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By Phil Hecken, with Hockey Wing President Teebz, as good as Pollster James T. Huening

So we incited upon Versus the alternative day, hoping may be theyd be broadcasting the Grey Cup or maybe the small college football, or even the small bull riding, as good as what to my wondering eyes should appear? Hockey! we didnt even realize they still played anymore, most reduction had the national TV contract, though lo as good as behold, there they were. But something was off the single of the teams (does it unequivocally matter which?) was wearing the sweater Id never seen before. So, we rught away dialed up the Hockey Wing President, Teebz, to give me the run down. Oh yeah, they still fool around hockey, slapnuts, he began, as good as the small of the teams have brand brand brand brand new third jerseys this year. Dont we recollect the posts final year about the swap jerseys? Shaking off the cobwebs, we did in actuality stop something to which effect. So we pronounced to myself: Self. We have to take the demeanour during the brand brand brand brand new thirds. In fact, we gotta see what the readers cruise of them as good even final years efforts.

So, we chosen Teebz as good as my buddy as good as UW pollster James Huening to craft this post, in which Teebz will describe the brand brand brand brand new sweaters as good as afterwards youll be asked to rate them, most as we did in the NFL Uniform Polls. Some of them have been pretty sweet, the small have been kind of meh, as good as others will have we say, what were they thinking. Being which opinions have been myriad, we suspicion youd similar to to arrange them. Without serve ado, then, we move we Pollster James, as good as the Chancellor of Canuckistan, Teebz, wholl let we bear declare to the finish inventory of NHL third jerseys. Were gonna give we dual chances to vote, both! before to as good as after the preview. James?

Here we have been once again asking for we to answer the survey. The format this time around is identical to the surveys we did for the NFL uniforms. Wed similar to we to give each NHL third/alternate unvaried the rating from 0 (terrible) to 5 (outstanding). Wed additionally similar to to know which the single we cruise is the many appropriate as good as which the single we cruise is the worst. There is the bit of the twist this time. Please let us know your overall view of the NHLs swap uniforms.

OK, right away which weve gotten which out of the way, we can get upon with it already. So during this time, Ill spin things over to the Hockey Blogger in Canada (and unaccepted president of the Uni Watch Hockey Wing) himself. Heres Teebz:

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NHL Thirds
by Teebz

Atlanta: Georgia is football country, as good as the Thrashers have been trying to blend in.

Boston: the initial as good as delegate logos barter places as the Bruins stay in black.

Buffalo: Buffalo opts to go with their retro demeanour with required gray armpit fabric.

Carolina: Carolina opts for black, as good as moves their delegate trademark to the chest. The initial trademark goes invisible upon the shoulder. No reason given as to given they have use of the tropical storm flag.

Chicago: The Blackhawks move behind their popular Winter Classic demeanour with an combined delegate trademark upon the shoulder. Officially, Dustin Byfuglien is wearing the Reebok logo.

Colorado: The Avalanche go baby blue as good as erratic with the states name. Apparently, the Avalanche want to be glaciers.

Dallas: The Stars additionally adopt the football demeanour with their alternate, assisting to have the state of Texas proud.

Edmonton: The Oilers move behind the colours they wore when Gretzky & Co. were the vital partial of The City of Champions.

Florida: Florida incorporates the baby blue in to their jerseys, as good as simplifies while m! odernize s the panther in their logo. Shoulder trademark has been updated so comparison citizens as good as Canadian snowbirds arent fearful of the evil panther. Milk cartons opposite Miami ask what happened to red.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles returns to the black-and-silver, though not this black-and-silver. The trademark is brand-new, though somewhat irregular as to given it looks similar to the pencil.

Minnesota: The Wild motionless to go with the scripted name opposite their chests. No reason given as to given their current initial trademark is absent. The Wild move behind the immature jersey.

Nashville: The Predators go black-and-blue with their swap jersey. Checkerboard patterns upon the shoulder trademark as good as the hem ribbon honour Nashvilles rich motorsports history. Nashville altered their font to something some-more basic.

New York Islanders: The Islanders debuted their brand brand brand brand new swap jerseys this season. You know we had to work the Fisherman in there! In all seriousness, the Islanders have stranded with their retro look, as good as will be wearing them all deteriorate starting in 2010-11.

