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Last week, the NHL unveiled its jerseys for the 2023 NHL All-Star Game at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Fla. The league went with a Reverse Retro strategy this season, so let’s examine whether or not it labored.
Over the previous few years, each NHL staff has launched two Reverse Retro jerseys, and so they have largely been successful with followers of each staff. Because of that success, the NHL selected to take that route by redesigning the jerseys from the 1994 All-Star Game with a purpose to give them a glance extra acceptable for South Beach.
The up to date away jersey incorporates a white torso within the form of a star with the old-school Western Conference brand within the middle. Black and pink piping separates the underside of the torso and the sleeves, that are coated in a neon blue
The house jerseys, which belong to the Eastern Conference on this occasion, characteristic a black star-shaped torso with neon pink and blue piping and a white accent on the backside of the torso and sleeves.
Even earlier than this redesign, the 1994 All-Star Game jerseys have been a private favourite of mine. Add in the truth that I’m a sucker for nostalgia, any sort of Miami Vice shade scheme, and the orange and black NHL brand, and I believe these are a few of the finest All-Star jerseys in a very long time. The NHL hit a house run with each of those, and it is onerous for me to even discover a small nitpick. Grade — A+
Now we’ll should see whether or not this sport is pretty much as good because the 1994 All-Star Game. Legends like Wayne Gretzky, Brett Hull, Brian Leetch, Ray Bourque, Joe Sakic and plenty of others took the ice at Madison Square Garden in a star-studded affair. Alexei Yashin scored the game-winning objective with lower than 4 minutes remaining to present the house staff Eastern Conference All-Stars an exciting 9-8 win.
The puck will drop on the 2023 All-Star Game at 3:00 p.m. ET on Feb. 4 with ABC broadcasting the festivities.
