MDGP Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 With the Frozen Four and national championship just days away, we're in the home stretch in this series. Today we've got the Sacred Heart Pioneers and the St. Cloud State Huskies. Sacred Heart has a hockey team. A very bad hockey team. They are one of 9 teams to have never qualified for a national tournament. Of those 9 teams, 5 became D1 within the past 4 years. Sacred Heart is the second oldest program of the bunch, having joined in 1993, only younger than Navy who joined D1 in 1947. So 30 years of nothing, to me that means they're fair game for some experimentation. I've had several teams that wear yellow at home, but I wanted to try a different non-white home jersey. Here, I decided to take Sacred Heart's lighter silver color as a base for the home jersey. Both jerseys feature an Ohio State throwback style striping pattern on the yoke, the sleeves, and the hem. The chest numbers are the secondary jersey color with a white outline on both the home and road jerseys. -------------------- The St. Cloud State overall visual package is known for just ripping off various NHL teams. Their logo is a take on the Canadiens, their jerseys are just Blackhawks jerseys, and their home used to be a Montreal Canadiens jersey in black and red. St. Cloud has a long, storied history of its own, and I think their teams should actually embrace that history. For the last time this series, I'm bringing in the help of Vintage Minnesota Hockey, you can follow along here. The home jersey is based on the team's 1952-1966 jerseys. These had a large chest and sleeve stripe with an offset St. Cloud wordmark. It was clear that I would need to make some changes to fit as a modern design. The first chagne I made was converting it to a black-red-black stripe. On the stripe, I replaced the wordmark with the St C. logo. This logo emulates the original by having the logo offset up on the chest stripe. I also found the back stripe made things pretty illegible, so I terminated the stripe at the back. The black jersey is a pretty faithful recreation of the 1933-1952 jerseys. The only major change was an update to the old school St. Cloud wordmark to and placed in a more modern location and size for a modern jersey. The only other real changes were some small adjustments were made to the sleeve stripes. 4 Quote I've got a dribbble, check it out if you like my stuff; alternatively, if you hate my stuff, send it to your enemies to punish their insolence! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-mer Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 1. love NCAA Hockey concepts, so it's fun to see your work 2. GIMME A U! GIMME A N!!! GIMME AN H!!! WHAT'S THAT SPELL? UUUUUNNNNNNNHHHHHHH! (UNH alumn, what's with the UNH hate?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGP Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 2 hours ago, B-mer said: 1. love NCAA Hockey concepts, so it's fun to see your work 2. GIMME A U! GIMME A N!!! GIMME AN H!!! WHAT'S THAT SPELL? UUUUUNNNNNNNHHHHHHH! (UNH alumn, what's with the UNH hate?) Grew up a UMaine fan, it's just second nature for me, haha. 1 Quote I've got a dribbble, check it out if you like my stuff; alternatively, if you hate my stuff, send it to your enemies to punish their insolence! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGP Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 Today we've got three Saints and two Toms. First up, we get a saints twofer with the St. Lawrence Saints. St. Lawrence has a student body of approximately 2,000 making it one of the smallest schools in division 1. Unlike the other tiny schools, St. Lawrence has a long history of success, with 9 frozen four appearances and two national title games. Their size has caught up with them a bit, as their last frozen four appearance was in 2000, and last tournament appearance was in 2007. They did win their conference tournament thus qualifying for the national tournament in 2021 However, their coach tested positive for Covid and the team withdrew from the national tournament. I may have gone with another gimmick for these jerseys. I've always loved the quartered pattern on the shirts of Harlequins F.C.. I've always wanted to see the idea or variations of the idea make its way into other sports. I was tempted to go way over the top with the design, but I decided to keep the idea within the stripes. The stripe pattern is quartered in brown and red, inspired by the school's primary logo. The sleeves are designed to that the red quarter will be in the top left and bottom right corners when the player is viewed from the side. In order to maintain the effect, the red jersey includes a thin white border stripe. ---------------- The St. Thomas Tommies did not want to be a D1 school. They were contented as members of D3's MIAC. There, they were a dominant force, winning 1/3 of all conference titles across sports, and their student enrollment of nearly 10,000 nearly doubles the next biggest school. They were a D1 school, playing with low level D3 schools. The rest of the conference threatened to leave the conference if St. Thomas remained. The conference agrees, in order to protect its members and save itself St. Thomas had to be kicked out. In response St. Thomas petitioned NCAA to allow them to make the forbidden D3 to D1 jump. They've been very bad in their first two seasons at the top level, but that's to be expected under the circumstances. St. Thomas' real jerseys are your standard, boring triple stripe jersey that heavily incorporates black. All my other purple teams include black so I wanted to do a jersey that just incorporated purple and white. I also wanted to create a striping pattern that was modern but evoked a vintage hockey jersey. This design is meant to combine the school's brand new era in D1 with the fact that the program has existed since 1920. The striping pattern is a triple stripe that doubles the stripe width on each stripe closer to the bottom of the jersey. The socks also include this design, which is mirrored and then paired with two smaller stripes at the top in order to evoke the wilder sock stripes of vintage jerseys. 4 1 Quote I've got a dribbble, check it out if you like my stuff; alternatively, if you hate my stuff, send it to your enemies to punish their insolence! