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Now there's a bold rebrand if I ever saw one 😆 For some reason Calgary's white jersey in their red and black era never worked for me, and yet this one kind of does, even though it probably shouldn't. Maybe it's the consistency in the stiping design, or how the use of black is more natural here as opposed to how shoehorned it felt back then. I don't love the Blasty logo and I think the Flames should be a primarily red team - with or without black - but for a Blasty-centric version of the Flames this is a good look.

 

Today I learned that Calgary has a cowboy hat in their flag, and that is awesome. At first I thought the city jersey was a nod to the Calgary Cowboys but I guess it's more of a coincidental resemblance.

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I like the Calgary look. I have to say, I'm not sure about blasty being promoted to a full time logo though. As much as I loathe the Flames, the flaming C is about as close to perfect as you could ask for for an NHL logo. 

 

I also like that if they went to this look full time, it would finally close the door on all the people screeching for the Canucks to adopt the skate full time. The colours make way more sense for Cowtown anyway.

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22 hours ago, wildwing64 said:

Now there's a bold rebrand if I ever saw one 😆 For some reason Calgary's white jersey in their red and black era never worked for me, and yet this one kind of does, even though it probably shouldn't. Maybe it's the consistency in the stiping design, or how the use of black is more natural here as opposed to how shoehorned it felt back then. I don't love the Blasty logo and I think the Flames should be a primarily red team - with or without black - but for a Blasty-centric version of the Flames this is a good look.

 

Today I learned that Calgary has a cowboy hat in their flag, and that is awesome. At first I thought the city jersey was a nod to the Calgary Cowboys but I guess it's more of a coincidental resemblance.

I think Calgary having a cowboy hat in their flag is maybe the greatest thing I've discovered recently. And helpful when making a city uniform haha

 

9 hours ago, Chromatic said:

I like the Calgary look. I have to say, I'm not sure about blasty being promoted to a full time logo though. As much as I loathe the Flames, the flaming C is about as close to perfect as you could ask for for an NHL logo. 

 

I also like that if they went to this look full time, it would finally close the door on all the people screeching for the Canucks to adopt the skate full time. The colours make way more sense for Cowtown anyway.

I do like the flaming C, but I've always loved Blasty. Maybe more so than the common hockey fan. I just love how different it was, more out of the box. So my full time Blasty look definitely isn't for everyone, but I love it. And as for the Canucks skate logo, I actually love that logo too, but I think I share your sentiment that it shouldn't be used full time. The Canucks blue and green is one of my favourite colour schemes in the NHL.

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Carolina Hurricanes

 

I love, love, love the Hurricanes look. But specifically the warning flag logo, which should be their primary logo. I would've gone for the black uniform, but switching Calgary to black, I decided to keep red as the home primary. Not really any big changes here for the Canes besides the warning flag logo taking over as the primary.

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I think the same thing with Blasty applies to me for the Canes. I love the diagonal Canes logo. I'm likely in the minority. I know people hate word marks on uniforms, which I've never understood. There's nothing wrong with word marks. Certain word marks and certain nickname logos don't work. Bolts is a ridiculous logo for the Lightning. But Canes makes sense. We all call them that anyway. It is my Ideal NHL after all, so I went with this logo. I went with a lot of similar ideas to their current alternate. Black, with mostly red striping. I brought the heather texture to the red striping, I quite like textured alternate uniforms. It just adds an extra layer of detail.

 

For the city uniform, it is heavily based on the Raleigh city flag. The 2 red stripes on the outside with the green leaf and logo in the middle. With a recoloured Canes logo in the middle. Yes, I know, it looks like the Subway logo. I saw it right away, but I figured it's just a city jersey, it could get past that. Maybe they can just be sponsored by Subway and it will all be fine. 

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1 hour ago, Francis10 said:

Those of us old enough to remember the WHA may find that Calgary City uniform a little familiar...  

https://www.sportslogos.net/logos/list_by_team/344/Calgary_Cowboys/

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I know a lot about hockey uniforms and teams, but I can't say I ever knew this team existed haha. I think this only adds to the reasons why a city uniform with the cowboy hat from the flag makes sense. It ties back to some hockey history from the WHA days.

