Hockey fans wondering what to wear in the summer can wonder no longer. Their favourite NHL team’s hockey jerseys have been re-invented as soccer kits, thanks to one keen Leafs fan.

Matt Pratt, a self-taught graphic designer from Toronto has designed home and away jerseys for all 30 NHL teams.

Pratt, 26, a child care worker who dabbles as a moderator for a reddit hockey forum started creating the 60 jerseys for fun earlier in the summer after discussions erupted in his chat forum about what the new Winnipeg Jets logo would look like.

Feeling hockey jerseys translated well to soccer kits, Pratt spent his spare time working away on his home computer to create the designs. The jerseys are found on his personal website: http://majupra.imgur.com/

“Soccer translates well,” Pratt told the Star, explaining both sports include high-stakes action and die-hard fans. “There is a lot of crossover between hockey and soccer fans.

“(Hockey fans) have nothing to wear in the summer.”

Pratt said his favourite jersey is a toss up between the Phoenix Coyotes and Winnipeg Jets. Pratt also created a set of NHL jerseys as soccer kits with no advertising with the cheeky tagline “What jerseys would look like if the NHL played the beautiful game and liked going broke”. Depending on the jersey’s design some took him a few hours to create while others took him days at a time.

He said he plans on creating a couple more for now-defunct teams, including the Quebec Nordiques and Hartford Whalers.

Pratt doesn’t plan on actually manufacturing the jerseys but says since word about his jerseys spread online a few people have contacted him suggesting they might manufacture them through third party sources. Pratt said he hasn’t heard from the NHL if the franchise is interested in creating such merchandise but would be happy – elated – to work with them.

So, would he expand his creativity to create baseball or football jerseys?

Nope.

“Baseball is too slow of a game,” he said, with a laugh.