It looks like a refresh is coming next year to alternate jerseys
The Penguins are quietly starting to give hints (including to prospective season ticket holders) that the club will be revealing new alternate jerseys for the 2025-26 season next fall.
The Pens have been wearing a black design of a popular ‘90s throwback jersey since 2021-22. This season they have worn their alternates for every Tuesday home game, last season the jerseys were used regularly on Thursday. Each alternate jersey design tends to have a limited shelf life of a few years in order to cycle onto new ideas that make for fresh rotations, so it would make sense with timing that change is coming.
From the team’s Instagram account today, it looks like they’re starting for some casual market research from fans on social media via polls in their stories.
The team included a series of polls featuring:
- 2021’s reverse retro jersey (white, with diagonal PITTSBURGH)
- 2019’s third jersey (mostly yellow with skating Penguin)
- The cursed 2012 third jersey (dark blue with light blue accents and old logo)
- The 2004 home jersey (black with skating Penguin, Vegas gold)
- The 2000 road jersey (black with RoboPenguin, gray gradients)
The last jersey might be the most intriguing, being as the Pens’ ECHL affiliate in Wheeling created (rather successfully we might add) a version of this jersey to recently wear this season as alternates themselves. It’s a long way from the ECHL to the NHL but certainly interesting that has picked up some traction within the organization at some levels.
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Pittsburgh brought back the RoboPenguin for the first time since 2002 very briefly in 2022-23 but only wore it a handful of times before going with the current alternate design of the diagonal Pittsburgh text.
The current polling included a variety of different colors (black, yellow, blue, white) which could indicate the team is willing to open up their color scheme more than the past. The Pens wore two different variations of a blue jersey from 2008-13 but have had that look on the shelf for now over a decade. Their yellow design occasionally worn from 2018-21 was the first time they wore that dominant color since the 1980’s. Their “Vegas gold” (a gold color instead of the yellow) was around from 2000-16 in various forms.
An announcement likely isn’t imminent, but the wheels are getting in motion to choose what new/old look the team will bring back for next year.