Vancouver Canucks- “Flying Skate” with current colors or late 90’s color scheme
Unlike many other teams in the NHL, the Vancouver Canucks have worn tons of different designs and colors since their inception in 1970. They have also donned three different logos that include the awesome orca whale, the original stick in the rink logo and this flying skate logo.
Vancouver had this on the front of their chests from 1985 to 1997, and an argument can be made that the flying skate is the most popular logo in the teams’ history. I still see fans wearing this jersey to games to this very day.
I think this is the way Vancouver should go with their Reverse Retro for next season. I would honestly love to see them deck these out, but with the current royal blue and green colors of today. I think it would look great on the players.
Vancouver took their orca whale gradient alternate from 2001-06 and gave it the modern rebranding and it proved the modern colors would work with a classic jersey. Vancouver could also use the color scheme of navy and sky blue, maroon, and silver from 1997-2006.
The Canucks have tons of flexibility for next year.
Vegas Golden Knights- Gold Version of First Reverse Retro Uniform
This idea might seem a little lazy to some, but I think Vegas shouldn’t change anything. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and that’s the impression this jersey gives off. To me it’s perfect.
When this was announced last season I instantly fell in love with it. Vegas’ Reverse Retro from last year is definitely in my top 5 favorites. The Golden Knight paying an homage to the Las Vegas Thunder of the defunct IHL, the city’s most famous hockey team before the NHL arrived, was an awesome touch.
The design is perfect and it’s certainly way different than the regular home and away uniforms the franchise has worn since its inception. Because of how awesome the first Reverse Retro looked, I think it would be wise to bring it back. However, to make the upcoming Reverse Retro feel new I would bring out a gold version of this and the striping would be gray, red, and black in that order.
One last reason as to why I’m keeping the Thunder uniform with the Knights is because the history of hockey in Vegas has been mostly obscure minor league teams that didn’t last long. As a result, images and artifacts of those teams have been lost to history so it’s hard to find good quality pictures of what their uniforms looked like.
If the Golden Knights really wanted to use a different design from a different minor league team that played in Vegas, then they could use the uniforms of the Las Vegas Wranglers who played in the ECHL from 2003-2015. However, the Las Vegas Thunder design is too good to not use again in my opinion.