2018-2019 NHL Gear Sitings

[motowngoalie]

Yes, that's correct. Mike Vaughn is part of Brian's ownership group. He says a little bit about it on his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-vaughn-a697709b/

Personally, I've always thought it was ironic that Brian's has such a cutting edge reputation and they're owned (partially at least) by the one of the more conservative companies in the industry. 

[seagoal]

I can see the irony, but it's also smart business to invest in a diverse set of options in the market, especially if you can maintain the edge of competition between the two.

[southpawtendy48]

Glove is gonna be a one piece? Nope, I’m not with that, sorry 

[seagoal]

Wow, looks like the ledge off the inside of the outer roll is really shallow. I thought it was strange that the graphic extended onto the roll, unlike the VE8, but there's a drastic difference in the depth of that inner edge.

[southpawtendy48]

34 minutes ago, seagoal said:

Wow, looks like the ledge off the inside of the outer roll is really shallow. I thought it was strange that the graphic extended onto the roll, unlike the VE8, but there's a drastic difference in the depth of that inner edge.

yup. don’t like it. one little thing too is the logos on the thigh as opposed to the lower break

[seagoal]

5 minutes ago, southpawtendy48 said:

yup. don’t like it. one little thing too is the logos on the thigh as opposed to the lower break

yeah, which is a compromise they have to do with extending that graphic, like so

[southpawtendy48]

18 minutes ago, seagoal said:

yeah, which is a compromise they have to do with extending that graphic, like so

haha right, just noticed that

[seagoal]

The VE8 graphic really grew on me and i love it now. I give them credit for graphic continuity between their two lines.

Looking forward to seeing more iterations of the SLR.

[seagoal]

Murray in SLR 2 in action, with a lundy loop in use. 

Man, the yellow helmets on the skaters looks so bad.  Beautiful jerseys and socks ruined by those helmets.  Murray looks awesome

[seagoal]

[stackem30]

7 hours ago, seagoal said:

Man, the yellow helmets on the skaters looks so bad.  Beautiful jerseys and socks ruined by those helmets.  Murray looks awesome

Personally, I think they go quite nicely. 

I *hated* when Nashville switched from their navy helmets to yellow helmets with their home uniforms. Now when I see old pictures of them in the navy helmets, I can't believe how goofy they look compared to the yellow helmets. Maybe you'll experience the same thing here (or maybe not ). I am almost always initially skeptical about most changes to uniforms (with good reason — the NHL trots out a lot of terrible stuff). But a lot of them grow on me over time, and eventually I'll admit that the change was a smart move. 

[ThatCarGuy]

7 hours ago, seagoal said:

Those look slick. Might have to change my wishlist now.

[seagoal]

1 hour ago, stackem30 said:

Personally, I think they go quite nicely. 

I *hated* when Nashville switched from their navy helmets to yellow helmets with their home uniforms. Now when I see old pictures of them in the navy helmets, I can't believe how goofy they look compared to the yellow helmets. Maybe you'll experience the same thing here (or maybe not ). I am almost always initially skeptical about most changes to uniforms (with good reason — the NHL trots out a lot of terrible stuff). But a lot of them grow on me over time, and eventually I'll admit that the change was a smart move. 

Fair enough.

Here's what my brain does, starting from the bottom:

the sequence of colors is never repetative of any color except at the shoulder/helmet, and that looks odd and needs correction.

It just looks too continuous of yellow at the head, it's screaming at me for another boundary.  How Murray's mask is black-based, that looks like good color harmony and a natural sequence of color to color. 

[cwarnar]

Pure filth from Scott Darling

[cwarnar]

And he has a 2nd retro set coming

[seagoal]

Wow, how fitting that he is in Carolina. 

Amazing opportunity for Brian's to drop the mic.

The boldness of those vertically stitched lines look killer.

[stackem30]

Those are sweet indeed, but I was really hoping for a straight-up Sean Burke replica

[Korppi32]

18 hours ago, RichMan said:

Al Iafrate, 90mph...wooden stick  

Mid 70s?

You can shoot some nice slap shot with fresh wooden stick but avarage shot now and then is little different. 

[ThatCarGuy]

13 minutes ago, Korppi32 said:

Al Iafrate, 90mph...wooden stick  

Bobby Hull supposedly hit 118mph with a wood stick.

[Chester]

19 hours ago, ThatCarGuy said:

Bobby Hull supposedly hit 118mph with a wood stick.

Downhill, with the wind at his back. 

One of the oldest stories of an unbelievably fast slap shot surround NHL legend Bobby Hull. Popular Mechanics did a story on the science of sports back in February of 1968. In the story Bobby Hull was reported to have a slap shot recorded at 118.3 MPH. For years that was accepted as scientific fact.

Unfortunately I have yet to be able to find the original article to see what their methodology was, what they were actually measuring and how they did measure it. I would guess they were measuring something much different than what gets measured at today's hardest shot competition.

The same study reported Jean Beliveau had a "wrist" shot that reached 105 MPH. If true, he would have possessed in the '60s a wrist shot harder than any modern slap shot but Chara's. That's an obvious absurdity.

[Chester]

21 hours ago, cwarnar said:

And he has a 2nd retro set coming

Darling is the modern Tim Thomas gear whore. 

Wonder if the team says "You've reached your budget, the rest comes outta your salary". 

Still a drop in the bucket. 

[RichMan]

2 hours ago, Chester said:

Downhill, with the wind at his back. 

One of the oldest stories of an unbelievably fast slap shot surround NHL legend Bobby Hull. Popular Mechanics did a story on the science of sports back in February of 1968. In the story Bobby Hull was reported to have a slap shot recorded at 118.3 MPH. For years that was accepted as scientific fact.

Unfortunately I have yet to be able to find the original article to see what their methodology was, what they were actually measuring and how they did measure it. I would guess they were measuring something much different than what gets measured at today's hardest shot competition.

The same study reported Jean Beliveau had a "wrist" shot that reached 105 MPH. If true, he would have possessed in the '60s a wrist shot harder than any modern slap shot but Chara's. That's an obvious absurdity.

The Iafrate info is based on the All-Star win I remember watching when he played.

The Beliveau info could be almost true. What I heard in dressing room talks and post-game conversations is how huge Guy Lafleur's hands and forearms are, which could most likely be the contender for hardest wrist shot. That's an event I wouldn't mind seeing at the All-Star. How many times have we seen a wrister hit the top corner but had to watch the replay a few times in real slow-mo cause no one actually was able to see it go in, announcers and refs alike lolll.

[cwarnar]

Martin Jones in P2's via Twitter

[seagoal]

Nooooooo.

Not Jones!

They're even the same colors.

Lame.

[southpawtendy48]

I personally love the simplicity of his color palette. Not a fan of those CCM logos though