The Vegas Golden Knights Can't Keep Getting Away With Making Horrific Uniform Decisions
Jeff Bottari. Getty Images.As the judge, jury and executioner of NHL uniform style, I hereby find the Vegas Golden Knights GUILTY of doing entirely too much.
When Vegas first came into the league they had the speckled gold on their sweater and also found a way to work some white gloves into their standard away setup. Was it a little extra? Sure. But the team is in Vegas so we all gave them a little leeway. Plus I happen to think that white gloves aren't nearly as bad as some folks would make them out to be.
So yes, Vegas might have looked a little extra right out of the gate but that was their thing. Vegas. The city of lights. The entertainment capital of the world. It only made sense for them to dip their toe across the line. But you give these guys an inch and apparently they take 4.2 miles, or approximately the length of The Strip.
Clearly somebody in that organization's design team had a little too much extra time on their hands during the pandemic. First there were the Goldmember 3rd jerseys. Complete with the white mitts and all.
Ethan Miller. Getty Images.And honestly I'm not even too upset about these sweaters. They're a bit of an eyesore but that's the point. They're supposed to be bright. They're supposed to be blinding. They're supposed to give off that same "distract you from reality with glitz and glam" that the city of Las Vegas gives off. So whatever. We can give them a pass on this as well.
But then we get to the Reverse Retro sweaters. And while I feel like it may not have been up to them on whether or not they had a reverse retro this year (Adidas clearly needed to make some serious league-wide money this year), these uniforms make you feel like you just transported to St. Petersburg and you're about to catch a game in the KHL.
Ethan Miller. Getty Images.I don't know how to explain it but they just feel all too roller hockey for me. And again, I get that Adidas probably forced them to put out a Reverse Retro setup, and plenty of the Reverse Retros have that roller hockey feel to them. But if you're going to debut a 24 karat gold alternate sweater and a roller hockey Reverse Retro sweater in the same season, well then maybe just quit right there. Any other tricks you have hiding up your sleeve, save them for later.
Clearly that's not the Vegas way. Because last night these assholes pulled the most egregious move of them all. They went full C3PO and broke out the gold buckets. This time, they've gone too far.
Jeff Bottari. Getty Images.
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No.
No. no. no. no. no. no. no. A thousand times no.
I would have been less offended if Vegas came out last night rocking those see through CCM lids from the early 2000s. You know, these things that you've tried to completely block out from your memory.
It's February 12th. The season started on January 13th. We've only been going here for a month now and already the Vegas Golden Knights have crossed the style line on 3 separate occasions. They can't keep getting away with this shit. Enough has to be enough at some point. I don't know if you need to suspend their equipment team. I don't know if you need to take some draft picks away. I don't know if you just need to get a warrant to bust into their locker room and burn those helmets forever. But something needs to happen here because if we don't put an end to it right now, there's no telling how far it'll continue to go.