Stadium Series Concepts Part 4 & Ontario Reign Contest Entry

What's happening my fellow jersey geeks!?

Today, I have the last of my "Stadium Series" concepts and my official entry to the Ontario Reign's American Red Cross jersey design contest. If you wish to enter but haven't sent in your entry, you have until tomorrow (August, 4th) to submit it!

Onto the concepts...

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To start off is the host of this particular game, the Vancouver Canucks! Here I mashed different eras of the Canucks history into one jersey. The jersey design itself is based off of their original white jersey when they entered the NHL. The colors are the colors they wore from 1978-1997 with the modern "Stick in the rink" logo recolored to match the rest of the jersey.

Not much to say about the Senators' jersey. It's basically a white version of their third jersey without the shoulder patches...

And to finish off today's post is my entry into the Reigns Red Cross jersey contest. I'm gonna let you critique this one since it's the most "out there" design I've done in a while..

 

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Hope you enjoyed today's post!

 

-Scott

Cleveland Barons Concept

What's going on guys? This post involves a first for me. It's my first concept where ALL primary/secondary logos are original work by me! I normally do not make logos due to the fact that I am not very good at making them. But for this, I decided to jump out of my comfort zone and swing for the fences so to speak...Anyway, I'm gonna first post the logos then the uniform set...ENJOY!

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(Primary)

(Secondary. Top- Home, Bottom- Road)
 

*I will update the post with a word mark at some point...

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And here is the uniform set...

(3rd based on jersey worn by the AHL's Cleveland Barons)

Purple & black isn't currently used by many teams right now, only two that I can think of. The Manchester Monarchs (AHL) and the Reading Royals (also ECHL). I think it's an awesome color combo but when I got the suggestion to use them, I thought adding grey would help the purple and black contrast a little more. I also went with a striping pattern that's unique to the ECHL.
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Hope you enjoy it! Feel free to comment!

Also, stay safe for my fellow New Englander's this weekend with the the monster snow storm!

-Scott

Black Friday

Hey guys! As i promised, I have a couple more concepts for my ECHL redesign. Getting down to the last few teams. Hopefully I can knock them out and post them soon. Today is also Black Friday! I would never be caught dead standing in line at midnight (or earlier) at a store to get items that will be a t more of a discount closer to Christmas. Anyway, here are the concepts. I'm not gonna write a caption on these so be sure to comment on them!

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South Carolina Sting Rays

Stockton Thunder

Baby, It's Cold Outside

What's happening guys?! Well, a lot has happened since the last post, non-hockey related things that is. The east coast got hammered by Hurricane Sandy last week with widespread devastation in New Jersey, New York and the Connecticut shoreline and today, we are getting the first snowfall in CT. Looks like it's gonna be a crazy winter in the northeast.

The NHL and NHLPA have resumed talks and are meeting for the second day in a row and for the third time in five days since not talking for two weeks. If all goes well, we could have a season come December...It's getting real tough to be optimistic on having a season after the Winter Classic being cancelled.

On to the concepts.
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Today I have two more ECHL redesigns and a Montreal Canadiens throwback concept. So let's get to 'em!

A lot of people want the Canadiens to bring back their retro third jersey and I'm one of them! It's really unique and it compliments their home and roads really well by blending the elements from both jerseys together.

The Reading Royals sport a recolored Flyers jersey for a home jersey and a black jersey with "READING" in the Rangers style for a road jersey this season. Before, they had recolored Flames jerseys. The jerseys now are a huge step down from what they had. Although here I gave them recolored Bruins jerseys, I think it works really well for them. It would have been too easy to go with purple LA Kings jerseys or Manchester Monarchs jerseys.

This season marks the first season for the Bulls. They sport recolored mid-90's Sabres jerseys with Flyers inspired name-bars. Here I gave them a simple set with traditional striping based on their socks stripes. I do wish they would come out with some sort of a shoulder patch.
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Well that's it for today's post. Feel free to comment and leave any feedback.  Not sure when the next post will be done but stay tuned!

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There's A Sorm Coming!

Hey guys! I have a quick post for you with two more ECHL concepts. I also wanted to get this post up now due to Hurricane Sandy bearing down on us here in New England and if it's gonna be anything like last years tropical storm and Halloween snow storm I may not have power for a while.

