PWHL unveils new uniforms for 2024-25 season

Good morning, university observers. It’s Friday…we did it.

Today we have an article from our own Jamie Rathjen who will give us his review of the new uniforms for the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) as the entire six-team league unveils their home and away uniforms for the 2024 season. According to Jamie’s article I will have a Jaguar design concept as well as GTGFTS and GTGFTU. Let me hand it over to Jamie here. Enjoy!

• • • • •PWHL releases uniforms for 2024-25
by Jamie Rathjen

The PWHL released its teams’ uniforms for next season yesterday. You may recall that last season’s six teams that played under the placeholder name “PWHL _______” wore mostly similar designs, with the city’s name diagonally across the chest and some variations on the sleeves and shoulders.

When the team names and logos were unveiled in September, the feeling was definitive equality was still there, even though they now have their own identity. All six teams acted as a unit in all of these revelations and even in posting pretty similar Explainer for their logos, colors and wordmarks. It is essentially a top-down method of running a sports league. This continues in the uniform designs, which all have similarities and the same peculiarities. But I’m not saying they’re boring, because if you’re a fan of contrasting shoulder yokes and stripes – a much full of stripes – the PWHL definitely has something for you.

Each team also has a small pattern on the inside of their shared numeric font, such as the speed lines from the Ottawa logo or a fleur-de-lis for Montreal. There is always the PWHL logo on the right shoulder and an advertisement on the left shoulder. Each team has black or navy blue shorts and socks to match their respective jerseys, but no helmets were shown.

Although the color schemes aren’t quite the same as last season, each team has at least retained their primary color to ensure continuity. I think all six color schemes really make these uniform sets stand out. They are full of character and you don’t rely so much on the primary colors of red and blue.

Let’s look at each team individually.

Boston Fleet

The green-clad fleet uses sky blue more than white as an accent color, but both are expressed in the two-tone stripes on the sleeve cuffs and bottom of the jerseys. Dark blue really creeps in, as another accent on the shade of the logo and the color scheme of the pants.

They have put a lot more effort into the stripes than the other teams and apart from the shoulder yoke there are no contrasting solid colored parts. This opens up some interesting possibilities: a sky blue jersey? Some kind of barberpole? We can always hope for more to come.

The pattern on the fleet’s numbers are the waves inside their logo.

Minnesota Frost

The Frost offering comes in two shades of purple, which again is an unusual but good-looking combination. However, the shoulder yoke of the purple jersey is white instead of the light purple, which I’m not a big fan of – this jersey could have easily used two colors with minimal white. The stripe patterns on the sleeves and hem also differ significantly from each other. With all of these designs, they’re not really the same in both places, but in this case it’s almost as if the powers that be can’t decide which one they like more.

The pattern on the Frost numbers is intended to be a minimalist version of their logo.

Montreal Victory

Like last season, Montreal has my favorite color scheme. They are once again the only team not to have a white away kit, instead using a light cream or tan color. Combined with maroon, dark blue, very small amounts of light blue and the edgy wordmark I get vintage vibes. However, the crests on the jerseys are very large and contain both the logo and the wordmark, and I wonder if they could have used a more minimalist version of the logo.

As I mentioned earlier, there are lilies in their numbers. Additionally, the league logo patch on the sleeve is in French (“LPHF”, Ligue professionalnelle de hockey féminin).

New York sirens

It really seemed like the Sirens were going in the direction of the WNBA’s Liberty last season, wearing turquoise with navy blue and not bringing much else. However, the color used this season is much less pale and has orange and gray accents. The result is just as attractive as any of these designs and I would like to see a navy jersey. Fortunately, the stripe patterns on both jerseys are almost uniform and the shoulder yokes on both are dark blue.

Within the siren numbers are vertical lines, possibly borrowed from the sides of the logo.

Ottawa indictment

Both the logo and color scheme will make for instant Flames comparisons. Gray and black accents just help the red jersey stand on its own, but there isn’t that much on the white jersey, which I think could have benefited from a shoulder yoke in the same dark gray. A white jersey with red shoulder yoke and gold accents just looks too much like Calgary for my taste. The logo can’t decide for me whether it’s an O or a C and somehow looks like both at the same time, but it doesn’t say whether that’s intentional.

