This post originally appeared on Hockey Jersey Concepts on January 6th, 2016.
No the title isn't referring to me, it's referring to the All-Star jerseys the NHL unveiled today. I'll discuss those below, but first let's talk about me. I'm former HJC writer Steven Grant. I'm sure most of you are thinking who is that? I wrote for this blog a long, long, long time ago, between August 2012 and June 2013. When I saw there were a couple of writer positions opening up I decided to apply once again, and Ryan was nice enough to choose me. Thank you Ryan!
Since it's been so long, I better introduce myself. I'm a tall, lanky, 21 year old, who lives in British Columbia, and the Canucks are my favourite NHL team. I started reading HJC sometime in 2010, submitted my first concept in May 2011, and was part of the first group of writers selected back in 2012 (previously Ryan wrote every post). Another interest of mine besides hockey jerseys is outer space (really science in general), I just think the universe is fascinating. It can be beautiful too, check out this photo of the south pole of Mars (which is currently my desktop background).
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By the way, do you know how intimidating it is taking over for Dylan Alexander? He's a great writer (both Dylans are) and he's been around forever. Plus I'm a bit rusty not haven written one of these posts in a few years, I'm probably going to be making lots of mistakes (I already nearly messed up the scheduling of this post, stupid time zones). So if you're expecting me to be as good of a writer as him, you're going to be disappointed.
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The NHL didn't want my first post to be an easy one, as they decided to unveil this year's All-Star jerseys this morning. I'm not a fan of these, which are in my opinion the most boring All-Star jerseys of all time. The only real striping pattern are the big blocks on the arm (the top block does continue onto the back behind the players name). I much prefer All-Star jerseys to be wild and wacky, as I like to see new ideas tried out, and the All-Star game is the perfect place for that. Aesthetically these jerseys don't look that bad, but honestly I'd prefer ugly yet exciting jerseys over boring decent looking jerseys.
These jerseys do have some good qualities though. I like the tie in to Nashville with the yellow added to the NHL logo, and the tri-star mark in the neck gusset (which pretty much guarantees we'll be seeing something new next year). The jerseys will also apparently feature "numbers and letters designed as modern interpretations of traditional country music poster lettering", which sounds interesting.
Rating: 6/10
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