My Ideal Fanatics NHL Redesign - Edmonton Oilers (11/32)

[TrueNorth13]

Hello all! I'm starting a brand new redesign of the NHL. I did one in 2022, which feels like so long ago already. That was my ideal NHL redesign. This is similar, it is my ideal look, with the Fanatics branding. With my last redesign, I tried to stay pretty true to what I think the teams could do, staying within a realm of possibility. For this one, I wanted to throw out any realistic designs, and just go with what I'd love to see. I won't say they're too crazy, but some of the more classic designs will definitely see some changes. The biggest thing some people may notice, is the minimalist number design. I'm a huge fan of one colour numbers, and I want to stick to that for each team, just for my own thoughts, to see how it'll look. Not because I'm lazy lol, though maybe that played into it at some point.

 

The plan will be to drop each team's home and away first, and then go through alternates and classic uniforms. I'll even add a bonus All Star Game concept in there somewhere, something I made for a Twitter contest.

 

With that said, first up is the Anaheim Ducks! Not much of a surprise, and not much change for this one in terms of design from what you may have seen already. The striping pattern on the arms match the 30th anniversary uniform they dropped this year, and the waist stripe matches the old Mighty Ducks uniforms. So a little combination of eras. Nothing really new here, but this is the only direction they should go if they change their design, in my opinion. The orange will return for the alternate though.

 

 

You know what, let's drop two right away, because the Ducks weren't too interesting.

 

The Boston Bruins! Another blast back to the past for Boston. Back to back. You may also notice that Arizona didn't come next, I didn't forget them, don't you worry! I loved the switch the Bruins did for this season, and I will be disappointed when they return to their previous logos and uniforms next season. I think they hit it perfectly with the rebranding this season, and sticking with it is the best move possible. I changed the striping to fit a different era than what they chose for this season, but those logos, they're a thing of beauty, and I had to use them for this redesign. 

 

 

The first two teams may seem underwhelming, but don't worry, there's some interesting looks to come!

[VampyrRabbit]

The Ducks look great back in plum and teal, though you've made a mistake with the striping on the hem, it should descend in the opposite direction on the back (as with the original) instead of the same direction for both front and rear.

Not a fan of removing the yoke for the Bruins and not a fan of the hem stripe style.

[TrueNorth13]

4 hours ago, VampyrRabbit said:

The Ducks look great back in plum and teal, though you've made a mistake with the striping on the hem, it should descend in the opposite direction on the back (as with the original) instead of the same direction for both front and rear.

Not a fan of removing the yoke for the Bruins and not a fan of the hem stripe style.

You are right with the waist striping, thanks for catching that! I was cruising to get some designs out haha. Got that fixed. 

 

Appreciate the C&C, I am a big fan of not having a shoulder yoke though haha, I like the clean design it produces. But I know many people love that shoulder yoke addition.

[TrueNorth13]

Let's do another 2 right away here. Next up is:

 

Buffalo Sabres!

 

I'm not really reinventing the wheel with Buffalo either, and while I do like their current uniforms, and the striping, I also wanted to make some changes too. Something worthwhile adding into this series. The striping comes from their 50th Anniversary uniform, which is one of my favourites of theirs, even with the navy blue in there. I can't exactly remember where I got the primary logo, I know I used it in my last jersey redesign, but the credit definitely goes to someone else there. Not a huge change from their current look, but it unifies the look between the home and away. My one issue with the current home uniform they wear, the white striping gets lost pretty easily, so this highlights that white a lot more. In my opinion, the Sabres have one of the best colour schemes in the league, and this set highlights that full colour set. Also, white gloves.

 

(I know the shoulder number is black on the away. It should be blue. I've just noticed this. It's too small for me to want to change it right now lol)

 

 

And another double post!

 

The Calgary Flames.

 

This one is going to ruffle some feathers I'm sure haha. I love Blasty. It's by far my favourite logo the Flames have ever put out. While I think the Flames reverting to their classic look, removing the black, is a solid look, I'm not a huge fan of teams just reverting back to their past and not trying anything new. (Like Ottawa, maybe the laziest "rebrand" I've ever seen lol) I reintroduce black and Blasty back into the fold, using a striping design very familiar in their history. Not much else to say about this one, other than the fact I know that most people will prefer what they currently wear than this, and that's okay!

 

[johne9109]

Anahiem-Looks great, but the horizontal striping of the sleeves clashes with the diagonal striping of the body. I would go with one or the other

Boston-Even if they revert back to their jerseys from before I hope more than anything they keep the logos they came out with this year. The yellow B on the dark jersey and the black B on the white jersey is such a clean look and I love that you did that here. 

Buffalo-No notes; great job.

Calgary-I personally loathe Blasty, but these are good designs

[Silence of the Rams]

6 hours ago, TrueNorth13 said:

Let's do another 2 right away here. Next up is:

 

Buffalo Sabres!

