Califonia Golden Sharks

Made this California Golden Sharks jersey a little while back. 

Logo was created by RossTaylor.  It's a mash-up creation combining the California Golden Seals and the San Jose Sharks.  Think I first saw it on the Chris Creamer forum, but have also seen it posted in Icethetics, and Hockey Jersey Concepts.

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Originally got the jersey off Ebay.  It had an Azure Dynamics front crest and shoulder patches that I removed.  Left the two colour sewn on #27's on the back and sleeves.
If the striping of the jersey looks familiar it's the same style but different colours than the Sens 3rd jerseys used from 2008-2011.

Printed Ross's logo out and reproduced a template of it and made a tackle twill crest and sewed it on the jersey.

Here's the crest:

 and the jersey:

Hamilton Steelheads 3rd jersey?

Found a jersey on Ebay with the same striping pattern as the Hamilton Steelheads one.

Removed the crest on front but was a fair bit of glue residue left so I used some Goof Off to remove the majority of the residue.  Also removed the Concrete Pond front patch.  Left the back number and 'A' on as is.

Decided to use the fish from the shoulder crest of the actual Steelheads jersey as the main crest.  Was originally going to recreate the shoulder patch as a main crest with the gold shield like shape, but decided instead to just use the fish.  Scanned and made an enlarged photocopy of shoulder patch for template for the crest and went through my usual procedure for making the crest.

Here's the back of the crest.  You can see where I forgot to sew on the black eye shape before putting it on the jersey.

Sewed the crest on jersey and then sewed the black eye area I previously missed.

With the gold around the collar, jersey looks a little incomplete without gold anywhere else.  Could cover up the gold on the collar.  Maybe I could add a thin diagonal stripe or a add a variation of the 'STEEHEADS' that is diagonally across the lower section of the actual jersey.  Arm numbers with gold is another idea.  Thought of adding a shoulder patch, but haven't as of yet thought of a design I like for the shoulder patches - if I'm making it, it has to be fairly simple as embroidery would be the best way for very small detail and my couple attempts at hand embroidery sucked.  As the goalie in the crest of the actual jersey has a welding mask, was thinking of a welding mask or something to do with welding or steel working - sketched a few ideas but nothing I came up with really grabbed me.  Another idea would be to get a patch to do with the Department of Fisheries (or DFO or Fisheries and Oceans Canada as it is known now) as that Canadian Government department took over the team for a while in Season 2.  Another Possibility is an old Steelworkers Union patch.

In any case, the jersey is done - at least for the time being.

Power Play Hamilton Steelheads jersey

My jersey arrived in the mail today.  Purchased a jersey from Mr. Murdoch in St. Catherines, ON.  The jersey is a Hamilton Steelheads jersey from a television show from the late 90's called Power Play.  It originally was broadcast on CTV and the series lasted 2 seasons; it was also repeated years ago on Showcase.  Apparently it briefly played in the U.S. on UPN but was pulled after 2 episodes after it bombed there.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Play_%28TV_series%29

The best fan page on the show that I found that is still running is this one: http://www.g2creations.qc.ca/powerplay/.

A 1998 article from the film magazine "Take One" that the author has either quoted or has personally interviewed the producers of the show is online here: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Power+play%3a+putting+drama+on+ice.-a030155914

A Canadian online movie and tv guide has a brief description and review of the series: http://www.pulpanddagger.com/movies/p2_b.html#bot

 If you are looking for the series on DVD or even VHS you are out of luck; none were made.  Tough to find even clips of the show.  A fan of the show made a video montage set to the Tragically Hip's song 'Fireworks'.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snvI_P7CfzE

I would say the most well known actors/personalities that were on the show were Don Cherry (Coach's conrner on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada), Gordon Pinsent (Due South and many others), and Al Waxman (King of Kensington, Cagney & Lacey, etc.).  Famous hockey players that made appearances as themselves in the show include Bobby Hull, Guy Lafleur, and Jean Beliveau.

Onto my jersey.
Here's some pics.

The show must have renumbered a previous jersey for the Kerensky one.  You can see some glue residue around the numbers. Most evident on the sleeve numbers.

[EDIT - Oct 24th - found complete series online on You Tube.  They were uploaded by 'Twee de bourg' 3 years ago.  Here's a link to the first part of the first episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5KhsyrO0BM ]

Here's a couple screen shots; first one a head shot of the player in the dressing room, others back of player on ice.

