Almost every team in the NHL has fallen on the Black Jersey market since the start of the Millennium. The list of teams that did not wear a black sweater in the last quarter of century is due to nine with the Kraken in Seattle to remove their name from that list yesterday, and I am not sure why they believe that this was a necessary addition to their cupboards. Seattle has a great color scheme that they can use to come up with a sweater, but that organization decided that Black was needed in 2025-26 while copying the retro idea of another team. Welcome to the Black Jersey era of Seattle!
With Jordan Eberle who carries the new threads above, we let this black alternative sweater look better in both required light spectrums.
Yes, you can see that correctly – the new alternative is glowing in the dark, just like the 2022-23 Vegas Golden Knights’ Reverse Retro Jersey. I am not saying that NHL teams are not original, but perhaps imitation is indeed the most sincere form of flattery. After all, the Vegas Golden Knights were the Stanley Cup champions in the same season, they wore their glow-in-the-dark sweaters, so maybe the Kraken try to call the same magic? Anyway, we have seen this before.
Which makes this sweater even more amazing Make an entire website To justify their use of a black sweater. I mean, full honor for trying to make it relevant by referring to the deep ocean where that world “is forged in the shadow and enlightened by the creepy glow of bioluminescence”, but the verbal diarrhea used to explain the characteristics of this sweater is something to see.
“Black from helmet to knife, this head-to-one look brings pure stealth in the ice with a matte black lid and sonar pings echoing over the sleeves and socks. It moves like one: liquid, quiet and built to rise.”
De Kraken ended last season as the 25th-overal team. Sonar Pings and “Pure Stealth” will not help you make the play -offs this year.
What surprises me is the huge missed opportunity that the cracks wasted here. They have the circumference of the “S” logo that is worn in the dark on the breast glow, but they have not made the opportunity to make the red eye of the cracks glow in the dark. From what I understand, a cracking in the deep ocean would live where it would rule over his kingdom in that dark empire, so why wouldn’t the eye glow red in the dark as an imminent memory of the fierceness of the cracking? How couldn’t something be the first to grab the cracking when they over “glow in the dark” elements? That eye should glow as bright in the dark as Sauron’s eye over Mordor in Jrr Tolkien Lord of the rings. It is invisible instead.
If you have read this blog for a long time, you know my feelings for teams that opt for black alternative sweaters when black is not part of their color scheme. This is difficult to just fail that aspect for that aspect, but that glow-in-the-dark Miss is a difficult mistake to overlook. The striping is poor and the lack of original cracking -colors is bad, so the cracks should have left this sweater in the abyss of where it came. It’s terrible.
I get that selling sweaters is how NHL teams earn money, but if you are a crack -fan, there are better options. Personally, the 2022-23 reverse retro jersey or the 2024 stage series Jersey are better options because they contain colors that are synonymous with the brand cracking, but perhaps I am too much of a traditionalist for these black alternatives. The best news I can break here is that they are will only be worn eleven times This season. That is a victory for me.
One of the reasons that we know very little about the depths of the ocean where light cannot reach is due to pressure. I have no idea how much pressure the designers of this sweater were under it when they came up with it, but sweaters like these are not allowed to be brought to the surface.
Until next time, keep your sticks on the ice!
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