Reverse retro CBJ jersey

[CBJWerenski8]

The white shoulders and sleeves kill all potential. Way too much white for a "home" jersey. This really does remind of the Capitals winter classic jerseys lol.

I love the logo though. That's cool to come back. I don't care at all about Stinger not being on there.

If the shoulders and sleeves were either blue or red, it might work (red would for sure work, not sure about blue), but yeah this isn't a jersey I'll be getting. Honestly, for our reverse retro if you just brought back the original jerseys with some modifications I wouldn't have been upset at all. But alas.

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

The goal is to sell jerseys and get fans excited. You bend the theme to meet these goals. Blindly following the theme leads to a stupid jersey nobody wants. This was a missed opportunity.

You may not buy this jersey but people will. And they will buy more of them than the military appreciation jerseys or the hockey fights cancer jerseys they sell too.

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

At least this jersey isn't the ugly as F*ck Ducks jerseys.

We like to be a negative bunch here but I don't know what everyone expected. We don't have much to work with. I'm just disappointed there is no Stinger on the shoulder.

 

[CBJx614]

Very meh on these.

 

[Halfboard]

Again with the Christmas tree???

 

[majormajor]

I've always cringed at the first logo so my incredibly low expectations are being met here. Maybe the red color helps soften the gaudy logo a bit. But the white shoulders I don't see the purpose of, do white shoulder-arms ever look good?

 

[ViD]

I wonder how many games will be played in those jerseys ? Maybe it’s just one for fun

 

[Boomshakalaka]

Getting one anyways

 

[NotWendell]

I don't like it. May buy one anyways. LOL

 

[NotWendell]

I've always cringed at the first logo so my incredibly low expectations are being met here. Maybe the red color helps soften the gaudy logo a bit. But the white shoulders I don't see the purpose of, do white shoulder-arms ever look good?

I would have gone with a dark powder blue instead of the red. But at least ours is not as bad as Pittsburgh's or Anaheim's.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

I don't like it. May buy one anyways. LOL

Is this the opposite of ‘looking cute, might delete later’?

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Honestly if they just brought back the 00-06 jerseys with modifications I wouldn’t have complained at all. Those arent sexy but at least they’re nice.

 

[WeaponOfChoice]

Bring back the bee logo.

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

I wonder how many games will be played in those jerseys ? Maybe it’s just one for fun

If they went through the effort on these for the entire league it will be for more than 1 game. In a full season I'm guessing it would have been 6 games with regular 3rds getting 12 although I thought I read somewhere these were intended to be worn in 12 games as well.

A shortened season this year, who knows how many?

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

I would have gone with a dark powder blue instead of the red. But at least ours is not as bad as Pittsburgh's or Anaheim's.

dark powder blue? Is that an oxymoron like military intelligence or jumbo shrimp?

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

I would have gone with a dark powder blue instead of the red. But at least ours is not as bad as Pittsburgh's or Anaheim's.

Honestly if they just brought back the 00-06 jerseys with modifications I wouldn’t have complained at all. Those arent sexy but at least they’re nice.

Look I know I’m not in with the jersey news and whatever but can someone explain to be what the ‘reverse’ part of ‘reverse retro’ means?

 

[Viqsi]

Look I know I’m not in with the jersey news and whatever but can someone explain to be what the ‘reverse’ part of ‘reverse retro’ means?

I think every team interpreted it differently, but the most common broad categories appear to be either "take your theme colors and flip 'em" or "let's do some other quirky modernish twist".

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Look I know I’m not in with the jersey news and whatever but can someone explain to be what the ‘reverse’ part of ‘reverse retro’ means?

My guess is the "reverse retro" meant you reversed your primary colors (which is why we went red) and went "retro". Some teams decided to only do one or the other (which is why Whalers are back) with most teams doing both.

 

[Toe Pick]

For what it’s worth The Hockey News guy loves em — ranking them 7th overall:

“7. Columbus: Maybe I'm on an island here, but I really like the Blue Jackets' look. The red is bold and it's a first for the franchise as a main color. Makes the cribbage board logo really pop.”

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

I think every team interpreted it differently, but the most common broad categories appear to be either "take your theme colors and flip 'em" or "let's do some other quirky modernish twist".

My guess is the "reverse retro" meant you reversed your primary colors (which is why we went red) and went "retro". Some teams decided to only do one or the other (which is why Whalers are back) with most teams doing both.

So why were some posting they should have used some shade of blue or just used a version of an early-season sweater? I mean, it was gonna be red, right? (Or neon green?)

but like I said, I’m no expert.

 

[koteka]

So why were some posting they should have used some shade of blue or just used a version of an early-season sweater?

Because we are the freaking Blue Jackets. The Red Wings somehow ended up with red wings on their jersey. We could have ended up with plenty of blue on our jersey. If we had been named the Columbus Cows (remember when the Other Paper lobbied for that name?) we could have any color jerseys and who would care? But the team name is literally a blue item of clothing.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

So why were some posting they should have used some shade of blue or just used a version of an early-season sweater? I mean, it was gonna be red, right? (Or neon green?)

but like I said, I’m no expert.

Youre right. I just wish we opted for “retro” rather than “reverse retro.” I also wish there wasn’t so much white, especially on the sleeves and shoulders.

 

[Monk]

Youre right. I just wish we opted for “retro” rather than “reverse retro.” I also wish there wasn’t so much white, especially on the sleeves and shoulders.

I agree, I think it would be cooler if the whole white strip from wrist to wrist were just red.

 

[pete goegan]

Because we are the freaking Blue Jackets. The Red Wings somehow ended up with red wings on their jersey. We could have ended up with plenty of blue on our jersey. If we had been named the Columbus Cows (remember when the Other Paper lobbied for that name?) we could have any color jerseys and who would care? But the team name is literally a blue item of clothing.

Not just any cow, but the Mad Cows! I still have the tee shirts The Other put out.

 

[Byrral]

All of the options available and this is what they come up with? A person on this board (not me ) could have come up with a way better design than this that most people would actually like. This is a big fail.