The Ken King Jersey Discussion Thread

[haiku]

Originally Posted by Reign of Fire

Flags show lack of imagination and need to go

imagination
is what got us into this
butt-ugly thirds mess

[gargamel]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Been rumours for a while that they'll keep the current thirds as thirds and bring back the retro thirds as the new regulars. I'd support that 100%

Retro homes, retro aways and the current thirds? I'd support that 66.66%.

[$ven27]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Been rumours for a while that they'll keep the current thirds as thirds and bring back the retro thirds as the new regulars. I'd support that 100%

Source???

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Been rumours for a while that they'll keep the current thirds as thirds and bring back the retro thirds as the new regulars. I'd support that 100%

Are you just referring to Calgarypuck, though? Because to me that seems like the typical Calgarypuck rumour, where the idea gest tossed around here, and then later everyone just goes "it's been a rumour for awhile".

I've never seen any source on that anywhere, other than people discussing it here and then more people referring to the earlier calgarypuck discussion as "rumours".

[JonDuke]

Not sure how many of these have already been posted, btu I stumbled across this Flames redesign contest site today: http://www.hockeyjerseyconcepts.com/p/flames-comp.html

And here's some of the entries: http://s767.photobucket.com/user/Hoc...?sort=4&page=1

[Buff]

I took a look at all the concepts submitted to that contest. I'm glad this is just something that website is doing and nothing official from the Calgary Flames. Each and every concept submitted for that contest makes me absolutely love our current alternative jersey, which I don't hate, but I don't like.

[sec304]

I thought that list was very predictable, most of it was gonna be garbage and it is. And there's a couple that are good, and a couple that are obvious (like taking our current third, adding the C and making a white version)

[TjRhythmic]

I kind of liked this one. Kind of an updated version of the retros, modernized a bit. I would take the number of the front though

[normtwofinger]

Wow they are terrible. Hot garbage must be the prize.

[Zarley]

I prefer my concept to all of those.

[bc-chris]

i don't mind these - just make the red shoulders white on the white jersey

[Joborule]

I prefer the red shoulders on the white jersey. That's ideally what I would think new primaries would look like, or close to it.

EDIT: Don't like the white outline on the away C. Should be red and yellow only.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by $ven27

Source???

Originally Posted by flameswin

Are you just referring to Calgarypuck, though? Because to me that seems like the typical Calgarypuck rumour, where the idea gest tossed around here, and then later everyone just goes "it's been a rumour for awhile".

I've never seen any source on that anywhere, other than people discussing it here and then more people referring to the earlier calgarypuck discussion as "rumours".

No source, that's why I said rumours. If there was a source it wouldn't be just a rumour. Don't think I've ever read it on CP though

[playmaker]

Though I'm in favor of keeping a small amount of black on our jerseys (previously posted Bastian Schmulling's concept is my favorite) recently I've been playing with retro ideas for slight modifications if the Flames decide to go full retro. Here is a concept I created:





Notable changes:
* the red flaming C should be outlined the same way as it is on our current road jersey, yet using red instead of black. In order to unify the outlined look of the logo on both jerseys, the white flaming C would be quite a challenge to adapt but the red and yellow outline combo turned out to be good looking. Same for the numbers.
* Lettering - the goal was so that slighly italic and double outline numbers match the logo. As for the typeface itself, I've used the freeware 'New Athletic M54' font which IMHO combines the best of both worlds - sans-serif style from the original retro font and gently rounded corners from the new one.
* Squared off yokes are a bit contrversial but I found them perfectly fitting for Stars and Wild simplistic designs. It's one of those nice little modern touches I'd include, like them a lot.
* As for the shoulder patch, I was quite surprised when I photoshopped out the black because to me it looks sharper without it on both home and road uniforms

any thoughts ?

[steveo]

playmaker, those look fantastic! though one thought, maybe its just me but i'd add a bit of white to the collar of the red jersey not sure how that would look though.

[the_only_turek_fan]

Originally Posted by playmaker

Though I'm in favor of keeping a small amount of black on our jerseys (previously posted Bastian Schmulling's concept is my favorite) recently I've been playing with retro ideas for slight modifications if the Flames decide to go full retro. Here is a concept I created:





Notable changes:
* the red flaming C should be outlined the same way as it is on our current road jersey, yet using red instead of black. In order to unify the outlined look of the logo on both jerseys, the white flaming C would be quite a challenge to adapt but the red and yellow outline combo turned out to be good looking. Same for the numbers.
* Lettering - the goal was so that slighly italic and double outline numbers match the logo. As for the typeface itself, I've used the freeware 'New Athletic M54' font which IMHO combines the best of both worlds - sans-serif style from the original retro font and gently rounded corners from the new one.
* Squared off yokes are a bit contrversial but I found them perfectly fitting for Stars and Wild simplistic designs. It's one of those nice little modern touches I'd include, like them a lot.
* As for the shoulder patch, I was quite surprised when I photoshopped out the black because to me it looks sharper without it on both home and road uniforms

any thoughts ?

This may be the best concept ever come up with. I love the retro red, and the shoulder patch makes it more modern.

Very well done.

[Roof-Daddy]

Originally Posted by playmaker

Though I'm in favor of keeping a small amount of black on our jerseys (previously posted Bastian Schmulling's concept is my favorite) recently I've been playing with retro ideas for slight modifications if the Flames decide to go full retro. Here is a concept I created:





Notable changes:
* the red flaming C should be outlined the same way as it is on our current road jersey, yet using red instead of black. In order to unify the outlined look of the logo on both jerseys, the white flaming C would be quite a challenge to adapt but the red and yellow outline combo turned out to be good looking. Same for the numbers.
* Lettering - the goal was so that slighly italic and double outline numbers match the logo. As for the typeface itself, I've used the freeware 'New Athletic M54' font which IMHO combines the best of both worlds - sans-serif style from the original retro font and gently rounded corners from the new one.
* Squared off yokes are a bit contrversial but I found them perfectly fitting for Stars and Wild simplistic designs. It's one of those nice little modern touches I'd include, like them a lot.
* As for the shoulder patch, I was quite surprised when I photoshopped out the black because to me it looks sharper without it on both home and road uniforms

any thoughts ?

Beautiful. I'd love for these to be our mainstays as home/away jerseys.

Then have thirds where black is the primary color scheme, and some sort of alternate logo (no word marks).

[Coach]

Really like the design. Not a fan of the comic sans numbers, but other than that I like it.

[Freeway]

That's GORGEOUS.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Yeah, wow.

Lost in all the ugly that is the current 3rd's are what a home run the Flames hit with that shoulder patch. Love that you've kept them and altered the colour scheme to match.

Slight criticisms...
-Prefer a bigger logo that the Flames went with instead of the classic smaller one
-Don't like the cartoon font on the number