NHL.com is doing a little remodeling! Its about time.

NHL.com has a redesign in the works!  They are moving away from the boring, cluttered, poor layout they have been managing and bringing in a new design that still delivers the information, but to me, in a less cluttered … more “social media” centric way.  You can see the new layout by going HERE … At first glance, what impresses me about the “look and feel” is the grayed out navigation bar along the top with the game schedule also subdued until you hover your mouse over the game or team you want to click on.  By making those links blend into the site the NHL has now brought the very colorful pictures to the forefront.  The first thing I noticed is how vivid the pictures are and how much room there is on the site now.  I like how they have centered the site also instead of having it justified left (like they have @ nhl.com) and they finally did away with the ice background and went to a clean black back drop that is also helping in making their pictures POP!  It looks like they are running this in a beta format right now which means you might run into some issues.  Links not working, load times being longer than usual, empty space not looking “right” … but aside from that, I think this is a step in the right direction.  Check it out for yourself …

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