NHL Scoreboard Rebuilds

It has been four years since I started the scoreboard section of this site, where I have archived many of the NHL scoreboards including all of the current boards. It all started with CanuckFanatic92 who was a huge contribute to our center ice site. He began working on scoreboard recreations of old NHL scoreboards. The work was particularly hard as the dot matrix displays of the day were complicated an very unique to each team. His work was so incredible that we knew it needed to be featured as an archive.

This inspired me to start working on current day LED scoreboards. The thing is, I had never done anything like that. I had created ice graphics but nothing like recreating any sort of standing structure. It was the beginning of an adventure that has lead to our full scoreboard section with all current NHL boards and many of their old scoreboards.

Over these four years, I have learned tricks along the way, and worked on accurate perspectives on scoreboards. I have learned a lot from watching our 3D scoreboard partner Dryve and learning from his models.

Our recent scoreboards have come a long way, but this means some of our old scoreboards look pretty rough in comparison. Recently I decided it was time to rebuild some of the original scoreboard recreations with a few goals in mind. I wanted to make them all more of a head on view, but not so close up that it gave the scoreboards sort of a fish-eye look. You will see that fish-eye look in boards like Vegas especially. Here is a look at some before and after images with the rebuilt scoreboards on the right side.

You can also view our most recent scoreboard recreations and updates at https://scoreboards.thefaceoff.net/search/label/_New.