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Here are the concepts!

These jerseys are based from the uniforms used in the ECHL All-Star Game when it was in Ontario, CA, which is the same template as the Phoenix Coyotes' alternate jersey.

This year, the second incarnation of the Solar Bears are celebrating their first season since winning the last IHL Championship twelve years ago. The solar bears have very unique uniforms and color scheme and I tried to keep the same elements intact. I did however give them matching pants since they use plain black that doesn't match at all.
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As everyone has heard by now, the New York Islanders announced that they are going to set up shop at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn in 2015 when their lease in Uniondale, NY is up. Although the move is still a few years away, they said there will be no changes to logos and uniforms.


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So that is allfor today's post. Maybe I'll try to get some pics of Hurricane Sandy's aftermath in my area and share them in one of the next posts. No promises.

Back to the ECHL

Hey guys! After thinking of a team to do a concept for it occurred to me that I had forgotten about my ECHL redesign (even with the huge banner at the top of the page). So I got a couple done to get a quick post done. Let's get to them!
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First off, this is the second time I have used the "Buffa-slug" template in my redesign. With the same color scheme! I think it works for the Jackals and the Wings.

This past off-season, the Wranglers unveiled new logos to coincide with their tenth anniversary. A couple weeks of ago they took the ice in very basic red and white uniforms and the only trace of black was in their crest, shoulder and anniversary logos. Although black uniforms are starting to be over done in sports, I knew for a fact that their uniforms would look a hell of a lot lot better with black.
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That's it for today. Just a quick thought. Isn't it weird that ECHL doesn't stand for anything anymore? It used to mean East Coast Hockey League but since they now have teams as far west as California, they changed it to just ECHL. So here's discussion question, If you had the chance to rename the ECHL, what would you rename it?

Black & Blue

Another week into the lockout and now the first two weeks of the NHL season have been cancelled. Luckily the lockout doesn't affect the AHL. The Rangers' "Blueshirts United" blog is streaming the CT Whale- Adirondak Phantoms game at 5:00pm eastern today so I'm gonna jump right into today's concepts which include the colors blue and black and two more from my ECHL redesign. Enjoy!

This is a direct transfer of what the Gladiators wear now to the Reebok EDGE system.

The Steelheads current uniforms are very unique. But, are very difficult to pull off in the EDGE system. So I thought a simple template would work with the color scheme. What do you guys think?

This concept was going to be my entry to the Blades' jersey contest that is currently being held. But, I don't think it's original enough to win. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated on this concept or for a new one.

To finish off the post, this IceHogs concept is based off a special event jersey they wore a cuple of years ago. I saw a similar modified logo for Rockford on HJC a while back but I can't remember who did it.

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Thanks for taking time to read today's post, Enjoy!

ECHL Re-Design Part Five

What's going on guys? I got some time to get some concepts done last night and i'm just gonna jump right into them.


Florida Everblades Concept

For the Everblades, I brought them back to more a traditional look rather than the re-colored Hurricanes jerseys they have now.


Fort Wayne Komets Concept

Here I just converted what the Komets wear now to the Edge template.


Greenville Road Warriors Concept

And again, I just converted what the Road Warriors currently wear to the Edge template.

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So thats all I have for now. I'll see if I can get another post up sometime this weekend.

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ECHL Re-Design Part Four

Hey everyone! I was able to muster up some time to get a cuple of re-design concepts done. I'm not gonna have captions under them today beacuse they are the exact same uiniforms that the teams wear now but in the Edge template.

As always, comments are welcome!


Elmira Jackals Concept

Ok, I lied about not leaving a caption but just wanted to mention that this is the same one I used in my first ECHL re-design last year on HJC. But this time I have the back of the jerseys.

Evansville Icemen Concept

 

 

 

I hope everyone enjoys their weekend! Especially to those who wen't back to school this weekend!

 

Fair season is underway here in Connecticut! Gonna check out the Hebron Harvest Fair. It will be the first time going for me. Maybe I'll mention some of the crazy fair food they have in the next post.

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EDIT: After publishing this post, I realized that today is the one-year anniversary of the plane crash that killed the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team. Thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the friends and family of those who passes in the crash.