0259: Blues in Gold

Since the NHL officially canceled the 2013 Winter Classic yesterday, I don't think it's appropriate to have a Winter Classic Weekend concept today. So here's a St. Louis Blues jersey set from Chance Waddell. By the way, Chance isn't suggesting a gold home jersey for a team called the Blues. These are road and third jersey options if the Blues were to make their current third their home uniform.

By the way, got a really cool University Sunday concept for tomorrow, complete with a time lapse video of the designer creating it.

0203: Winter in the Midwest

Got a couple of items to share on this Winter Classic Weekend, but we're looking beyond 2013 for this one. If recent history is any indication, the Blackhawks will soon find themselves back in the outdoor spotlight, and when they do, Wade Hermann suggests they sport something like what we see above.

As a bonus, we have this update to a Blues concept posted last month. Chance Waddell originally designed a blue one but has since added a vintage white version to match.

0168: If the Blues Were 40 Years Older...

Our Winter Classic Weekends series is returning to Saturdays starting with an interesting look for the St. Louis Blues from Chance Waddell. This one is styled after the super-stripey jerseys from the 1920s and '30s — despite the fact that the Blues weren't founded until 1967. Still, it's a neat design that absolutely screams Winter Classic. Maybe in 2014?

0121: Baseball Meets Hockey

The Stanley Cup has been lifted and the 2012 Entry Draft is around the corner. Anyone else want a short break from hockey. Trying something new this week. Of course, Icethetics is still a hockey-driven site, so while all of the concepts will be hockey jerseys, none will be for actual hockey teams. Today's theme is baseball!

We start with Chance Waddell who put together a home, road and alternate uniform for the MLB's St. Louis Cardinals. But that's not all...

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Todd Varga has given a similar treatment to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Ridiculous name. What do you think? Should these guys give hockey a try? We've obviously got great uniforms for them.

0100: A Hundred Concepts and Counting...

When I relaunched the Concepts page earlier this year, who really thought I'd be able to keep it going for 100 straight days? I know I've been flaky about this aspect of Icethetics in the past, but clearly you guys are enjoying it and I've finally found a way to keep it fresh.

That said, hitting triple digits seems like a special occasion we should mark. In honor of that and the 2012 Stanley Cup Final about to begin, how about this...

Following the overtime victory that sent the New Jersey Devils on to the final round of the playoffs to face the Los Angeles Kings, Matthew Henderson had an idea. He emailed me this pair of mutant logos in the vein of Ross Taylor's recent Freak Out Friday series.

Sure, this concept might be better suited to Friday, but sadly there are no Fridays between now and the start of the last playoff series of the season. Plus, I didn't want to make you guys wait to see this. I think they're pretty clever and pretty funny.

But since this is a special occasion — and so as to ground this post in reality a little bit — here are some more normal concepts for the NHL's conference champions.

I've been hanging on to this concept from Matthew Beck for a while. It has a very cool soccer-y feel. I'd love to see an NHL team try an idea like this some time, but it is a little out there.

And from Chance Waddell we get a new iteration of a black alternate for the Devils that will probably never happen. I know, we're a bit put off by the lack of color in the Stanley Cup series this year and adding more black wouldn't exactly help the cause. Still, it is something I'd like to see New Jersey try in the future. You know, when black is cool again.