New Wild Jersey Review & My Sharks Fix

Photo: Minnesota Wild

Yesterday, after about a week of releasing teaser images, the Minnesota Wild finally unveiled their long awaited new road threads! My first reaction to the jersey was "YES!!!". I have ZERO complaints about this jersey! Everything about is screams hockey and very traditional, which I like, and modern at the same time. Also a good move by the Wild using true white as opposed to the wheat or "vintage white" that's used on their 3rd jersey. The square yoke fits perfectly and the use of their circle logo as a shoulder patch is great! It's better suited as a shoulder patch in my opinion. This jersey easily ranks up to one of my favorite in the league!

So after the unveiling, I'm sure a lot of Wild fans and most of us, if not all, jersey geeks thought about the Wild promoting their third jersey as their primary home jersey. I for one think it would be a great idea, but the exact jersey used now isn't exactly strong enough to match up with the new white jersey as a home jersey in my honest opinion. So I made a quick mockup of the changes I would make to bring it up to par.

The first big change right off the bat is the change from the wheat white in favor of true white. I just makes the jersey look cleaner. The second change is the addition of red to the collar & numbers to match the new road jersey. it's just enough red to contrast with the green but not overdoing it. I have also removed the wordmark in favor of the their primary logo as well as adding the shoulder patches and also switching the template to the same one used for the road jersey. I've also narrowed the thick stripes a little.

So as I've said, the Wild's new road jersey is definitely one of my favorite jerseys in the NHL..

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In the last post, albeit a hectic one, I reviewed the San Jose Sharks' new jerseys. Now here's how i would go about fixing them to make them more appealing..

Look, hem stripes! how hard was it to add them? They really don't add an more weight to the jersey which is why they eliminated them.. I've also fully removed orange from the jersey. Either have both orange stripes, or none at all! I know a lot of you are gonna hate me for keeping the chest number, but I actually like them. On a Sharks jersey that is.

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That's all I've got for today's post! Hope you enjoyed it!

-Scott

 

Sharks Review & Wolf Pack Revisited

What's happening everyone?

Since the Stars and Hurricanes jersey unveiling's earlier in the off-season, not much has happened jersey wise in the hockey world. But in the last week or so we've seen the AHL's Providence Bruins update their jersey lineup without a white home jersey but with a yellow one, and the San Jose Sharks finally unveiling their updated threads. Today, I will share my thoughts on the Sharks' new jerseys.

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 Earlier in the week, the Sharks shared teaser videos on Instagram over a couple of days with the hashtag "#NewWave" to promote the jersey unveilling's. What they showed on those seconds long videos were the elimination of some orange and the elimination of the colored shoulder yoke. And what they showed was basically all there is to the new jerseys...

Diagram from the Sharks' Website

Not much to talk about here... Just that the jerseys look empty with the elimination of the hem stripes, ONE orange stripes on the arms and no shoulder yoke. They did add collar laces which I like. If I had to pick my favorite of the two, I would probably choose the white jersey..

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Now a while back I posted a Hartford Wolf Pack concept with striping based off their sock striping that was used before being rebranded in 2010. Today I have another idea of what they should wear.

I merged two different eras into one set. The jersey design itself is an edgeified version of their inaugural jerseys, which were the Rangers' liberty jerseys with Wolf Pack logos, and the name/number font they used from 2008-09 until they were rebranded.

Here are full body mockups of the uniforms.

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I apologize if the post looks a little crazy as I threw it together as I was writing it..

 

Well, that's it for today!

 

-Scott