Guest Concepts: Islanders, Sharks, and Flames

I'm not ready to post the next part of my De-Edge series yet (hopefully it will be ready by this weekend), but we do have three guest concepts by Ricky.

New York Islanders, by Ricky:

We'll start off with this Islanders concept, which is Ricky's entry into HJC's Make The Fishsticks Logo Look Good Competition.  There are two things that I really like about this concept, and there are two things that I don't like.  First of all, the fact that the primary colour is orange is great.  I also love the shoulder yoke design, it's a unique feature that looks good, something that is not easy to do.  I don't like the use of the Ottawa/Pittsburgh/Old-Tampa-Bay template, it doesn't necessarily look that bad, but it is a very overused template in the NHL.  I also don't like the gold added to the logo, I understand why it was done (the stereotypical raincoat is yellow), but I personally don't think it looks good.

San Jose Sharks, by Ricky:

Ricky's second concept is also an orange jersey, but this time it's for the Sharks.  The striping is pretty good, I like the unique side panels.  The one issue I have with the striping is that the sleeve-length-stripes are cut off by a shoulder-yoke, which I don't think looks good.  I also think the TV numbers are too big, and the player name isn't very readable the way it is now.

Calgary Flames, by Ricky:

For his final concept today, Ricky designs a black jersey for the Flames.  The colour balance is really good, with yellow being used more in the stripes, and red being used for the yokes and numbers.  That being said, I think the red names and numbers would be hard to read.  My suggestion would be to make the names and numbers yellow, but then make the stripes mostly red to keep the good colour balance.  I do like the logo choices, but I don't like bringing back the flaming C captain's patch.

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