Confirmed with Link: New Away Jersey Reveal August 20th

[Big Daddy Cane]

They're a step closer to getting it right. The flagprint should never have been removed; for a team without an iconic logo, that's what makes the jerseys unique and standout. If the next versions of the uniforms have the primary logo, the flag patches and the flag print, they'll be back to where it should have stayed (97-13).

 

[Svechhammer]

I believe the league contract with the particular clothing brand they happen to be using at the time for jerseys dictates how often uniforms can be redesigned. Whether the league is win Adidas/Reebok, Nike, or whoever, they’re usually not allowed to make changes more then one per so many year (I think it’s five).

One thing I think the Hurricanes just did was set the precedent for the majority of the teams in the league. I think we will see most teams move to the idea of having three completely distinct uniforms. I think they will release them one at a time, every two years. This way each one is on a six year cycle and the team can maximize merchandise sales.

Obviously Montreal and Detroit won’t be doing this. But you can bet your ass that newer teams like Anaheim, San Jose, Dallas, Arizona, Vegas, Colorado, Winnipeg, Minnesota, Nashville Columbus, Florida, Tampa, etc will be doing this.

I'm honestly surprised the NHL hasn't fully embraced letting teams have a little fun with their uniforms every year. Soccer teams release new home and change kits every year that fans buy up. It makes them a ton of money, and I'm legitimately surprised the NHL hasn't gone down that path.

 

[Chrispy]

Instead of separate C and A letters for captains, it would be cool to just change the color of the respective letters to black for the corresponding players.

I don't know if that's allowed, but what a great idea.

I am guessing this is a little too subtle for the officials on the ice to ID the captain and alternates at a moment's notice by checking the same shoulder they do on every jersey in the NHL.

Why it can't be the C with the warning flags?

 

[cptjeff]

Oh ****, we're gonna be the first team to wear patches like a tramp stamp at the NHL level

Oh, how soon we forget:

 

[tarheelhockey]

I can see what you're saying but I don't think the two jerseys are that dissimilar that they were created off different templates. To me, just because two jerseys have minor differences doesn't mean that they weren't designed off the same template. But then again, I guess we would have to agree on a definition of template. To me, at least for jersey design, template revolves around team colors and the logo.

I mean they're two completely different jersey styles. Even if you want to base it strictly around colors and logo, the colors don't just invert from one to the other. You have to change to a different color template to get there.

 

[cptjeff]

The sleeves are just red on the away jersey. Otherwise it’s exactly the same, isn’t it?

So other than a major element of the jersey being a completely different color than it would be in simple color swap like most teams use, it's exactly the same?

They're different templates.

This is what the Wings looked like when they did do a simple color swap, and the white is a completely different and far inferior jersey:

I am guessing this is a little too subtle for the officials on the ice to ID the captain and alternates at a moment's notice by checking the same shoulder they do on every jersey in the NHL.

Why it can't be the C with the warning flags?

The C can absolutely be the C with the warning flags- I would guess they chose not to do it because it would look really weird to duplicate the same design. Same reason the Flames use the old Atlanta A for the alternates but a regular C for the captain. But they absolutely should use that C, and an A variant, on the Home and Alts.

 

[Unsustainable]

 

[Lempo]

"Canes"

 

[Lempo]

Dallas uTaurus is btw awesome.

 

[tarheelhockey]

"Canes"

No more toilet bowl... we are now in a state of Canestipation.

 

[Unsustainable]

No more toilet bowl... we are now in a state of Canestipation.

Did you about the movie?

Hasn’t came out yet.

 

[Lempo]

No more toilet bowl... we are now in a state of Canestipation.

Thanks. Now I got a bluegrass Red Hot Chili Peppers singing a song about it in my head.

 

[tarheelhockey]

bluegrass Red Hot Chili Peppers

I have an idea for a DJ Mista Illz replacement.

 

[AD Skinner]

we wuz just pickin on em

 

[Navin R Slavin]

I have an idea for a DJ Mista Illz replacement.

Really, any idea would do.

 

[Joe McGrath]

So other than a major element of the jersey being a completely different color than it would be in simple color swap like most teams use, it's exactly the same?

They're different templates.

This is what the Wings looked like when they did do a simple color swap, and the white is a completely different and far inferior jersey:

The C can absolutely be the C with the warning flags- I would guess they chose not to do it because it would look really weird to duplicate the same design. Same reason the Flames use the old Atlanta A for the alternates but a regular C for the captain. But they absolutely should use that C, and an A variant, on the Home and Alts.

My interpretation of what a template is differs from yours. Using different colors on a design item doesn’t make it a different template to me. The colors are just changed. The striping is the same.

What their white jersey is, is the home jersey with white in the midsection and the numbers inversed. I’m not saying it’s not unique, because it is, I just wouldn’t call it a different template.

