Atlanta Thrashers Home/Alternate Jersey 2003-2011

 

The Atlanta Thrashers came into the league during the 1999-2000 NHL season as a part of the 4 team expansion era with Nashville, Columbus and Minnesota. Unlike those 3 teams, the Thrashers had ownership issues, problems with selling tickets and their products and ultimately sold the team to an ownership group based out of Winnipeg in the Manitoba province of Canada. With an atrocious jersey like this one, which they wore for most of their home games, it's no wonder why nobody wanted to come to games or buy their merchandise.

So what's so wrong with it? Well for starters, there's the whole blinding color scheme with "Thrasher Ice Blue" taking up most of the jersey. It's such a terrible color choice and yet they felt that it was smart to make most of the jersey that color. It's not even one of the original team colors so the use of this color is unnecessary and a huge mistake. Then we get to the sleeves. One side features the old Thrashers logo, which looks fine to me. But then they decided to add a dark blue color and the bold-faced Atlanta to the left side sleeve. Who thought that was a good idea? The concept comes across as second rate; a thought shared by the author of this story. It's almost as if they thought about using that design for the whole jersey but scrapped the idea and just threw it on there. The use of red, white and blue on the dark sleeve pattern comes across as tacky.

My final thoughts: Truly a horrendous jersey design. This is hockey after all, not soccer or football where jerseys like this one would be more common and accepted. The Thrasher Ice Blue color does not exude masculinity, therefore making anyone who wears it feel emasculated. No wonder why they only made the playoffs once in 12 seasons. They were better off with their original home sweater.