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to know me is to know retro is in my
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DNA. But a goat head logo with the
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official Sabres colors of navy blue and
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gold that that just might sway me. Let's
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dig into the details of this hometown
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jersey remix that was leaked last week
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from Ice Thetics. Just a reminder, make
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locked in. We keep you connected. I love
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the Savers jerseys. I love them. I love
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them. I love that they're nostalgic. I
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love that they're retro. I love the
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original colors. I love that they're
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vibrant. I think they're simple and
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beautiful and cool. And when you play in
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important hockey games like the Sabres
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finally did this year, when you play in
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the playoffs, when you have significant
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momentum and moments in your franchise
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in front of a full barn and a nationally
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televised audience and a winner go home
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those jerseys look even better. Yeah.
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mid-season game against the Blue Jackets
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in front of 12,000 people, it it doesn't
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necessarily resonate the same way. But
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man, watching them against the Bruins,
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watching them against the Habs in the
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playoffs, those iconic jerseys of the
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original six and watching the Sabres
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jerseys on that ice with them, they're
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beautiful. They really are beautiful.
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And so the Buffa slug era was always a
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disaster. We knew it when it happened.
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It looked terrible the entire time. It
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had to go and to go back to what their
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original crest was and a and a color
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combination that they are synonymous
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with that has always felt right and it
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even was cemented more in the playoffs
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If this is true and aesthetics, which
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has done a tremendous job documenting
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NHL jerseys for a long time,
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has unveiled or is unveiling all of
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these potential remix jerseys.
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It really was a very polarizing thing on
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social media to watch. Sabres fans and
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NHL fans in general debate whether this
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was cool, whether this was lame, whether
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this was unfounded nostalgia
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and kind of mixed up in the the old
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Bills jerseys of the early 2000s where
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there was mismatched blues and weird
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piping and people start are starting to
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come around on that seemingly and it's
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like is that just nostalgia or was that
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ever a nice logo? I think the goat head
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logo and the goat head colors, while
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completely disconnected from the
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heritage of the of the uniforms
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are pretty cool. I think they're pretty
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cool on their surface. Yeah, I think
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part of this is nostalgia, and I'll be
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very transparent about this. There is a
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part of me that looks at jerseys from
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the '9s, and maybe at the time I didn't
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love them, and now I look back and go,
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"Ah, you know what? Pretty cool." So,
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I'm trapped in some of that as well. But
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I actually think in terms of jerseys
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that made a jump, a leap into the big
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graphic, splashy Ed Black, when in
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doubt, Ed Black era of the '9s and
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2000s, I think the Goa Head era was a
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really good one. I do. I think in
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comparison to a lot of other jerseys
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that missed the mark in that era, I
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think these are pretty cool. And yes,
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they're synonymous with the Stanley Cup
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final run of 99. They're synonymous with
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the the prime years and those great
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teams of the late 90s and early 2000s,
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multiple conference finals, nearly a
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cup. Yeah, they're synonymous with that.
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And so had they played in an era, had
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they played these in an era where the
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Sabres were dre, I think there would be
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less nostalgia for them, right? a little
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bit like the the Bills jerseys I'm
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talking about in the early 2000s, the
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Lee Evans and CJ Spiller years, etc.
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But I think objectively they're pretty
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cool as well. The color scheme, even
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though not loyal to what it originally
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was, the blue and the gold is pretty
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cool. The black and the red, it is
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pretty identifiable. Now, the Carolina
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Hurricanes have owned that recently, and
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so it's not, you know, as identifiable
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if you compare them to some modern
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jerseys and modern teams, but at the
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time, black and silver
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with stripes of red was unique to the
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Sabres. And there's a lot worse over
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crazy kind of garish logos of the mid90s
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than the Goathead. I mean, you know, the
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Goathead is pretty cool. It's not the
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Toronto Raptors Raptor dribbling a
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basketball. It's it's a pretty darn cool
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So, I say that to say I really like when
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the Sabres wear these as alternate
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jerseys. I think it it's perfect. I
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think you have the the navy blue and the
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gold heritage jerseys as your full-time
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kit, and then you have these as your
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every so often you sprinkle it in for
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the look, the nostalgia, and kind of the
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the oomph that you might get. And and
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look, it sounded like maybe the Sabres
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were playing with the idea, toying with
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the idea of wearing them in game seven
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against the against the Canadians.
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Didn't happen. There would be a fine to
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be had seemingly, but I like sprinkling
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them into the rotation.
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This jersey that you're looking at now,
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I don't love. I think there's too much
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white space on the sides. I don't like
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that it's all white on the shoulders
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with only those two blue stripes at the
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armpits. White again and then the blue
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kind of swath and then the and then
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gold. I don't like that look, but I'm
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just honing in on the the logo.
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I like the goat head in the blue and
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gold logo colors. I like the goat head
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in those colors. I think it looks cool.
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I think it looks clean. I have a few
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videos here and I've lamented on this
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channel about how in the NFL things are
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getting a little too simplified even
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though I like simplified and streamlined
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with the ice or the snow or the blizzard
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jerseys. The Bills pulled these out this
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year. I think it's been done. I think
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it's been overdone. I think when you
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have teams like the Cardinals going all
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white and everybody kind of mimicking
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the same thing, it loses its
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effectiveness. I think the goat head
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logo with a white interior looks really
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cool. Outline of that bold blue and then
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outlined again in the gold. I think that
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all works. Which is to say,
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I think this color scheme and logo works
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if you would just doll it up a little
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bit to look more like what the Sabers
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are wearing today with the traditional
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piping and striping, etc. on your sides
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and your sleeves. But in terms of just a
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hometown remix, I think it works. I
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think it works. Now, I got to see it
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obviously on a player. Sometimes you see
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these things on a a you know, picture,
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on a slideshow, on a video, and it looks
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different than it looks in in person.
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I'd have to see it. But I I think this
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can work. I think this can be cool. And
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I know that there's, you know, a lot of
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resistance, and thankfully so. I love
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that there's resistance to these kind of
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crazy color combinations. Like I hate
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the City Connect jerseys for the most
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part in Major League Baseball. I think
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they're so so stupid and so out of
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bounds, but there are sometimes a really
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creative combination that I that I do
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dig. And one of the reported leaked
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uniforms on this hometown remix are the
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hot pink panther Florida Panthers. And I
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think in special instances for special
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cities like Miami where you're kind of
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synonymous with something wild and crazy
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and fluorescent, I think that could
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work. I actually really have always
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liked the Fisherman Islanders logo. I
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like bringing that back. I I've always
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thought that was a cool logo. So, I
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think there's ways to use some of the
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silliness of the 90s to your advantage
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today as long as it's it's modeled
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correctly. And I think for the goat
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head, this this is I really do. Again, I
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think the current Sabres jerseys, which
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are the original Sabers jerseys for the
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most part with a little bit more
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vibrancy in them, are damn near perfect.
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I really think they're just damn near
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perfect. They they look so so so good.
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And when you get the embroidery right,
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it is just it's it's nails. It's
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beautiful. But if you're going to dust
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off a hometown remix, I'd rather have
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something like this, which does have
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roots in an actual jersey scheme that
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the Sabres had rather than something
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completely absurd, which so many of the
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City Connect and remix it, you know,
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stuff tends to do. So, count me as a fan
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at the moment of this as an alternate
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hometown remix jersey for the new
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