{"id":290665,"date":"2026-07-08T20:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290665\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:06:10","slug":"new-york-islanders-want-fans-to-design-their-third-jersey-so-maybe-they-wont-complain-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290665\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Islanders want fans to design their third jersey, so maybe they won’t complain this time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The New York Islanders<\/a> are setting out to do something no NHL team has ever done before, and that’s to toss fans the keys and let them design their next third jersey.<\/p>\n

And maybe if they let fans of the team and the NHL<\/a> in general handle the design, they won’t complain about it this time…<\/p>\n

Meh, they probably still will.<\/p>\n

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The New York Islanders are going for an NHL first and letting fans design their next third jersey. (Photo by Bruce Bennett\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Islanders announced on Wednesday that fans can submit designs for the new jersey, with the winner getting a “VIP gameday experience” during the 2027-28 season, which is when the sweater will debut.<\/p>\n

Of course, we’ve seen time and time again that the internet cannot be left to its own devices in moments like this (I’m looking at you, “Boaty McBoatface”)<\/a>, so the team has rolled out a pretty cool jersey design feature on their website using a bunch of templates and logos from throughout the team’s history.<\/p>\n

Yes, that includes the infamous “Fishsticks” logos.<\/p>\n

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But when it comes to colors, you’re not just stuck with blue, orange, and white. The team is letting fans go crazy with any colors they want.<\/p>\n

This is such a great idea, and I love how it feels like the Islanders have just had enough and were like, “You fans think you can do a better job? Go ahead!”<\/p>\n

Because the Isles’s third jersey history is not stellar.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I like the various reincarnations of the Gorton’s fisherman sweaters, but most have been kind of underwhelming.<\/p>\n

I liked the black jerseys the team wore at the Barclays Center because it was a bit different, but maybe too plain.<\/p>\n

And then there was that weird one they wore from 2011 to 2014 that had black and gray and a wordmark over the player’s number on the front. I’m still not sure what they were going for there.<\/p>\n

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The Islanders used these from 2011 to 2014, but if you mentally blocked these out, you’re forgiven. (Photo by Bruce Bennett\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

What were those?!<\/p>\n

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I’ve liked the Isles’ Stadium Series getups over the years \u2014 including the last one that just said “ISLES” across the front \u2014 but they need a good third jersey to wear for a few seasons.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, fans will cook something up that will be worthy of a historic franchise… but we all know the Fisherman will be on the front of it.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Islanders are setting out to do something no NHL team has ever done before, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,6821,10,539,85704],"class_list":["post-290665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-new-york-news","tag-nhl","tag-outkick-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}