GDT: Blues vs. Kings| Running out of warm bodies|

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FrontYardSpecial

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Blues are now 0-2 wearing those clown costumes...and have played as poorly as they're dressed in each contest. If the organization and league as a whole weren't so cash-strapped I'd have hoped somebody would have stepped in by now and said "we're not wearing these miscreations any more"; but as it is those jerseys are a necessary evil and an appropriate symbol of the times we live in today. We'll all look back on this dark time in a few years and just shake our heads and hope to forget any of it happened.

According to the schedule below, Feb 22 vs Los Angeles was the last time the Blues will wear the reverse retro jersey this season:phew:

5 Looks for Blues in 2020-21

...and hopefully we never see them again.
 

GoldenSeal

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Passengers need to depart this station. It’s screwing up the folks who are playing their heart out. Injuries are showing this team has resolve but we got a few guys who aren’t bought in. Send the message already.
 

Brian39

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According to the schedule below, Feb 22 vs Los Angeles was the last time the Blues will wear the reverse retro jersey this season:phew:

5 Looks for Blues in 2020-21

...and hopefully we never see them again.
The league required each team to wear the RR "multiple times" this season. I'm very hopeful that we set 2 dates to comply with that mandate, realized these jerseys are awful and then never use/mention/promote them ever again. I like some of the hats that came out of this series and I like Binner's pads/mask. But those will fit well with our normal clown retros that we plan to wear a couple times late in the season.
 
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ort

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These jerseys really are that bad. They are absolutely atrocious. A total embarrassment.

Just a cringy nightmare. Even throwing out the fact that they are bright red on a team who doesn't wear red, they look objectively terrible. The bright red, yellow and blue (all three primary colors, really?) makes the players look like dopey Ronald McDonald clown hockey players.

It's absolutely terrible. Make these go away forever and NEVER COME BACK.
 

Sgt Schultz

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What a bad, bad night for the Blues to be available in my area. I turned that game on and saw the red jerseys and almost turned it off. Mind you, I never liked the "unreverse" version of those jerseys, mostly because of the red, so making them mostly red just makes it worse.

Sadly, there is no rule that reverse retro jerseys have to be ugly or clownish. The Canadiens, Flyers, and Canucks all look pretty good (the ones I have seen this year). I see Carolina uses a reverse version of the Whalers old sweaters, and Avalanche use the Nordiques. Again, not bad. Some of the others are fine or could pass for regular jerseys, from what I can tell.

But then there were these. The Coyotes version did not exactly give me a warm, fuzzy, either. More like WTF are those?
 

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Bluesnatic27

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Speaking of jerseys we don't like, are the Blues supposed to wear those baby blue jerseys EVERY Saturday home game?
 

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I’m really curious how much of a say the Blues has in this vs adidas/nhl. I’m sure it was based on projected sales of the jersey and I can only assume that they went this route because bringing back the original road 90s one last season was a success.

The white version of the baby blue jersey is such a great looking jersey! Or both of the ones with the shoulder stripes. I’ve never felt so uncomfortable watching the Blues play before just based on their jerseys
 

TK 421

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I'm VERY partial towards the jerseys from the 80's to the point I dislike ALL other versions besides the Heritage baby blues that preceded them. Red on a Blues jersey? How bout you go f*** yourself.
 
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Sgt Schultz

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I’m really curious how much of a say the Blues has in this vs adidas/nhl. I’m sure it was based on projected sales of the jersey and I can only assume that they went this route because bringing back the original road 90s one last season was a success.

The white version of the baby blue jersey is such a great looking jersey! Or both of the ones with the shoulder stripes. I’ve never felt so uncomfortable watching the Blues play before just based on their jerseys

If they are going on projected sales of the red ones, we should all short sell them.
 
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Sgt Schultz

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The baby blue retro sweaters are 8 millions times nicer looking than the sad, pathetic sweaters they were wearing last night. This shouldn't even be up for debate.
I'm not sure these aren't better than the sweaters the Blues were forced, probably at gunpoint, to wear last night.

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Imagine a game with Vancouver wearing those and us in our "reds."

Our regular sweaters and uniforms in general now are about as good as they have ever been, IMO. The only Blues uniforms I hated were the ones that gave birth to last nights "reverse" retro, and I didn't think much of sweaters from 84 through 87 with the smaller logo and BLUES arched over it.
 

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We need to go back to the "St. Louis Blues" circle with the note in the center sweaters. Those came in at a legendary time. Ditch the clown jerseys, they come from an era of loaded up rosters and severe heartbreak and F-K KEENAN while I'm at it. Thank you.
 
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stl76

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The league required each team to wear the RR "multiple times" this season. I'm very hopeful that we set 2 dates to comply with that mandate, realized these jerseys are awful and then never use/mention/promote them ever again. I like some of the hats that came out of this series and I like Binner's pads/mask. But those will fit well with our normal clown retros that we plan to wear a couple times late in the season.
Agreed, Binner's mask + pads to go with the reds are fantastic...the rest I could do without.
 
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Ted Hoffman

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We are missing half our top players. Of course we look rough. How many teams would look great if the lost equivalent of Tarasenko, Schwartz, Thomas, Parayko, Bozak, and Barbie?
It's like you're agreeing with me and @Stealth JD and want to disagree for the sake of it.
 

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It's like you're agreeing with me and @Stealth JD and want to disagree for the sake of it.
Maybe I shouldn't have posted while intoxicated! There were folks in the thread ripping on team and I was responding to that sentiment. But reading it again, I agree with you and apologize for being unnecessarily belligerent. My bad.
 
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