Downgrade in my opinion.
Take the numbers off the front of the "old" set, and the patch, and the uncluttered look goes away. The orange around the numbers and letters was good, as was the yolk...and the collar was good too.
If you wanted to make a change to reduce the busy look further, maybe take the thick white stripe off/reduce the size off the bottom and arms of the dark jersey, and take/reduce the same thickness of black stripe off the light jerseys. Instead they just cut off the bottom third of the jersey, took away the collar (at least on the home set) and tacked on some laces.
New ones looks more like the dark Oilers set before they went back to the light blue, a glorified practice jersey with arm stripes, with no collar.
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