Rumor: NHL might go back to white jersey at home, dark on the road in next CBA.

[Suntouchable13]

Teams shouldn't have home and away, they should go to the soccer standard of having primary, secondary, and tertiary kits. Home team chooses, road team can wear whichever kit is deemed not to clash with the home team's choice.

NBA also doesn't have home and away.

 

[johnnybbadd]

Please do it. Make some select games a choice for the home team.

 

[kvladimir]

I want it so bad, but I understand the backlash. Ultimately, there are two things at play here:

1. Yes, it is absolutely better to get the colour variation game to game by having home wear white and road wear a colour.

2. The quality of white jerseys needs to be improved significantly. Some teams get it (DET, BUF, BOS, NYR, CGY, MIN, DAL, STL), but many could be waaay better.

I just made a new CBJ set recently (after seeing the chevrons on CBJ's Winter Classic jersey), and I think it's an example of how you could make this change a welcome one:

 

[Nogatco Rd]

No whites, home or away. Every team should have a solid color and a black jersey.

IMO the worst trend in pro sports uniforms is when teams wear black jerseys when there’s no black in their color scheme.

Reminds me of those off brand fake jerseys you’d see someone selling on the sidewalk where it has the team’s name on the back instead of a player's

 

[The Nuge]

I’d much rather they go soccer style, and let both teams wear whatever colour, if they’re different (eg Oilers and Islanders couldn’t both wear blue, but Dallas could wear green and Detroit wear red)

 

[njdevils1982]

I want it so bad, but I understand the backlash. Ultimately, there are two things at play here:

1. Yes, it is absolutely better to get the colour variation game to game by having home wear white and road wear a colour.

2. The quality of white jerseys needs to be improved significantly. Some teams get it (DET, BUF, BOS, NYR, CGY, MIN, DAL, STL), but many could be waaay better.

I just made a new CBJ set recently (after seeing the chevrons on CBJ's Winter Classic jersey), and I think it's an example of how you could make this change a welcome one:

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would look like 98-99 rangers on ice with that white version. red pants on both teams. does columbus still wear blue pants on occasions? it's a better look

New York Rangers 1998-99

 

[Avs2022]

I've always preferred white jerseys at home. No idea why.

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

The NFL has one game a week. NHL teams go on road trips and don’t want to clean, dry, and haul an extra set of jerseys and helmets around North America for a week and a half.

Won't someone please think of the bottom line?

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Nice, have always preferred home whites. That way you get to see different colored road jerseys throughout the year. Otherwise it's always your team against white.

 

[JoVel]

I'd want to watch my team in the team colors at home because there are like two white jerseys in the league that aren't boring as hell.

 

[Barrie22]

I’m old so I support this.

I am old old where i remember the oiginal change from this to whites at home and darks on the road.

 

[hangman005]

I hope this is a rumor and nothing more.

 

[Shark Finn]

Awesome.

 

[Perfect_Drug]

Well no one wants anyone to have to work a little harder than usual or godforbid create a couple of new jobs for people.

Billion dollar organizations can afford a few extra jerseys no?

 

[5 Minute Major]

Just change half way through the year and everyone is happy. See how easy that is.

January 15th.

 

[Mobiandi]

Changing from whites at home to darks is the best decision the NHL has made in the past 25 years. Reversing it would be monumentally stupid

 

[bobholly39]

They should let the local team choose.

Example - I'm a Habs fan. Montreal player 41 games in Montreal. Let them do something like:

~15 games they wear whites
~15 games they wear red and other teams where whites
~11 games they were red and other team wear their own colors (ie Habs in red vs Leafs in Blue)

And it would be up to Montreal's management to decide who wears what for Montreal games. And same for other markets. Can fluctuate

 

[TheOrganist]

Good. I grew up with whites at home. It’s so boring seeing the same color schemes every home game. It always felt like a big game when Detroit or Chicago would come out of the tunnel in their road reds on a Saturday night in St. Louis.

 

[Ugene Magic]

Whites are just as hard to clean at home as on the road. I'd rather it stays as is. It keeps the stained whites where they belong.... "In the closet" / "In the garbage dump"

They were made to be replaced as often as toilet paper.

 

[GKJ]

One of the dumbest arguments in hockey. Just let everyone do what they want. Color vs. color would be ok, but you only have like 6 teams that don’t wear blue, black, or red.

 

[Mad Dog Tannen]

I am old old where i remember the oiginal change from this to whites at home and darks on the road.

Fun fact - it was HNIC that suggested moving to home whites in 1970. They thought it would make for more interesting broadcasts with colorful visiting Jerseys. (At the time of the suggestion it was just Toronto and Montreal on hnic.).

The reason for the switch to coloured homes was totally money. More opportunity to sell alternates etc and some cost savings/efficiencies on the road only taking whites. But the cost savings was a distant second reason.

Those suggesting the switch back to whites at home is for money - I don’t really understand.

This will be an interesting move. For teams newer than 2004, they have built their identity on those coloured jerseys (see @hangman005 and the sweet gold Vegas homes). So I’m not sure how widely this will be embraced. Obviously as a jets fan I friggin love it.

I would say I’d love it more if you had the option of having lights at home and darks on road. Designate certain colours as light or dark. Vegas could keep their golds at home. Teams can wear white when at home if they want. And Nashville can keep their ugly yellow jerseys and finally get a blue one. We all get more colourful jerseys.

Will we see a return of la kings true colours and jersey sets?

 

[kvladimir]

I'd want to watch my team in the team colors at home because there are like two white jerseys in the league that aren't boring as hell.

Oh, is that so? Ok, so out of EDM, BOS, DET, STL, NYR, BUF, CGY, MTL, MIN - which 7 are "boring as hell"?

... ok, I'll give you Utah, CAR, TB, NJ, WPG, LA, SJ, poor confused VAN, and even TOR, those could all use a bunch of improvement...

 

[GMR]

About time.

 

[kvladimir]

One of the dumbest arguments in hockey. Just let everyone do what they want. Color vs. color would be ok, but you only have like 6 teams that don’t wear blue, black, or red.

The easiest argument for this: the change was originally motivated by the introduction of 3rd jerseys, and most of them not being white - teams wanted to wear those at home. But, you could always just reserve the 3rd jersey (and occasionally, "road" jersey) nights for games against teams whose "road" jerseys wouldn't clash with the home team's primary colour!

If you have a black 3rd jersey, for example, schedule that for a game vs. DET, CGY, DAL, PHI, etc... Just avoid black and navy teams (OTT, CBJ, LAK, etc) and you would just need to know in advance which teams are wearing a black/navy 3rd on the road, if any of them decide to do that!

And if you're Nashville.......... no need to think about this at all!

 

[TheGreenTBer]

I like seeing the variety of away teams tbh. Maybe wear the colors at home in the playoffs ?

Me too.