Top Five NHL Uniforms In Need Of A Rebrand
By Mike Majeski
1. Colorado Avalanche
Colorado Avalanche jersey Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports
No team’s uniforms were hurt more by the transition to the Reebok Edge uniform system than the Colorado Avalanche. The striping on the team’s home and away jerseys that first appeared on their inaugural evoked the Rocky Mountains and were like nothing else in the NHL. With the switch to the Edge, the Avalanche uniform took on a generic modern form filled with piping and color panels. The piping literally cuts through their Captain and Alternate patches! It is a mess that should have been rectified a long time ago.
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The Avalanche third jersey. Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports
Many of the teams that were handed generic “color by the numbers” jerseys and told that their old uniforms would not fit the new system, have since ditched the new look and gone back to some either resembling their original uniforms (see: Oilers, Islanders, Sabres) or have built a new classic look (Dallas). But still, Colorado holds on to the same Edgeified uniforms from 2007.
Even if Reebok cannot fit the original striping pattern on the Edge template, Colorado’s current third would not look half bad with the Avalanche logo slapped on it, instead of the slanted “COLORADO” wordmark borrowed from the Rangers.
The most frustrating thing about the Avalanche uniforms is that they have one of the nicer modern logos in the NHL. Yet, that logo is ruined by a mess of a jersey.
While the Avs are number one on this list, the way to fix their uniforms is really quite simple: set logo aside, take jersey, douse with gasoline, set on fire.