NYTimes talks buffaslug and about hockey unis

[omnivore]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/sports/hockey/06sweaters.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

The Buffaslug is gone, and no one is sad to see it go.

The widely reviled crest — a legless bison that most fans associated with an invertebrate or a disembodied toupee — that had adorned the front of the Buffalo Sabres’ uniforms since 2006 is out. The Sabres, celebrating their 40th anniversary, will now wear a version of their original uniform, a crest with a bison and crossed swords.

“Honestly, I’m glad that the old logo has gone now,” Thomas Vanek, a forward entering his sixth season with the Sabres, said on his Web site. “For me, our throwback jerseys are the best in the league. I loved the buffalo with the crossed sabers already as a kid.”

The Islanders’ long succession of oddly designed, strangely colored jerseys has also ended, with a return to the simple design of their original uniform. Watching the team skate onto the ice for training camp wearing its new jerseys, the team’s former public-relations head, Chris Botta, wrote on Twitter, “15 years later, the New York Islanders finally have major league uniforms again.”

These two latest uniform changes are part of a wider trend over roughly the past three years, away from the memes of the 1990s and early 2000s — cartoonlike logos or snarling animals that were often rendered in black or teal.

The Vancouver Canucks, also 40, have brought back their original crest and colors in a uniform design that fuses the old. Other teams, like Washington, Phoenix and Minnesota, have gone to a traditional look in recent seasons. The Pittsburgh Penguins added a 1960s-vintage uniform, made popular in the first Winter Classic game on New Year’s Day 2008, as a permanent third jersey. The Philadelphia Flyers have dropped a black jersey and gone back to their early-’70s orange.

“We don’t know how we did this to ourselves, but somehow, our black jerseys, which started as our third jerseys, became our regular uniform,” said Peter Lukko, the Flyers’ president. “But we’re a very traditional team. We said: ‘What are we doing? That’s not who we are.’ So we went back to our original look, back to our roots.”

[loogodude90]

There's nothing in that article that I didn't already know, and I don't even follow hockey.

[The_Admiral]

Still cool to see a neologism that our board made show up in the newspaper of record.

[Axis_of_Weasel]

the article cites the sharks as the impetus for the cartoony logos that characterized the 90's. i think it'd be a great contest to create a old timey sharks logo, jsut to see what options sj would have with a classic uni

[Lee.]

Done.