As I said above, the batch have the O/C logo speed lines in their numbers.

Toronto scepter

Toronto looks a bit like New York now, with a more conventional shade of blue, although the Sceptres also wore that shade of blue last season. The team name has caused some controversy because of its colonialist undertones, i.e. its reference to monarchical images used in Canada to represent the power of the colonial state.

But like the sirens, two shades of blue together is never a bad idea. The white jersey mixes them up a bit too much in my opinion: the sleeve stripes are a lighter blue next to the dark blue stripe pattern on the bottom of the jersey, which is not the case with the blue jersey. It’s another small inconsistency that results in two jerseys not being completely color-swapped, which I think the league was keen to avoid after using color-swapped jerseys across the board last season.

Toronto and Boston are the only teams that do not use white numbers on their colored jerseys, with the Sceptres favoring gold in this case.

In Toronto’s numbers is the upper part of the logo.

• • • • •Thanks, Jamie! Really nice overview of the new universities.

Reader? What do you say?

Uniform concepts and optimizations

Time for more Uni Tweaks from the UW readership.

I hope you enjoy this feature and want to continue submitting your concepts and optimizations to me. If so, email me (Phil (dot) Hecken (at) gmail (dot) com).

reader Sean “Superfly” Walsh had sent these concepts back to me towards the end of last year (when I was working on my “2+3+2+3 project”), but since then there has been some discussion in yesterday’s article about the Jaguars wearing their new white helmet against the Vikings This Sunday is the perfect time to show them off again. Here is Sean’s original email and his concepts posted below.

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Hello Phil,

I enjoy your 2+3+2+3 project, especially the Jaguars. I think, like many others, that they did it pretty well the first time, and like you, I always thought they should use more gold, so I did a little remix with your “Throwback” elements and finally one took a gold helmet attack, which is obviously a reference to the Bengals. I think the gold pants and helmet go well with all three jerseys (only with matching socks, no mixing) and also prefer the old school white pants, no teal or black pants (I’m willing to allow black pants with the white ones ). (jerseys only, but if given the option to players they will be solid black). I also agree that the black helmet needs that teal patch again.

Thanks

Superfly

• • • • •OK, readers (and conceptualizers). If you have any tweaks or concepts, shoot them my way meager Description of your creation and I will run it here.

Guess the game based on the scoreboard

Guess the game…

…From the scoreboard

Today’s scoreboard comes from Lonnie Roy.

The premise of the game (GTGFTS) is simple: I post a scoreboard and you simply identify the game pictured. In the past, I don’t know if I did that always completely amazed you (some are easier than others).

Here is the scoreboard. Try to identify the game (date and location and final result) in the comments below. If anything notable happened during the game, please add it (and if you were at the game, bonus points for you!):

Please continue to send these in! Feel free to send me any scoreboard photos (with replies please) and I will keep them running.

Guess the game by the uniform

Based on a suggestion from a long-time reader/contributor Jimmy CorcoranWe’ve introduced a new “game” on Uni Watch that’s similar to the popular “Guess the Game from the Scoreboard” (GTGFTS), except this game asks readers to identify the game by the uniforms worn by the teams.

As with GTGFTS, readers are asked to guess the date, location and final result of the game based on the clues provided in the photo. Sometimes the game should relatively easy to detect, while in other cases it can be quite difficult. It will normally be a visual cue (something strange or unique about one or both uniforms) that allows clear identification of one and only one game. In other cases, there might be something significant about the game in question, such as the last time a particular uniform was ever worn (one of Jimmy’s original suggestions). It’s up to YOU ​​to find out the game and date.

Today’s GTGFTU comes from Darryl Rogers.

Good luck and please post your guess/answer in the comments below.

And finally…

…that’s enough for the early post. Big thanks to Jamie for this fantastic review of the PWHL’s varsities for 2024. I should post a few more articles later today, including the preview of next weekend’s varsity matches (I’m just saying now, there will be some give). bad Combos, but also some good looking games). And there will be at least three never-before-worn combinations – plus two never-before-worn helmets – so keep checking back, plus there’s Anthony’s Ticker!

Have a nice Friday everyone and hopefully a nice weekend. Jimmer Vilk will be with you until Monday, then I’ll see you back here with Week 10’s MMUW.

Peace,

Ph