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Originally Posted by Hi-Psi
I like the flags as well, gives it a European feel.
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Originally Posted by The Swedish Flame
...it does?
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Yeah, it sort of does. Kind of reminds you of those horrible European uniforms with advertising plastered all over them.
This clearly is the aesthetic of the future. Nothing looks better than to have every inch of a player's body covered with commercial graffiti, in as many unrelated styles and colours as possible — including tattoos on the visible parts of his body. Hell, you could sell ads on a player's grill, if hockey players had teeth.
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Originally Posted by Howie_16
This is the main reason why I am pro flag. I also like how the blue contrasts the red of the jersey. We do need to lose the piping and pant stripes though.
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The word you are looking for is 'clashes'. Blue and red clash when placed side by side. This has been against the laws of heraldry for around 1,000 years. Which means that people in the Dark Ages who knew nothing about nothing, still knew that putting blue next to red is a lousy idea.
However, I agree about the piping and pant stripes. I forget who it was on CP that said the result looks like the Bavarian bobsled team, but I agree with that 100%.
Between the diagonal stripes ('podium' for the C) in the early 1990s, the Flaming Snot Horse in the late 90's, and the Bavarian Bobsled Team vertical stripes of the 2000's, the Flames have shown some of the worst aesthetic sense ever seen in the NHL. Yeah, the Islanders had those horrible Gorton's Fisherman jerseys with the wavy stripes and distorted lettering, but they learned their lesson and got rid of them fast. The Flames never seem to learn. They can't even be ugly in an original way.