New Jersey Devils New Jersey
First of all–do you guys get that headline? It’s like a palindrome. I mean not exactly but sort of. I guess an actual palindrome would read “New Jersey Devils Jersey New”. Or if we want to get super technical about it, it would read “New Jersey Devils Slived Yesrej Wen”. But that’s not the point of this blog. The point here is that the New Jersey Devils dropped their new alternate sweaters today and as much as this pains me to say… they are so fucking hot.
It was only a matter of time before the Devils introduced green to their jerseys again. I know that they’ve used a few one off’s here and there with green in them but for the first time since I’m pretty sure I’ve been alive, the Devils have green in one of their official uniforms. Which–if we’re being perfectly honest–scares the shit out of me. Because the Devils have already been making moves over the past couple of seasons. Between bringing in Taylor Hall, Nico Hischier, Sami Vatanen and Corey Schneider, the Devils finally look like a legitimate hockey team again after trying to pick up the pieces after Kovalchuk left. They were in the playoffs last year, they’re only going to get better, and now they have these threads to go along with the rebuild? Fucking Christ. The Metro just keeps loading up and loading up. I guess I’m happy the Flyers are finally bringing a black jersey back to the rotation but only a fool would think those jerseys can compete with these bad boys.
And one last thing here–you have to imagine that the Devils are going to wear this alternate sweater mostly at home, no? I mean you don’t make an alternate jersey just to wear for road games that your hometown crowd can’t enjoy. So with that being said… are the New Jersey Devils jump starting the process to bring back home whites? Didn’t think I’d wake up this morning and find myself thanking the Hockey Gods for the Devils, but life comes at ya fast some times.
P.S. – Obligatory Puddy reference
