[Editor’s note: I had originally planned on running the “Design An Ambulance” contest entries/finalist today, but the owner, Daniel Secord, threw out his back during the week and didn’t have …
Category: NHL
Meanwhile, Half a Mile From My House…
The Islanders unveiled their BFBS alts yesterday (further info and the alt uni schedule here). It pretty much conforms to the jersey leaks we’d seen earlier. A few notes: 1. …
The New NHL/Adidas Deal: What It Means for Uniforms
The NHL held a conference call yesterday to officially announce that Adidas will be taking over as the league’s uniform outfitter starting with the 2017-18 season and will also be …
Power Ranking the Canadian Cities
By Phil Hecken A couple weeks ago, Paul ranked the best dressed cities in American sports for ESPN. In the Uni Watch comments that day, it was suggested that a …
adidas Wins NHL Uni Contract: 3 Stripes & Ads Coming?
Concept by Ross Taylor By Phil Hecken The big uniform news yesterday wasn’t the unveiling of another college football uniform, or a jersey snafu, or any of the usual mid-August …
What? No Peyote Coyote?
[Click to enlarge] By Phil Hecken Yesterday evening, the Arizona Coyotes unveiled their new 2015-16 uniforms (other teams, like the Oilers, unveiled a new third, while the Columbus Blue Jackets, …
Hawks Uni Photos Posted Ahead of Today’s Unveiling
Click to enlarge Surprising development in Atlanta, where the Hawks are scheduled to unveil their uniforms today at 11am Eastern. Everything on this one had been on total lockdown, but …
Biggest Blackhawks Fan Can’t Wear Jersey This Year
What you see above is a 2013 photo of the brachiosaurus skeleton outside the Field Museum in Chicago, which was decked out with a Blackhawks jersey to support the team …
Pro Sports Fight Songs: NHL
[Editor’s Note: With the Stanley Cup Finals set to begin tomorrow, Mike Chamernik is back with the final installment of his pro team fight song round-ups ”” the NHL edition. …
Jim Vilk, Would You Wear This?
Click to enlarge As we all know by now, I care mostly about what players wear on the field, not fan merchandise. Every now and then, however, a merchandised product …
Painting Uniforms on Uniforms
Reader Douglas Ford recently alerted me to the work of an artist named Dan Stromme, who has an interesting specialty: He paints sports scenes on helmets and jerseys. Let’s start …
Uni Design Moves to Brave New Video World
In all the years that I’ve been running uniform design contests over on ESPN, nobody has ever submitted his or her design as a video — until now. When we …
Cross-Dressing Alert!
Interesting news last night out of St. Louis, where the Blues announced that they’ll be marking the start of the baseball season by wearing Cardinals jerseys for pregame warm-ups on …
The Return of the Peyote Coyote
The most audacious uniform in NHL history made its triumphant return to the ice last night, as the Coyotes wore “Peyote Coyote” throwbacks against the Canucks. I know what you’re …
An Interesting Night for Color-on-Color Games
Color-on-color fans — a group in which I include myself — enjoyed a rare NBA/NCAA daily double last night. On the pro level, in the final game before the all-star …