Ottawa: The Senators go black as good as have been wearing their nickname proudly. Because the Ottawa Sens have been the heck of the hockey club.

Philadelphia: The Flyers essentially did good by maintaining the trend. The Flyers substituted final years swap jersey with their home jersey, making the black jersey their swap for this season. Dan Carcillo is distant as good excited about this.

Phoenix: The Coyotes went for the black jersey with the leaping coyote upon their chests. The shoulder trademark upon the left side is the paw imitation rather than their initial trademark as they have upon the right side. How many logos can the single group wear?

Pittsburgh: The Penguins continue to wear their Winter Classic jerseys as their swap jerseys. Rumour has it which this jersey will be late after this deteriorate in foster of the brand brand brand brand n! ew swap design.

San Jose: The Sharks adore their black swap jerseys featuring the SJ shoulder logo. Just so we attract the animal lovers out there, this is the black shark, known by the Latin name labeo Chrysophekadion. It is routinely found in freshwater aquariums as good as is utterly docile. Its additionally the member of the carp family. Ergo, ladies as good as gentlemen, here is the school of San Jose Carps.

St. Louis: St. Louis goes the small darker in their swap uniform. The chest trademark incorporates which famous St. Louis landmark.

Tampa Bay: The Lightning, similar to their expansion cousins in Ottawa, motionless to put their nickname prominently opposite their chests. The Tampa Bay Bolts additionally longed for to be different, so they put the citys name upon the hem. So when the players lay down, Tampa Bay is seeking right up someones well, we know.

Toronto: The Maple Leafs brought behind the old-style Leafs jersey as their alternate. Its as good bad which the Leafs have been personification similar to the Maple Leafs of the mid-1980s instead of the Maple Leafs of the 1950s.

Vancouver: The Canucks went retro as well, keeping the stick-in-rink alternate. Yes, it has been altered slightly, though the still improved than the small of the alternative options. Much better.

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Thank we James as good as Teebz! Excellent rundown. But were not finished nonetheless right away which youve seen the thirds, we need we to opinion upon them. Yeah, we posted the link to the check above, though which was before to Teebz shabby your vote. So, if we havent already finished so, greatfully

Vote For The NHL Thirds

Well tally the votes as good as be behind with the results real soon. Thanks!

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Got the small contest for we all today. With the Uni Watch Winter Classic no longer the viable name for the J! an 22-24 , 2010 event many of us have been in attendance utterly simply, the tenure Winter Classic is the tenure being used for the NHLs New Years Day hockey diversion we need we to come up with something so goodso cleverit can unequivocally both describe as good as the events of the week end as good as the suggestion of Uni Watch. Basically, the aphorism were seeking for contingency pass Pauls Is It Good or Is It Stupid test. Winter Classic is the fail not given the innately foolish though given the utterly unoriginal.

So, if we scroll down to the second item in this post, the the single where it says Winter Classic Update, youll get an suspicion of the events being planned for the weekend. Not usually will there be the Pond Hockey Championships, which Paul will be covering for ESPN (and many of us will be attending), though there have been several alternative activities (including, of course, the Gathering for all Uni Watchers), in which we can all partake. Use this as your guide for the slogan.

Post your suggestions in the comments below. If we can come up with the clever sufficient aphorism good cruise about the trademark contest, presumably to be put upon the small t-shirts for everybody who makes the trek. Give it your many appropriate shot, Uni Watchers were counting upon we as good as we hope to see we there.

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Back with some-more NFL tweaks/revisions/concepts from we guys today. Great things ahead. Keep promulgation them my way.

We proceed right away with Brad Keppler, who has three teams hes supposing revisions to: Seahawks, Bills as good as Panthers. Heres Brad:

With the brand brand new flurry of NFL uniforms tweaks, we motionless to have my own chronicle of the team. I, similar to many of the uniwatch world, am an aged school guy. we cite classical traditional looks over the complicated bumper sticker approach. S! o i narr owed my preference down to what i cruise the worst uniforms in the NFL. The Vikings, Bengals, Seahawks, Bills, as good as Cardinals.

I fast realized which all the Vikings need to do to fix their monstrosities, is revert behind to the Cris Carter epoch uniforms, both home as good as away. by we do so, they have instantly gone from seeking similar to energy rangers to the professional football team. complaint solved.