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Chicago Blackhawks

 

Up next is my previous favourite team. It's been the Jets since they returned to my home province, but I grew up cheering for the Blackhawks, watching Toews at UND and then play for Chicago. Their uniforms are incredible and honestly didn't need much change. The biggest change I made was subbing the head logo with the C tomahawks logo. I'm a big fan of their logos, and I haven't looked into any of the conversations they've had about their name and logo. The name should never change in my opinion, but maybe it is time to make the switch to promoting the C logo. I initially had the coloured version, with the green and yellow, but it didn't look as good as I thought, so I simplified the colours to fit the uniforms, and I think it really works. I kept the head logo on the shoulder. I slightly updated the road waist striping to match the home, but I didn't touch to much with the uniforms themselves. 

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I was really looking forward to Chicago solely because of the alternate and city uniforms. The alternate is a direct play off of their 2019 Winter Classic uniforms which played off of their uniforms in the 20's and 30's. I added the tomahawk logo to the centre of the circles. and added a red outline, just to provide some splash of colour. And to differentiate it from what they have already worn. That includes a red stripe on the waist and arms. 

 

The city uniform might be my favourite out of every team. I'm not from Chicago, but if I was, I'd love any sports uniform with those flag elements on it. The colours, the stars, it's unique to Chicago and everyone knows immediately what it's from. The logo fits so perfectly into the design, and I didn't even have to recolour it to have that fit. The only thing I think it can be faulted on is how much Chicago sports teams use these elements, like the Bulls, but they wouldn't use it if it didn't work. 

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Love that alternate jersey's use of just a tiny touch of red, and the monochrome C+hammers logo looks right at home in the roundel! I know folks didn't like the Devils new IRL alt but I kinda liked it, and this concept has a lot of the elements I liked about it :) The only suggestion there would be to make the head logo monochrome too like they do on their alts (that is, if you keep it at all). A solid set overall.

 

That Coyotes black alternate gives me Kraken vibes, in both good and bad ways... The sleeve/sock striping is quite nice, but the hem doesn't really pair with it very well. If you just want that single thin stripe there, it should probably be green, but you totally have enough room to either put a tan stripe above it or move it up and put a tan stripe with a red hem (and pants?) below it.

The city uniform here is a really nice design, and FWIW it's distinct enough from the Suns & Jazz designs and pretty enough that the similarities aren't an issue :) I think the black hem feels out of place; either ditch it or go with black under the sleeve stripes. I'd also go white for the "AZ" on the crest.

 

Hmmm not sure how I feel about that Hurricanes city jersey's crest; the idea has potential but it isn't working as-is since the stylized, oblong logo pairs poorly with the circular, detailed wreath. Using a more stylized, oblong wreath (like 2nd from left, 2nd from bottom here) would probably help. Going with all green & yellow for the logo would probably look nicer too. Finally, it's not necessary, but including the diamond pattern from the flag's reverse on the sleeves might be cool...?

As for the rest of the set, I really like the pants flags! Also I like the Canes wordmark too and it looks really nice on black.

 

IDK if I want it IRL but those changes to the Sabres logo is pretty cool; it feels like what they'd do if they were a classy but modern expansion team, and it certainly emphasizes the name well! The Bills jersey is fun, and I like the chest lightning bolts, but I'd go red buffalo + white text on the helmet for contrast purposes here.

 

Not crazy about going black for the Flames but the design looks good, if a bit '80s Canucks-y. The scenery patch and Blasty *are* two nice logos that pair better with each other than the traditional C logo (though a floating white outline on the scenery logo would help too!) Not feeling the white stripe touching the yellow at home. Love that flag-themed alternate; just needs a bit of hem color (white or black would be fine!)

 

Love the brown & simplified logo for the Bruins. That Red Sox-style alt is close but the lowercase doesn't work for me here very well, and I'd rather see the actual detailed Freedom Trail markers' leaves (could rip from here?) The B in the roundel works fine but I wonder if the bear from the shoulder patch could work there?

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16 hours ago, vtgco said:

Love that alternate jersey's use of just a tiny touch of red, and the monochrome C+hammers logo looks right at home in the roundel! I know folks didn't like the Devils new IRL alt but I kinda liked it, and this concept has a lot of the elements I liked about it :) The only suggestion there would be to make the head logo monochrome too like they do on their alts (that is, if you keep it at all). A solid set overall.

