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JunkyardAthletic

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  1. Bobcat Athletic in Los Angeles did the Thrashers jerseys.
  2. Trust me, I was waiting for that request...
  3. I quoted a price BEFORE he told me what he wanted done. Once that came out, I refused. As far as material is concerned, I do have "CCM Pro AirKnit" in stock, as well as a CCM-like UltraFil that most of you wouldn't be able to tell the difference, in stock. The whole thing sickened me to be quite honest. FYI, the person who phoned me on this is from the Denver area.
  4. Sorry for the late response... Trust me when I tell you, Bob was the one who originally did them back in the day. On a somewhat related note, someone called me two weeks ago wanting me to make them Burger King jerseys without logos and without my logo on the hem. The gentleman told me he had "all logos and numbers ready to stitch on". Just FYI that someone is trying to create counterfeits in order to pass them off as authentic.
  5. I need to make a correction to my post. I was informed yesterday that EPS does pay the license fee to customize jerseys, joining Stahl's as an NHLPA licensee.
  6. please delete; my apologies.
  7. The Kings wanted to. The NHL said no. Word is that the driving force behind the Kings wearing purple in the finals was Luc Robitaille, as he lobbied for it. One problem was that there were absolutely no jerseys for the NHL or TEAM LA store to sell to fans.
  8. No need to apologize. The whole thing is a mess...PERIOD.
  9. The NHL does have an official font guide for each team. With that said, the sizing of such is left up to the customizer. So yes, EPS for example can do an LA Kings jersey, HOWEVER, it won't be done to the EXACT specs that Bobcat does it as the Kings customizer, if that makes sense.
  10. With all due respect, you are completely incorrect. Teams choose their own customizer for the on-ice product. Any customizer selling their services OUTSIDE of that product owes the NHLPA licensing royalties for the player names they've put on a consumers jersey (which is actually collected by NHL licensing). Whether or not they choose to go after these guys is a different story. Reebok has no dog in the customizing race as they only make the jerseys and pay the NHL to be the exclusive jersey manufacturer. They make their money on the teams buying their s***ty jerseys at outrageous prices, as well as selling all of you their s***ty jerseys at outrageous prices. Then one wonders why so many counterfeit jerseys are being made and sold. As far as the fonts are concerned, the league and the team develop those together as a package with the logo, or, at the time of a new look on the jersey. It is usually left up to the team if they want to make a change or not (i.e. LA Kings switching back to white/black/silver and keeping the "old" font style). Currently, Stahl's is THE ONLY licensee for NHLPA with regards to the customization of jerseys. When a Stahl's kit is sold to a retailer to put on a jersey, they sell the license to apply it to that ONE jersey, in the way it was sent to the retailer. So, the number size could be off, the outline could be off, the letter size could be off, and the name plate is twill with twill letters instead of 1.0 or 2.0 material. Keep in mind that each NHL customizer makes the letters and numbers to THEIR OWN SPECS and not that of the NHL. The spec sheet that the NHL provides is simply a guideline for sizing and location of letters and numbers. Obviously, for simplicity, Stahl's would make everything a standard size.
  11. Long read... I'll say this, you point the finger at China and yes, they are a big problem. HOWEVER, if the NHL has turned their head to companies here in the U.S.A. making counterfeit jerseys, then your "job"/"hobby" is going to be a rough one. It is the NHL that controls the licensing of all of the logos. Any jersey with a player name on it shares the revenue with the NHLPA, and, the NHL also is supposed to monitor this. Teams have a "regional" license that can be assigned to local vendors in order for them to make certain products, however, jerseys are not part of that. Good luck!
  12. The name of the font is Tw Cen MT Condensed. We used it on some jerseys we designed and it was perfect!
  13. Disagree all you want. I did the jersey authentication tag for Bobcat starting in 2009-10, and each hockey season since. One of the teams I do is Tampa Bay.
  14. Correct on 2008. Before that, they were with AIS/Sportsrobe, which is where Bob from Bobcat was previously. Tampa has been with Bobcat since at least 2009-10, possibly a year earlier. 2009-10 is correct on Columbus.
  15. Sorry for the late response. We would not reproduce the Hockey East logo without their consent; sorry.
  16. It was discussed and the NHL put a stop to the discussion quickly.
  17. We make sublimated jerseys; not very difficult, except for the licensing of the logo...
  18. Actually, it wasn't just the Flyers. It was all teams with carry over jerseys from last year that got sent patches from Reebok, due to Reebok's large stock of jerseys for NHL teams that they had on the shelf. If a team had a new jersey (i.e. LAK White, Nashville), the jersey came with the wordmark stitched direct to the jersey.
  19. Correct sir. Bobcat Athletic does the jerseys. Thank you! We love what we do and we have fun doing it!
  20. Yes, I do the authentication tags for the Columbus jerseys.
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