A Bastian of Third Jerseys

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Bastian Schmülling Week continues with a series of alternate sweaters. Ever since the 2010 Winter Classic, I've been waiting for the Bruins to introduce a yellow third jersey. Is now the time?

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The Lightning will unveil a new third jersey next season. Will it be black? If it looks like this, I sure wouldn't mind.

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And how about a grey Sharks jersey? The Stadium series proved grey could look good on the ice. I think it would look even better with a splash of color in the stripes — as opposed to the black and white we saw with the Kings.

Tomorrow is all about the yellow jersey.

A Bastian of Tradition

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This entire week's worth of concept art revolves around one guy. Bastian Schmülling is by far one of the most prolific designers submitting work to Icethetics. But it's not just sheer volume that makes Bastian stand out. It's his attention to detail and his eye for a great hockey sweater.

His work has a very traditional and classic sense. I selected these three designs to display today because I think they're a good representation of his particular style. I could see that Blues jersey on NHL ice tomorrow.

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Even these Senators and Oilers designs are sharp designs the quality of which is being lost in today's modern Reebok-based NHL. It's great to see someone thinking like this.

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As promised, this entire week will be filled with Bastian's designs — and even at three concepts per day we'll still only be scratching the surface of his volume of work. But there's definitely some great stuff to come. Each day will feature a special theme.

Hope you guys like his work as much as I do or this could be a difficult week!

8-Bit Sochi

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Who doesn't love some classic 8-bit hockey jersey art? Al McCready is always there for us in that regard. With this submission, he tackles all 30 Olympic hockey sweaters used a couple months in Sochi.

By the way, our Olympic Jersey Tournament is down to the final four so get over there and vote!

Southern California Remix

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This could be a neat Winter Classic jersey for the Kings someday. Brian Brideau has mixed a few eras to come up with this look. What do you think?

Don't Freak Out, Nashville

As a follow-up to Tuesday's April Fools' Day post, what if another team tried to use the Sabres' third jersey? It could certainly work for the Predators. You'd just have to think of the sleeve swords as fangs. Avi Stein could do it. What do you think? Is this template any less freaky when applied to another team? Or more?