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Hello everyone! We have a couple of exciting opportunities for you to earn some free credits if you have a bit of a creative streak. If you’re a writer, website designer, or graphic artist, you could walk away with a few more credits than you had before. We have two different opportunities for you to win.

First, USA Hockey has collectively decided that it’s time to update our look. We’ll be using the official USA Hockey logo, but we need your help designing the jersey. To make it interesting, we are offering an award of 30 credits to the winning design. You do NOT have to be a US manager to win. Here are the guidelines for the design:

If you’ll notice, the two logos that have been provided are identical except for the colors. That logo is the crest for the jersey. You can modify the color scheme to different shades of blue and red if you feel it will serve the design better, but these are two suggested color schemes to consider. The image listed as default color scheme is the shading used by the official USA Hockey federation. The image listed as dark color scheme is simply a variation using darker shading. Please email all submissions making note of your PPM username to ppmusanationalteams(at)gmail.com. When emailing, please replace (at) with @. We have posted it this way in the article to avoid spam. The deadline for submissions is Sunday, May 18.

Next, the US Senior National Team and the US U18 National Team are each placing bids to host our respective Division 1 tournaments. In order to submit a successful bid, we need graphic artists who can design tournament logos and/or mascots. A supporting website can also help the bid, if you can design one and are willing to post statistics from the tournament. Otherwise, even writing up the bid presentation can be helpful. There can be a total of 4 organizers for each tournament, including the NT manager who is submitting the bid. The winning bid will receive 100 credits for their efforts. If you’re interested in helping with either bid, please contact Cory Martin or capsaicin for more details.