joshjull
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There is a TON of stuff the NHL and NHLPA are working on.
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There is a TON of stuff the NHL and NHLPA are working on.
There is a TON of stuff the NHL and NHLPA are working on.
great time for them to be working on it, though.There is a TON of stuff the NHL and NHLPA are working on.
I see it like the proverbial gold ring in a pig's nose. Amazon is a huge contributor to pollution, global warming, etc., but they have zero-emissions zambonis!
I would like to see how much of China's and India's carbon "pollution" gets offset and paid for by Seattle's nw season ticket holders..... Could be historic!
I'm sure Dudley would be super psyched to return to the place that ran him out of town on a rail.
Could have done a little more with a "midline" and a mirror-inverted image to make them look like a playing card, in the Vegas casino theme, because in the splits it wouldn't matter whether "up" is at his skates or at his pants.
Lehner's new Vegas set is amazing.
Could have done a little more with a "midline" and a mirror-inverted image to make them look like a playing card, in the Vegas casino theme, because in the splits it wouldn't matter whether "up" is at his skates or at his pants.
Something like a right-facing-upright and left-facing upside-down knight as shown, with his sweater number at two diagonal corners with the B-star logo below his number, or next to it.
But, yeah, looking good.
@Jim Bob - yes, that top/first visual_merc is closest to the concept I was envisioning. I like that one the most, for a Vegas theme. Add an inverted "40" on the bottom left (the outside bottom of the right pad), and an upright "40" on the top right (the outside top of the left pad), and maybe whatever "suit" or suit-like logo Lehner envisions. It would be unique.
FWIW, I also think the NHL should outlaw majority-black pads to make loose pucks more visible in spread-scrums.
"I thought I looked skinnier, stylish but smaller, and I thought I could see more holes, and that's why I switched to a white base for the World Championship and I almost felt bigger somehow," said Nilsson, who won the tournament with Sweden and was named to the all-star team with a .954 save percentage. "Maybe it was just in the back of my head, but I felt a looked bigger."
Of course, what's in the mind of a goalie matters when it comes to performance and confidence.
Nilsson discovered this season the key may be where the dark colors are located. In designing the pattern for his equipment, he tried to replicate a pattern he used on a Brian's Beast model he wore as a teenager in Sweden. There was a major difference though: The outer edge on the current pair is white, not blue like it was on the original design. The change was function, not fashion.
"The first day I met our new goalie coach, he said, 'I only have one rule with gear, the perimeter has to be white,'" Nilsson said of Ian Clarke, the Canucks first-year goaltending coach. "In the middle, you can do whatever you want, but the outside has to be white.'"
As Clark explained, dark edges create a frame, a contrast with the background that makes it easier for shooters to see space with a quick glance. White is more ambiguous, which helps goalies look bigger.
"The illusion of white is you get bigger because the background (is white) and webbing on the net is white, the boards are white," Nilsson said. "With dark pads, you can see a little hole right away."