0333: How Minnesota Was Meant to Look
If Minnesota can't have the North Stars back, perhaps they can at least have their jerseys back. Ted Noakes has revamped the Wild to look like their state's NHL predecessor. I'd call it a win.
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If Minnesota can't have the North Stars back, perhaps they can at least have their jerseys back. Ted Noakes has revamped the Wild to look like their state's NHL predecessor. I'd call it a win.
We're kicking off the new year with a new look for the Minnesota Wild from Bradley Blashko. The Wild are currently looking at a redesign for their road uniform. But I'm with Bradley in wanting to see the home sweater go back to green. As for the wheat-colored road jersey, I'm not sold quite yet.
Looks like Santa decided that more of you were nice than naughty this year because he's delivered not one but 10 new concepts today! First up is a Seattle Metropolitans design by Wicky Turton. Hm, it's very... red and green. Maybe Santa had a certain theme in mind for today.
Nick Burton would like to see the Red Wings in a red jersey similar to their 2009 Winter Classic threads. It's a pretty sharp look!
The "Big Guy" definitely likes his green and red. Colin May imagines a brighter palette for the Dallas Stars. It's not bad even if he is sticking to the wordmark crest.
Joseph Loretz offers up an elegant fix for the Carolina Hurricanes' flag problem. The club's secondary logo portrays a single red flag with a black square in the middle, which typically refers to a tropical storm. A hurricane is generally represented by two of those flags. However, the swirling winds behind the H in Joseph's logo would appear to be rotating clockwise — which only happens in the southern hemisphere. Oops.
Back to green again. This time it's Chance Waddell (of our ongoing Winter Classic fauxback series) with a sharp sweater for the Canucks. They should just adopt this as their third jersey immediately. In fact, why haven't they already?
Another Original Six team gets a look here on Christmas Day from Wade Herrmann. Again, I'm a big fan! For whatever reason, I really like the black and white logo on the mostly red sweater. Sometimes I think it's too bad NHL teams don't do more one-off sweaters like they do in the minors. (Though most of the time, I'm grateful for that.)
Guess Santa couldn't find anymore green teams, so we're back to the Stars — but this time in a much darker palette as designed by Kevin Dion. In fact, it's actually too dark. On TV, this uniform would look solid black from head to toe. The idea isn't bad, it just needs brighter colors and more contrast.
I believe Icethetics is breaking new ground today. This may be the first bit of concept art ever posted from a female designer. Gotta be honest. I don't think many of them are that interested in designing fake hockey sweaters. But kudos to Christine Adams on her new look for Team Canada.
Oh wait, there was one more team with green. And they also have red. Bryan Dyck probably didn't intend for his set to have that Christmas-y look, but it kind of does anyway. Or maybe it's just me. Or Santa.
We'll wrap things up here with our 10th concept of the day. Ryan Yuck gives us this very red Devils jersey. Filling in the white area in the Devils' logo gives it a whole new look somehow. It's really interesting — as were all of today's jerseys. Which was your favorite?
This is one of those outstanding concepts that you look at and wonder why the team isn't already using it. I wish I had an answer. All I know is that Justin Cox always submits top-notch work and I'm almost never disappointed by a green jersey. Win-win right there. One nice thing about this set is that for as much as the Wild get knocked for their "Christmas colors," this design really doesn't feel that way. Have to say, I'm a big fan.
I really don't think I need to say anything about this one. Josh Olson has created the ideal Freak Out Friday concept for the Minnesota Wild.
Dave Chenard wrote me to say he's tired of watching the Minnesota Wild wear Christmas colors all season. So he gave them a new look free of red. And to simplify the color scheme even more, he mixed the wheat and gold to form a goldish-wheat color to go with the green. It sort of has that North Stars feel — not sure if that was intentional. I think it works. But then again, I've never had a problem with the so-called Christmas colors they currently wear.
The recent addition of Zach Parise to the Minnesota Wild's roster got Michael Baumann thinking about new jersey design ideas. And it's just in time too. This is the first time we've seen the Wild since the Concepts page got a reboot. He's got a set of four sweaters here. Which one is your favorite?