Congrats to the winner and everyone that made it to the final video. I would really like to see you do a video showing all the concepts that did not make it. I would love to see everyone's entries get a chance to at least be recognized in a video. Lots of us would watch that, I know I would. I hope you do, and it would give you a new video to make if there isn't a lot of content to discuss right now.

Thanks for the contest I had a lot of fun with it. I was the Trenton Forces concept, I realized after that I forgot to add in my reasoning for the colours but they were the same colours used in the RCAF logo. Congrats to the winner, so many amazing designs!!

Completely agree about the Raleigh Red Oaks. Ultimately I wouldn't have picked it either, but I'm just so darn impressed by the level of work and thought put in! Wow!

Thank you for the consideration for my Albany Beavers. Congrats to all finalists!

Awesome concepts by everyone! Congrats to the finalists and the winner! Amazing designs and even better stories.

Congratulations everyone, this contest was a blast! The amount of talent in this wonderful community is fantastic to say the least! ❤️🤘🏻

Thanks so much Neil!!! On the note of artistic improvement mentioned in the contest announcement video, I entered a design in the create a team contest years back, and it was one of the honorable mentions shown at the beginning of the video 😄I agree The Halibut is not an ideal name 😄So thankful I got to participate! Also, I'd just like to say that I appreciate the other artwork, and understand that winning is subject to a small number of people's personal opinions, and other art/concepts here might very well be as good or better. Thanks for all the congratulations and support!

Please do a video with the rest of the submissions! I would love to see all of the other teams that were submitted. I can’t wait to see all of the effort your viewers put into this.

I'd love if you guys could do this again. This was so much fun and a great idea. I regret not entering myself and I'd love to go for it next time!

Thanks for putting on this contest, Neil! I'm not surprised my submission was eliminated in the first round. I was worried that it was too derivative of the Minnesota Wild. Not my best work. Congrats to the winner, and all the finalists! I think I would have picked either the Allegheny Archers or the Brockville Armada, but those top 6 were all great!

Congrats to the winner! Glad mine at least made the video lol... So many submissions! And Franklin is considered a suburb of Nashville!!

Congrats to the winner, really well done and deserving of being number 1. Fun contest to enter and really cool to see what everyone came up with, lots of creativity in the community. Great job as always Post 2 Post!

Thanks for doing the contest Neil. I never would have thought my Cranberry Bombers design would be in the top 5. I hope you do more of these in the future 👍

Thank you Neil for your kind words about the Gloucester Harlequin 💚💛🖤 I was hoping the unique name would push it forward but I understand that it might not be the most NHL-ish name. After a couple years of watching your videos, It was my first time designing a team/jersey and your comments have definitely made me want to continue!

Happy to be featured on this video! Sad that my logo didn’t please the judges but honored for the presentation shoutout! Let’s go Red Oaks!

Very happy to see my Ersigen Buzzards in the top five 💪 Thanks Neil for hosting this contest, it was a lot of fun to create a team. And congrats to all the designers here, awesome job 👏. For me personally, the winner would be Armada oder the Archers.

So many great options, my winner probably would have been the Allegheny Archers. Because "Bridges" would have been a terrible name, and yet truly represents the area/city. Well done!

Thanks so much for considering me (and *very* good job with both my name and the Albion name. I really did consider making my jersey purple and gold since those are the colors of our college, but I ultimately decided against it because the whole town identifies more with the red and white scheme. Something to try for next time maybe.) Also, I wanted to point out that at 29:35- the Grand Rapids Fury logo also looks a lot like the logo of the Minor League baseball team in the Grand Rapids area--the West Michigan Whitecaps--so there's that to consider. 45:47: Rocky Mountain X-treme was actually a proposed name for the Avs, so it's kind of funny to see it revived.

Pretty cool to see my “Industrials” submission at 32:16. I honestly could not think of another name that suited the theme of this team, I wish I could of. It took forever to think of a decent name lol. Congrats to all the talented artists and designers, this contest was a lot of fun!

Awesome contest - there are some really phenomenal concepts in there! My entry was the Herald Harbor Newsies; for those who are curious, Herald Harbor was started in 1924 as a real estate venture by the old Washington Herald newspaper. Subscribers could buy lots in what was a quiet beach community. Thinking back, it may have been better to go with some variation of Headline/Headlines/Headliners, not just for the alliteration but also the "line" connection to hockey. Still, I had a lot of fun and learned quite a bit. Thanks Neil!

Congrats to the winner. Always thought an Alaska team would be cool, and the branding for this looks very cool!

Neil, Gloucester is pronounced Gloss-ter And as for all the submissions to you, they did excellent jobs and i love watching new designs as thats one of my favourite things to do on NHL games

I had no idea you were from Fredericton! I am too!! So cool to see it mentioned on here, shame it couldn't win.

