetically better that they are wearing the alt, but it's pretty silly to make such a huge deal about promoting an alternate jersey to primary status just to use a new alternate in the most important games of the year.

 

Who are they? A team who wears cyclones? A team represented by storm flags? The 'Canes? If they finally took ONE identity and went all in, it might allow them to have a cohesive look, which is the main knock towards their current set. Instead of choosing a direction and moving forward, they make these weird/unnecessary moves just to backtrack on them shortly after.

[monkeypower]

23 minutes ago, fortunat1 said:

I think it's just the culmination of all of their strange uni-related decisions that makes the Canes dumb. Yes it's aethstetically better that they are wearing the alt, but it's pretty silly to make such a huge deal about promoting an alternate jersey to primary status just to use a new alternate in the most important games of the year.

 

Who are they? A team who wears cyclones? A team represented by storm flags? The 'Canes? If they finally took ONE identity and went all in, it might allow them to have a cohesive look, which is the main knock towards their current set. Instead of choosing a direction and moving forward, they make these weird/unnecessary moves just to backtrack on them shortly after.

 

This is the reason.

 

They've had inconsistent and incohesive jerseys for a decade now, kept making big deals about using the black storm flag alternates in the playoffs, made those jerseys the primary and yet decide to wear a new alternate set in the first year of the playoffs with the black primary.

 

And not just any new alternate, a one season anniversary jersey that is a throwback jersey that is way more similar to the old primary jersey that they would never wear in the playoffs. They would never wear that old primary so much in the playoffs that they dumped it so the black jerseys could be primary, just to essentially end up at a Frankenstein square one in the first year of the black primary jerseys.

 

Like look at all these different mismatching looks and combinations (and this isn't even including Whalers dress up).

[The_Admiral]

When you get into a situation where your home uniform doesn't use your primary logo, your road uniform has a different logo that also isn't your primary logo, your home and road uniforms don't really match, and then you're overriding your home uniforms for the playoffs anyway (with a throwback that also won't match anything), it's time for another idiotproofing season where no one has any alternates at all. I don't care how cool it was when the Blackhawks had black sweaters in 1996, all thirds do is set brands down wayward paths where everything is mismatched and fiddled with to oblivion. Many such cases.

[maz]

Dear, Carolina

 

Stop right there. Keep that. Throw the black unis and "Canes" script in the trash where they both belong, bring back the white version of the classic uni, and leave it alone.

[spartacat_12]

Playoff golfing jokes aside, hopefully this means that they're ditching the red helmets on the road for the post-season.

[Frylock]

The Carolina Hurricanes franchise is the epitome of Kirk Lazarus’ statement in Tropic Thunder. “I know who I am! I’m a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude!”

[BuckDancer]

So they stupidly chose to wear those hideous black alts in the playoffs last year instead of their modernized 2017 red jerseys, and then to make matters worse they dropped their best looking jersey since their original set all together and made the ugly alt the new home jersey. Then when they make the playoffs in the first season with these black jerseys as their new homes they use the retros for the playoffs?

 

So, at this point it is pretty much inevitable that they just end up going back to their cup era look, but will they keep the black jersey and make it their alt again? If so, will they go back to wearing the black alt during the playoffs again just to keep messing with us?

[Mr. Krabs]

53 minutes ago, BuckDancer said:

So they stupidly chose to wear those hideous black alts in the playoffs last year instead of their modernized 2017 red jerseys, and then to make matters worse they dropped their best looking jersey since their original set all together and made the ugly alt the new home jersey. Then when they make the playoffs in the first season with these black jerseys as their new homes they use the retros for the playoffs?

 

So, at this point it is pretty much inevitable that they just end up going back to their cup era look, but will they keep the black jersey and make it their alt again? If so, will they go back to wearing the black alt during the playoffs again just to keep messing with us?

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[Wackyriderfan14]

Will Winnipeg finally wear WAH this year?

 

[Ridleylash]

1 hour ago, Wackyriderfan14 said:

Will Winnipeg finally wear WAH this year?

Only if they can opt to use the RR in the playoffs; because their alternate is a dark jersey, so even if they wear that they still won't go white at home.

 

Plus, I feel like the league wouldn't be thrilled with the idea of having a team in the most visible part of the season completely bucking their uniform ruleset. You can assign alternates to be your home jersey in the playoffs, but there's also a reason teams only do it with colored alts and not white ones.

[Wackyriderfan14]

14 minutes ago, Ridleylash said:

Only if they can opt to use the RR in the playoffs; because their alternate is a dark jersey, so even if they wear that they still won't go white at home.

 

Plus, I feel like the league wouldn't be thrilled with the idea of having a team in the most visible part of the season completely bucking their uniform ruleset. You can assign alternates to be your home jersey in the playoffs, but there's also a reason teams only do it with colored alts and not white ones.

They could just wear their normal road uniform?

[Ridleylash]

1 hour ago, Wackyriderfan14 said:

They could just wear their normal road uniform?

