The 04s are an average set. Memorable because of the 2004 run and the fact that all sorts of people who have gone to 4 or 5 or less Flames games in the past 20 years in this city, have one collecting dust in their closets.
But they're based on the (at the time 6 year old) Blasty templates from 1997 (including fonts and numbers), which then spawned the home whites with that template, when they dropped the red and white pedestal set in 2000, and Ken King finally brought back a red jersey with this color way on that template.
Flames primary uniform colors should be white/yellow(gold)and red. Full stop. Whether the current retro design or something new, those are the colors and should be the only colors.on primary jerseys.
Black can be on a third set, I guess, but it seems such a lazy cop out in design when, as his been discussed, there are alot more options with materials and manufacturing to be able to have a lot less restrictions then even 5 years ago with various deisgn elements and colors being able to be produced.
League wide jersey program is next season or the season after, similar to reverse retro and hopefully the Flames come up.with something a little more edgy for that one off.
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