It's been a honor to participate in this contest! It's a shame I was eliminated but hey I could try again next time!

I absolutely loved The Armada concept and jerseys. “The Armada Nation” seems like you’re up against a huge number of soldiers ready to battle. Loved the colors too. That was my fav.

I like how many kids or young people entered or are shown just seems so cool to see their creativity

Is it bad i want to start a gofundme to get an arena built for each team so all can exist? Anyway, Congratulations to all who got featured and entered. Wish I could've entered but it was either that or come up with my Indy 500 to Hockey Jerseys (Hint on what's coming from me soon) and because I want to get the Indy ones done before mid-late April I sat this one out. Will try for the next one though.

The Harrisburg Hazard alternate jersey was nasty

Congratulations to JDB4RT for winning the contest. For the number of contests I’ve submitted this was probably the most unique contest so far. I had a lot of fun designing my Angola Horror. Out of the how many total submissions, I’ll take the Top 20. Thank you Neil for what you do! I’m sure it was very difficult. Your platform gives all us designers a place to share and share together. It’s a great group of people.

Thanks Neil that gave me a great confidence boost in my art skill, the chinooks brand was really fun to design. Congrats to Homer

As a North Carolinian, I actually really like the Red Oaks concept! Well done!

Awesome competition, lots of talent and creativity. Congrats to the winner.

Congrats to everyone, all designs were great. I was the Melbourne Neilers

Congratulations to the winner!!! You deserve it for all the hard work that you put in! I really love the fish logo with the scenery built into it! Keep it up and keep designing! My top six would have been (in no particular order): Horror, Archers, Les Griffangs, Reign, Harlequin, and Rosemont. The wild boar design for the horror is amazing! It’s also very relevant to the horror films industry as they use hog screams in the sound effects. I don’t think I would have used the train tracks in the way that it was presented on the jersey. However an outline incorporated into a more simplistic striping would have worked too. Regardless it is an amazing concept and I’m glad we got to see it!! The Archers?! Chefs kiss it’s absolutely stunning. I don’t really have any critique on it. The designer is so clever for being able to put that all together with the A, the bridges and the bow and arrow without it being lost in translation. The Reign was another slam dunk for me. I loved the home and away particularly. What sold the concept to me was the wheat along the bottom, really unique and adds just enough without being too literal. I do badly want to see the Harlequin brought to life. The striping was incredible, there was so much continuity from the markings on the insect and the angles of the stripes. A very unique design, wonderful name, the logo with the hockey stick antenna?! Great job! The Rosemont colors were perfect! Love the orange and red. The main logo is very intelligent! It’s so eye catching and clean, I would say that the secondary logo (though I LOVE it) I think would have done well to have a bit of aggression. The fox is very cute, so I feel that it needs a bit more attitude to serve on a hockey jersey. But it’s still a favorite of mine.

Raleigh Red Oaks might be a shout out to a North Carolina brewery aswell

Minus the "Canmore" part, the "Rocky Mountain Extreme" actually almost existed. When the Quebec Nordiques moved to Colorado and became the Avs, "Rocky Mountain Extreme" was one of the concepts being thrown around, until they eventually settled on the "Avalanche." Otherwise, I absolutely LOVED the concept of that submission; everything from the logo, to the color scheme, to the jersey, and even the name (despite it being one that almost came to be in real life) was great.

Cranberry is around the Pittsburgh area. In fact it is where the Penguins practice facility resides.

Absolutely can't wait for the next contest. So much fun!

I loved the winners design i felt that they definitely deserved to win, and even though I thought mine was pretty good, some of the people ahead of me had a great logo and jersey that was better than mine. However, i think i had the ultimate name as "Weeki Wachee Firefish" was too good and I'm glad you aknowledged it.

all were great options, i love all of the creativity. im a huge fan of the concepts behind them. i did have 2 small issues with some of the eliminations. They where based of being too close to the color schemes of NHL hockey teams, but then there were two that made the finals that were IMO close to two current hockey teams, that was the Barrie Lakers was literally 1 shade off being Seattle Kraken, and other being super close to Nashville Predators colors like the yellow was little darker but that's it. my pick would been the Archers. love the name i love the color scheme(huge Pirates fan), and the meaning behind the name is super unique.

Franklin, TN is a suburb of Nashville, so they kind of already have a hockey team.

It was fun entering this contest. I'll try to find a unique name for next time

I think I saw Kona in the logo of the Kona Lava concept. If so, I like that little touch.

The fact nobody judging thought to google renard seems weird to me. It literally would've taken 3 seconds to figure out it means fox which I thought was pretty obvious from the logos anyway so it seems like a silly reason to eliminate the entry. There had to be something else about it judges didn't like cause "nobody knew what it was" seems like a copout to me. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Still had a blast watching this video, just miffed by the explanation given for that one elimination. I'm hoping you'll run this contest again in the near future cause it was so fun seeing team concepts.

