“Black is the New Green”

A grand total of 7 teams changed their teams new logo for the 2007/08 NHL season, and all 30 teams changed their teams jersey design in some way.

The Dallas Stars are one of those 30 teams and after a number of leaks they were official unveiled on September 14th 2007.

For those who have yet to see them here they are -

 

I willl give you some time to clean up after you just vomited all over your computer screen at the uglyness of the jerseys.

Where do I start to critize?

How about the fact that my favorite team in all pro sports is now wearing basketball jerseys. What about the lack of green in both jerseys! In the home the only green you see is on the Stars logo, what is for some reason is now on the shoulder. On the front of the jersey you now see the word DALLAS across the HOME jersey. Fans at the AAC aren’t dumb they know where they are! And then the number on the front of the jersey, it is one thing to have it above the right breast (which is ugly) but to have the players number in the middle of the jersey is retarted! We have numbers on the back of a players jersey, numbers on both shoulders and on the back of thier helment, and now on the front of a jersey. The players number is on 5 diffrent parts of the player, we get the point!

Now for the away jersey. This one is actually starting to very slowly grow on me.  On this one we see the players number oncve again on the front of the jersey…AHHHHHH…and then we see something very shocking the Stars logo! The traditional alternate logo is on both shoulders. Another new thing to the both jerseys is the striping found at the mid sleeves and at the bottom of the jerseys. This doesn’t look to bad, and seems quite modern, but it isn’t the ol’ Star pattern all fans enjoyed from 99-07.

Lets look at the bright side, we will see our boys playing in these jerseys in just two more sleeps. And as long as were winning in these jerseys then who am I to complain?

More Pics of the jerseys -

 

Stars New Jerseys Leaked … again

Pictures of the Stars new jerseys have been all over the internet. Forums, blogs,  even TV commercials for a video game have shown the Stars new basketba…errr, hockey jerseys!

For those of you who have missed all of this here are the Stars new Jerseys ( which by the way will be Officially unvieled tommorow ).

I give my thoughts on the jerseys tommorow, after I have a tear over how bad those Home jerseys are.

Also, for those who didn’t know, the AHL is also switching to RBK Slim Fits. THis means that the Iowa Stars are changing there jerseys to.

I will comment on these ones.

They are great!! Why can’t the Dallas Stars use this design? These jerseys have a LOGO on there jersey, must be nice.

In conclusion I will leave you all with a quote from a Stars fan from the DallasStars.com forum, he wrote “Iowa managed to take a similar design to dallas and make it less boring “.

What he said.

More Pics of the Stars Jerseys

For those hoping for a legit jersey leak, you got it.

 While going on my favorite website – www.nhllogos.blogspot.com – I finally found what I was looking for, the Stars new jerseys.

Apparently these pics were taken on a cell phone at the Dr. Pepper Stars Centre. Scroll down and take a peak.

    

This is for sure the most legit picture we have to date. Those pics that were going around the net the past week of the possible new Star jerseys (they turned out to be for the Dallas Stars Selects) seem very similar to the ones the players are wearing in the above pics.

My thoughts on these jerseys is 1 word … UGLY!’

Your thoughts?

Don’t Count Our Boys Out!

One of my traditions is finding out every September about what the so called “experts” think about the up coming hockey year and what they rate the Stars.

 This years batch of yearbooks have made people having to hold me back from sharp objects and shoe strings. For example The Hockey News is saying the Stars will finish 11th in the Western Confrence, that same yearbook graded the Stars a C-. Then theScore Forecaster put the Stars at 9th in the Western Confrence.

These rankings are a joke! Year after year the Stars have proved themselves to be quite worthy of a playoff spot, after all in the past 2 years they have had a grand total of 103 wins and 219 points.

Then what is the deal with  the talk about them not making the playoffs? The same core of players are still there, they had only one major loss,  Sydor. Plus how can you write off any team that has such a strong goaltending? Marty Turco and Mike Smith are the best 1-2 punch in the league. How about the shootout? We will easily get an extra 7-10 points this year from the winning shootouts. Those points will for sure make us a shoe in for the playoffs.

I almost forgot to tell you about my other favorite tradition.Picking up these yearbooks in April and looking at what kind of idiots these experts look like after picking the Stars to finish so low.

-Just a Reminder that my ‘expert’ picks for the 07/08 season will be shown on this blog in about 1 week-