Monday: Problem Solved... Hopefully

As you can tell, we here at HCI have suffered another late/no post phase. We hope that this will be it in the phase and soon HCI will be back to normal. I'm happy to show everyone the HCIHL scores, since the Express won... AGAIN!

London Sabreswords 126.2 - Skopje Lisici 100.4
Altoona Express 100.7 - Louisville Lynx 97.3
Hamilton Stags 191.2 - Evansville Rivermen 183.2

Sadly our concepts section isn't as pleasing. Today we only one concept, so obviously we need more. Send yours into HockeyConceptIdeas@gmail.com now!

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Anaheim Ducks  (Dallas K.)

This is going to be hard. First, I'd definitely be in favor of the Ducks bringing those jerseys back, even with the edit you made to the arm stripe. I don't think the logo stands out enough, and recoloring the duck foot to work with this era is often a challenge to designers. I think Jade would work best here. For the record I've never liked that logo (on the alternate) and this only worsens it. Even the alternate jersey is a fright in it's self. First with sleeve numbers that low, they are worthless, you couldn't read them. Concept Rating (Normal Jerseys 7.2/10) (Alternate 4.5.10)

 

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That finishes our sad, one concept post for today. Until the next Monday, later....

Thursday .

Hey! Caden here to bring you guys todays post! My Team, The Evansville Icemen are 3-0 and tommorow we are playing another 3-0 team. I'm excited for that! No jersey news to report of so I will quickly say, To the concept!

Ducks/Kings Stadium Series Me

I made this concept for the stadium series LA game, Tell me what you think in the comments!


Unlike the Stags, The Louisville Lynx are 0-4 and not doing too well! I hope they can turn things around!

Had to write quick so, THANKSFORREADINGBYE!


Caden

Tuesday. "The first of many."

Hey guys! Caden here! You may have been wondering why my post is titled "The first of many". Well, since I won't be able to use the computer at all this week, I'm writing 3 prescheduled posts tonight. That means that you will all have the standard 2/3 concepts a day, but any jersey new will be left to Justin or Jake to report. You can also get the more detailed jersey articles on Icethetics. To the concepts!

Kolner Haie Jake88

 Jake88 brings us a Kolner Haie concept which is much better than what they currently wear.

Yay,

The yoke

The matching Arm/Hem stripes

The pants stripe

Nay,

The Black helmet with the away jersey

The weird glove colors. I would just have black and red.

Overall a solid concept which again is much better than there current set! A 9.8/10 from me!

Mighty Ducks (My first ever concept) Me

This was the first ever concept I made, and man! Back in my old days when is used NHLuniforms.com template. My skills have (somewhat) improved since then! I think I'm going to redo that on a Paint Users Paradise Template sometime soon! Tell me what you think! 

A quickly written post! Thanks for reading! 

Caden

Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Still Look Good!

Hey guys! Hope everyone watched the Ducks get a franchise record 54 shots on goal while wearing the franchise's first uniforms! To tell the truth, being a 13 year old and a Pens fan, I never got to see the Mighty Ducks uniforms in action, until last night, and can I say, THEY LOOK SPECTACULAR! The CCM designers that first thought them up must have been thinking "they (the jerseys) look amazing on Edge too; why did Reebok scrap them"? And other than the 90's logo, Reebok should have brought them into Edge. Also we can buy the jerseys at Shop.nhl.com, but not on the Edge template. Seriously, why would Reebok sell the jerseys on the CCM template rather than their own. Also to note, for some reason there is no 20th anniversary patch or any customization. 

In the HCIHL, the Altoona Express beat Skopje Lisici by a score of, 179.8 to 156.4. The Rivermen topped the Louisville Lynx 108.8 to 68.9, and lastly the Hamilton Stags scored 155.1 points to beat the London Sabreswords 155.1 to 144.1. Remember to keep up with the HCIHL here. On to the concepts!

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Charlottetown Islanders (Justin Sulpico)

To start off with this concept, I like the connection with the NHL's Islanders. The font, being the same as the Islanders, and the template too. I'm not sure if I like the gold font, but it doesn't look as bad as I thought it would. Of course there are execution errors, but whoever the HJC writer who reviewed this found them and told Justin them, so I won't mention them. I know that you didn't design the logo, but just my one problem with it since it came out, is that it uses an almost Arial like font in the top part of it. Concept Rating 7.8/10 (Execution errors, without execution errors a 8.5/10)

Anaheim (Mighty) Ducks (Justin Sulpico)

Sorry Justin, I CAN'T STAND THE OREGON STYLE WINGS! Those don't belong on a football jersey, much less a hockey jersey! I'd just add a shoulder patch myself. I like the stiping, but maybe to make the color balancing better, I'd make the cuffs on the white jersey black, and the wings (there has to be any) on the black jersey bronze or green. Concept Rating 7.4/10

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Bye guys, and I will see you soon!

Hates and Greats: Hates

Well since I really haven't been making that many concepts of late,and you guys haven't been sending in anything, I decided to do this, make a likes and dislikes list. First the credits

Logos and some jerseys Sportslogos.net

Some jerseys NHLuniforms.com

DISLIKES: JERSEYS

5. The "Flying V" Vancouver Canucks (1979-81)

Vancouver's original jerseys had a V in the striping. Wasn't this taking it to far?

4. The "Wild Wing" Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (1996)

The logo and the font explain it all. The rest of the jersey isn't that bad.

3. "Yellow Ice" Kalamazoo K-Wings (IHL) (2009)

From Icethetics

And this isn't embarrassing how? It's sad that they still this is the ECHL.

2. St. Louis Blues Unused Jersey St. Louis Blues (1996-97

From thefulleffect.wordpress.com

I am going to use the same line that the guy from the site mentioned above said. "OH GOD, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? SOMEBODY KILL IT WITH FIRE! Unused for a reason."

1. "Stormy Jersey" Tampa Bay Lightning (1996-99)

Sadly it can't be killed with fire... Don't worry we can find a way, Hahahaha goodbye worst jersey in Tampa Bay history. Seriously it makes the brush font look worse.

DISLIKES: LOGOS

5. Milwaukee Admirals "Skullhead" (2006-pres)

I love the color scheme, but with this comic book logo. It doesn't intimidate me at all, in fact I probably would hug it, does anyone want that.

4. "Vancouver Orcas" Vancouver Canucks (1997-pres)

Ok, ok this isn't that bad of a logo, but until I was about ten I thought a Canuck was a whale.

I know for a fact that Vancouver doesn't want that. And I'm sure I am not alone.

3. Kelowna Rockets (2000-pres)

How is this a logo today. I mean 90's. Someone make an update.

2. Kootenay Ice (1998-pres)

Another WHL logo, same comments apply.

1. Sapa Fehervar AV19 Erste Bank Hockey Liga (Austria) (2007-pres)

WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY! 

Likes will be on Saturday. Hey maybe Caden can do the same on Friday.