You can’t really make the halibut first place if you’ve spent multiple entries criticising teams for not having aggressive names. It just seems like there weren’t very consistent grading schemes.

Congrats Jdb4rt great concept what a fun contest great jerseys everyone!!

Kinda upset that i didnt get in the video, but my goodness that Alaska one was amazing. Great #1 pick

Love the Franklin submission. I know exactly where both of those spots are in the city. I personally would have chosen the rebels or something else related to the civil war. The town is so historic and if I did the contest I probably would have put a desaturated sublimation print of a war cannon.

The Halibut Secondary logo would look sick on a hat

I thought the Halibut would be eliminated for looking like Nashville in terms of jersey design.

There were also the Detroit Cougars before the Redwings

Love that Renards jersey and concept. Good job to everyone though, I didn't even finish mine.

Lots of cool entry's and thanx for wearing cbj

That Melbourne is not Australia’s Melbourne if you look on the jersey it has a Canadian flag on captaincy

I was unfortunately unable to send my teams but I agree with the winner. Long story short my team was Called the Belfast Bombers and the colour scheme was khaki green, black, red and a tiny bit of orange.

Franklin Tennessee is a suburb of Nashville, within a half hour drive. Just make a plan to go to a Preds game I guess!

Fun contest, we're almost neighbors too loll👍

Brockville Armada looks like the White Castle Logo

Will you ever do another march madness style videos like a ranking of jerseys in the world, like you did the best logo in the world (winner was Glasgow Clan if my memory is correct) it was a ton of fun to watch

I might do this next time

Awesome submissions by all! I was thrown off right away though by the Medicine Hat Venom submission though, as the logo and name are literally ripped off from the minor program Med Hat had in the early 2010s. 😬

My sister's team is the Ice Vixens and they use a fox that fits.

The Alaska Hallibut can be used as a ECHL Team

I don’t think he gave the Aviators logo at 40:50 enough credit cause the smoke coming from the plane is actually the yellow swoop that makes the middle line in the “A”. And I just don’t think he saw that

These are cool to see!

Franklin TN is near Nashville

Can't believe I made it as far as I did. I literally finished the jersey and thought, "Hmm, maybe the volcano should be erupting... Oh well, it's done. I need to just submit it." So funny.

I had an idea, being in Surrey BC (just outside Vancouver) to do something for the Surrey Ti-Cats. I wouldn't have ripped off the CFL team in Hamilton, but the whole thing would have just been a rip on that Hamilton/Toronto has tried for a second team in that region, and here would be a second team serving Vancouver. It was good for a quick laugh, but actually committing to the idea just felt in bad taste to take any further.

It's possible to insert these logos on NHL23 ?

I think bird names were common because they aren't many in NHL. Only true bird is Ducks but their logo is a foot. Flyers and Red Wings are close but not birds. Capitals have an Eagle in a logo but the name isn't a bird. Most other leagues have multiple ones.

Is this a record for longest video on your channel?(Excluding the podcast)

Wow im early, but that’s not important, wrote this before watching: congrats to the winner!

I find the Beaver's one a very interesting concept. 10/10 jersey, very echl feeling logo.

I would buy a Barrie Lakers jersey. Those were beautiful.

The Hazard jerseys look like soccer unis.

NH "Old Men", doens't that refer to the "Old man in the Mountain"? Used to be the symbol of NH until it crumbled away...

A little help with Gloucester. Say it like Glawster. Little bit weird.... But hey

27:13 I would love to buy one of these

I asked a question and you said no former nhl cities or team names

What if the rosemont renards would be called the rosemont fox

The chickadees is an awesome team name for a female only team.

Yo I’m from Chattanooga!!!

I made a team of shallotte NC Trojans because we are big on our high school football

OSh gosh is in Wisconsin

The Old Men is the best team name of all time

What about mine? I submitted the Wisconsin 48ers

Oh no a huskies kid

the phoenix looks too much like the firebirds new ahl

Wyoming exists?

I could somehow see myself as announcer for the Horror. Just saying.

You spent the entire video explaining how some submissions were eliminated because the team name wasn't aggressive enough, or because they used colour combos that were the same as current NHL teams. Then you pick a winner that named their team after a fish, with nashville cplours... 🤦‍♂️

Dan the mannn

Oh my gosh I live in o’fallon IL that was so cool! Does drew have a channel or social media?

Love the Ukraine flag in the background

He 100% deserves the win, that brand is nhl worthy

Urkraine colors jersey

really. you ned to see ncaa jersey . you cop out. get ncaa educated. get educated

number 3 is trash its got bruins and penguins colors are you serious lol there was way better ones out there

Aaayyyyyyyyy

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