With the 2024 NHL All-Star Game taking place on Saturday, my Uni Watch Premium article on Substack this week is a ranking of my 10 favorite NHL All-Star uniforms.
You can read the first part of the article here. In order to read the entire thing, you’ll need to become a paid subscriber to my Substack (which will also get your full access to my Substack archives). My thanks, as always, for your consideration and support!
IMO hockey’s aesthetics, more than any other sport, are tied to the equipment. The helmets, the gloves, the size of the shin-guards, they all give hockey such distinct eras. I miss the old block CCM logo!
You never see Tackla pants anymore. That brand was all I wanted to wear for hockey pants in my minor hockey days. And only the Cooper SK 2000 helmet too.
I still remember that in the Inaugural season for the Mighty Ducks, the players only wore Tackla pants. I assume it probably had to do with the ability to color-match the fabric to the ‘plum’ the team wore.
And it seemed like all the Russian Red Wings players wore them too!
I look forward to reading it. Safe to say many of the recent NHLAll-Star uniforms don’t stack up to the classics from 1970s to 1990s.
Every single one from the decade of the 80s is awesome.
I have a Pelle Lindbergh Wales Conference jersey and it’s one the best ones I own.
Worked on the 1994 NHL All-Star Game, that was the first year of the white-teal Eastern Conference jerseys and the black-purple Western Conference jerseys, both with a star body pattern that Dallas later adopted. Was a neat departure from the black, orange and white uniforms shown above, although I really liked those, also.