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Section30 Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 Love the quartered look for the Saints! The Tommies look good without black, but I would suggest tweaking the jerseys just a bit by moving the hem stripes all the way to the bottom of the jersey. It would remove the little sliver of color on the bottom and would also give the shield a little more breathing room on the front. 1 Quote Minnesota Amateur Hockey League MAHL Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGP Posted April 11 Author Share Posted April 11 6 hours ago, Section30 said: Love the quartered look for the Saints! The Tommies look good without black, but I would suggest tweaking the jerseys just a bit by moving the hem stripes all the way to the bottom of the jersey. It would remove the little sliver of color on the bottom and would also give the shield a little more breathing room on the front. Good call on changing up the stripe. However, after taking a look at it, I actually decided to go in the opposite direction. Making the stripes smaller addresses the two issues you highlighted, by giving more space for both the logo and the bottom of the jersey. It also makes jersey look more like how I intended as a variation on the traditional 3 stripe arrangement rather than a blackhawks variation if I had extended the stripe to the bottom of the hem. 1 Quote I've got a dribbble, check it out if you like my stuff; alternatively, if you hate my stuff, send it to your enemies to punish their insolence! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGP Posted April 11 Author Share Posted April 11 Happy Frozen Four day to everyone. Let's all enjoy the excitement of 4 teams compete to be the team that nobody wants to see win again. Our next two teams are very much none of those four teams. The Stonehill Skyhawks are the worst team in D1 hockey, and it's not even remotely close. They went a brutal 2-33-0, with their only wins coming against fellow basement dweller Lindenwood and D2 school Assumption (First year D1 hockey schools are allowed to have a transition year in which they can play a mix of D1, D2, D3, and club teams). In Stonehill's defense, Assumption were the D2 champions this year. This would be impressive if D2 hockey hadn't collapsed and now consisted of six programs who are not allowed to play in D3 conferences due to NCAA rules. Stonehill doesn't seem to know whether they're a a purple and black team or purple and grey team, so I made them a purple, black, and grey team. This design fully embraces the three color system by using a variation on the traditional triple stripe (or a modified split double stripe if you prefer). The sleeves, hem stripes, and yoke stripes feature the same pattern: on the home black/silver/purple stripes and on the road black/white/silver stripes. The pants also use this scheme, with purple replacing black. The primary logo and numbers feature matching patterns; at home the purple logo and name/numbers are outlined in silver and black double outlines. On the road jersey they become black, with silver and black outlining it. The numbers also add a smaller white outline to aid a bit more with visibility from distance. Finally, I wanted to have fun with the captains patch which includes the win design from the primary logo. -------------------- Did you know that Connecticut starts with the letter U? Because I do apparently! When I started the project I had intended to list teams alphabetically ignoring "University of . . ." when ordering the teams. However, I'm so used to referring to them as UConn that I labeled the file as such and didn't realize until well after their turn in the order had passed. Therefore I felt it made sense just to wait for U. UConn's bad at hockey. They're one of the 9 teams to never make a national tournament appearance, and are perennially a low tier to mid-low tier hockey east team. Original version with longer pants stripe. College hockey programs are no strangers to wearing jerseys inspired by their football programs; Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Princeton, and Notre Dame all include elements directly inspired by their iconic football looks. At UConn however, basketball is king, and I wanted to give the hockey team a design inspired by the school's iconic basketball jerseys. To do this, I went with an offset striping pattern with a thicker white stripe and a thinner red stripe. The shoulder yoke and pants do a variation of this, matching the basketball team's side and shorts pattern used in some capacity for decades. Otherwise, it's a pretty straightforward design, with numbers and letters based on UConn's signature font and the redesigned husky logo on the chest and shorts. 5 Quote I've got a dribbble, check it out if you like my stuff; alternatively, if you hate my stuff, send it to your enemies to punish their insolence! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-mer Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Great job on UConn. Without reading the description I knew you tied the design to the basketball team, and it's completely identifiable as UConn. Also love using the huskey primary instead of a wordmark. Small detail i might adjust is the pants stripe to not go as high up. On the basketball shorts you have a tucked in top to allow visibility, and with a hockey jersey it would cover up the top portion. May make it only halfway up the side of the pants so it's still visible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGP Posted April 12 Author Share Posted April 12 5 hours ago, B-mer said: Great job on UConn. Without reading the description I knew you tied the design to the basketball team, and it's completely identifiable as UConn. Also love using the huskey primary instead of a wordmark. Small detail i might adjust is the pants stripe to not go as high up. On the basketball shorts you have a tucked in top to allow visibility, and with a hockey jersey it would cover up the top portion. May make it only halfway up the side of the pants so it's still visible. That's a good call, thanks! I've made the revision in the original post. Quote I've got a dribbble, check it out if you like my stuff; alternatively, if you hate my stuff, send it to your enemies to punish their insolence! