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NHL unveils reverse retro jerseys

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Detroit unveiling their reverse retro jersey like:

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Best ones IMO

Colorado
Carolina
L.A.
Anaheim
St-Louis
Minnessota

I do like the NYR, Florida and Buffalo jerseys a lot as well.

Very bad

Dallas
San Jose
Detroit
Montreal

The Sens one is nice as well but the unveiling of the exact same jersey a month ago takes away from it definitely. Feel like they should've went with a red version of the O.

The rest is average IMO.
 
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Top five:
Minnesota Wild
Colorado Avalanche/Nordiques
Nashville Predators
Carolina Hurricanes/Whalers
Washington Capitals
HM: New York Rangers for the great logo

Bottom Five:
Detroit Red Wings
Dallas Stars
Toronto Maple Leafs
Winnipeg Jets
Columbus Blue Jackets
 
The Blasty is meh. They could have inversed the logo and made the horse head black or white on a red jersey or something. That would have been cool.

Agreed. They just made a similiar (though not quite as nice) version of what they previously wore. Why not actually "reverse" things up a little and make a white or red version with as you said, an inverted logo?

Same with the Rags and Isles. Like what's even the point?
 
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The more I look at the Leafs jersey the more I'm getting annoyed they didn't do something different. So many good jerseys came out of this and we are stuck with meh.
 
Man, these designs really are all over the map in terms of quality. It'll be interesting to see if any of these stick around longer term, because for each one that deserves to be immediately forgotten, there's one that would at least make a good full-time alternate.

My rankings...
Tier 1 - Awesome jerseys I hope to see more than a couple times.
Qulorado - Was there any doubt? White alternates usually won't score highly, but seeing that Nordiques look just makes me happy and it looks ridiculously good in Colorado's color scheme.
Los Angeles - While this isn't perfect, this blends the two good Kings looks in a way that may finally get me to buy a Kings jersey. I may damn well be overrating these simply because of what the Kings normally wear being so...powerfully lame.
Minnesota - This is all about the color scheme and North Stars for me. The North Stars had one of my favorite looks of any team in any sport ever, largely because of green & gold/yellow being one of my favorite color schemes. Seeing one of my favorite logos in a better color scheme on a jersey base that I loved is just fantastic. I always wished the Wild had went with this color scheme.
New Jersey - Green. f*** yeah.

Tier 2 - These are good jerseys, but not necessarily great or better than what they're throwing back to or what the team normally has.
Boston - I like gold jerseys and that these are just a gold version of the jerseys the Bruins wore for a good while. Having white as the bottom sleeve stripe bothers me more than it should, though, and is an unfortunate byproduct of giving jerseys the inverse treatment.
Carolina - The only thing preventing these from being tier 1 is the color. Gray outright sucks for a jersey color...which is a shame because I need the Whalers aesthetic is more appealing to my eyes than heroin to a junky.
Montreal - This jersey could have been made at any point in my lifetime and been considered a damn good alternate, even if there's little change beyond the order of the colors.

Tier 3 - Fun bad.
Anaheim - Listen, I'll take almost anything in this color scheme compared to the old one, even if it involves Wild Wing flying out of the ice. The originals were truly atrocious, but fell in the 'so bad they're good' camp to some. To me these are almost too stupid to insult, which makes them almost endearing.
Arizona - I'm a damn sucker for the kachina look and that doofy coyote head is enough to bump this up a spot, but these are throwing back to an alternate that I always found considerably lesser than the normal kachina jerseys and this is no different. I won't complain about there being a little more purple in the league, even momentarily, either...but again, these are a pale comparison to the standard kachina jerseys IMO.

