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Finally decided to complete some half-finished concepts I had laying around this time of the infamously controversial 1995 scrapped Nordiques Husky rebrand.

(Yes, before you ask its a Husky not a Wolf I looked it up.)

Now personally I love the original jerseys, But thats also because I’m a sucker for stupid, colourful and silly jerseys especially ones with animals on them. (Hence why I love stuff like the Mighty Ducks, Sharks, Penguins, ETC…)

But I do understand why people aren’t necessarily fans of them, While the Nordiques jersey isn’t my favourite (see my redesigns of those for my thoughts on them) I can admit they are very sleek and elegant looking.

But as with my previous Nordiques jerseys (and all of them to an extent) I tried to keep the original spirit of the jersey intact while swapping the colour scheme for the same one I used for my other Nords jerseys. (Again see that post for more clarification.)

Speaking of my previous Nordiques jerseys thats actually where these got their start. I was originally intending for the home one to serve as an alternate before pushing it onto the backburner where it’d been lingering ever since, and seeing as I was bored and had some free time today I decided to finally finish it up and release it alongside a version of its white counterpart.

I tried my hardest to nail down specifically the exact style of the original while also tweaking a few things, such as removing the wordmark from the logo, changing the bottom striping to better match the arms and changing the name and numbers to better fit the tone and style of the jerseys.

I also ended up tweaking the colours of the collar until I found a combination that really popped.

My only regret with this jersey is the shoulder patches, I had to compromise and use older more classic style versions of the Fleur-de-lis as the strange 90’s triangle version from the actual jersey has regrettably never surfaced or been scanned in a way we’ve ever gotten a great look at online. So I had to make do.

Besides that, These are genuinely some of my favourites I’ve ever done and I am extremely proud of how they came out.

So anyways, Tell me what you think in the comments below!

Sorry for the hand drawn style, But It was the only way I could fully acheive my vision for this jersey.

Nothing too crazy this time like some of my others, Just some small changes to try and modernize the team. The design stays true to the original team whilst also adding some quality-of-life improvements.

I swapped out the darker blue with a more pacific shade of teal to better fit both the naval theme and the location of the team which is based on San Diego’s beaches.

Some slight tweaks to the team’s lettering colours along with swapping the two jersey’s wordmarks to better fit the modern day NHL home vs. away colourscheme.

Lastly I also doubled-up the Captain shoulder-patch on his shoulders now donning him on each side where previously he only adorned one.

(Edit: Second time reposting this due to an error I overlooked on the Away jersey.)

A concept series lineup for one of the most famous (and one of my personal favourites) WHA teams the Minnesota Fighting Saints.

Some backstory, The Fighting Saints were one of the inagural 12 teams back at in 1972 and unlike a lot of their fellow WHA brothers who shared markets with other NHL teams the Saints actually posed a decent threat to the NHL’s North Stars and sometimes outdid them in terms of attendance.

Unfortunately financial problems forced the team to fold after the end of the 1975-76 season ending their 4-year run. Yet this was not the end of the Fighting Saints legacy in the WHA funnily enough, As their fellow inagural season brother the Cleveland Crusaders would actually end up moving to Minnesota at the start of the 1976-77 WHA season and rebrand themselves as the New Minnesota Fighting Saints.

(The only difference between the two was that the former Crusaders had recoloured the Saints jerseys from Blue to Red.)

This didn’t last long however as they didn’t even last the full season. They played just 42 games out of a 81 game season finally ending the Fighting Saints time in the WHA.

Their legacy can still be felt years later after their departure as the Fighting Saints (most times shortened to Saints) is still an incredibly popular brand for both jr. and amateur hockey teams, such as the Spruce Grove Saints in the British Columbia Hockey League (or BCHL for short.)

With their jerseys I tried to stay as accurate to the original 70’s designs as I could with my limitations, Though these proved quite difficult due to good HD scans of the original logos being surprisingly difficult to find in good quality, almost all of them had something wrong with them and forced me to ultimately decide on using some fan designs and simply recolouring them to be more accurate.

