Matchup No. 5
Edmonton Oil Kings vs. Everett Silvertips
Edmonton Oil Kings
photos courtesy of oilkings.ca
MT – The fourth WHL team to play in Edmonton and the third incarnation of the Oil Kings dawn the popular red, white, and blue colours. The added “gold”, or yellow if you ask me, in the logo brings a bit of difference to the jersey though. I have mixed feelings about the logo. It does fall a bit into the category of being predominantly a wordmark, however I do like the classic crown that is used. The oil drop atop the crown is the only reference to the Oil part of the teams nickname though, which to me isn’t enough. I am a fan of the off colour traditional shoulder yokes of the jersey for sure. The one thing that really jumps out to me about these jerseys, and not for a good reason, is how high the waist stripe is. It just seems to me as if it is about 2-3 inches too high on the jersey. It gives for a different look and some people may like it, but I don’t.
Everett Silvertips
photos courtesy of everettsilvertips.com
MT – To be completely honest the Silvertips were probably one of my favourite jerseys in the league. That is until they did a complete redesign and moved an alternate logo into the primary logo spot this year. Now I don’t dislike the logo at all, I may even like it more than the old one as it is a full on logo without a wordmark. It’s not a new logo either. For those of you that do remember, it was introduced for their 10th anniversary season in 2012 and used that year as a primary logo. Those 10th anniversary jerseys lacked the forest and mountain trim across the bottom that the Tips have come to be known for. The forest green, silver, copper and white colour scheme is beautiful. The adding of the much too large wordmark “EVERETT” underneath the logo on the newest version is what ruins it for me. Completely unnecessary and it forces the logo up too high into an awkward position on the front. Overall a disappointing change of the jersey for Everett.
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Matchup No. 6
Medicine Hat Tigers vs. Kootenay Ice
Medicine Hat Tigers
photos courtesy of tigershockey.com
MT – Orange, black, and white. I think if you name your sports team the Tigers you should very well have those colours. I was not really a fan of the logo growing up, but I’ve really come to appreciate it much more now. It’s a menacing cat full of detail and so much better than the leaping tiger with a stick that Medicine Hat had for the early 2000’s. So many logos go for the simplistic look so it’s nice to see a team sticking with a very detailed logo. Everything about these jerseys say vintage to me and vintage is in right? Nothing really stands out as completely different for the Tigers jerseys, that isn’t always a bad thing. The colours are enough to separate them from the crowd.
Kootenay Ice
photos courtesy of @WHLKootenayICE
MT – The Ice take their colour scheme from the 90’s Washington Capitals, blue, black, and bronze. They even had the terrible angled stripes down the front of their jerseys as did the Capitals during that era. Thank goodness they moved on from that. I don’t think it’s a terrible colour scheme, I just don’t think it’s fantastic either. It just seems mediocre to me. The logo also does very little for me. However, when your team name is the “Ice” you’re not left with a lot of options for a logo. The yeti/sasquatch somewhat fits the team name and definitely fits the Kootenay region (remember to search for the sasquatch on your next bottle of Kokanee beer, brewed just 100kms southwest of Cranbrook in Creston BC) as does the rocky mountain background, but it just leaves me feeling so underwhelmed. Maybe the logo would work better with a different colour scheme. When I see the jerseys it just reminds me of Bart and Lisa Simpson’s “meh”.
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