 

60 plus hockey games in Duluth: October 2013

My dad and most of the older guys from my Tuesday/Thursday afternoon hockey went down last week to Duluth to play a couple games on Monday and Tuesday.  Like last year they played a team from Minneapolis; in addition this year they played a game against a team from Duluth.  Lost the first game and won the second.  Think the age requirement was dropped to 60 plus in order to have enough players for all the teams involved.  Like last year the games were played in what looks like a very nice looking rink: Sill Arena at the Duluth Heritage Sports Arena.  Here's a shot of the game between Duluth and Minneapolis.

Here's a team pic of the Duluth team.

and here's the Minneapolis team.

If this mini tournament goes ahead next year they have a trophy they are going to repurpose for it.

Ball Hockey 2013 & other stuff

Haven't put anything up in the blog for quite a while.  Call it part not having much to put up (unless I put up something other than DIY jerseys or dug up some pics of some old ones), and being either sick, busy, and/or lazy.

Got some pics of this past summer's annual Ball Hockey game.  Very humid and hot that day at Charry Park in Thunder Bay.  Dave Scott, a man comfortable in goal, was goalie on one side.

  
With no other takers, I put on the pads on the other side either for the first 2 periods or game 1 of 2 (however it went down in the books).

 
A couple people had to leave after that intermission and a couple more filled in; my wife who doesn't play hockey replaced me in goal played a more stand up style and had a better GAA than I did (I had 10 goals against).  I performed a fair bit better when playing out for the last period of the game.  Dave Scott had 5 or 6 goals against after the 2nd period; not sure if this pic was taken at end of the 2nd period or a bit earlier. 

A couple more pics from earlier on in the game.  One with a player about to shoot and one that may or may not have been a goal (I think that's the orange ball hockey ball just on top of my pad).

There were a couple team pics taken, but at this point it isn't known whose camera was used. I will post them if and when I see them.

Here's some pics of the Yothers crest I made and put on a jersey for the ball hockey game.

On a more recent event.  Last week my dad and a bunch of the over 60 guys went down to Duluth to play a couple games in a sort of mini tournament.  They played one game against a team from Minneapolis and one from a team from the Duluth area.  They lost the first game and won the second one.  I'll have to see if any pics were taken.

Also, made a rare appearance in goal last Thursday afternoon.  Wore the red, black and white striped German eagle jersey (and socks).  Stunk in up the first 10 minutes and switched from the dark to the white team after five quick goals.  Was a bit shaky at first for the white team but after some lucky saves, the turning point was a left pad kick save followed by a double stacked pad save the other way on the rebound and finished the play with a glove save while still down.  Got my head and body into the game and ended up with a shutout for the white side.

In addition, may have soon have some pics of a jersey I purchased.  Jersey is from a hockey television show from a little while back.  It should be arriving in the mail this coming week.

Coffee

Nothing new completed on the DIY front.  Working on a Ball Hockey 'Yothers United' crest for a jersey but it's just in it's starting stages.  Will post something when further along.

So here's what's become my addiction in the last couple years - coffee.  Never used to drink it unless I had to get up early in the morning, but now drink it on a daily basis.  Brother got me into drinking his brand - Kicking Horse; my favourite blends are Three Sisters and Kootenay Crossing.  It's pretty expensive so I almost always wait for it to go on a half decent sale.  Kicking Horse is a company from B.C.  http://www.kickinghorsecoffee.com/en/home 

Just use a cheap Black&Decker grinder for grinding the beans.  Since I'm the only coffee drinker in my household I just have this Melitta low tech single cup brewer that takes #2 coffee filters. 

BHL ticket and poster variations

With the BHL game being a little more than month away, and with me with my ass parked in the computer chair this Sunday afternoon decided to create a ticket for this year's game based on the poster.

Fonts used include, Bazar, FoglihtenNo01, Ballpark, Old Typography, and My Underwood. Programs used include Paint.net, Printhouse 2000, and Fotoflexer (online).  Why so many programs? because I'm too set in my ways/lazy to learn the ins and outs of some of Paint.net's many features, am very familiar with what Printhouse does (and doesn't) do, and Fotoflexer has some easy to use effects.

Speaking of features/effects.  I played around a little while ago with some effects on Paint.net and PhotoFlexer for the poster.  Here's a few selections - Blueprint, Bronze and Metallize.

That's all for now. I better get ready to head to my parents for Father's Day.