2023-24 NHL Jersey Changes

[tBBP]

9 hours ago, Lights Out said:

 

Those colors absolutely do contrast. Maybe they're not the absolute best colors to have touching each other, but it's not the end of the world like you're making it out to be either.

 

 

Nah...they really don't. 

 

And to repeat my earlier point (which by now is buried two pages deep into this current avblackjacking), it's the chroma of those colors that's the problem. One or the other needs to be adjusted up and the other the opposite way to create better separati—umm, contrast between both. 

 

Not the end of the world, of course, but if the Avs are gonna continue to use those specific tones of red and blue, they definitely could use something of sharper contrast to break them up. 

[monkeypower]

3 hours ago, tBBP said:

Not the end of the world, of course, but if the Avs are gonna continue to use those specific tones of red and blue, they definitely could use something of sharper contrast to break them up. 

 

The two colours are barely touching on the jersey to begin with though? I mean, because when I look at these, I don't see any contrast issues or bleeding between the two.

 

As opposed to a sharper contrast to break them up, how about just white? Change the grey striping to white and then add a blue stripe "on top" of the white stripe on the aways. Like the Blue Jackets aways.

 

[ruttep]

13 minutes ago, monkeypower said:

 

Look at the difference between the home and road uniforms. My main problem with the current Avs uniforms is that the switch to blue equipment was always meant for the home uniforms, with little attention paid to the road uniforms. It just doesn't look right to me, especially with those blue numbers.

[gsn93]

4 hours ago, monkeypower said:

 

The jersey itself is fine, but the blue is fighting with the burgundy over being the dominant color with the rest of the uniform. The burgundy is clearly the primary color, but you have blue helmets and pants now and it overpowers the burgundy. The black helped break up the uniform for not being too blue heavy. It also looks like the players are wearing their pants all the way up their stomach it's not a great look.

[seasaltvanilla]

9 hours ago, tBBP said:

And to repeat my earlier point (which by now is buried two pages deep into this current avblackjacking), it's the chroma of those colors that's the problem. One or the other needs to be adjusted up and the other the opposite way to create better separati—umm, contrast between both. 

 

This drives me crazy about multiple sports teams. Your colors should occupy different parts of the luminance spectrum so that they properly contrast.  A uniform should be readable first and foremost.

[FiddySicks]

7 hours ago, gsn93 said:

 

The jersey itself is fine, but the blue is fighting with the burgundy over being the dominant color with the rest of the uniform. The burgundy is clearly the primary color, but you have blue helmets and pants now and it overpowers the burgundy. The black helped break up the uniform for not being too blue heavy. It also looks like the players are wearing their pants all the way up their stomach it's not a great look.

Yeah there’s something about both the home and road set that just looks kind of off. 
 

I wonder if instead of using all that blue, if burgundy breezers and helmets would help? It might balance it out a bit more, but you’re still going to have those two colors competing against each other. 
 

The more I see the Avs in their current form, the more I just wish they would bring back the black equipment. It better hides the flaws that uniform set has imo. 

[FCMacbeth]

Well, since everyone is discussing about the Avs current set, I come to agree that their colour scheme is not good atm. What it needs is to make the burgundy darker and make the blue lighter, as a way to improve contrast if only by a bit. Also, switch the equipment to burgundy so that both jerseys don't look unbalanced when looking it as a whole. Finally, add the second trim to the mountain striping like what the Avs have from their first season. Why they didn't bring that trim back in the Adizero redesign is anyone's guess.

 

Really, any effort not to bring black back into their scheme is preferable to me. The BFBS-era of early to mid 2000s has sullied the colour to infamy (though in recent years the hatred isn't so prominent).

[Krudler]

The Avs kind of feel like Burgundy Pants and Burgundy Helmets would fix a lot

[Morgan33]

On 3/5/2024 at 4:34 AM, maz said:

Uniform have more than two color. Uniform doesn't look like from 1975. Uniform make me mad.

 

Depth? Contrast? Pssh. ALL THE BRIGHT COLORS! If you can't find it in the default MS Paint color palette, don't use it. Change your TV's settings and cope if you don't like it, b*tch.