Again, that runs into the NHL; who would likely say "no, you have to wear a home or alternate jersey", because each team's jerseys need to contrast as per the league rules under Rule 9.1;

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9.1 Team Uniform – All players shall be dressed uniformly with approved design and color of their helmets, sweaters, short pants, stockings and skates. Altered uniforms of any kind, i.e. Velcro inserts, over-sized jerseys, altered collars, etc., will not be permitted. Any player or goalkeeper not complying with this rule shall not be permitted to participate in the game. For violations, refer to 9.5. Each member Club shall design and wear distinctive and contrasting uniforms for their home and road games, no parts of which shall be interchangeable except the pants.

And both teams wearing white simply wouldn't be contrasting unless you force literally every team in the playoffs to pack both home and road jerseys just in case they have a series with the Jets; so that's why they don't do it.

 

Besides, it's not like the Whiteout has faded in popularity, even with the team wearing dark at home for a decade now; it won't hurt to just let the fans do the Whiteout and leave the team in their dark jerseys, since logistically that's much easier.

[The_Admiral]

7 minutes ago, Ridleylash said:

And both teams wearing white simply wouldn't be contrasting unless you force literally every team in the playoffs to pack both home and road jerseys just in case they have a series with the Jets; so that's why they don't do it.

 

How, pray tell, do you think travel plans in the playoffs work?

[WSU151]

12 hours ago, Ridleylash said:

Again, that runs into the NHL; who would likely say "no, you have to wear a home or alternate jersey", because each team's jerseys need to contrast as per the league rules under Rule 9.1;

And both teams wearing white simply wouldn't be contrasting unless you force literally every team in the playoffs to pack both home and road jerseys just in case they have a series with the Jets; so that's why they don't do it.

 

Besides, it's not like the Whiteout has faded in popularity, even with the team wearing dark at home for a decade now; it won't hurt to just let the fans do the Whiteout and leave the team in their dark jerseys, since logistically that's much easier.

 

If the Jets wear white at home and tells the other team to bring dark jerseys, why would both teams wear white in Winnipeg?

 

Seems like any series against the Jets would work like this: Winnipeg wears white for all 7 games, the opponent wears dark jerseys all 7 games. 

[M4One]

7 hours ago, Wackyriderfan14 said:

Will Winnipeg finally wear WAH this year?

 

 

Doubtful.  Either the league doesn't allow it, or the other teams have told the Jets to take a hike when asked, knowing the whole thing about the white out.  

 

Or, maybe the Jets have simply never considered it.

[IceCap]

18 hours ago, the admiral said:

When you get into a situation where your home uniform doesn't use your primary logo, your road uniform has a different logo that also isn't your primary logo, your home and road uniforms don't really match, and then you're overriding your home uniforms for the playoffs anyway (with a throwback that also won't match anything), it's time for another idiotproofing season where no one has any alternates at all. I don't care how cool it was when the Blackhawks had black sweaters in 1996, all thirds do is set brands down wayward paths where everything is mismatched and fiddled with to oblivion. Many such cases.

Minnesota is the poster child for this. They had their inaugural set which was modern but pretty restrained. And then they introduced the fauxback red. Which was a cool nod to Minnesota's hockey history prior to the Wild. 

 

But then they decided to make the red the primary, refused to change the whites to match, and now they openly flaunt "nothing matches." Which is just dumb. 

 

So ofc leave it to the Hurricanes to take someone else's terrible idea and run with it. 

 

On 4/15/2023 at 10:30 AM, Ark said:

 

How are they dumb for wearing their best uniform?

Having a consistent identity is nice. More teams should try it. 

[spartacat_12]

3 hours ago, IceCap said:

Minnesota is the poster child for this. They had their inaugural set which was modern but pretty restrained. And then they introduced the fauxback red. Which was a cool nod to Minnesota's hockey history prior to the Wild. 

 

But then they decided to make the red the primary, refused to change the whites to match, and now they openly flaunt "nothing matches." Which is just dumb. 

 

While the initial Edge era for the Wild was a mess, I wouldn't really say "nothing matches" for them now. Sure, their home & away jerseys aren't perfect inverses of each other, but they match just as much as Montreal or Chicago do. They use the same logo & font on both jerseys, and the striping on the sleeves is close.

 

It's a lot better than when they had a red home jersey with a roundel logo & block font, and a mostly green road jersey with the jagged custom numbers & the logo on it's own.

[SCL]

48 minutes ago, spartacat_12 said:

 

While the initial Edge era for the Wild was a mess, I wouldn't really say "nothing matches" for them now. Sure, their home & away jerseys aren't perfect inverses of each other, but they match just as much as Montreal or Chicago do. They use the same logo & font on both jerseys, and the striping on the sleeves is close.

 

It's a lot better than when they had a red home jersey with a roundel logo & block font, and a mostly green road jersey with the jagged custom numbers & the logo on it's own.

The green sleeves match the white, so some consistent elements between the two. The Wild white jersey is terrific, the green needs to lose the chest stripe and match the hem striping of the white.

[seasaltvanilla]

And the color hierarchy doesn't match either. Red is the secondary color on the whites but wheat is the secondary color on the greens. It's a big pet peeves of mine. I wouldn't even mind if they went to being a green/wheat team but at least adjust the whites to reflect that, like the Iowa Wild.