Can The Islanders Go *Really* Retro?

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Dutton infamously stormed out of the meeting, claiming that the Rangers wouldn’t win another championship during his lifetime. … Red Dutton passed in 1987.

How great would the Americans jersey go with Rick DiPietro’s USA-themed helmets?

This made me picture a “Bring Out The Rick Day,” where the special retro jersey nights would coincide with the night that they run DP out there once a season for the rest of his contract.

In any case, if the Canadiens can bust out 10 jersey’s for their centennial, I think an honoring of the Americans (and NHL hockey in New York) would be in order.

Can’t we just be the Islanders? I’d like to see our uniforms be consistent. It’s bad enough already that I have to root for the Mets, who honor the Dodgers more than their own history and who wear 19 different uniform combinations based on a color that isn’t even an official team color.

The thing is, the Americans are a red/white/blue team… those are the Rangers’ colors, not the Isles. I like the LI Ducks idea, with the lighthouse shoulder patch used as the crest, and the current crest used as a small shoulder patch.

This also is a minor quibble, but when I think of the Amerks, I think of Rochester in the AHL. They’ve been around forever. I wouldn’t tread on their toes even if they are an affiliate. Professional courtesy, you know?

It would look like we’re trying to copy the Rags. Certainly not as a third jersey, but if it was used only once as a tribute (especially if they move to Brooklyn), I don’t see a problem with it.

Other than that, red is no substitute for orange.

By the way, this is what they looked like, for any who don’t know (hence the NYR and Rochester concerns):

Keep the original because everyone liked that jersey and never thought it should be changed. Make a new jersey for a third….. Something like this? I think everyone liked the lighthouse symbol but it never went anywhere.

but its like the Mets and the Brooklyn Dodgers thing. You don’t need to identify with the Dodgers. They constantly do the Jackie Robinson thing and the team store is filled with Dodger blue, is this what will happen with the Islanders? We came in the league and won four cups. We have an identity!!! However we have been a troubled franchise with bad management and horrible luck. If Darcy Regier would have taken over as GM instead of Don Juan and Wang bought the team straight from Pickett we could be in the same company as the “oh so great Devils” in regards to Stanley Cups. Let the Americans have the historical place in history they hold and lets make the last 17 years history and support our team.

I’m not really in favor of using the NY/Brooklyn Americans jersey as a third jersey. Their history and the Islanders’ history really have little, if any connection. Also, not many people are going to have much first hand recollection of the New York Americans, so there wouldn’t be a personal connection, as opposed to say, if the Minnesota Wild wanted to sport North Stars jerseys for a night.

As for third jerseys and regular jerseys, I think the Islanders will just sport their own “retro” jerseys for some time now, and probably not deal with a third jersey for a little while. While I would like to see a lighthouse rising from a silhouette of Long Island for a third jersey, I can’t see the Isles experimenting much more with third jerseys, unless they alternate color schemes with the classic Islanders logo.

in case you can’t read them, they say, Stanley Cupcakes – get it?

almost as bad as how often the jets wear titans jerseys. how about the game the jets played against the titans only the JETS were the titans and the titans were the OILERS and it was 2009!! absurdity!!