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The leaked Sabres “Hometown Remix” jersey is here — and Buffalo fans are already split.
It brings back the polarizing Goathead logo, but with the current blue and gold color scheme. So… does it work?
On this episode of Sabres in Six, D.A. goes thread by thread with a full uniform breakdown:
• Is the Goathead unfairly hated?
• Does the nostalgia hit?
• Does blue and gold save the logo?
• Is this actually cool… or just chaos?
• And why does this logo still stir up so much emotion in Buffalo?
As only D.A. can, it’s a full uniform analysis — part nostalgia, part design debate, part Sabres identity crisis.
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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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So, make sure you're subscribed. That
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way, we keep you safe. We keep you
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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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situation,
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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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to see this remix.
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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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franchise history,
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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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artistic
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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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logo.
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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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