The Canadiens adding a blue stripe in the middle is a different template. The previous Hurricanes away jersey vs the home is a different template.

 

[tarheelhockey]

My interpretation of what a template is differs from yours. Using different colors on a design item doesn’t make it a different template to me. The colors are just changed. The striping is the same.

What their white jersey is, is the home jersey with white in the midsection and the numbers inversed. I’m not saying it’s not unique, because it is, I just wouldn’t call it a different template.

The Canadiens adding a blue stripe in the middle is a different template. The previous Hurricanes away jersey vs the home is a different template.

But the previous Canes sets were the same template. You just couldn’t see the home jersey’s yoke because they left it red.

This is the logic you’re applying to the Wings sets.

 

[My Special Purpose]

Actually, I think the 3 different jerseys is clever. And I do like the flags in the C on the away jersey; it is reinforcing a brand they're increasingly using, so.

I'm upgrading from "meh" to "not bad".

Second Stage of Dundon

I don't really care 1 bit about jerseys, but have learned that unless you are the Swamp Rabbits, you can't design one that is universally liked.

You all are tired of my opinion on this, but when you name your team the Carolina Hurricanes after 10 minutes of thinking about it and exactly *zero* market research, you get a pig for a mascot and these jerseys. There is literally *nothing* for marketing/design people to work with.

I'm totally cool with the 3 different jerseys look. I think it reinforces the "reckless fun" nature of the franchise. Plus, it feels like yet another finger poke to the eye of the hockey traditionalists.

They should add the Whalers jersey to the photo just so we can have the *four* most completely unrelated jerseys for a single team in the history of sport -- amateur or pro.

Which makes no sense when you are clearly trying to market the C with the warning flags. Use it for the captain's C, make it unique like Calgary did with the A.

You know that Calgary didn't design that "A," right? That's the old Atlanta Flames logo.

I am guessing this is a little too subtle for the officials on the ice to ID the captain and alternates at a moment's notice by checking the same shoulder they do on every jersey in the NHL.

I get your point, but refs don't look for letters. They know the guys. JWill did most of our "discussing" with refs in 2017-18 when he didn't even wear a letter.

An interesting take is going around on Twitter. The 3D primary logo on the helmet is red-on-black. People thought this might be a change and they really liked it, until they realized it wasn't an actual change to the primary logo and just a helmet sticker.

 

[Joe McGrath]

But the previous Canes sets were the same template. You just couldn’t see the home jersey’s yoke because they left it red.

This is the logic you’re applying to the Wings sets.

The previous away jersey didn’t have the warning flag stripe and the home one does. I didn’t say anything about the yoke.

 

[raynman]

I dig it.

 

[tarheelhockey]

The previous away jersey didn’t have the warning flag stripe and the home one does. I didn’t say anything about the yoke.

But to be clear, as far as you're concerned the only difference in template between those two sets was the warning flag? Not the yoke?

 

[Sens1Canes2]

You all are tired of my opinion on this, but when you name your team the Carolina Hurricanes after 10 minutes of thinking about it and exactly *zero* market research, you get a pig for a mascot and these jerseys. There is literally *nothing* for marketing/design people to work with.
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Lol’d in the middle of a busy Chick Fil A.

I’ve never remember you saying this...and it’s a good point.

I think it’s a good name tho. Meshes with the perfect intro song as they come onto the ice.

 

[raynman]

Lol’d in the middle of a busy Chick Fil A.

I’ve never remember you saying this...and it’s a good point.

I think it’s a good name tho. Meshes with the perfect intro song as they come onto the ice.

My theory is that it was one of PK’s favorite songs so he named the team after it.

 

[Joe McGrath]

But to be clear, as far as you're concerned the only difference in template between those two sets was the warning flag? Not the yoke?

That and the laced front of course. The template isn’t changed, the colors are.

I’m looking at it like I’m given a template to design a jersey from. The yoke is a section of the template which you control the color. The sleeves are a section of the template that you control the color. But the stripes are what you have to decide on the location, number of them, etc. that’s what differentiates the template itself.

Maybe that’s a dumb way to look at it, I don’t know.

 

[Svechhammer]

The white collar is going to take me a while to get used to. The white jerseys have always had collars that were black with a red accent and now its white with a red accent.

maybe my biggest gripe here now that I've really had some time to think about it is that... well, its just a lot of red. The Canes have always had a nice balance of black and red with their home and away jerseys (except for the New Storm reds) and I think this kind of veers a little too far from that, and doesn't necessarily feel like a Canes jersey.

In my opinion, they were onto something nice with the black jerseys, and this is a jolt in the opposite direction. I'm sure I'll eventually learn to like it, but... I dunno, to me I'm underwhelmed in the same way I was about the New Storm red jerseys. It doesn't feel fully Canes.