I love the Oilers full vintage look like the majority of jersey fans. Im just so glad the panthers have a red MLB Jerseys again without the stupid piping however i agree with you Chris the rbk edge cut off stripes have to go, whats the problem with stripes that go completely around the sleeves lol. Preds are so different i likem i kinda wish the primary logo woulda stayed somewhat the same but the guitar strings are sick and adds a nice touch to the city. Bolts, Im not a huge fan of em but theyre not horrible. i just cnt stand how much they resemble the leafs and like many of you i wish they woulda been the lighter blue they looked excellent on the cover of NHL12. I was so glad they added a black outline around the numbers/letters makes them stand out more and the bolts on the pants were a must! and look very good. I dont like anything about the kings, i think theyre horrible. they look like a skeleton Halloween outfit with those black stripes going down (lol i dnt know that just what I see) but the whole design is horrible and eliminating those very rich and vibrant purple NHL Jerseys was a huge mistake. Im a flyers fan and was about to buy a purple but not anymore. The Jets, I"m so happy theyre back and CAN'T wait to see their logos/colors/and the Vancouver Canucks Team Jerseys. I like that its red white and blue b/c thats been their colors and thts what theyve been known for. Im not a big fan of all the red and boaring colors in the NHL i wana see more green and purple myself (so glad the preds went with something diff,yellow), but saying you wana see diff colors on the jets would be like saying the flyers should change their colors to teal and purple or something, it just wouldnt look right lol. Anyway im happy how teams are going back to their roots and others are trying something different, i just hope the Stars green is somewhat oldschool and very nice. LOL! Sometimes I have to wonder if Icethetics has the largest following of people with weak constitutions. I can't believe how many times I've read that a mere Wholesale Jerseys color can cause someone to vomit uncontrollably or become overwhelmed by a debilitating headache. It's just incredible. Either that, or these people are full of it. Hmm, which is it?
Black is always a color that is one of those kind of things that can one of two ways: it can look terrible or fantastic. That being said, the Islanders adding black is not as shocking as I would have originally thought- the Knicks and Mets rock those colors and they look decent. Nashville going gold as a home NHL Jerseys might be an interesting thing to see happen...but I just don't know how well that will look. I mean, it's good to see color, but I feel like with the proper redesign, there could be a good looking gold third. I'm just a stickler for wanting the home colors and road whites, but that'll be a wait and see. LA missed a huge opportunity to have a fairly decent set of unis. Granted, we all saw the white version of their current alt and I like the way it looks. But they should have kept the purple and gold jersey as their third. It's a solid look. Why are so many teams going go black? The LA alt jerseys are way too dark for my tastes. Even the gretzky era jerseys had more silver. The islanders in black would look stupid. Even San Jose using their black Tampa Bay Lightning Team Jerseys in the playoffs is dumb to me, your teal, you have a great color, embrace it! I wasn't a fan of the mustard jerseys, but I'm actually excited for a yellow Nash jersey, at least one team isn't afraid of some color. There's a pretty vocal group of Mets fans, though, who absolutely hate the use of black in the team's colors, and it's only been for just over a decade. (Probably most vocal against black as a Mets color would be Paul Lukas over at Uni Watch.) Personally, while I'm not a Mets fan, I do tend to prefer their more classic, non-black look over what they've been doing. Even their black hat would've been better if they'd kept the interlocked NY orange, outlined in blue, so that it actually stands out better compared to the blue-outlined-in-orange that they've been using. Then again, the Isles did give us those sea-sickness, Gorton's Fisherman-logo NHL Jerseys back in the nineties... they'd have to work pretty hard to make a worse jersey than those.
Anything new on the Oilers front? How awsome would it be if they gave the first overall pick the new road MLB Jerseys. As an Oilers fan it makes me smile thinking about a new (orange white and blue) jersey. Nashville in yellow full time is a good idea, it's about time yellow returns. I still think the Canucks need a yellow throwback alt. Nothing wrong with the current set, except the home and road look exactly the same. Black for the Kings works, for the Islanders, I'm not sure. They must be trying to look like the Mets or something. I have heard the isles will be doing something with a black third jersey, I do want to make a point that the NY Mets have the same colors as the Islanders plus black. They make it work and have made it work for years, maybe the Islanders will go with something that takes hints from a Mets jersey. Actually imagine this, take the Islanders road white jersey, now make white black. and take the Islanders original helmet decal from when they introduced the now home Boston Bruins Team Jerseys (Islanders in script) across the front with the Islanders crest on the shoulders. I can't imagine that looking terrible. A Preds yellowNHL Jerseys would be awesome. With so many teams in the NHL now trying to incorporate blue or black in their jerseys, it's good to have someone that is introducing a jersey with a primary color that hasn't been in the NHL for a while. I don't get the Kings motivation... why go with black and white when the throwback purple sweaters were so well received? The only I can think of is trying to bring back the Gretzky-era spirit to the team. Isles in black, I don't believe, but if it happens, then my thoughts are that it might have been a good thing to try if black weren't so ubiquitous right now. And Chris, it's great to get any type of info in what is normally a drought in that regard, even if it is just pure speculation.
First of all, I'm a Vancouver Islander so I'm pretty pumped about the WHL coming to Victoria. The logo's pretty lame. I like the name (in fact, I voted for Royals) because it suit Victoria very well and it's unique in that there's so few Vancouver Canucks Team Jerseys with the name. I also felt like the name had a lot of potential for a unique colour set and logo. Obviously, they kind of dropped the ball on the unique front. I'm able to over look the NHL Jerseys since it seems to just be a place-holder but blue, silver, and black? Come on! I was hopping for something a little more original like purple and gold. With LA going back to black and silver, the Royals would be the only team with this colour scheme. Actually, I think they'd be the only team with purple, period. In the leagues I follow, anyway. I'm disappointed by the colours but the logo's almost as bad. It's so busy. Drop the wordmark and the maple leaf and it would be a okay logo. We're part of the CANADIAN Hockey League and your team's called the Royals - I'm guessing your from Canada! There's already too many teams with maple leafs on them. Some originality please! And I'm not a fan of wordmarks on logos but I'm really not a fan of wordmarks that are boring. Like someone else said, if you need a wordmark, at least make it a little more heraldic looking. Simplifying this logo would go a long way but, at the same time, might make it look more like the Royal Bank logo. Again with the unoriginal! I don't think the logo's bad. I agree with most of the people above me that I'd like it better without the wordmark on the front and I would've liked to have seen a unique jersey design, though the white version will have to be unique, will it not? Unless they pick another jersey from a different, non-matching set. The Maple Leaf tattoo on the lion's shoulder would be better if it wasn't on there...or if the MLB Jerseys reflected it (red maple leaf shoulder patch with Kansas City Royals-like "Royals" script across it maybe?). It's not bad at all, but it's not great either. It looks like if they had an extra month it would be great, but I guess deadlines are deadlines.