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Originally Posted by Bingo
at the risk of pulling an old scab off, I don't know why the Flames don't just do what the Oilers have done and bring back the full 1980s package.
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My guess is for some reason they want keep black as part of the set as introduced in 1995.
Pants or helmets or gloves, whatever, they'd rather have black than red. Then you have to have black as trim on a jersey to match etc.
Easy answer is to have an all black set as a third, and then no black at all in the home and away sets,, but then you've got two sets of pants and gloves and home helmets etc.
That's probably an issue for the equipment guys, though that was what happened when they used retros the last few years.
Oilers never had black as a trim color so it was easier to go back, and they use the same pants and gloves, for example, for all 3 sets.