 

I'm not really reinventing the wheel with Buffalo either, and while I do like their current uniforms, and the striping, I also wanted to make some changes too. Something worthwhile adding into this series. The striping comes from their 50th Anniversary uniform, which is one of my favourites of theirs, even with the navy blue in there. I can't exactly remember where I got the primary logo, I know I used it in my last jersey redesign, but the credit definitely goes to someone else there. Not a huge change from their current look, but it unifies the look between the home and away. My one issue with the current home uniform they wear, the white striping gets lost pretty easily, so this highlights that white a lot more. In my opinion, the Sabres have one of the best colour schemes in the league, and this set highlights that full colour set. Also, white gloves.

 

(I know the shoulder number is black on the away. It should be blue. I've just noticed this. It's too small for me to want to change it right now lol)

 

 

And another double post!

 

The Calgary Flames.

 

This one is going to ruffle some feathers I'm sure haha. I love Blasty. It's by far my favourite logo the Flames have ever put out. While I think the Flames reverting to their classic look, removing the black, is a solid look, I'm not a huge fan of teams just reverting back to their past and not trying anything new. (Like Ottawa, maybe the laziest "rebrand" I've ever seen lol) I reintroduce black and Blasty back into the fold, using a striping design very familiar in their history. Not much else to say about this one, other than the fact I know that most people will prefer what they currently wear than this, and that's okay!

 

Post2Post Productions will gladly join you on the blast crusade 

[TrueNorth13]

25 minutes ago, Silence of the Rams said:

Post2Post Productions will gladly join you on the blast crusade 

I'm hoping he'll get to react to these actually! It's half the reason I decided to do another go around with my redesigns, he reacted to my last NHL redesign, and I thought, why not go for another round. Also one of the reasons I'm trying to change up designs from my previous attempt with it. I'd love it if the Flames ever went the route with a full Blasty set though, but I guess the Wranglers will have to do for now.

[TrueNorth13]

I'm going to post 2 more again, mostly because I want to get to the Blackhawks faster, that's where things start to get more interesting.

 

But first, the Carolina Hurricanes!

 

A combination of eras here! The new hurricane warning flag logo, which they use on their current home uniform right now. But we are going back to the classic look that they brought back last season, and for some strange reason just left it there. Carolina never seems to know what they want for a uniform identity, but I'd say this is a perfect combo of new and old. The hurricane warning flag pattern makes its way onto the pants as well, just another small touch. I just hope they don't actually change their logos as was leaked recently, none of those options are good ones in my opinion.

 

 

And what I've been waiting for, changing the design of an original 6 team! lol

 

The Chicago Blackhawks

 

First off, let me just say I grew up a Blackhawks fan, before my hometown Jets returned, and I love their uniforms! But, I can't just keep them the same for this series, so we dove straight into something they will never do. I have seen many concepts incorporating the colours from the logo into the uniform, and I think it would be a cool aspect to add some more colour into the designs. The yellow, orange, and green makes it into the jersey striping. It still keeps things pretty classic, to still try to fit into that original 6 feel, but with this modern, colourful twist. You'll notice I'm trying to do some different things with the inside collars, and the Chicago flag colours and pattern gets highlighted on that inside collar. Besides the obvious uniform faux pas I've committed here, there's not much else to say haha. As with all my concepts, C&C is appreciated! I may not make changes to the designs, but I always appreciate hearing people's opinions on the designs! Good and bad haha (just don't be too harsh)

 

[Kevin W.]

2 hours ago, TrueNorth13 said:

A combination of eras here! The new hurricane warning flag logo, which they use on their current home uniform right now. But we are going back to the classic look that they brought back last season, and for some strange reason just left it there. Carolina never seems to know what they want for a uniform identity, but I'd say this is a perfect combo of new and old. The hurricane warning flag pattern makes its way onto the pants as well, just another small touch. I just hope they don't actually change their logos as was leaked recently, none of those options are good ones in my opinion.

Why have the two flags on the primary logo and the pants but not on the hem stripe? Given how big you've made the flags in the hem stripe, it wouldn't be unusually large to do two rows.

[johne9109]

I personally never like when colored stripes like this are used in Blackhawks logos because it makes me think of a roll of lifesavers. Making the stripes thin so it doesn't give of that vibe as bad as others.

[TrueNorth13]

On 3/27/2024 at 2:15 AM, Kevin W. said:

Why have the two flags on the primary logo and the pants but not on the hem stripe? Given how big you've made the flags in the hem stripe, it wouldn't be unusually large to do two rows.

Not adding two rows to the waist would fall under the same reason why there isn't the flag pattern on the sleeves. Too much of a good thing. It would definitely busy it up to add more of that flag design, and also, the uniform is an exact replica of a previous uniform they wore, one I love, and didn't think anything else needs to be added. Besides making the alternate logo the official primary. I do appreciate the C&C though!

[TrueNorth13]

On 3/27/2024 at 3:36 PM, johne9109 said:

I personally never like when colored stripes like this are used in Blackhawks logos because it makes me think of a roll of lifesavers. Making the stripes thin so it doesn't give of that vibe as bad as others.

