NHL changes for next year

[BBM]

Anyway, I'm pretty sure the actual changes in most team's jersey designs will be minimal, if at all. At most, maybe you'll see the bottom stripe disappear from the red Detroit jerseys and the Rangers use a logo crest.... That's nothing crazy, and I'm a life-long Wings fan.

Well I'm a lifelong Rangers fan, and that is something crazy (even though I realize they used a crest for a few years in the 70s).

[Neon_Matrix]

Anyway, I'm pretty sure the actual changes in most team's jersey designs will be minimal, if at all. At most, maybe you'll see the bottom stripe disappear from the red Detroit jerseys and the Rangers use a logo crest.... That's nothing crazy, and I'm a life-long Wings fan.

Well I'm a lifelong Rangers fan, and that is something crazy (even though I realize they used a crest for a few years in the 70s).

I've always been a giant fan of the Phil Esposito era Rangers jerseys with the crest being used. I think it is a wicked looking jersey and have always thought that that should be something they should use on an Alt jersey, its much better than the statue of liberty logo they use now imo.

[Le Québécois]

what's next Bettman?

let's americanize the game big time...

- moving the Edmonton Oilers down to Santa Fe?

- 4 quarters instead of 3 periods? (more time for TV commercials)

- A McDonalds or IBM logo under the numbers on the jersey like in Europe?

touching the image is one thing, touching the image with tradition in a sport is another thing. Bettman is coming from the NBA, I don't remember seeing the Lakers nor the Celtics making significant changes in the last few years...

IMO, here are the uniforms that you look but don't touch... (change the fabrics if you will but not the look)

Montreal, NYR, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago and Boston... mmmmmm strangely, a very known listing!

[gabooch83]

I bet Dallas uses something similar to what the Iowa Stars wear.

[EatSleepJeep]

I bet Dallas uses something similar to what the Iowa Stars wear.

I agree

http://boards.sportslogos.net/index.php?s=...st&p=632582

[hecticbro]

All of the original six teams have undergone changes (though usually slight ones) throughout their histories. I don't think this one will be any more drastic than some from the past.

[westcoastoiler]

This isn't terribly exciting news, but the President of the Oilers said that they would unveil new Oiler silks after Christmas. He said the changes would be substantial but nothing away from tradition too much. Basically, people think that the logo and colours (dark blue and copper) will remain but that the actual design of the jersey will be different.

[cappital92]

- 4 quarters instead of 3 periods? (more time for TV commercials)

That idea isn't half bad.

[BBM]

- 4 quarters instead of 3 periods? (more time for TV commercials)

That idea isn't half bad.

You're right, it's all bad.

[ElwoodCuse]

Then how come football kits are in the never-ending quest to be lighter, drier, and less wind-resistant than before? Need I bring up research regarding track and field uniforms and skin-suits in competitative swimming?

Because soccer players, swimmers, and runners

1. Do not wear bulky equipment

2. Do not wear skates

I'm not sure if you play hockey (I do). I'm not sure if you play football (I don't), a sport with similar bulky equipment that has seen considerable changes in uniform design lately for similar reasons, but I don't see anything wrong with trying to improve on the quality of playing equipment. By your reasoning, maybe goaltenders should go back to Jason masks (or baseball caps)?

Number 1, yes I play hockey. Number 2, your goalie mask argument is a strawman. Thanks for playing.

[the admiral]

You know what, I think someone should go back to a Jason mask, just for the hell of it. It'd be a neat little eccentricity.

[NickNickNick]

I don't understand how we can radiate cancers, vaccinate for hepatitis, launch people into space, but we can't have horizontal striping on a slimfit jersey. Does anyone else understand this?

[BJ Sands]

Look at those baseball TATC uniforms that we all chuckle about here. If MLB said, league-wide, those would be standard next year, would you dismiss the outrage over it as "oh get over it, get with the times, things change"?

Again, materials I don't car. Jersey cut, I don't care. But radical changes to striping and logos, basically overnight? F that.