 

That Coyotes black alternate gives me Kraken vibes, in both good and bad ways... The sleeve/sock striping is quite nice, but the hem doesn't really pair with it very well. If you just want that single thin stripe there, it should probably be green, but you totally have enough room to either put a tan stripe above it or move it up and put a tan stripe with a red hem (and pants?) below it.

The city uniform here is a really nice design, and FWIW it's distinct enough from the Suns & Jazz designs and pretty enough that the similarities aren't an issue :) I think the black hem feels out of place; either ditch it or go with black under the sleeve stripes. I'd also go white for the "AZ" on the crest.

 

Hmmm not sure how I feel about that Hurricanes city jersey's crest; the idea has potential but it isn't working as-is since the stylized, oblong logo pairs poorly with the circular, detailed wreath. Using a more stylized, oblong wreath (like 2nd from left, 2nd from bottom here) would probably help. Going with all green & yellow for the logo would probably look nicer too. Finally, it's not necessary, but including the diamond pattern from the flag's reverse on the sleeves might be cool...?

As for the rest of the set, I really like the pants flags! Also I like the Canes wordmark too and it looks really nice on black.

 

IDK if I want it IRL but those changes to the Sabres logo is pretty cool; it feels like what they'd do if they were a classy but modern expansion team, and it certainly emphasizes the name well! The Bills jersey is fun, and I like the chest lightning bolts, but I'd go red buffalo + white text on the helmet for contrast purposes here.

 

Not crazy about going black for the Flames but the design looks good, if a bit '80s Canucks-y. The scenery patch and Blasty *are* two nice logos that pair better with each other than the traditional C logo (though a floating white outline on the scenery logo would help too!) Not feeling the white stripe touching the yellow at home. Love that flag-themed alternate; just needs a bit of hem color (white or black would be fine!)

 

Love the brown & simplified logo for the Bruins. That Red Sox-style alt is close but the lowercase doesn't work for me here very well, and I'd rather see the actual detailed Freedom Trail markers' leaves (could rip from here?) The B in the roundel works fine but I wonder if the bear from the shoulder patch could work there?

I always appreciate the in depth C&C to my concepts! Making the head monochrome for the alternate for Chicago is a great idea! It's one of those details that I often work too fast to fully catch before posting. 

 

The Hurricanes city jersey may never feel right to me using the flag design, but maybe something I will go back into at the end of the series. I'll probably go over many of the city uniforms at the end of the series, to fix up some of those.

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Colorado Avalanche

 

The Colorado Avalanche. They almost have the perfect uniform set. Almost. The switch from the black helmet and pants didn't sit well with many people, I'm thinking it was just so much of a change it was hard to get used to. I'm glad they took away the black, it never made much sense. But the blue looks strange as well. I did some minor changes to the home and road. I replaced the grey striping with white on the home and blue on the road. I also changed the pants, helmet, and gloves to red instead of blue. It's hard to tell if it would work with it all laid out like this, and I don't quite have the photoshop skills to mock it up on a picture. But I think it may look less strange than the blue pants did. Nothing too crazy done to the home and road, they're pretty much ideal already for me, besides those striping changes.

 

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The alternate takes a far different turn than ever seen before for Colorado. I love the Yeti foot logo. It's one of my favourites from the Avs. Not enough to be a primary, but it makes for a great alternate logo. I was thinking of going for something similar to their current alternate, but it's just boring. I went with a new striping pattern, something I thought signifies an avalanche. Snow cascading down a mountain, starting with just a little bit of snow, and escalating into more and more. The stripes getting thicker and thicker as they go down the sleeve. It's eye catching, stands out, and is a different uniform than the Avs have ever seen. Perfect for an alternate. It also features the navy blue, just to further have it stand out from the home and road set. The City jersey uses the great colours of the Colorado state flag. The Avs already use a logo closely resembling the flag logo, so recolouring that logo seemed like the perfect idea. It also comes with recoloured shoulder patches.

 

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34 minutes ago, TrueNorth13 said:

Colorado Avalanche

 

The Colorado Avalanche. They almost have the perfect uniform set. Almost. The switch from the black helmet and pants didn't sit well with many people, I'm thinking it was just so much of a change it was hard to get used to. I'm glad they took away the black, it never made much sense. But the blue looks strange as well. I did some minor changes to the home and road. I replaced the grey striping with white on the home and blue on the road. I also changed the pants, helmet, and gloves to red instead of blue. It's hard to tell if it would work with it all laid out like this, and I don't quite have the photoshop skills to mock it up on a picture. But I think it may look less strange than the blue pants did. Nothing too crazy done to the home and road, they're pretty much ideal already for me, besides those striping changes.

