Speculation: Do the Bruins' Uniforms need fixing?

What should the Bruins do with the uniforms?

  • Nothing: They're perfect as is

    Votes: 4 9.8%
  • Bring back the 1969-1974 Esposito/Orr look

    Votes: 6 14.6%
  • Bring back the 1980-1995 Bourque/Neely era look

    Votes: 30 73.2%
  • Bring back the 1995-2007 FleetCenter era look

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Something different

    Votes: 1 2.4%

  • Total voters
    41

smithformeragent

Moderator
Sep 22, 2005
34,354
28,222
Milford, NH
80's to 1995 all the way! Enough of the shoulder yokes. So many teams have them. It clutters the jersey. The solid white and solid black jersey's are such a cleaner look (with the Gold rim and Black rim spoked B). And yes, bring back the gold socks and give the Penguins back their socks. I really do wonder who's running the S-Show on Causeway when it comes to the Bruins uniforms.

I still can't believe they stuck with those Fleet Center hideous jersey's for as long as they did. This was a period in Bruins hockey where I never have an interest in revisiting.

The current road whites are another cluster of Bruins nothing-ness. Black shoulder Yoke (nasty) and the arm and waist striping which represents nothing in Bruins history. They couldn't even get that right!
Back when Dale Arnold used to post here, he mentioned he’d seen a preview of the 2007-08 uniforms and that the blacks were inspired by the 1970s darks and the whites by the FleetCenter lights.

You can sort of see the inspiration for the shoulders and hem stripes on the current set here.

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xStanleyCupsFor

Registered User
Sep 12, 2014
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I agree 100% with all of what you said! No other Original 6 team that moved into a new arena, changed their uniforms. The Bruins did a total make-over moving into the Fleetcenter.

It's like they didn't want to preserve any of the old Boston Garden history when they moved into new Fleetcenter.
Well who knows the reason. Probably something to do with sales. I hated those Fleetcenter jerseys. I think a 3rd jersey on special occasions is where you can experiment once in a while. Give the marketing department something to do.
 

Tonysil

Registered User
Jan 1, 2013
339
277
Springfield, MA
I'm nobody but I recently heard a rumor from a team related source that we were going to go back to the Bourque era jerseys next year. Could be nothing but I wouldn't throw it out there if I wasn't willing to get called on it in 9 months.
 

chizzler

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Jan 11, 2006
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I'm nobody but I recently heard a rumor from a team related source that we were going to go back to the Bourque era jerseys next year. Could be nothing but I wouldn't throw it out there if I wasn't willing to get called on it in 9 months.
I hope so!
 

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