Saturday
Dec152012
0301: Waddell's Winter Classic, Part 6
Saturday · Dec 15 · 2012 | 9:00 AM PST
Our Winter Classic Weekends series continues to be brought to you by the Brothers Waddell. Chance and Jake have designed "fauxback" jerseys for all 30 NHL teams and week by week you guys are deciding which teams to see next. Last Saturday, Adam R. selected the Avalanche and Devils.
If you want to pick next week's teams, be the first to comment on this post!
Reader Comments (8)
sens and habs
Carolina and Washington
Sens and Jets
Having so many blatant Quebec references on the Avs sweater doesn't sit right with me. It probably probably would be a little better if those references were made more subtly (eg. without fler de lys). If you you just took those off, the striping colour/pattern would be an excellent nod back to Quebec, without trying to enforce a Quebecois cultural symbol upon the people of Colorado, and without rubbing it in Quebec's face that their team is gone.
I just don't really like the fleur-de-lis on the Avalanche jersey. They feel just out of place to me. Otherwise, I quite like it. The Devils uniform is good imo.
I really like the fleur-de-lis on the Avs jersey.... why did the Devils ever go away from Red and Green?... good stuff. Original North Stars vs Original Oakland Seals (teal and green)
In my opinion, the Avalanche concept should have been more influenced by the old Colorado Rockies (who are, ironically, the modern Devils). That design with the flag-themed mountain is quite underrated, I think, and it would say "Colorado" way more than the concept here, which is in all honesty 75% Nordiques. No complaints with the Devils one though, muting the colours and going from red to green is basically all the team's history allows for (unless, of course, the throwback is based on the old Rockies, but just as the Nordiques concept doesn't say "Colorado," neither would a Rockies-themed throwback say "New Jersey"). Not as good as last weeks, mostly because of the Avs' one.
Nordiques and Habs