It honestly all hinges on the piping/stripes now as to whether or not it'll be an adequate jersey. You get rid of those and it's a step in the right direction and a much cleaner design.
I have zero faith in them actually cleaning up that awful, cluttered look though. They'll probably add a stripe somewhere.
I just noticed there's no collar stripes from the first sneak peek, so hanging on to a small inkling of hope that maybe they eliminated them elsewhere....
The cleanest design in the world won't cover up the fact that you have a bright blue flag in one corner of a garment whose primary colors are red, black, white and yellow. It's distracting, it's ugly, it's tacky, and it needed to die in a fire, but the Calgary Flames enjoy showing contempt for their fans.
Curious nobody's making the 'sell a bunch of new Adidas jerseys before doing your own redesign in two years for MOAR MONEYS' argument. This organization isn't bright enough for that. It's actually amazing we have Treliving.
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Yeah they are getting blasted all over social media.
In the end I guess this means that I will just wait until the end of season jersey sales to add them to my collection instead of pre-ordering them like I would have if they were actually different.
If they wanted to stick with Flags I would have been fine with going with the Calgary Flag and the canadian Flag.
I suspect part of this is how Adidas is juggling 31 "new" designs for this season.
I'd guess they took the teams current uniforms, applied the new template and went back to the clubs/NHL with something along the lines of "Using your previous design as the basis for your new uniforms is the cheapest/easiest option. Any revisions/changes to the core design cost time & money."
So the Flames naturally went with the cheap/easy option, which is fine from a business perspective. But once again they manage to fumble the PR/optics side of things.
Instead of being smart enough to just come right out and say "The core uniform design will not be changing" the Flames jumped whole hog in with the teaser images as part of Adidas roll out.
But public optics is of no-concern for this club.
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I suspect part of this is how Adidas is juggling 31 "new" designs for this season.
I'd guess they took the teams current uniforms, applied the new template and went back to the clubs/NHL with something along the lines of "Using your previous design as the basis for your new uniforms is the cheapest/easiest option. Any revisions/changes to the core design cost time & money."
So the Flames naturally went with the cheap/easy option, which is fine from a business perspective. But once again they manage to fumble the PR/optics side of things.
Instead of being smart enough to just come right out and say "The core uniform design will not be changing" the Flames jumped whole hog in with the teaser images as part of Adidas roll out.
But public optics is of no-concern for this club.
If the fans don't like the new jersey, the team is moving to Quebec City.
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Fans: "Bring back the retros!"
Flames: "Look at our redesigned Black C!"
Fans: "At least take off the flags.."
Flames: "Look! No italics!"
Fans: "As long as you take off the piping, I won't stab someone"
Flames: "Extra piping!"
Amazing how dumb this organization can be sometimes.
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The cleanest design in the world won't cover up the fact that you have a bright blue flag in one corner of a garment whose primary colors are red, black, white and yellow. It's distracting, it's ugly, it's tacky, and it needed to die in a fire, but the Calgary Flames enjoy showing contempt for their fans.
Frankly, I almost never notice the shoulder patches (or the piping for that matter). Too busy watching the players. The only unis I can say were actually distracting were ones which were bad from the logo on out - the big Vancouver V, the Flames Wal-Mart thirds, the first Coyotes jersey.
Like, why don't they survey their fans to see what we want? What would they have to lose?
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The flags will be a minor bother if they've fixed the piping, the bottom waist stripes and the sides with the weird vertical stripes that meet up with the piping.
Almost a guarantee now that we are just getting a mix of the primary and the third. I expect the only changes will be the piping is dropped, and the striping is what was on the third.
What a joke. You're talking about a fan base that would likely eat up a new third jersey every couple years and we've been using the same unpopular main ones for a decade?
FFS
I would hate a new jersey every couple years. What I like about Calgary, and going to the games, is seeing 19,000+ red jerseys. There are about 2-3 main versions of the jerseys you see. I like that. What looks dumb is what Edmonton and Vancouver did. They have about 10 different jerseys throughout their stadiums. It's looks like extra crap with how many different colours they've used.
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The flags will be a minor bother if they've fixed the piping, the bottom waist stripes and the sides with the weird vertical stripes that meet up with the piping.
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Almost a guarantee now that we are just getting a mix of the primary and the third. I expect the only changes will be the piping is dropped, and the striping is what was on the third.
Prepare to be disappointed
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