Tier 4 - Indifference - These jerseys are not the worst choice that could have been made, but they weren't the best either. These are designs that don't really inspire a reaction out of me at all.
Calgary - I didn't really know where to put this one and didn't want to give it a tier of its own. Despite my disdain for bfbs (black for blacks sake) I didn't completely hate these when they were new...but I'll always be disappointed when I see the Flames in anything other than red, gold, and white and the horsehead logo most certainly looks like a logo designed in 1998. Aside from my personal preferences, though, it's hard for me to say this is a bad jersey, especially compared to some of the ones Calgary has worn. Just a jersey that very much looked like a jersey of its era.
Chicago - They certainly look clean, so I won't call them bad...but I also have a weird fondness for barber-pole jerseys, so using a throwback without it's most distinctive element results in a jersey that just kinda exists.
Edmonton - Swapping the blue and orange on a very good white jersey results in an alternate that is almost identical to their normal whites (which are one of the better road jerseys in the league IMO), but with even more orange from a team that desperately needs to tone down the f***ing orange.
Florida - I never liked the logo on its own, but it did look pretty cool on a jersey and it pops nicely against navy. I like it better than the jerseys that are being thrown back to, but that means little coming from me considering I have the complete opposite of fondness for the 90s Panthers.
Ottawa - Simple and mostly fine, but Ottawa has never looked better in red than black or white and this is no different.
Pittsburgh - It's a color swap of a jersey I was mostly indifferent about as a kid (even as a tiny lil' Penguins fan I hated the logo and jersey change and only liked these in comparison to hating the whites and what would eventually replace these), which results in a jersey I'm mostly indifferent about as an adult. No need to keep these around longer than necessary, but I'm ridiculously thankful that the robopigeon is nowhere to be seen. Throwing back to anything but that is a major win in my book. The skating penguin always looks a little weird without the triangle, but I'll take that awkward thing on the sleeves over the worst logo in league history.
Tampa Bay - The Lightning have never had a jersey score above a 5/10 from me, and this is no different...though I do like blue better than black as the primary color.

Tier 5 - Normal bad.
Buffalo - I hated the jerseys that are being thrown back to, so getting the color scheme right this time around does little to alter my opinion. Having 'BUFFALO' in that terrible late 90s font in the hem striping is just painful. At least it's using the good color scheme this time...I never want to see the Sabres in red or black ever again.
Nashville - My love of gold/yellow jerseys has made me love Nashville's newer look and even had me kinda like their mustard alts that everyone hated...but that tolerance ends on this one. Having silver sleeves atop yellow...yeah, I really don't like that combination. It works great with blue and horribly with silver. The silver always looked terrible. These are significantly lesser than their normal jerseys IMO, even if they're far from the worst of this bunch.
NY Rangers - I'm apparently in the minority, but I never liked the Lady Liberty logo or jerseys and find the continued lack of striping to be its fatal flaw. Making the sleeves one consistent color (plus elbow stripes) coupled with no hem striping makes this look like a practice jersey with elbow stripes added so they can justify charging double.
Philadelphia - The fact that I like the way the Flyers look now always surprises me considering how much I hated the way they looked when I was younger, so throwing back to that is inherently going to make them look worse in my eyes. The sleeves bug me too.
San Jose - Gray sucks as a jersey color, nothing new there.
Vancouver - My hard and fast 'no gradiants ever' rule is in play here, even when it's colors I love instead of shitty dark 90s colors like the jerseys these are based on...there was so much fun bad that they could have thrown back to that I don't really get the decision to go with this.

Tier 6 - Awful
Columbus - Throwing back to a lame/bad jersey and flipping the colors like this results in a dreadful and pointless jersey. Columbus doesn't have anything good to throw back to, but they could have had some fun and made a fun bad fauxback involving that dumb bug or something, rather than just swapping the colors to make a jersey that was unloved in its time look considerably worse.
Dallas - You forgot to finish it. These are both considerably worse than the look that they're throwing back to and the normal jerseys Dallas wears. There was fun to be had here and they opted for bland.
Detroit - I almost want to score this a DNF. I've insulted more than a few jerseys by calling them practice jerseys before, but these are some practice-ass practice jerseys.
St. Louis - Part of me wants to rank these dead last, but at least an ounce of effort was put into this. Red utterly destroys that color scheme. How great the Blues are capable of looking always makes me that much madder when red shows up. They were hideous in the 90s, so making it even more prevalent now only makes it that much worse.
Toronto - This is a weird one that I'm dropping down a tier for being confused about what it's throwing back to. Taking the template from one era and the logo from another results in something that just looks off. There's also the blue logo on a blue jersey thing that feels weird from a team that's always used white logos on blue and blue logos on white. This could and should have been better.
Vegas - If you like red this is probably fine. I despise the color and am not fond of that alternate logo in the first place.
Washington - Throwing back to one of the worst of the 90s redesigns and showing why keeping the original color scheme wouldn't have worked with those jerseys is a weird flex, but okay. Feels like this would have been the perfect time to finally introduce a blue alternate for the first time in team history, instead of going with a third red jersey for them to choose from.
Winnipeg - What the f*** is this shit? This is what happens when you use every crayon in the box to color something.

