It seems like forever ago since Atlanta had an NHL hockey team but the city’s Gladiators of the ECHL are making sure to commemorate past squads with a slick new jersey.
For starters, it will incorporate two different sleaves; one that honours the Atlanta Flames' old tarps and the other with Atlanta down the sleeve, similar to the design of the Thrashers’. It also incorporates a pattern similar to those of the International Hockey League’s Atlanta Knights and of course, some features from their original jerseys. It all made for kind of a weird, but stylish uniform.
They actually look pretty fly on the players.
As history tells it, the Flames ended up relocating to Calgary in 1980, the Thrashers bounced to Winnipeg in 2011 and the Knights were based in Atlanta from 1992-1996. The Gladiators were founded in 1995 and remain Georgia’s only pro hockey club.
The jerseys will be worn for the first time on Friday night when the team takes on the Orlando Solar Bears. Not a bad tarp!
(H/T Sportslogos.net)
