St. Louis Blues Might Have Third Jersey In 2018-19

The St. Louis Blues have a mixed history when it comes to third jerseys. Much of it is recent, but you have to get it right if they get the opportunity.

The NHL recently announced that a handful of teams will have third jerseys in 2018-19. The St. Louis Blues could very well be one of those teams.

Whether this is something to be awarded by the NHL or decided on by Adidas remains to be seen. The league got rid of all third jerseys in 2017-18 as the league switched to the predominantly soccer company. It is unclear how well that went since plenty of jerseys were so similar to their Reebok counterparts that some fans may not have bought new ones.

However, that makes this coming season a perfect time to roll out third jerseys for some of your teams. St. Louis would be a good choice for that since our jerseys were basically identical.

I do not advocate for these money-grubbing companies, but from a financial aspect, it would make sense. People who did not buy an Adidas jersey last year would be more likely to if there was a third option.

The main issue right now is nobody in the public sector knows who or how many teams are getting one.

In a brief blurb on ESPN, it sounded like a third of teams might be having the third jersey. That would work out to about 10 or 11 teams.

"“We are bringing back third jerseys next season. I can’t tell you the number exactly, but about a third of the teams will have a different one,” said NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly via ESPN."

However, JerseyWatch, a site dedicated to this sort of news, thinks it could be as high as 19 or 20 teams that get the treatment. In their article, they suspect the Blues will be one of the teams getting a third sweater.

So, if St. Louis gets one more uniform, what would we like to see?

Personally, I liked them, but never fully warmed up to the dark blue ones with white numbers. Call me a purist, but I just never cared for the round logo. I did like the incorporation of the Arch, but it just never popped. I felt like it looked better on the fans than on the ice and that’s not a good thing.

The option JerseyWatch brings up would be a return of the Winter Classic style. I would be fine with that as it is a clean, classic look.

You would have to find a way to tweak that a little bit. If you have the exact same sweater, that makes it feel less special.

It would be an interesting decision. The Blues have an odd history of jerseys.

Prior to the navy blue jersey, the last “third” jersey was in 1999-2000. That was essentially just the introduction of the jersey that would become the full-time sweater the following year.

Before that, you had the jerseys my family has dubbed the Ronald McDonald jerseys.

The white ones looked ok. The blue ones…well, they were blue. And red. Oh, man…lots of red.

Anyway, those would be possibilities, though they are likely better left to history at this point.

One other option, perhaps even worse than the musical staff jerseys, would be a jersey with St. Louis written across the body.

Colorado wore a style with this back in the late 2000’s and it was bad. I’m sure plenty of people liked it, but nobody should have these kinds of jerseys except the New York Rangers.

It is simply just not a good look. Maybe you could make it look ok within the color scheme of the Blues, but the Blue Note is too much a part of this team’s history. Just having a jersey that says “St. Louis” would be boring.

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Time will tell if St. Louis is even one of the teams. There are several teams with anniversaries this year, which might unveil a new jersey as part of the celebration.

Here’s hoping we see something similar to the Winter Classic sweater return. That would likely be the one to unify the most fans behind it. After all, fans are the ones that will be buying them.