Tier 7 - The Islanders Didn't Even Try
NY Islanders - They didn't even try.



Honestly I feel like the glut of mediocre to awful jerseys here is worth it just for the few great ones that may stick around. I can't imagine many of these sticking around beyond whatever Adidas & the NHL's plan for these are, but hope a few of them get promoted to normal alternate...or get Minnesota to ditch the Christmas colors and pair that green with something it looks great with again.
 
I'm all for adventurous designs even if they fall flat. Unfortunately a lot of these jerseys are bad because they look like low-effort designs not because there was any risk that failed
 
W

Coyotes
Oilers
Wild
Habs
Predators
Devils
Sens

L

Sharks
Leafs
Rangers
Islanders
Stars
Blue Jackets

Most of them were underwhelming but the good ones are really, really, really good.

This whole thing made me wish they changed them every year like they do in soccer.
 
Random Thoughts:

Winnipeg: Looks like a practice jersey. Don't like.
St. Louis, Minnesota, TB, Florida, NYI, Arizona, Kings: Fantastic.
Colorado: Very weird to see a team outside Quebec flying Quebec symbols, especially with non-Quebec colours...but I like the jerseys in a vacuum.

SJ, Ottawa, Pitts, Vegas: just ugly.
Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Flyers, Boston, Toronto, NYR, Wash, Oilers, Dallas, Nashville, Stars: Look like worse versions of current jerseys.
Vancouver: why do I have a sudden urge for a carbonated beverage with lemon/lime flavouring?
CBJ: Washington did it better.
NJD, Montreal: I can dig it, but don't get why others are so blown away.
Pitts: Do not like.
Whalers: love the Whalers, but this is borderline offensive to use their jersey.

Calgary and Anaheim: Those were hideous jerseys back in the day, but they bring retro fun, so I'm into it.
 
Best ones:
Ottawa - I think those have potential to be full-time or very solid alternates, so solid that I can't even tell which one is which
Tampa Bay - Those have very strong alternate potential
Vegas - If the logo was different and they had the same jersey shape as their other ones it'd make for one beautiful jersey
Minnesota
Montreal
St. Louis
Vancouver - I like them personally because when I lived in Vancouver those were the alternates, but I would agree on those colours with the Flying Skate
Edmonton
Los Angeles
Arizona
Washington
Carolina
Columbus - Kind of looks like Washington's but I like it
Boston
New Jersey

Okay:
Nashville
Colorado - Would say worst if it weren't for them honouring the Nordiques
Islanders - Kind of looks like their current jerseys...
Chicago
Calgary
San Jose
Anaheim
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Florida
NYR

Worst:
Toronto - They chose that one over many classic logos...
Winnipeg - Don't ever call me biased again, would say the worst but the logo is cool as it kind of reminds me of HNIC
Detroit - So much missed potential but is hands down the worst amongst all the RR jerseys
Dallas
Buffalo
 
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The more I look at the Leafs jersey the more I'm getting annoyed they didn't do something different. So many good jerseys came out of this and we are stuck with meh.
It's like the designers of the Detroit jersey sat down at a table together, drew the outline of a jersey on a white piece of paper... decided on the silver stripe from the winter classic jersey, then just ran out of ideas that quickly... stared at the paper for a few seconds, said f*** it, threw on the logo and called it a day.

Total time from sitting down to completion... 2 minutes. Most of that time spent putting down the white piece of paper and drawing the outline.

Bigger miss than the Leafs by far.
 
I actually don't hate the Wings one. What do you do with a Wings jersey? They've had so few elements over the years that they've painted themselves into a corner with projects like these.
 
the Canucks had a chance to bring back the Flying V, what a missed opportunity

The Canucks ownership needs to take a hint.

Every time they introduce a retro logo people go nuts for it....It's almost like no one likes the current logo. And yes, the Flying V would have been awesome. Another ugly jersey with goofy retro appeal. Not a great choice for full time, but excellent for 3rds.
 
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