I won't lie, I never even considered the similarity until you mentioned it haha, and maybe because I haven't had lifesavers in a long time. Great candy though. I guess I'd just hope that most people are like me and forgot about the Lifesavers packaging haha. And I just felt I needed to add the colour, to do something different than what I may normally do, using their regular red, white, black colour set. Or all black and white. Had to change things up

[TrueNorth13]

Took a bit of a break over Easter, but we are back. Going one at a time now.

 

The Colorado Avalanche

 

I could never change their uniform template from what they use now. It's wayyyy too solid of a look. I did tweak it though. In what could be an unpopular move, I shifted away from the classic A Avalanche logo and brought back the foot! My favourite logo. I love the classics. The C mountain state flag look is on the shoulders, but the foot comes back and is the full time primary now. The changes to the home are small, white replaces grey in the striping, and snow capped mountains are featured on the waist. An idea I saw from another design either on instagram or the Post 2 Post video. They had the snow on all the mountain peaks, I thought maybe just one would do the trick. Burgundy takes over as the main equipment colour, a decision I think looks way better than the blue. The away uniform brings the amount of striping back to their original jerseys in this style, but again, white takes over for grey. There's not much else to add other than I wish the Avs would at least bring the foot back in some capacity. I'd even take a one off specialty uniform.

 

[Bomba Tomba]

I'm the opposite, I hate the foot

 

But I love how you eliminated black

[johne9109]

14 hours ago, TrueNorth13 said:

Took a bit of a break over Easter, but we are back. Going one at a time now.

 

The Colorado Avalanche

 

I could never change their uniform template from what they use now. It's wayyyy too solid of a look. I did tweak it though. In what could be an unpopular move, I shifted away from the classic A Avalanche logo and brought back the foot! My favourite logo. I love the classics. The C mountain state flag look is on the shoulders, but the foot comes back and is the full time primary now. The changes to the home are small, white replaces grey in the striping, and snow capped mountains are featured on the waist. An idea I saw from another design either on instagram or the Post 2 Post video. They had the snow on all the mountain peaks, I thought maybe just one would do the trick. Burgundy takes over as the main equipment colour, a decision I think looks way better than the blue. The away uniform brings the amount of striping back to their original jerseys in this style, but again, white takes over for grey. There's not much else to add other than I wish the Avs would at least bring the foot back in some capacity. I'd even take a one off specialty uniform.

 

I think the Avs do need to update their logo, but the foot doesn't work as a main logo and I love the foot logo. Everything else looks great and in a way modernizes a very 90's design

[TrueNorth13]

Next up:

 

Columbus Blue Jackets

 

It's very similar to the design they use, and a design I've done in the past, but we have incorporated the neon green (yellow?) back into the fold as a slight accent colour. The cannon logo becomes the primary, the current primary ceases to exist, and one of their first primary logos comes back as an alternate. The pipe striping down the arms gets thicker, and the home and away are now a perfect reverse, instead of the current home they use having blue shoulders and arms. The neon comes into play on the arms, with the chevrons on the sleeves, the fanatics logo, the star on the logo, and a nice accent colour on the inside collar. A trend you may have noticed already, having the inside collar stick out with a different colour. Not much else to say here.

 

C&C is appreciated! Though I already know someone is going to tell me the cannon logo shouldn't be a primary haha. We have different opinions

 

[TrueNorth13]

Up next, the Dallas Stars!

 

A return to the old uniform style, the classic star striping. This may be one of the only designs I make changes to, I have different logos for the home and away. The green background on the logo felt it hid too much on the home, but felt too much black on the away. So two slightly different logos. I might rework it. But the colours and style remain the same. Gold returns to the look, an omission I don’t think should have ever happened. And seems their current look isn’t super popular. 
 

[johne9109]

This is exactly what the Stars should be wearing

[TrueNorth13]

I’m back! Next up is the Detroit Red Wings!
 

 

So tough to do anything new with the Red Wings that either isn’t super crazy or includes new colours. I stayed with the classic red and white, no off white this time. I utilized the jersey striping from the reverse retro based on the 1928 jerseys. I did keep it off the chest, I stuck to only using that striping for the arms. It keeps it fairly simple, but I think it’s enough to make it an upgrade from their current set!

[TrueNorth13]

Next up is the Edmonton Oilers.

 

A pretty solid change for the Oilers here. Departing their usual style, for something similar to their Heritage Classic uniform. The oil drop logo comes back full time as the shoulder patch (and likely alternate), as well as an oil drop sublimated into the arm sleeves. Honestly, anything that isn't an orange home or a navy blue and orange only home is a solid option for the Oilers in my opinion. I didn't like the Oilers Heritage uniforms, but it was mostly the logo they chose for the front. I don't mind the striping, hence why I went with it for this design. Nothing too crazy in terms of a striping pattern, but a slight change from their usual look. Hopefully not too off-putting for the fans who hate to see any kind of change haha