Rockies inspired Avalanche Reverse Retro

Colorado Avalanche

I love the Avalanche's Quebec Nordiques inspired Reverse Retro, but for this series I chose to base my concept off of the Colorado Rockies instead.

Nationals inspired Senators Reverse Retro

Ottawa Senators

I've always liked the mismatching striping patterns on the Ottawa Nationals' jerseys, so I brought back that design for this Senators Reverse Retro concept.  My initial plan was to use gold as the base colour, but it looked terrible so I went with silver instead.

Eagles inspired Blues Reverse Retro

The NHL is finally back, woohoo!  I'm also back with another Reverse Retro concept...

St. Louis Blues

This was a fun one to do, the Blues in the style of the short-lived St. Louis Eagles!  The base colour becomes the bright blue from the Blues third jersey, while yellow and navy replaces the Eagles red and royal blue.  The arched "Blues" script comes from their 1984-87 logo.

Have a nice weekend!

Fighting Saints inspired Wild Reverse Retro

Well 2021 hasn't gotten off to the best start, but as promised I'm back with another concept!

Minnesota Wild

Here's another Reverse Retro concept inspired by a WHA franchise, this time it's the Minnesota Wild in the style of the Fighting Saints.  I chose "wheat" as the base jersey colour since the Wild have never had a wheat jersey before, but went with a green helmet since a wheat helmet wouldn't look as good (in my opinion).

My next concept will also be a Reverse Retro, but it will be inspired by a past NHL franchise instead of a WHA franchise.

Cowboys inspired Flames Reverse Retro

Happy New Years everybody!  I'm excited for this year for two reasons, first of all it's not 2020 anymore (finally), and also because I have some new concepts on the way!  More on that below...

Calgary Flames

Here we have a reverse retro style Flames concept based off of the Calgary Cowboys of the WHA.  The only changes are yellow replacing white, and the Flames logo replacing the Cowboys' old cowboy-hat.

In the coming weeks you'll see more reverse retro concepts like this inspired by past franchises.  I really like what the NHL did with the Reverse Retro program, and I wanted to make my own concepts but the inspiration wasn't coming.  So I added a twist that the concepts had to be inspired by past franchises, and the result is this series.  I don't know yet if I'll make a concept for every team, but it will be more than half for sure.

Also, you may have noticed that I slightly tweaked the look of the blog with a new wordmark logo up top!  I figured now was a good time for a refresh.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you all have a happy and healthy 2021!