Morgan33

Here's the thing people tend to overlook about black on sports uniforms... Neither black nor white are technically colours. They are neutral shades. Putting the black equipment in the colour hierarchy of this uniform is like doing the same with the white uniform base. The actual colour hierarchy of this perfectly balanced uniform is Burgundy > Blue > Silver*. Just like on the home version. *although silver could technically be classified as a shade as well, And while this is significantly easier on the eyes than its garish, home counterpart, it's still not a very well balanced or thought out uniform. All that blue on the equipment and numbers and hardly a single trace of it on the actual jersey. Blue and Burgundy needless competing for dominance on the uniform. Blue and Burgundy touching when the whole reason for black equipment in the first place was to avoid this visually unappealing and contrast-less pairing.

How? Blue completely overpowers their main colour at home and on the road, you have burgundy and blue touching, which as their Edge disasters proved, looks awful. The blue numbers on the road, outlined in burgundy look terrible too. The whole set is just a mess. Every change they've made since 1996 has been a downgrade including darkening the burgundy. Give me the Forsberg, Roy, Sakic look any day of the week. There was nothing wrong with that set until Reebok destroyed it and Adidas forgot to bring back the double mountain stripes when attempting to fix it. This a balanced uniform This is a blue-heavy mess They're still using all those colours anyways. It's not as if black is completely absent from the uniform.

It's been 4 seasons and I still absolutely loathe the Avalanche in blue equipment. Championship or not, it still looks awful. The original uniforms were designed for Blue to be the secondary colour and for blue and burgundy to never touch... Yet this idiotic decision breaks both of those rules. It looks the worst at home where the blue completely overpowers the burgundy base. It's time for the Avalanche to bring back the uniforms that hoisted the cup in 2001... The colours were properly balanced, the numbers were more legible, the mountain striping looked better and the footprint shoulder patches actually matched the art style of the primary logo. Everything about that set is superior to the dogs dinner they have now. Bring back the original set, keep the navy alternate and don't change anything again.

Whatever they do will likely be sunk by oversized striping, numbers and other unnecessary gimmicks. Using the neon green wouldn't be bad if it was done tastefully.

it's a blanket statement for sure, but I stand by it. With the exception of what Seattle did recently, underwhelming is a generous way to describe those uniforms you listed. Vancouver and Dallas cheated us out of potentially great looking faux-backs based on their respective team's actual histories, Calgary had a truly horrible colour scheme, Minnesota looked goofy with the brown elbow patches, Winnipeg shoehorned a contemporary logo on a retro jersey and the rest simply looked boring.

Yeah, and they've all looked underwhelming at best. The worst of which, being the Dallas Texans fauxback which resulted in little more than a green Detroit template with a logo whose only interesting feature was the felt material it was made of. Just because a design is old, doesn't mean it's worth bringing back. The St Louis Eagles jersey is a relic from an era where little time and consideration were put into uniform design. The striping is derivative, the colours are synonymous with much more iconic teams and the logo is a third rate illustration at best. The St Louis Flyers jersey is the gaudy bastard child the New York Americans and Washington Capitals with no aesthetic ties to the current franchise what so ever. Neither of those designs are worth resurrecting.

They shouldn't throw back to the Eagles sweater because they're not the St. Louis Eagles. They're the St' Louis Blues, a second six franchise started in 1967. The Eagles were around for one season in 1935 and had an 11-31-6 record. Not exactly a sterling history worth remembering. A 1987-1994 throwback, with a few tweaks, has the potential to look amazing. Hopefully this is the direction they take.

I hope their appearance on the ice wasn't too triggering for you.

Proper stripe widths, contrasting shoulders and real hem stripes go a long way. Just replace the black base with Navy.

I recall people claiming this* evoked Blue Lives Matter... How ridiculous. *the best jersey the Blue Jackets have ever iced.

Nah, the current jerseys are still . They could win 10 championships in a row in them and they would be still be bland, characterless trash completely ill suited to represent a cool and exciting name like Lightning.

It's better than their last two attempts at a black alternate but that really isn't saying much. Everything about the construction of this jersey screams "lazy." From trying to pass off a poor shoulder patch as the primary crest to the maddening use of Detroit's single, floating hem stripe (again!). It's an alternate jersey. The hem is allowed to be different from the home and roads. Why not use a hem design similar to your first black jersey? All it would take is making the bottom stripe blue. I like the use of silver on the sleeve stripes but why is it featured nowhere else on the jersey? Adding some metallic silver to the logo and numbers would have gone a long way as well. The liberal use of metallic silver on the primary crest was the most distinctive element of their inaugural set. Why not give that shoulder-patch-turned-primary similar treatment? Or better yet, just use the inaugural logo instead. Overall, it's just another "alternate for alternate's sake" that proves that creatively in NHL third jerseys was last seen on the back of a milk carton... I honestly hope the Fanatics switchover gives us a break from third jerseys for a while. So many of them are either pointless, lesser versions of their primaries (see NYI, Edmonton, Pittsburgh and Washington) or complete dumpster fires that sink their respective brands (see Arizona, Dallas, New Jersey, NYR, Philadelphia and Toronto).

I'm just glad somebody brought those colours back since Dallas would rather ice an even tackier "Black Ice' fashion jersey than honor their true history... Those colours are too good for nobody to use them. Just get rid of that hideous advert and it's one of the best looks in the league.

I'm sure people on here have had more than enough of posters whining about jersey adverts... But that "TRIA" patch is just absolutely horrendous and spoils the entire look. We finally get proper North Stars colours back after 30+ years and they're ruined by that.

Agreed. Their entire uniform history, since winning the cup in 06, has been an endless comedy of blunders... Cluttering their distinctive Championship jerseys with unnecessary piping. Ditching their storm flag striping to play Team Canada cosplay and having a generic road counterpart that doesn't even match. Somewhat redeeming their home jersey for the Adidas changeover while leaving the road unchanged. Managing to make their already abysmal road jersey even worse with a derivative diagonal script, bush-league nickname and worse striping. Making their ridiculously ugly Black alternate their full time home jersey. Bringing back their best jersey for one season before retiring it for good. Not having a matching home and road in over ten years. Not being able to decide on a primary logo. Coloured helmets on the road. Minimizing silver to the point where it barely exists. The list goes on and on...

I respectfully disagree. What happens to the darkest of skies when they are illuminated by Lightning... They can turn white, even if it's only for a split-second. I see the Lightning Reverse retro as a capture of that split second and in that context it works. I'm sure many will disagree with this interpretation but I love that jersey. Hell, the two Reverse Retro's are the only good designs the Lightning have come up since winning the cup in 2004.

Not that it really matters but "Eggplant" just sounds better to me.

Navy or not, it's an absolute travesty that this is not their full time alternate.

They probably did if they went through the trouble of creating this monstrosity . I can't stand the Stadium Series... Drove the whole Outdoor Game concept right into the ground. There should just be a Winter Classic and Heritage Classic.

The Devils should have just worn their Green Reverse Retro's. Those were way to good to last just one season.

+1. I would have honestly preferred they just went with a Navy version of their home jersey... It wouldn't be remotely creative but it at least it wouldn't look like hot garbage.

That Sharks third looks fantastic. It would look cleaner without the gradient but that's just a small nitpick. This is the fist time a long time where a team's third jersey unveiling didn't scream "alternate for alternate's sake."

The Rangers and Flyers are decent. I actually like what the Flyers did more than their actual jerseys. New Jersey and NY are atrocious. This trend of Dark striping on dark bases needs to die.

Contrast? What's that? An important design principle? Nah...