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGP Posted April 12 Author Share Posted April 12 Tonight is the presentation of the Hobey Baker Award for the national player of the year. Each year the winner is selected out of three finalists, known officially as the Hobey Hat Trick. In honor of this today I'm presenting three concepts. First up, the 2013-14 National Champion Union Garnet Chargers. Union wasn't a particularly notable team for their first 20 years of their D1 existence. In the last 2000s however, they hired Nate Leaman who led the program to its first D1 national tournament appearance in 2011. He would immediately leave for Providence College. The next season they made their first ever frozen four appearance, winning a title two years later, a year before Leaman would lead Providence to their first national title. Union recently changed their name from the Dutchmen/Dutchwomen to the Garnet Chargers. Union is the only team in this project that includes a roundel logo on the jersey. I find them overplayed and generally a downgrade from just using the logo alone. However, there's something I like about Union's overall look with the roundel, so I kept it here. However, I made some alterations to better match the current identity. The new U bolt logo takes the place of the plain block U and different color versions are used for the home and road jerseys. The jersey design with the bruins style shoulder yoke is generally the same as the season they won the national title. Personally, I believe that when your name features a color, it should be the primary color, so I made some alterations to the home jersey. Now, the inside of the yoke and stripes are garnet, matching the numbers and the roundel designs. Finally, the pants feature a garnet lightning bolt on black pants. This is meant to be a bit more subtle than the tampa bay lightning pants with a similar design, so there's not white outline. ------------------------ Our second team is the final Hockey East squad, the Vermont Catamounts. Vermont is known as the team in hockey east that is generally one of the worst, but pops their head up every now and then with a legitimate contender. They've made two Frozen Fours, the most recent in 2009 after #4 in the nation Michigan was shocked by Air Force in the first round, and a Catamounts double OT victory in the regional final. The logo design for the Catamounts is an updated version of a concept I made in 2020. The jerseys feature double northwestern stripes, on the home in green and yellow, and on the road white, green, and yellow. These stripes are arranged to form a V on the hem and sleeves. The arched Vermont wordmark remains on the chest, however it is now joined by a front number, as I've always felt Vermont's jersey looks a bit plain with just the wordmark. ------------------------- Our third team today is the final truly experimental design of the project. Western Michigan is very good at making the national tournament and very bad at winning once they make it. In their history the Broncos have made the national tournament 9 times; They are 1-9, making the regional final for the first time ever in 2022. The hockey program didn't seem to get the memo that the school was reverting back to brown and yellow with the yellow W logo. In retaliation for their inaction, I've decided to go all-in on yellow and get weird with it. Both jerseys feature a thick chest stripe that aligns with the sleeves. This stripe is split in the middle by a smaller brown stripe. On the home jersey this stripe is all yellow, while the road jersey has a yellow and white stripe. The top stripe contains WESTERN and the sleeve numbers, while the bottom stripe contains MICHIGAN. The striping pattern is also featured on the hem and socks. The shoulders feature the new W primary logo while the shorts feature the Bronco logo that is actually recolored to not be a horrible blob of shapes. Seriously, what the hell is this, WMU? 1 Quote I've got a dribbble, check it out if you like my stuff; alternatively, if you hate my stuff, send it to your enemies to punish their insolence! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGP Posted April 13 Author Share Posted April 13 Today's the day, the NCAA D1 Hockey National Championship! As we speak, Denver is up 2-0 against Boston College and is well on its way to its record setting 10th National Championship. Much like today's concepts, this title game is turning into a bit of a letdown excitement wise. First up, the Wisconsin Badgers. Like Penn State there is very little about Wisconsin's uniforms that need to be changed. Their red wings style jersey is iconic and stands out with the double stripe mirroring the team's football jerseys, and the diagonal wordmark on the front is one of the few that I actually really like. Only a few minor changes here, first the stupid arrow cutout thing that the team uses is removed. I also added the double stripe pattern to the collar and added the power W to the shoulders. Finally, I removed the black drop shadow from the logo as the logo is easily strong enough to survive on its own. ------------------- And for the final team of this series, the school that started it all, the Yale Bulldogs. College hockey was introduced to the United States by Malcolm Chase, who gathered a team comprised of students from different Ivy league schools to learn the game from Canadian players. Despite their early adoption of the sport, it would take Yale until 2013 to win their first and only national championship. Yale's navy and white double stripe design has been extremely consistent over the years, and I wanted to keep this design. However I also wanted to incorporate a thin shoulder yoke inspired the team's jersey design from the 1930s. The Yale Y logo is featured on the helmet, shorts, and yokes. 2 1 Quote I've got a dribbble, check it out if you like my stuff; alternatively, if you hate my stuff, send it to your enemies to punish their insolence! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiK Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 On 4/13/2024 at 6:46 PM, MDGP said: first the stupid arrow cutout thing that the team uses is removed. This made me lol. Maybe it's known or not but that arrow cutout is symbolic of the state motto "Forward" - a gimmick delivered by Under Armor. You can find it on just about any jersey a UW team wears - I get why people don't like it; I've since grown to appreciate it. Really phenomenal job on this series, great work! Quote 73, 77, 81, 83, 90, 06 29, 30, 31, 36, 39, 44, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 96, 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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