IceHL Jersey: From Fantasy to Reality
Friday · Oct 26 · 2012 | 12:53 AM PDT
Today I'm thrilled to announce that for the first time ever, you can place an order for an Icethetics-branded product — and it's all thanks to our new friends at RinkGear!
Over the last several weeks, we've been conducting a series of polls to determine the most popular IceHL jersey design. And as you can see, the winner was the Milwaukee Lagers. And as of now, RinkGear is accepting pre-orders for this jersey!
If you're new to this party, the IceHL is a fantasy hockey league created from the by the Icethetics community, who wanted a creative avenue to fully brand a group of hockey teams from the ground up. And we did. The project began in 2008 and hundreds of polls have been conducted along the way to make sure the community is driving the decisions. For more on The IceHL Project, download the Yearbook.
The Milwaukee Lagers logos were designed by Joshua Frederick and the jersey was assembled by Matt Madore. Congratulations to these guys on seeing their work go from a computer screen to the real deal!
The Lagers sweater is being sold as part of RinkGear's Geeky Jerseys line and costs $95 — customization included. As far as the quality you can expect, here's what the company promises:
Your handmade jersey will feature high quality embroidered front, shoulder, and IceHL chest crests, lace-up neck, digitally sublimated stripes, plus a custom cut and sewn name and number of your choosing.
I have yet to see a RinkGear jersey for myself, but from everything I've read, they have a lot of satisfied customers. And the fact that this sweater features an embroidered crest and shoulder patches says a lot. Sounds to me like quality matters to them.
Obviously, the Lagers jersey was popular with voters but so were a lot of other IceHL designs! So if you're hoping to see another one go into production, place your Lagers order now. RinkGear will consider doing more IceHL jerseys depending on how this one sells. If it's a success, there will be more. And for my part, I'd like to own a North Carolina Nighthawks jersey!
By the way, for all you fantasy geeks, check out The IceHL page for weekly league updates. Listen, just because there's no NHL doesn't mean there's no fantasy hockey. The IceHL is currently in action and being powered by AHLers instead. (But of course we're keeping our fingers crossed that the NHL resumes soon.) You can follow along this season right here on Icethetics all year long!
Reader Comments (11)
This looks really nice. I am defenetly gonna get one, if the shipping fee towards europe isnt to costly...
Is there a possibility, that we could see other jerseys in the same format. I think they look a bit different when you picture them with the sleeves hanging down at the side. Would be nice to see how other jerseys look that way ;-)
Do you know how long the pre-sale will be? I need to get paid before I can order and I REALLY want one of these
Molgera: This is RinkGear's template for jerseys, so if we want to see more of them this way, they'll have to sell more. Otherwise, it would be up to an industrious concept artist to take that on.
Derek: Pre-orders will be taken through mid-November. That's about 3 weeks.
So, any discount for IceHL GMs or AGMs?
Burmy: Sorry, no. RinkGear sets the pricing.
Can't decide what name/number I should get on the back - any thoughts?
woah woah woah, you guys are making real gear from your league??
Please make anything NY Guardians or Quebec Armada next!!
shut up and take my money.jpg
Wow. That is pretty sweet.
Is this what we're getting instead of the Icethetics jersey contest that flopped?
For now. As I've said, I wasn't impressed by the entries for the Icethetics Jersey Contest. We'll try it again some time in the future.
I'm curious to see how bad they were.