From first look, I was shocked that there are so many differences between the home and road set. The entire thing screams Team Canada to me.

As you can see, the stripes don’t match. The home set features a laced collar while the road one does not. There’s a shoulder yoke on the white jersey that will hold the nameplate, but not the home one. There’s an emphasis of the color black on the road set, but not the home set. In fact, the only constant on both jerseys is the crest.

There isn’t much else that really is worth noting. All the flaws are visible right in front. And what’s worse about it is that the team supposedly designed this in-house without any outside help. It just shows the lack of experience in design with this new set.

But there is one element of design I like about this set.

Unfortunately, nobody will be able to see it when the Canes hit the ice.

Sure this team looks a lot cleaner than their old set, but they’ve sacrificed a lot of a unique identity to go bland. The players reaction shows that they aren’t too sure what to make of it.