AHL Redesign: Devils, Wolf Pack & Falcons...Oh My!!!

Hey guys!

Here are the next three entries into my AHL redesign! Enjoy!

The Albany Devils currently wear their parent club's uniforms. So I wanted to change them enough to have their own look but also resemble their affiliate.

Over the last four years, the Hartford franchise has gone through two name changes. They went from the Wolf Pack to the CT Whale and back to the Wolf Pack this summer. The Pack will take the ice this season wearing the same uniforms they wore before the rebrand in 2010. Here, I returned them to their original look which a lot of Pack fans (including me) would like to see return full time or as an alternate.

Now for the Wolf Pack's I-91 rivals. I brought them back to the look they wore in 1994, their first season, which means the return of their original blue which Falcons fans would like to see make a comeback. The crest is the head of the Falcon used on their current uniforms which to me, is a modern version of their original logo.

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Here's a Springfield Indians inspired logo idea I had for the Falcons.

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That's it for today. I'm actually going to be in the Springfield area for the 2013 Easter States Exposition (The Big E as the locals call it) later today and tomorrow. Hope you guys enjoy your local fairs this fall!

-Scott

Charlottetown Islanders

What's happening guys?

I only have one concept for you guys on the eve of the Stars & Canes uniform unveilings and it's for the newly branded Charlottetown Islanders. Not that long ago, they announced their new name and logo but no secondary marks or uniforms. So here's a uniform set I came up with.

To me, the logo is good. The only drawback is the very basic font they used to spell out "Charlottetown". Other than that, I think it works just fine for a Major-Junior team. The colors scream Penguins so I made sure not to give them Penguins-esque jerseys. And yes, I know they're recolored alternates, but I think it looks really sharp with this color pallet!

What are your thoughts?

-Scott

It's Official, The Pack Is Back!

What's going on guys?

Well, It's official! The Connecticut Whale have been re branded and will take the ice next season (13-14) as the Hartford Wolf Pack!

If any of you follow me on Twitter, you know by now that I am in favor of going back to the Wolf Pack brand. It's unique and has a winning tradition which sadly a lot of people here in Connecticut don't understand. Anyway, here is a link to the offical press release from the American Hockey League's website: http://theahl.com/the-pack-is-back-p183823

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The team has already begun to relaunch hartfordwolfpack.com. It's not much right now. Just a splash page with season ticket information for next season. The only thing I don't like is that it looks as if they will only be selling lower bowl seats and closing off the upper bowl at the XL Center next season. The last two and a half years, my seats have been in the upper bowl. Due to better sight lines (in my opinion) and not as crowded.

Along with the name change, the Wolf Pack's primary logo from 1997-2010 will return. It is still unsure if we will see the uniforms used from 2007 until the re brand to the Whale or a completely new set of uniforms.

(From Sportslogos.net)

I for one would not mind if they brought the old ones back or if they came out with a new set! But if they bring back the old ones, I think they should come out with an edge version of one of the Wolf Pack's inaugural season jerseys as an alternate. Witch were basically Rangers Liberty jerseys with the Pack's primary logo on them which were used until I believe the 02-03 or 03-04 season. You cal also see an idea I had for a new uniform set for the Pack in my last post!

Global Spectrum, the company who will run the day-to-day operations of the team next season will be holding a "town hall meeting" with season ticket holders to get them involved with creating marketing ideas.

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Anyway, that's all I have to share with you guys so far. If I find out anything else or if I have missed something, I will update this post and let you all know about the updated on Facebook/Twitter!

-Scott

 

Messing With The Rangers

What's going on guys? Here's another quick post for today!

This was originally going to be my entry into this weeks "Untouchables" contest over at HJC, but it was deemed that the blue jersey was too close of a resemblance to the Rangers early 90's road jersey.

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That's it for today!

-Scott

Attempt At The Blackhawks

What's going on guys?

Everyone here in the northeastern U.S. are enjoying these last couple of days since it finally feels like spring and thought I would share my entry for HJC's Blackhawks "Untouchables" contest going on right now. Feel free to bash it for messing with Chicago's  classic look!

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That's it for today. 

Enjoy the nice weather my fellow New Englanders!

