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According to new reports from Oilers insider Tom Gazzola, all NHL teams will be getting a jersey makeover next season.
All NHL teams will get New Jerseys next season, insider hints
On a recent edition of the OilStream Podcast, Gazzola revealed that the NHL has designed a new set of alternate jerseys for each team to choose from for next season. It will be a themed jersey, like the NHL’s previous Reverse Retro trend.
There’s also something cooking for next year, league-wide.
So remember they had reverse retro one and two? League-wide theme coming in next year.
I know that the league provided each team with different options.
– Tom Gazzola
With discussion through the rest of the podcast, it seems possible it could be a riff on the MLB’s recent City Connect jerseys, which aimed to include some characteristics of each city.
Some other fans have claimed to have seen leaked information that supports the idea of league-wide new alternate City Edition jerseys. One detail about the Oilers, they may be looking at their first ever black jersey.
The NHL has been behind other sports leagues in adopting multiple jerseys as a source of team revenue, and a chance to excite fans. Recently contracting Fanatics as their jersey manufacturer, it makes sense they’d put their stamp on the league with new
Teams in NBA and MLB often have more than 4 jersey sets, while most NHL teams rarely wear alternates at all in comparison.
This should be welcome news to most NHL fans, and even to the Edmonton Oilers who have had great luck wearing alternates in recent years. We’ll see when the NHL formally announces the new threads are coming.
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