Being the Steeler fan myself, partial of me enjoys the actuality which Cincinnati looks similar to an low category locus football group with the halloween tough on. So we didnt unequivocally want to assistance them out.

The Bills have been an additional group which could be fixed by reverting to an older uniform. we privately similar to the juices era.

So it comes down to the Seahawks as good as the Cardinals. we motionless to redesign the Seahawks given i felt the colors as good as trademark would present the good challenge. Here is what we came up with.

I went behind to the china steel sheet with the updated meant seahawk logo. we regularly desired the seahawk sleeve stripes they had behind in the aged days. we suspicion Id move those behind with the updated logo. we essentially dont m ind the electric orange immature as prolonged as it is used appropriately. Obviously the orange immature jersey is out of the question. But we feel it unequivocally pops as an accent upon the sleeves, collar, as good as pants. The doctrine here Seattle is Less is More. Addition by subtraction in my mind. Hope we all can agree with me.

Thanks,

Brad

Brad additionally sent along his judgment for the Carolina Panthers.

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Next up is Rafael Ortiz-Torrez, who has the small engaging concepts for the Miami Dolphins:

Mr. Hecken

First of all, we would similar to to thank we for together with my New Orleans Saints Tweak in the Nov 23 set.

This is my suspicion for the Miami Dolphins concept

Logo: The same with the few alterations; m! any of t he army is transposed with aqua, while the small is transposed with white.

Wordmarks: Current script, altering it to loosely base it off the classical Dolphins scripts of the 70s, 80s as good as early 90s.

Helmet: army stripes have been transposed with white; aqua facemask stays.

Uniforms: Arm stripes have been formed off the late 70s-early 80s Dolphins jerseys. Wordmarks have been upon the jerseys (see upon top of for wordmarks). Only white pants with the coral-aqua-coral ribbon would be used.

Numerals: Simple, nonetheless somewhat unique, thin block numerals with the thick coral outline, loosley formed off the early 70s Dolphins uniforms.

Again, thank you, Mr, Hecken

Ralph

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Moving along we have Kieran Chapman, who was intrigued by my brand brand new post about apropos opposite the classical NFL unis, as good as who motionless hed do usually that, with the Colts as good as the Bears:

Chicago they right away have use of the good desired classical demeanour which is virtually unvaried given the 1950s. While we have no complaint with the look, we couldnt assistance though consternation what they competence demeanour similar to with the complicated twist. we have altered the home jersey to orange with Navy numbers (as they had in the 30s) as good as interconnected it with army pants as we am the fan of matching Helmet/pant as good as jersey/sock combinations. we have additionally combined the ribbon to the steel sheet (to match the pant stripe) as good as altered the facemask to orange to supplement the small colour. You will note which there is very small white, which is conscious for no reason alternative than the the bit different!

The road jersey is white with orange numbers summarized in army as good as the swap is an all army demeanour (which Im guessing youll hate!) with lots of orange. On all jersies, we have combined CHICAGO to the chest rather than bears, as the city is so loyal to the franchise, we suspicion they deserved the menti! on! In a n preferred world, we would have the graphical expertise to supplement GSH to the sleeve. we additionally suspicion the three stripes upon the sleeve could remain, in the form of the bear claw-mark /slash type thing. Again, beyond my capability to show here, though it was an idea.

Colts again the group which dont unequivocally need changing, though what if they did. we motionless to supplement an additional colour to their outfits as good as chose yellow (or gold!) as we am such the large fan of the aged Rams outfit which was ragged once this deteriorate opposite the Vikes. So the home outfit is fundamentally the same as right away though with the small yellow accents together with the yellow facemask as good as 2 yellow stripes upon the helmet.

The road outfit facilities the blue Helmet (so we can hang with my matching pants/helmet suspicion we have no suspicion if thats authorised in the NFL or not, though hey this is my game!!) once the blue pants were in place as good as again facilities yellow highlights. And finally, adding the third colour to their demeanour gives range for an swap yellow jersey with blue highlights!

Thanks for receiving the time to review this! Let me know what we cruise as good as keep up the good column.

Cheers, Kieran.

