Monday: Time machine

Hey guys. Monday's normally a downer, and pretty dreary, but with it being the only full day of school that I have this week it's pretty good. If you think of that one day and a half as a whole week, Hump day should be at about 6th period. Well this long Thanksgiving break should give me time to work on some concepts and it will be nice to do so.

On the exact opposite side of things, my HCIHL team, the Altoona Express, lost by about 40 some points, and it was truly a slow, long week. Here are the scores of week 8 of the HCIHL.

London Sabreswords 152.8 - Altoona Express 113.7
Skopje Lisici 163.4 - Evansville Rivermen 137.8
Louisville Lynx 153.4 - Hamilton Stags 122.1

Well as you can tell in the scores, it was upset week. In every match, the team with the worse record won! Oh, yeah that kinda sucks for me...
In other news the Stags first defeat was a nice thing to watch, with the team with only one win beating the undefeated team. Good job for the Lynx!

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Colorado Avalanche (Alan Herbert)

Our first stop on todays timemachine, 2011 where Alan shows us how the team from the Mile High City should look. Their current jerseys are truly an edge mess, with piping wherever it can fit, and quite boring. I like this because it builds off both looks of the franchise the current, and the obviously better pre-edge look. This jersey looks good, but I think I bit more mountain look make "good", "great". Right now I don't like how the smooth yoke transitions into the "choppy" mountain striping. I'd make the whole extended yoke mountainous, myself, but it probably looks fine either way. Also TV number always add to a concept. Concept Rating: 8.3/10

Ottawa Senators (3rd? Stadium Series?) (Brian B.)

First, Caden didn't tell me what type of jersey this was supposed to be, so that info is always helpful on the concept (or e-mail for that matter). 

Now the time machine is stopping in the time when Alfredsson played on the Sens. The jersey is very cluttered, with the chest stripe, and full hem striping, combined with the laurel leaf pattern, and large arm striping. The logo looks very 30's and thats good for a throwback concept, in fact the team (if they were around at the time) probably could have played in sweaters like these. But today has completely different standards than back then, so making the jersey less complicated could go a long way. I'd start with taking the chest stripe out, then as a touch up, add the laurel leaf pattern to the cuffs of the jersey. To really go with a throwback look, put the sweater collar on the jersey. Concept Rating: 7.5/10

San Jose Sharks 4th Jersey (Steve M.)

Steve brings us to the last stop on our time machine ride today, and it's with the Hertl era of San Jose. I'm normally not a fan of bringing grey back into the Sharks colors but a few concepts can get away with it, this being one of them. But this concept does need some fixes. One, add grey trim to the numbers. Two, (and the bigger of the two) make it unique! The Sharks original jerseys were almost the exact same thing as this! With a logo like that, a lot is achievable, maybe if you added gradient striping (in the logo) down the arms. Also, do something with the shoulder area, that also would look nice. Good jersey, just not that original. Concept Rating 7/10

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I don't have that much to say to finish out this post. Well other than, Thanks for reading, Bye! 

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Sunday With a New Writer

EDIT BY JAKE88:
For some reason Blogger will not send Justin an invite so I must post this for him. Note: All writing other than this edit is by Justin. Now to his post.

Hey guys, i’m Justin. The “mystery” guest writer that Caden mentioned

yesterday. I’ll be helping him and Jake here on HCI by posting on

Sundays and Wednesdays. I got into jersey concepts earlier this summer

after looking at HJC (hockey jersey concepts) and Icethetics. It also

got me into the actual jerseys and, therefore, I have a growing jersey

collection in my closet. In addition to jerseys and such, i’m an admin

on Hockey Memes on Facebook (facebook.com/hockeymemes101) show some

hockey love and give it a like.

BRIEF BIO: Let it be known that I am a HUGE Canucks fan, being from

the Vancouver area. I actually don’t live in Vancouver but in a suburb

called Abbotsford, yes, the home of the AHL’s Heat. I’ve just entered

the 9th grade and, because the Heat are in my town, i’m thinking of

having a volunteer “job” within their organization like stickboy,

waterboy, towelboy, music player, ice shoveler, goal horn player,

basically anything game-ops related. Anyhow, TO THE CONCEPTS.

Caden gave me specific instructions to review 3 jersey concepts. So

I’ve decided to review 2 of Jake’s jerseys and 1 of my own. (Sorry

Caden!)

Sibir Novosibirsk (KHL) by Jake88

What really catches me the first time I see this is how identical

these jerseys are to the 90s Winnipeg Jets jerseys. I managed to find

pictures of the club’s current jerseys, and Jake’s concept is nothing

but a bit of a tweak. I like the home coloured sleeves on the away

jersey and the addition of a bottom stripe on both jerseys. The

removal of the bottom stripe has butchered numerous jerseys over the

years. (i.e. Maple Leafs 07-10 unis). One suggestion I can make is

adding their primary “HC” logo to the jerseys on the front, if not, as

a shoulder patch. Their primary logo looks similar to the Lethbridge

Hurricanes logos, I must say. Final score: 9/10

CSKA Moscow (KHL) by Jake88

I have to say, what’s up with Jake and European teams? Most of his

concepts are from teams across the Atlantic. I’m thinking he dislikes

all those ads that make their jerseys cluttered and messy. Once again,

this jersey mimics the style of an NHL team, this time, the Montreal

Canadiens. Moscow’s real-life jerseys have the chest stripe move down

to the bottom of the jersey and the yokes are square. Jake moves the

chest stripe up, rounds the shoulder yokes and spaces out the thick

band between the little outer bands. My suggestion here is to add a

bottom stripe like what the Canadiens do. (Home jersey: one stripe,

half white, half blue. Away jersey: one stripe, one-third red, white

and blue) Final score: 8.5/10

2014 Heritage Classic (NHL) by ME.

This concept got a 9/10 rating and a “Concept-of-the-week” (COTW)

nomination over at HJC from the writer that reviewed it. Sadly, it

didn’t get enough votes to get onto the voting list. The jerseys are

recolored versions of jerseys worn previously by each team. The

Vancouver jersey is a blue version of their 40th Anniversary jerseys

from the 2010-11 season and the Ottawa jersey is a “heritage white”

version of their current alternates.

There it is, my first post on HCI and the 49th post overall on HCI.

Some quick “self-advertising”, don’t forget to check out my Facebook

page, Hockey Memes (facebook.com/hockeymemes101). Have a great rest of

your weekend guys, 50th post tomorrow!

-Justin

ONE MORE EDIT BY JAKE88: 
Can I just say how much easier it is to actually write the posts and not copy and paste. Yes, you heard me right. For some reason blogger wouldn't put the images in the right place so I had to go all HTML with it, and I'm not nearly as talented with that as some people. So bye and have a good rest of your day!