 

 

 

Sums up the last 10 years of this place to a tee.

[monkeypower]

What are shoes if not jerseys for the feet?

 

I didn't know that Vans was started in Anaheim prior to when these were announced.

[ruttep]

5 hours ago, monkeypower said:

What are shoes if not jerseys for the feet?

 

Whenever I see the Vans logo, I always think it's expressing the square root of ANS

[henburg]

The current Colorado Avalanche look just makes me think of an ICEE, especially when the red and blue flavors start to bleed together.

 

Would it be too derivative to do something like the Colorado Rapids and change the current denim blue to a sky blue? Would provide much better contrast at least.

 

 

 

[ruttep]

2 hours ago, henburg said:

The current Colorado Avalanche look just makes me think of an ICEE, especially when the red and blue flavors start to bleed together.

 

Would it be too derivative to do something like the Colorado Rapids and change the current denim blue to a sky blue? Would provide much better contrast at least.

 

 

 

 

The blue helmet, pants and gloves would look quite interesting in sky blue. I kinda wanna see a concept of that.

[monkeypower]

2 hours ago, henburg said:

Would it be too derivative to do something like the Colorado Rapids and change the current denim blue to a sky blue? Would provide much better contrast at least.

 

A lighter blue would definitely work as brought up by @tBBP.

 

Here's Tufts University.

 

Colorado's burgundy isn't the same as Tuft's brown, it's much more like the Phillies throwbacks which also just happen to use a lighter blue

[tBBP]

9 minutes ago, monkeypower said:

 

A lighter blue would definitely work as brought up by @tBBP.

 

Here's Tufts University.

 

Colorado's burgundy isn't the same as Tuft's brown, it's much more like the Phillies throwbacks which also just happen to use a lighter blue

 

As do Colorado's own Rapids...

 

 

That may not be the worst idea in the world for the Avs to try...but for some reason I feel like the Avs would look better by darkening the blue and slightly brightening the burgundy. However, that's just one man's opinion ...my two rusted Lincolns™, of course.

[Morgan33]

Or they could just go back to something that was unique, worked in spite of its unconventional construction, saw immediate success, clothed some of the greatest players to ever partake in the sport and spawned one of the greatest rivalries of all time... 

[CreamSoda]

9 minutes ago, Morgan33 said:

Or they could go just back to something that was unique, worked in spite of its unconventional construction, saw immediate success, clothed some of the greatest players to ever partake in the sport and spawned one of the greatest rivalries of all time... 

 

The Avs look a million times better in blue equipment and have a cup in them.  They aren’t going back to those ugly mismatched uniforms.  

[Morgan33]

12 minutes ago, CreamSoda said:

 

The Avs look a million times better in blue equipment and have a cup in them.  They aren’t going back to those ugly mismatched uniforms.  

 

Their recent cup happened in the most mismatched uniform in team history.  Blue equipment, blue numbers, blue nowhere to be found on the striping or shoulder patches and multiple instances of the two colours bleeding into each-other and competing for prominence.

 

There's nothing mismatched about the uniform they won the cup in 1996 in.  You just personally don't like it.

[gsn93]

56 minutes ago, CreamSoda said:

The Avs look a million times better in blue equipment and have a cup in them.  They aren’t going back to those ugly mismatched uniforms.  

 

I'm not ragging on you since you're not the only person who uses it, but I really dislike the notion of "team won a championship in 'XYZ' uniform" as the end all be all answer to anything uniform change related. Especially, since the Avalanche won twice wearing their original set.* What makes their current set untouchable compared the the 1996-2007 sets? It's a minor pet peeve but I see it all the time on the forums.

 

*I understand that the uniform changed slightly between the 1996 and 2001 cup wins. Whatever close enough.

[GFB]

22 minutes ago, gsn93 said:

I really dislike the notion of "team won a championship in 'XYZ' uniform" as the end all be all answer to anything uniform change related.

I agree, and add Vegas as a supporting point of this line of thinking as well.