OT: Which threads blow you away? The great jersey debate

[A Star is Burns]

I like the wordmark jersey and I like this one as well. I've said before I like that all of our sweaters have different logos and designs. I get bored with copy and paste between home and aways of most teams.

My only issue is it's not retro in the slightest, so that's dumb. I didn't love the black pant combo last season, but I really like it on these.

It's not my favorite, and I would have preferred to find something older to pull from or something silver could have been interesting, but I might get one of these at some point.

 

[Svechhammer]

I like the wordmark well enough. Not my favorite, but I don't dislike it.

This jersey elicits similar feelings. It's not the one I'm likely to buy, but I like it well enough. Very, very Devils-esque though.


Big logo on the chest is played out by a ton of teams before us...

Seriously? Wordmarks aren't a gimmick, they're one of the oldest styles of hockey jersey design.

I would care less about the wordmark if it said 'CAROLINA' rather than 'CANES'. Hell, for a RR I would have loved it to say 'RALEIGH' on it.

 

[A Star is Burns]

I would care less about the wordmark if it said 'CAROLINA' rather than 'CANES'. Hell, for a RR I would have loved it to say 'RALEIGH' on it.

Should have done something like that for the stadium series, though I did actually like the rumored one we might use.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

being the 25th anniversary and not having a silver jersey is just a fail. especially when we have silver in our original jerseys.

 

[Svechhammer]

I mean I'll say it again.... I like the design elements. I think its a decent jersey on its own and definitely something we could be using full time right now. I just think there were better options for a special one off jersey. Its almost like they played it too safe.

 

[Joe McGrath]

I agree, the black helmets and pants actually fit with the jersey pretty well.

That’s because they are basically hockey Canada jerseys with a warning flag

 

[Sniper99]

was hoping for some sort of Whalers design but this one of my favorite new retros so far.

 

[htdoc]

I don't think I have ever commented on jerseys before..

But this one prompted me to actually come here to comment..

The above included Twitter post by the org even acknowledges the ridiculousness of calling it a retro jersey..

I hate the "Canes" style on the regular ones.. so this never had a chance anyways...

Oh well... still only own the original ccm versions and a reebok practice jersey for a while longer it seems...

 

[A Star is Burns]

Every time I look at it, my brain thinks the black stripe on the arms should have had flags too.

 

[WreckingCrew]

Idk. A lot of them suck.

Vegas is like the other diagonals, dumb.
Fishermen and a hockey playing Canadian are just bad. Although not the Oilers logo bad.

Florida’s looks like an minor league baseball’s jersey who is having a beach night theme
SJ’s looks like a cheap chinese knockoff that costs about 25 bucks online/ someone made in their basement.
Too much poop brown on the Bruins one
Dallas looks like you are wearing a green cape over a black shirt
Rangers looks cheap
CBJ ripped off the old Thrasher ones
What is up with the waist stripes on the Flames one? It looks like someone is wearing a martial arts belt
The return of the middle school drawn sabre tooth tiger.
NJs just looks like a white version of STL’s red based jersey, great originality there.

Most of those are ****ing hideous honestly, maybe 5 are halfway decent. Ours probably ranks right around the middle, it's nothing special, but it's not ARZ/DET/TBL/NSH ugly. I ALMOST like Calgary, but the twisted/bent stripes are awkward as hell and feel unbalanced. Jets and Ducks honestly look pretty sharp. Toronto legit puts in 0 effort or originality to any alternate jersey...they tweak maybe 5% of the sizing, stripes, color, etc and call it a day. NJD looks like the just ripped off FLA colors. I kinda like Canucks, and FLA / SJS are at least somewhat unique.

Ours basically looks like on old NJD design redesign with Canes stuff. Some parts are decent enough, but there's nothing original about it. What about it is "retro" anyway...the diagonal wordmark?

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Most of those are ****ing hideous honestly, maybe 5 are halfway decent. Ours probably ranks right around the middle, it's nothing special, but it's not ARZ/DET/TBL/NSH ugly. I ALMOST like Calgary, but the twisted/bent stripes are awkward as hell and feel unbalanced. Jets and Ducks honestly look pretty sharp. Toronto legit puts in 0 effort or originality to any alternate jersey...they tweak maybe 5% of the sizing, stripes, color, etc and call it a day. NJD looks like the just ripped off FLA colors. I kinda like Canucks, and FLA / SJS are at least somewhat unique.

Ours basically looks like on old NJD design redesign with Canes stuff. Some parts are decent enough, but there's nothing original about it. What about it is "retro" anyway...the diagonal wordmark?

I think Arizona's is the best. Better than the straight purple one. The orange is super bright, it has enough new design on it while having the old coyote head on it. I prefer the head to whole hockey playing coyote anyways. new and old at the same time. That is until i see it on the ice. The grey whalers looked good during the reveal but horrid on the ice. we'll see.

not just plain old like Toronto, Ottawa, Detroit, Chicago, etc.

