If I Had A Nickel...

... for every time ESPN screwed up something hockey-related, I could pay for Barry Melrose's hair products for a year.


The interview itself isn't awful, but the dome logo? Seriously?

Thanks to Breed16 on the tip.

New Logos And Jerseys Part IX

The Pens have unveiled their new jerseys, and while they're not quite as sleek as the new iPod Touch, I must admit, they're pretty sharp:

I am, however, disappointed that the jerseys that were leaked to us earlier turned out to be fakes:

New Logos And Jerseys Part VII

The Vancouver Canucks are the latest team to unveil their new duds, and here they are:


Nice colors, but waaaay too crowded for my tastes. Bottom line: if you're going to go with blue, green and white with a whale theme, do it right. Thoughts?

H/t to HFBoard poster ramirez_inc for the pics.

New Logos And Jerseys Part VI

CBC.ca has a video feature up on what to expect when the Maple Leafs reveal their new sweaters. Lose the shoulder patches, enlarge the logo, add some piping (in silver, no less!) and voilà...


... one of the League's best sweaters, ruined.

H/t to Novaron on the link

New Logos And Jerseys Part V

Ladies and gentlemen, the Tampa Bay Lightning's new threads:
Perhaps the strangest thing about the jerseys is this from Lightning.com:

"The road jersey will include a new feature, including the placement of each player’s number on the front right chest area. " [Emphasis added]

Only the roads will have front numbering? Odd, no?

New Logos And Jerseys Part IV

Here are the Sens' new threads. Read all about' em here.


Thoughts?

New Logos And Jerseys Part III

Thanks to Sean at Pop Jocks for forwarding this pic of the Isles' new threads:

Pretty awful, no? The orange arms make Rick DiPietro look like he's wearing a homemade tanktop after getting a bad spray tan (which, I suppose, is fitting for a team from Long Island).

Update: Check out the home jerseys here. Horrendous.

And here are black and white versions of what presumably will be the Senators' new primary and secondary logos, respectively (thanks, NHL Tournament of Logos, a very cool site for this kind of thing):

If they look familiar, the primary logo is a tweaked version of the Sens' current secondary logo and the secondary logo is an updated version of their current primary logo (nice shawl, Spartacus!).

Thoughts?

New Logos And Jerseys, Part II

Thanks to Kukla's Korner for pointing us to the Panthers' new duds, modeled here by Nathan Horton and Stephen Weiss:


As for new logos, Alanah at Canucks And Beyond has the rumored new 'Nucks logo, which appears to be nothing more than the old one (but not the cool old one) in blue and white:


Thoughts?

New Logos And Jerseys, Part I

The new logos and uniforms keep trickling in as the teams change over to the Reebok Edge Uniform System, and below are some of the latest.

First up, the new San Jose Sharks logo, featuring it's Japanimated shark:

Pretty cool, if you ask me, and they've got a whole host of alternate logos that you can check out here, including my personal favorite.

Then there's what's rumored to be the very-slightly-tweaked new Tampa Bay Lightning logo (for more, check 'em out at SeSo):

Nothing special (which is fitting), and almost imperceptibly different from the previous logos.

Finally, the Nashville Predators revealed their new threads:


Again, not much of a change, but man, could there be more piping?

So, what do you think?

The Logos That Might Have Been

Judging from the unscientific poll to the right, the overwhelming majority of you either like or love the Caps' new uniforms (due in large part, it would stand to reason, to the new logo). Regardless, all of us no doubt wonder what the losing candidates might have looked like.

Well, a little poking around at the Patent & Trademark Office website (killing time before my softball game - cut me some slack) reveals a couple of logo designs that were, at one time, registered to Lincoln Hockey (but likely not in the running this time around). For example, this mark was first registered back in 2000 and abandoned back in the summer of 2005:

Not horrible.

Then there's this one, also registered back in 2000 and abandoned at the end of 2004:

So while you may not love the new logo, maybe you should just be thankful that some of the previous ideas never made it onto a Caps sweater.

Change Is Here... Some Of It Permanent