-Scott

There's A Hurricane Coming! ...Not Really

What's going on guys? Hope everyone is enjoying or enjoyed the day with your families or by yourself if you prefer to. Anyway, been a couple of weeks since I've posted something so I thought I would get a quick one done today. So let's get to it!

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 If you follow HJC, you probably remember my concept for an American Hockey League team based on the colors and nickname of my high school Alma-mater, The New Britain High School Golden Hurricanes (CT). Well here, I decided to make a jersey set for the school itself if they had a hockey team. I know it seems weird that the school nickname is the "Golden" Hurricanes and have the primary color maroon, but it's something the school has done for a long time.

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That's all for today. I said this in the last post that I am starting work soon so posts will most likely be sort like this one (maybe shorter) and not as often. But no need to worry! I will try my best to keep rolling out concepts.

Feel free to comment!

-Scott
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Also, how do you guys like my new concept presentation? If you have any suggestions on how I can improve it, feel free to leave a comment!

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

Tweaking the Rangers & Outdoor Classic

So the NHL season is in full swing after a long lockout and I bet you guys have watched a game or two on TV or have gotten to a game. Anyway, today's post consists of some minor tweaks to the Rangers' uniform set and my entry into HJC's AHL Outdoor Classic (Grand Rapids vs. Toronto) comp. And without further delay, here they are!

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It's sacrilegious to mess with an original six teams look so I mad some minor changes. Mainly, the template of the home jersey to match the template of the road jersey, I replaced the "RANGERS" word mark with "NEW YORK" and also altered the striping on the 3rd jersey and have different pants to go with it. I'm not too crazy about the changes, but some fans would like to see the change.

And here's my HJC contest entry!

 -Scott

A WILD-ly Quick Post

 What's happening guys? So the shortened NHL season begins in just three days. I for one am pretty psyched about it. Believe me, AHL hockey is great but their schedules are made up mostly on weekend dates so it will be great to watch a game on a weekday. Anyway I have another quick concept for you guys. It's what I think the Minnesota Wild should look like next season. So here ya go!

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For this concept, I modified the Wild's alternate uniform by adding red and putting their primary logo on the front and made a matching road. I have also demoted "vintage white" to an accent color.

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Please feel free to comment!

-Scott

Binghamton Senators Specialty Jersey

So the NHL is going to have a season after all! The NHL BOG have ratified the new CBA and now it's time for the players to do the same...From what I'm hearing, the Rangers are opening up in Boston on the 19th and will have their home opener the next night against Pittsburgh. And already the Rangers have been labeled the favorites to win the cup. I think it's too early for predictions for the cup, and with a shortened season, there is a lot of uncertainty. Anyway, I have only one concept to share today and it is my entry to HJC's Binghamton Senators Specialty Jersey contest...

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It also appears that HJC is down again for the same reason as before. Let's hope Ryan can figure something out to keep the blog going!

-Scott

Merry Christmas Eve!

What's going on guys? I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday with their families and want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to those who don't celebrate Christmas. Tonight, every one will be dreaming of what they will get from Santa in the morning, but for us hockey fans, the dreams of an NHL season might have to stay a dream.

Anyway, today I have a couple of hockey concepts as well as my first baseball concept for the blog! As well as a new layout for my concepts. The blog is still going to be mostly hockey concepts but as I've said for a while, I want to incorporate more sports into the mix. So here's to another year for SMC!

Now, onto the concepts...

Over the summer, the UConn Huskies men's hockey team announced that they will be joining Hockey East in 2014 and play games at the XL Center (Formerly the Hartford Civic Center). And being from Connecticut, this is really exciting news! Seeing that Hartford's professional hockey future is in serious doubt with the CT Whale's lease being up at the end of this season as well as AEG's agreement to run the building. Anyway, the Huskies introduced these uniforms a few years ago for an anniversary season and I made some minor modifications.

The Peterborough Petes are one of the most iconic teams in the CHL/OHL. Their uniforms now are similar to those that the Colorado Avalanche wear, but here, I returned them to the style they had before they switched to the Edge system.