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And subsequent is Ryan Van Buskirk, who has his own ideas upon how to improve the Patriots:

I was messing around with the patriots unis, before to this deteriorate (by the approach adore throwbacks) we was meditative they should embankment the dirty gray alternates as good as go with the red alternate. Well, they did embankment the gray, though word is the brand brand brand brand new swap is the throwback. So we messed around (using MS Paint sorry) with the unis, the single with Blue Striping/Pants, as good as the away socks, though which may be looks as good most similar to the texans :)

The second one, is with gray stripes/pants, as good as usually for kicks the reversion socks. Would adore to listen! to feed back upon it. Again, contemptible for the crappy MS Paint job.

Ryan Van Buskirk.

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And circuitous it up for right away is Joshua Bennett, who admits what youre about to see have been not his actual designs, though have been designs he found as good as longed for to share. we was the small not good with words about together with these, though given there have been the small engaging concepts to be found, we said, what the hell. Heres Josh:

Hi Phil, prolonged time reader, initial time contributer. we DID NOT CREATE THESE, though i longed for to share them with the uniwatch community. On the site called football-freaks.com, where people have updates as good as mods for the Personal Computer chronicle of Madden, the user named anthonyjh7 posted what he calls brand brand brand brand new age unis. There aresome hits as good as misses, though they have been all vry interesting. Included is the home/away for all the teams, as good as any alternates which were included. Thank for reading, as good as we as good as Paul keep up the good work!
-Josh

Rather than post all 82 (!) designs individually, Ive put them in to the flickr album for your amusement. Enjoy!

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Thats all for today. Thanks to everybody who contributed, as good as there have been still some-more to come. Keep promulgation them my way.

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Ricks behind with the brand brand brand brand new strip for we all, which Ill have him intro is the sec. Hey Ricko, is which Ozzie during the bar? Heres Mr. Pearson:

In World OBenchies everybody has story. And, strangely enough, everybody seems to have an ex, too. Go figure.

Enjoy your Saturday Benchies.

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Guess The Game From The Scoreboard! : Jumpin g from the solid as good as the gridion right away to the hardwood. This unequivocally shouldnt be terribly difficult, though the the change of pace, as good as may be the spirit to send the small some-more (and some-more difficult) of these my way. Im not certain if there exists the box measure for this per se, though we can positively find something which indicates the date, location, teams as good as final score. Ready? Guess The Game From The Scoreboard. And, as always, if we enjoy the game, greatfully send me the small brand brand brand brand new scoreboards! Drop me the line. Thanks!

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Army & Navy will meet right away in their 110th matchup, during 2:30 EST during Lincoln Financial Field in Philly. Last years diversion valid to be utterly an engaging unvaried matchup, with both teams being given in Nike Enforcer uniforms. Will they both enclose Pro Combat unis today? In this instance, such vernacular competence essentially have sense. Bill the Goat has had the motionless on-field value over the mules, receiving the past 7 games. Even though conjunction group is only the football powerhouse any more (although in 1944 & 1945 both teams were ranked #1 & #2 respectively), the diversion has sufficient convention to aver being almost the Bowl game. From the beginning days, as good as up through the 1950s, the uniforms have regularly been classical well, until final year anyway. Will they wear something singular again today? Guess good usually have to watch to find out. (Thanks to Larry Bodnovich for those pleasing color pics).

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Anybody have any seductiveness in those NCAA Bowl Game pools which appear to be gaining popularity these days? You guys know how Vince r! uns the annual NC2A Tourney Pool for Basketball? This is kinda sorta the same thing, usually for football. They pretty most work the same way, usually opposite we simply collect the winners of each bowl. If so, as good as we know how to set these arrange of things up, drop me the line. In the comments below, simply mention if we have any seductiveness in the mini-contest as good as we can get it set up in time for the Bowl games. If theres interest, good do itif not, wellwe wont. Its which simple. Thanks.

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Well, there we have it. Remember come up with the good aphorism for the Uni Watch Winter Classic Uni Watch (fill in the blank) thing with the pond hockey as good as gathering as good as sports as good as unis as good as good lots of good stuff. And let me know if we have seductiveness in the Bowl contest. And of course, thanks to Teebz as good as JTH for assistance with the NHL third jersey descriptions as good as poll. DONT FORGET TO VOTE. Good things entrance tomorrow too. we was planning upon receiving an indefinite break from the column to concentration upon apropos the improved husband, father as good as personbut we guess Ill usually be behind tomorrow instead.

Everyone have the illusory Saturday.

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