November 12, 2024

Article Archive #47 - Prototype Blues

This post originally appeared on Hockey Jersey Concepts on January 6th, 2017.

Hello folks!  Do you remember those St. Louis Blues prototype jerseys from back before their inaugural season (pictured below).  Many people were hoping they'd wear those jerseys for the Winter Classic on Monday, which they didn't (you already knew that).  But if you were one of those people hoping for the prototype jerseys, I have some good news....

(Getty Images/Bruce Bennett) via TSN.ca/BarDown

The Blues are bringing those jerseys back and they'll be wearing them this weekend!  Well kind of, they won't be wearing them for an actual game, instead they'll be worn for the teams skill competition on Sunday.  Still though, I think it's cool that the Blues are reviving these jerseys at all.

Image from NHL.com/Blues

I'm also impressed at how accurate the Blues were at recreating these jerseys.  They got all the details correct, they even used the right fonts for the wordmark and the numbers.  It would have been easy for them to cut corners and produce jerseys that were close enough, especially since they're not even a game jerseys, but the Blues cared enough to do it right.

I'd still like to see these jerseys in a game one day though.  What do you think?

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