You dont see it? There is just the smallest blue on the prior Avs away look. The rest of the look is just red and black, like Arizona... Compared to the home sweater with lots of blue. There is a big issue when the home look is burgundy and blue and the away look is burgundy and black....
Name one other team that has a home uniform that is one palette at home and an away one that is another.... It would be like the Islanders dropping the orange and just being blue and white on the road. Or like Vancouver dropping the green and just being blue and white on the road. See the pattern? You arent supposed to drop a team color on the away uniform. It's a bad look and loses team identity.
It was no problem at all. It looked million times better than current version with blue pants. And anyway, if anything, it was burgundy and blue and burgundy and white.
BTW, the right solution to that non-issue was to add blue stripe under the silver stripe on the mountain stripes, exactly the same as was on the old, pre 2006 uniforms. It would divide the burgundy and white better than just silver stripe, which under certain angle/lighting are too reflective and therefore white as the rest of the uniform - is as its they are almost not there. For this particular nuissance old away design was superior.