 

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The alternate takes a far different turn than ever seen before for Colorado. I love the Yeti foot logo. It's one of my favourites from the Avs. Not enough to be a primary, but it makes for a great alternate logo. I was thinking of going for something similar to their current alternate, but it's just boring. I went with a new striping pattern, something I thought signifies an avalanche. Snow cascading down a mountain, starting with just a little bit of snow, and escalating into more and more. The stripes getting thicker and thicker as they go down the sleeve. It's eye catching, stands out, and is a different uniform than the Avs have ever seen. Perfect for an alternate. It also features the navy blue, just to further have it stand out from the home and road set. The City jersey uses the great colours of the Colorado state flag. The Avs already use a logo closely resembling the flag logo, so recolouring that logo seemed like the perfect idea. It also comes with recoloured shoulder patches.

 

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LOVE the big foot jersey

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On 2022-02-24 at 7:27 PM, TrueNorth13 said:

Next team up! I'm actually finishing these faster than I thought I might.

 

Arizona Coyotes

 

I think a lot of the minor/major changes with the Coyotes is going to come back to whether you heavily favour the original look and colours or the more modern colours. I did mix both identities, combining a very popular classic look with a modern look. I removed purple and used instead the Coyotes red, eliminated the weird angled shoulder yoke and made it black. I originally wasn't going to add green back in, but I think it just wouldn't make sense to use the Kachina look without green. But I simplified the colour use. I love the Kachina look and I'm glad they brought it back, but they did one thing wrong, which I think Ottawa did wrong as well. They just didn't change anything about it. Design as come a long way since the 90's, and while it still can look good now, I think they should've attempted to bring some modern design into it. Cleaned it up a bit, so that was really my mission with it. I haven't met many people that prefer the howling coyote logo over the Kachina. This just makes sense for Arizona. I also went with red as the home uniform colour. Just nice to have some colour rather than a black home uniform.

 

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I'm so excited about the alternate and city uniforms. The alternate could potentially be my favourite alternate in the series. Only time will tell. It plays off of the uniforms the Coyotes wore for a couple seasons before they returned to the Kachina. It's a simple look, but I love simple. It just fits so well. By making the primary the red, it opens up for a nice, clean, black alternate.

 

The city jersey, I definitely did better here than Anaheim. I used a couple different ideas to bring this one together. The flag of Arizona obviously. I haven't seen many concepts of an Arizona team without that classic sunshine pattern. I used that subtly on the front of the uniform and the helmet. The rest of the uniform is based off of the awesome Arizona sunsets and the Phoenix Suns city jersey. It's a beautiful and colourful jersey. It may make you think of the Utah Jazz, but oh well. There's no NHL team in Utah, so we won't have to worry about that haha.

 

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As always, C&C is appreciated! And if you have any ideas for any team's city uniform, especially if you're from that city, I'd love to hear ideas I can incorporate into the upcoming teams.

Swap the green out with turquoise and you’re a winner. 

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Columbus Blue Jackets

 

This will definitely be a favourite of mine out of all the concepts in the series. I like Columbus' road uniform but was never too fond of the home, with the blue shoulder/arm striping matching the uniform. So I switched it out to white and made the red stripe thicker. Same on the road. The biggest change is the cannon logo being used as the primary logo. In my opinion its a much better logo. I also went with blue pants. I think that may be the biggest thing Blue Jackets fans might have a problem with, but I think the blue pants just work better. And there will be other blue, red, and white teams that use red pants in this series, so it helps differentiate from them as well.

 

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The alternate is my favourite part about this set. It's red which doesn't technically make sense for the "Blue" Jackets, but for an alternate I think we can have a pass on that. I loved the neon green from the original logo, which I brought back for the alternate. Green never made sense for the home and road, but for an accent on the alternate, I think it works incredibly well. 

 

I spent a long time looking into ideas for the City jersey. A couple ideas later and I settled with a military jacket themed jersey, to tie in Columbus' military history. I used their current primary because of the Ohio state flag imagery in the logo, and I added a detail that will be worn on the alternate captain and captain's uniforms. A patch below the letter for the alternate captain and the captain.