I could not find the credit for the Cherub redesign as it is seemingly another byproduct of some old hockey forum that either shut down or had its creator delete their account years ago.

The secondary "S" logo is credited to u/dunkel624 who I borrowed from their redesign concept. I normally don’t like to take from other creators but I was getting really desperate and was at my wits end with these logos and their shit.

As for the actual jerseys both the Blue & White ones are faithful recreations of the jerseys the original team wore from 1973-74 to their end in 1975-76 and the Red ones as mentioned previously are a nod to the New Minnesota Fighting Saints ones from 1976-77.

But you might be curious about the 3rd gold jersey which sports an original crest. This is actually a recreation of the team’s 1972-73 alternate. You see the original team actually didn’t debut the cherub design until their second season, The first featured a simplified "S" logo with the word "Saints" written across it.

Now this is not the original design as that was far simpler, This one also lacks the text the original had. Despite these drawbacks I still feel the jersey largely carries the same essence of the original.

Like I said I tried to keep all the jerseys largely the same though it is not as 1-1 as my Birmingham Bulls concepts due to me making some slight alterations that I felt better fitted the jerseys, Besides all that I still am very happy with how these came out and I hope you enjoy them!

Please let me know what you think in the comments below!

My take on a hypothetical Portland expansion team named after the iconic PCHA team that became the first American franchise to contend for a Stanley Cup when were defeated by the Montréal Canadiens in the 1916 Stanley Cup finals.

I heavily based the team on their iconic jerseys utilized by the club for their late 1910’s look, I decided to keep the club’s jerseys fairly simple while briefly modernizing some elements like the striping.

A more direct tribute can be found in the redesigned original logo the club wore during their last years (and the only official logo the club held) now serving as their shoulder patches.

This is why I decided to have the team’s name be written across the chest striping which was a common trend for teams back then, I also decided to have the words swap between the team’s name on home games and the city’s name on away games (a trend I’ve grown to love with teams like the Aeros and Panthers.)

I also decided to update the modern colour palette picking the actual iconic colours of a rose to represent the club with green (stem) serving as the replacement dark main colour of the jerseys, Keeping the white as a divider colour and instead of adding red as a third colour I decided to be more bold and select pink. (petals)

This was a good alternative colour to represent the roses as apparently Pink is the natural colour of the wild rose. It also helps that pink is the colour of the "Madamme Caroline Testout." The famous pink hybrid tea rose that helped give Portland it’s famous nickname: "Rose City."

I also paid tribute to this via the 3rd/Alt jersey which noticeably features bright pink as its main colour and changing the text to feature the city’s iconic nickname.

It also felt like a good way to spice up an otheriwse very simple jersey that was designed to keep the spirit of the original 1910’s team without overmodernizing it and losing its simple appeal.

I wanted it to be in the style of teams like Montréal who have kept a simplified yet iconic look for over 100 years now to really represent the hockey period in which the original organization came into being.

This whole design concept stemmed (heh, get it?) from me both wanting to make a pink jersey and the fact that Portland is a frequently brought up contender for an expansion franchise.

So tell what you think in the comments below!

Redesigned versions of the classic 1976-78 jerseys plus a colour-palette swapped 3rd version. I also included 2 bonus jerseys one being a throwback to the team’s namesake the 1937-73 AHL Barons and the second being a tribute to the Cleveland Crusaders of the WHA, Who actually held the building the Barons would later play in before them.

Some recreations of the iconic 1977-79 jerseys with a new custom alt.

They join the following 9 teams to share this historic acheivement.

- Montréal Hockey Club (AAA)

- Winnipeg Victorias

- Montréal Canadiens

- Boston Bruins

- New York Rangers

- St. Louis Blues

- Philadelphia Flyers

- New York Islanders

- Edmonton Oilers