Now here is my first baseball concept on the blog...This is a Sandy Hook Elementary tribute jersey concept for the New Britain Rock Cats of the Eastern League (AA), my home town team. It features Sandy Hook's school colors, the Town of Newtown, CT seal as well as the names of the twenty-six victims. Here's a close up:

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That's all I've got for today. Also, Ryan from HockeyJerseyConcepts.com announced yesterday that he will be taking a hiatus from the blog for the rest of 2012 since Blogger bots thought HJC was a spam blog.

I doubt I'll get another post done before the new year but in case I don't, I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

-Scott

I'm A Finalist!

Hey guys, just wanted to get a quick post up to share that I am a finalist to the Saskatoon Blades jersey design contest that started a few months ago. Here is my entry if you haven't seen it in a previous post:

Please vote for my entry, entry #2 on the Blades' website HERE. Or here: http://saskatoonblades.com/

Thanks guys!

Goodbye Phoenix, Hello Arizona!

Whats going on guys! Not much has been going on with NHL lockout since the last post but the players and owners have agreed to meet face to face without the players union today and early indications are that they went well enough for them to meet again tonight or tomorrow. I'll believe it when it actually happens. Also, the Phoenix Coyotes are going to change their name! Well, not much of a name change but more like a location change in their name. They will be changing it to the Arizona Coyotes. It's sort of seems right since the Coyotes haven't played in Phoenix since their arena in Glendale was built. It also stated in the lease agreement with the city of Glendale that they had to change the name. Any way here is what I think the Coyotes sholder patch will look like when it happens:

In a nutshell, I think they will just replace the "PHX", the abbreviation for Phoenix with "AZ", the abbreviation for Arizona.

On to the concepts...I have on ECHL concept and my two entries to HJC's NHL expansion competition which it in the voting stage right now. I don't have time to explain them so I encourage you guys to leave your thoughts and feedback in the comments section!

Here they are:

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

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?

A Sunday Post

So the start of the NHL season was supposed to be this weekend. I hope everyone is finding ways to get their hockey fix or found other things to do to supplement the extra time. For me, I have the Connecticut Whale. I went to their home/season opener on Friday against the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. The Whale had a strong first period but epically broke down in the second period giving up five goals. The highlights of the game were Kris Newbury had two goals, Rangers playoff hero from last season, Chris Kreider notched his first regular season pro point and recently signed NHL vet and former Ranger/Lightning/Senator, Matt Gilroy notched a point.

Anyway, it's been another slow week for me with hammering out concepts but I have a cuple to share with you today. So let's get to them.

 Originally, this Whalers concept was planned to be my entry into HJC's Whalers redesign comp. But I had a hard time making a matching home jersey look good. So this is now a theoretical alternate.

For this senators concept, I tried to give them a traditional looking set while giving a nod to their original jerseys and also a nod to the original Ottawa Senators. **I do realize that I had spelled "Ottawa" wrong**


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That's it for today. not sure when another post will be up but keep checking back and always feel free to leave your feedback on any of these or past concepts!

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.

Also, if you're on Facebook, "Like" the SMC Facebook page. I post when blog posts are posted and some uniform news from around the hockey world and the occasional story from other sports.

Possible NHL13 Jersy Leaks and Some Concepts Too

Hey guys! So yesterday I finally got my hands on NHL13 and while looking at the jersey combos for the AHL teams I stumbled upon some jerseys i've never seen before and here they are:

 



As you can see, the Springfield Falcons, Toronto Marlies and the Worchester Sharks seem to have new jerseys for this coming season. The Falcons are using a jersey similar to the road uniform of the Tri-City Americans(WHL) with their Springfield Indians inspired alternate logo that they have been using as their center ice logo the last two seasons. While the Marlies and the Sharks are going with the uniforms of their parent clubs. In fact, sportslogos.net confirmed on their twitter page this week that the Marlies will have new jerseys this year. So maybe these are them? I guess we will find out when these teams open their seasons on October 12th.

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Ok, now onto a cuple of concepts...

 

 

New York Rangers Concept

 

For some reason the other day and idea popped into my head with the Rangers' liberty logo on the Kitchener Rangers' alternate. All I have to say is that it looked better in my head...

 

Sarnia Sting Concept

 

Here I added hem stripes to the Sting's alternate from the past two seasons and made a matching home white to make a new set for them.







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.