Ducks are the best of the playing it safe group.

 

[Identity404]

HCANES on this jersey design:

 

[Svechhammer]

I was hoping for a Raleigh Icecaps throwback here eventually for this reason. Additionally Navy Blue is under used and is itself a throwback to the best Whalers set.

I saw you say this on the main thread, and it got me thinking and damn you because I actually seriously would have liked this and now I'm upset they didn't go this direction

 

[A Star is Burns]

I saw you say this on the main thread, and it got me thinking and damn you because I actually seriously would have liked this and now I'm upset they didn't go this direction

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I think that looks pretty bad, but I don't have any nostalgia for that. If only someone could do a Roanoke Express throwback.

 

[DaveG]

The actual design of the jersey itself is pretty nice in all honesty.

I saw you say this on the main thread, and it got me thinking and damn you because I actually seriously would have liked this and now I'm upset they didn't go this direction

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Yeah something along those lines would have been great IMO with a few tweaks

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

If we could match the ice cap design, just substituting the red for the blue, that would really drive it home. No black. I like the original concept too though

Have a melting icicle Canes or Hurricanes as another option, red fading into white with black outline

 

[CandyCanes]

While the “reverse retro” idea is fun. Hope the NHL keeps pushing new jersey designs and different themes eventually. I love what the NFL does with “color rush”, would love to see the NHL do their own variation of that one day.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

it's actually impressive how opposite some of you rank the jerseys compared to me

seen multiple people say the florida one is bad... that one is unquestionably the best one? its so good

same with arizona, colorado, new jersey, san jose, los angeles

ours is fine... kind of boring by itself, but will look great with the full uniform setup, i think. guess we are seeing the payoff for testing the black pants with the red jersey last year with this.

 

[A Star is Burns]

it's actually impressive how opposite some of you rank the jerseys compared to me

seen multiple people say the florida one is bad... that one is unquestionably the best one? its so good

same with arizona, colorado, new jersey, san jose, los angeles

ours is fine... kind of boring by itself, but will look great with the full uniform setup, i think. guess we are seeing the payoff for testing the black pants with the red jersey last year with this.

I really like the Florida one as well. The vibes just feel right. I also liked the ones you mentioned, and some of the others too.

 

[Svechhammer]

If we could match the ice cap design, just substituting the red for the blue, that would really drive it home. No black. I like the original concept too though

In my opinion, goes a little too Ohio State for my liking, which is why I incorporated Black the first time around

And I am keeping those Cs and As with the captaincy patch. There is no argument, this needs to be official to the team as of yesterday.

 

[A Star is Burns]

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In my opinion, goes a little too Ohio State for my liking, which is why I incorporated Black the first time around

And I am keeping those Cs and As with the captaincy patch. There is no argument, this needs to be official to the team as of yesterday.

I dig the color scheme on this one even if the logo still doesn't do it for me.

 

[Svechhammer]

Dan is the VP of Marketing for the Canes

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

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In my opinion, goes a little too Ohio State for my liking, which is why I incorporated Black the first time around

And I am keeping those Cs and As with the captaincy patch. There is no argument, this needs to be official to the team as of yesterday.

not to cause you more work. Keep the logo from the original one because it looks cleaner or on the red jersey make it grey and white instead of red and grey maybe, idk.

I agree on the looking Ohio state-esque. would a simple change of the grey to white striping and vice versa on the red one make it look more white and red? Im trying to picture it in my head. That likely requires number color scheme change though. maybe we tie the black back in with the chest emblem by outlining the numbers in it and having another color besides white for the numbers themselves.

thanks for humoring me.

 

[tarheelhockey]

My only issue is it's not retro in the slightest, so that's dumb. I didn't love the black pant combo last season, but I really like it on these.

Retro used to be cool, but then everyone started doing it. Now the cool thing is retro that isn't retro at all. Meaning you just wear your regular jerseys. It means you're so cool you, like, don't even care or whatever.

 

[Svechhammer]

not to cause you more work. Keep the logo from the original one because it looks cleaner or on the red jersey make it grey and white instead of red and grey maybe, idk.

I agree on the looking Ohio state-esque. would a simple change of the grey to white striping and vice versa on the red one make it look more white and red? Im trying to picture it in my head. That likely requires number color scheme change though. maybe we tie the black back in with the chest emblem by outlining the numbers in it and having another color besides white for the numbers themselves.

thanks for humoring me.

Yeah I think the problem is grey/silver and red, and specifically, our shade of red, rather than the amount its used. At that point, you're just going to look like Ohio State. And if you downplay the silver enough it ends up looking like Detroit.

Its why I didn't go full on color swap but applied the entire Canes palate to the IceCaps design....