There's a fine line between clean and boring and I'm sad to say these fall more under the latter. I loved the Sharks old jerseys and always thought the only change they needed was to get rid of the numbers on the chest. Sadly they kept those and got rid of the waist and shoulder striping. They just remind me of the Leafs jerseys when the league switched to the Edge cut and had their mostly blue pyjama looking uniforms. Not suprising the Leafs tweaked the sweaters only a few years later to add waist striping and thicker sleeve striping.
And what is this BS about reducing weight? Do a few stripes really make that much of a difference. Can you imagine if a player skated off the ice out of breath and complained to the coach that his jersey was too heavy? "Damn coach, how am I supposed to score when I have to lug these shoulder yokes and waist stripes around all night?" Yeesh.
On the plus side I'm glad they kept the teal color because lord knows the league needs something other than red, blue, and black. Also I can see why they'd do this to increase continuity with the "clean" look of their black jerseys.
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