First of all, we have absolutely no idea that the ultimate adjustments to be made to the vast majority of NHL uniforms will entail "radical changes to striping and logos", let alone approach the purposely envelope-pushing, one-off designs that constituted MLB's "Turn Ahead the Clock" promotion. Even raising the spectre of such wholesale changes being commonplace across the entirety of the NHL is - at best - highly speculative rumor. Nothing more, nothing less.

Simply put, just because management of the Buffalo Sabres chose to adopt a miserable new logo this season does not mean that each and every NHL franchise is about to introduce a miserable new logo. Just because the management of the Buffalo Sabres chose to roll out a new uniform template featuring a modern, rather than traditional, striping pattern this season does not mean that each and every NHL franchise is about to introduce a modernistic striping package to their uniforms.

Bottom line? The NHL has given no indication that graphics-wise a hockey equivalent of MLB's TATC uniforms are about to be introduced as the standard on-ice clothing in the league. Rather than allowing our collective imagination to run away with us, we should all wait to see what the "new" uniform designs actually look like before having a coniption about them.

You're so rational it makes me want to vomit in anger.

(nice post)

[NickNickNick]

And, also as a lifelong Rangers fan, I would be horribly disappointed if they didn't have both the diagonal cresting and strings on their jerseys...I could live without strings, but the Rangers across the front HAS to be there.

That being said, I am kindof excited about the possibility of full-time liberty jerseys.

[FiddySicks]

You know what, I think someone should go back to a Jason mask, just for the hell of it. It'd be a neat little eccentricity.

That brings up this question though. Has the jason mask, much like the single bar in football, been outlawed to everyone who doesnt have the grandfather rule in effect?

[MarkAtnip]

They could play in cooperalls and wife beaters and I wouldn't care. Hockey is hockey.

Wifebeaters? Sure, that wouldn't bother anyone... but COOPERALLS? Now you are being silly.

You know what, I think someone should go back to a Jason mask, just for the hell of it. It'd be a neat little eccentricity.

That brings up this question though. Has the jason mask, much like the single bar in football, been outlawed to everyone who doesnt have the grandfather rule in effect?

Those masks are not legal in the NHL and are pretty much banned in any game above the level of street hockey with a tennis ball. They didn't protect well enough. They can stop a player from being cut, but they don't protect against concussion. They also can injure if broken.

[BBTV]

I don't understand how we can radiate cancers, vaccinate for hepatitis, launch people into space, but we can't have horizontal striping on a slimfit jersey. Does anyone else understand this?

I don't think it was ever said that they couldn't put horiz. striping on the jerseys. Just that if they are worn tucked-in, the striping wouldn't be visible and therefore useless (at least on the ice, not on a fan.)

[Jezus_Ghoti]

Are they planning to do something about the massively bulky shorts that players currently wear? Skin-tight (or at least pads-tight) jerseys tucked into the the current shorts will look really, really unbalanced.

[Lee.]

Where did this Fred guy come from and why is he being so in-your-face? Cool it, man. You are making this thread unbearable. It's not funny at all.

(edited because the mods might not have liked my original language)

I agree. Fred, stop making valid counter-points RIGHT NOW!

You're disturbing the traditionalists.

Wool sweaters for all, although I too, would like to see moths eat that Toronto Maple Leaf sweater*.

Roch Carrier reference; Americans will not understand this.

[ColeJ]

Where did this Fred guy come from and why is he being so in-your-face? Cool it, man. You are making this thread unbearable. It's not funny at all.

(edited because the mods might not have liked my original language)

I agree. Fred, stop making valid counter-points RIGHT NOW!

You're disturbing the traditionalists.

Wool sweaters for all, although I too, would like to see moths eat that Toronto Maple Leaf sweater*.

Roch Carrier reference; Americans will not understand this.

hey now. why are all these generalizations being made in this thread?

i'm american, and i use the same `air-glue as maurice richard.