2020-2021 NHL Changes

[Sport]

I think you can excuse the black gear because black is sort of the neutral color for hockey equipment. Skates are black, and pretty much everyone grows up wearing black pants in their learn-to-play classes, mite, squirts, etc. You play for a red jersey team? Black pants and helmets even if there's no black in your jersey. It's only once you get older and get on teams where the uniforms are a bit more expensive that maybe your team uses breezers that are a different color than black, usually color shells pulled over black pants.

 

That's a lot to say that we're all kind of used to black gear being used with jerseys and socks that it doesn't match. Black, as a color of its own is more ignorable too. Blue pants, though, are a much different statement. You have to go out of your way to choose to wear blue pants. And that blue color sticks out a lot more than black. They're okay with the burgundy jerseys (though, they have problems of their own and I think they should wear burgundy helmets instead of blue), but with the white jerseys they are really out of place. 

 

One quick change that would tie things together better would be incorporate the other colors into the pants so they feel more cohesive. A gray-burgundy-gray pants stripe down the side would do the trick. If they want to get fancy, maybe a mountain shape at the bottom of the shorts like the 90's Utah Jazz? 

[habsfan1]

4 hours ago, logo-maker said:

Finally, many in the Avs fan community are now calling the the blue breezer look, 'jorts' and not in a positive way (sadly not John Cena reference):

 

 

You can't see them. 

[habsfan1]

At first, I thought they wanted to fully phase out the black from the entirety of their uniforms. But they kept the black numbers. They still use lots of black, so what was the point?

 

Unpopular Opinion Alert: black pants are so much better. These light steel blue colored pants paired with the darker maroon main color of the jerseys, it's a godawful color combo. There's a reason why the Avs wore black pants for 25 years. It looks pretty good and there's black in the puck in their crest. Black is an official tertiary color of the Avs.

[AFirestormToPurify]

2 minutes ago, habsfan1 said:

At first, I thought they wanted to fully phase out the black from the entirety of their uniforms. But they kept the black numbers. They still use lots of black, so what was the point?

 

Unpopular Opinion Alert: blank pants are so much better. These light steel blue colored pants paired with the darker maroon main color of the jerseys, it's a godawful color combo. There's a reason why the Avs wore black pants for 25 years. It looks pretty good and there's black in the puck in their crest. Black is an official tertiary color of the Avs.

The black pants did look better with the original set that had a bit more black in the striping than on the simplified adidas uniforms, but agreed. There was nothing wrong with the black gear

[VikWings]

On 2/5/2021 at 7:16 PM, Nordiks_19 said:

Tampa's RR is the proof that they never should've switched away from this look

 

At the very least, it's proof they need to switch to black pants and helmets immediately. Even if they don't touch the jerseys.

[fouhy12]

Vegas is wearing gold helmets tonight.

 

 

[king_mahalo]

those are wild. I love it

 

They'd look great on the RR red jerseys

[ZapRowsdower8]

Just noticed that they are chrome. Terrible. 

[Ridleylash]

Oh great, we're seeing chrome helmets become an NHL fad. Just what I always wanted.

[philly97flyer]

Was this a complete surprise? Not a fan of the gold helmets with these uniforms, think it would be better if they only wore them with the gold alternates

[TheGoldenTriangle]

They should’ve waited for their next Gold alternate game before showing these off, hideous mismatching look right now.

[habsfan1]

 

[Ridleylash]

It looks so bad lmfao

[nlane33]

Way to ruin a good uniform, VGK. Doesn't match and can't say the helmet looks good on its own.

[CreamSoda]

Are these just for a Chinese New Years celebration?  They posted earlier a practice sweater for it. 

[TheGoldenTriangle]

1 minute ago, CreamSoda said:

Are these just for a Chinese New Years celebration?  They posted earlier a practice sweater for it. 

Oddly enough, I think they wore the Grey helmets with those practice sweaters. 

[alecgoff]

I feel like Vegas should have made their gold helmets shimmer like Notre Dame, rather than a plain chrome look to match the shine on the uniforms.

[Delicate Genius]

They look ridiculous.

[Prince Harry]

They are ridiculous. I love them. 

[GFB]

As the biggest proponent of gold helmets for Vegas, I’m thrilled.
 

In execution, the chrome really sucks the life out of the concept.