New Jersey to overhaul uniforms for 2017-2018 season, Part 4: and Gnashing of Teeth

[Its a Trap]

So is this thread now about the change to the message boards?

Only in terms of blandness and how boring they look

 

[R8Devs]

has anyone seen the white Adi-zero jerseys for sale anywhere? only place I have seen them is at CoolHockey

I saw them at the adidas store in freehold

 

[NJDevs26]

I'd be surprised if any current players would say they didn't like the jerseys to any fans even if they actually felt that way.

Well one reason players DO like the new jerseys is they're not as heavy on them. Fans don't care about that but players do while they're wearing equipment and skating on the ice lol

 

[Feed Me A Stray Cat]

I'm coming around to the elbow stripes being of equal size. Kind of like it.

Still not a fan of no horizontal stripe at the waist, but what can ya do?

 

[New Jersey]

i don't think murdering the designer will fix anything but that's just me

 

[New Jersey]

but what can ya do?

complain on the internet.

 

[New Jersey]

It's literally a Chinese knockoff version that's been made official. I would have to seriously consider not taking it if offered for free because you honestly couldn't pay me to wear that ugly thing.

yeah really dreading when the devils take the ice next saturday in these

i understand people's dislike of the jersey but the "chinese knockoff" thing is hilarious

 

[MichaelJ]

The arm stripes are hideous. At this point I'm just glad they didn't do more to screw with the unis.

 

[Sik02gt]

the only thing I cant stand is that they took off the bottom stripes.

 

[JK3]

All Day I Dream About (hem)Stripes

 

[Patrik26]

yeah really dreading when the devils take the ice next saturday in these

i understand people's dislike of the jersey but the "chinese knockoff" thing is hilarious

In Crocodile Dundee style, "That's not a knockoff. THAT'S a knockoff."

They're both hideous knockoffs.

 

[New Jersey]

yeah unfortunately that is exactly what they're going to look like

 

[mtnet]

we've come full circle

obscure pajama knockoff inspires revised authentic which in turn spawns new knockoff of revised authentic

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

They're growing on me a bit. Certainly don't hate them as much as I did initially. The roads look especially good to me.

 

[Its a Trap]

yeah really dreading when the devils take the ice next saturday in these

i understand people's dislike of the jersey but the "chinese knockoff" thing is hilarious

To be quite frank I have no idea if that's the real jersey or a photo you just found from a knockoff site.

What am I looking at here?

 

[Emperoreddy]

Well one reason players DO like the new jerseys is they're not as heavy on them. Fans don't care about that but players do while they're wearing equipment and skating on the ice lol

Yeah apparently they are a fan of the new material and make. Honestly I don't think they care at all about the changes in look.

 

[Billdo]

Yeah apparently they are a fan of the new material and make. Honestly I don't think they care at all about the changes in look.

Of course they dont. Just like they don't care about the goal song, the logo on the helmet and not namesake, etc. They're trivial things that fans complain about that in reality mean very little.


Side note, I'm going to measure the width of the arm bands and compare to the RBKs at some point unless someone already did it. I don't think it's THAT much wider let alone wide enough to be "swimmies"

 

[blood gin]

To be quite frank I have no idea if that's the real jersey or a photo you just found from a knockoff site.

What am I looking at here?

It's from a knockoff site. It's basically a knockoff of the chinese knockoff of our classic jerseys

You do see a lot of this stuff at the arena though. Have since the lockout. Football jerseys too. Some are hard to tell and others are very obvious. They have a lot of loose threads, these very thick shiney numbers. Sometimes the color is just a bit off

 

[Emperoreddy]

What even is the fabric on those shoulders?

 

[njdevils1982]

What even is the fabric on those shoulders?

woven Pejorative Slur

 

[njdevils1982]

speaking of knockoffs, im going to come out of the closet …...i own a basturdized korean CCM i found years ago at a gas station (yes, a gas station)

it was dirt cheap and had the same striping as the new jerseys (with the waist also) …so f*** it, i bought it…i never wear the thing out in public or to games ….its a tad big so i use it solely as my pond hockey jersey to play goal. also, the crest is a bit smaller then it should be… but whatever…..its for the pond


ill post a picture when i get a chance. proof that the waist stripes need to be back regardless of thickness

 

[BenedictGomez]

I'd be surprised if any current players would say they didn't like the jerseys to any fans even if they actually felt that way.

OF COURSE!

 

[BenedictGomez]

The arm stripes are hideous. At this point I'm just glad they didn't do more to screw with the unis.

I finally saw one of these up close and in person, and they're worse than seeing them in pictures. Really sad they killed our jersey, which was arguably one of the best in the entire NHL.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

Meh, I'm still ordering 1 of each home and away... Hischier home, Zacha away I think.

 

[jkrdevil]

Watching some of the preseason is adidas basically fixed everyone's jersey with the hem stripes following the curvature of the jersey. Except ours got ruined.

As I said at the time this screams ownership wanting to change the uniforms to cash in on jersey sales, but knowing major changes would be revolted against. So they went with a half measure, which was worse.

No one should buy the jerseys. Just hold off and wait the year or two to when they change them back. It's going to happen.