New Threads - Good and Bad

Okay, first off:

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The Good:

1. The Pants - The side striping on the pants is excellent. Very old school with two matching red and white stripes.

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2. The Shoulder Patch - The Retro "O" is a great idea and introduces for the first time the barber pole into the Sens uni's.

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3. The Socks - Classic and simple. Awesome.

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4. The Colours - Glad they stuck with red and white.

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5. The Numbers - Looks sharp on both sweaters.

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The BAD:

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1. No striping on the bottom - The fronts are just too bare without some vertical striping on the bottom of the sweater. Gives them that "pajama look". Like they are just practice jerseys.

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2. No Side Profile Logo - Just like that, the Sen's classiest symbol is wiped off the face of the earth. Instead we are subjected to a "meaner" looking Roman Soldier... oops!... we are now supposed to refer to him as the "Warrior". Whatever.

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3. The Dreaded Underarm Syndrome - Apparently most teams are choosing to highlight the underarms of new jerseys by adding a triangle of colour there. Somehow this is more important than traditional horizontal stripes on the bottoms of the jerseys. Utter crap.

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4. The New Logo - It's not that bad but it's not that great either. My eyes are always drawn to the overall shape of this logo which makes it awkward appearing. It's sharp and thin at the top and fat and blobby at the bottom. They should have just taken out the "O" segment and just had his head. Then the logo would look cleaner and more proportioned.

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Overall: It's a disappointment for sure. The white jerseys look so unsubstantial that they seem like practice jerseys. The red ones look a little sharper and I do like the shoulder patches as well as the sleeve colour distinctions. It has a bit of a barber pole vibe which I dig.

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The true disappointment is the lack of the original side profile logo which would have looked gorgeous on those white jerseys. I look at it as another lost opportunity. These were designed for kids (and probably by kids) with a few touches thrown in to satiate the hardcore hockey fan.

They are not "disastrous" but they aren't that hot either.