 

I'd like to add this has been the best received uniform on twitter, where I also share these. I have gotten great responses from Blue Jackets fans, which makes them my favourite fan base in the series so far haha. 

 

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CJB looks great. 

 

The flag of Chicago is the most iconic flag of any city in the US, so it's entirely right that you use it as inspiration for a Blackhawks jersey and it looks great. As for the Flames, the V looks great and Blasty is resplendent on the chest, but the Flames really need to be in a majority red shirt for the home.

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Dallas Stars

 

I think the obvious move for any Dallas Stars uniform concept is to use the original star striping on the uniform. So I went with that. I did modify the primary logo, making the star sit straight, so the striping would fit a little nicer. I also used the winter classic logo in a more prominent role for Dallas, on the shoulders for the home and road and later on as the crest on the alternate.

 

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I'll be the first to admit that when the Stars put out their neon green alternate, I hated it. But I've grown to love it, especially as an alternate. It stands out from their other set which works perfectly for an alternate uniform. I somewhat combined their current alternate look with the winter classic look, adding some white detail into the uniform. For the city uniform, I went with the Dallas flag design, with some unique features including the star on the arm and different striping than the chest. I think horizontal chest stripes can get boring when they're used so often, so to add some difference in there, I didn't keep that chest stripe going onto the arms. I think it breaks it up enough to keep it different from other horizontal chest stripe teams. The colours make sense especially when you consider the Stars played around with red and blue when redesigning their current logos and uniforms. They eventually went with victory green, but concepts exist with the red and blue.

 

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Detroit Red Wings

 

Very minimal changes to the Red Wings home and away. Just a simple striping change. I used to hate 2 colour teams, it was too simple for me. But I've learned to really appreciate and like the look the Red Wings have. They just don't need to change that much. It's pretty ideal to begin with.

 

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The alternate uniform is essentially a flipped version of their 2014 Winter Classic uniform, with the D script logo on the front. Once again, minimal changes and keeping it pretty classic.

 

Now the City uniform is where things get crazy. This is where Red Wings fans might come after me lol. I went with the striping from their 1927/28 uniforms. I used the colours from the Detroit city flag, and I went with the term 'Hockeytown' on the front rather than Motor City. I think Hockeytown just makes sense for the Red Wings. The Detroit Pistons have the Motor City uniforms, and the Red Wings can have Hockeytown. And I checked, Hockeytown is one word. I didn't continue the red stripe to the back, just so the numbers would be easier to read. It's definitely an out there style of uniform, especially for Detroit. But it's a city uniform, I felt if one uniform could seriously break the mould, it would be this one. I am learning a lot about different city and state flags in the process which is fun as well.

 

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Loveeee the Blue Jackets alt, the neon pops so well off the red base. Thats a top notch jersey, maybe the best I've seen so far. This last string of concepts, the last 4 have all been really good. I might be in the minority that thinks the black pants/helmet actually looks great for Colorado, but the burgundy is definitely a step above the blue. Overall really nice work

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Edmonton Oilers

 

There's nothing really new with the Oilers home and road. The ideal look for me is a return to their royal blue/orange look, with the royal blue home uniform. Their uniforms are already good with just that simple switch. 

 

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I made the return to the flying oil drop logo. It's my favourite Oilers logo, and utilizing the bronze and navy just made sense to me for the alternate. I hate their current navy and orange alternate. It's easily the worst uniform they've ever worn in my opinion. So I present this option as a replacement. You can see in the arm stripe the small detail of an oil drop, as well as a metal texture in the logo just to add those details.

 

The city uniforms borrows straight from the city flag. Colours and designs. It's another one of those teams where I couldn't nail down a theme for the city jersey, so I went with the flag design. And what Edmonton and Alberta are about is oil, which is already represented pretty well in their name and regular look

 

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On 3/5/2022 at 6:05 PM, TrueNorth13 said:

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Similar to what Francis10 said about the Calgary design, those of us old enough to remember NHL hockey in the late 70s/very early 80s may find your city jersey logo very familiar:
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NHL Colorado Rockies, 1976-82

 

Perhaps unknowingly, you've yet again created a neat throwback hearkening.

It is what it is.

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