Every NHL Team's Best Jersey from the 2025-26 Season
The end of the NHL season is rapidly approaching, and the Stanley Cup Playoffs will follow soon after. With it, we'll likely see all the alternate and special event jerseys go by the wayside.
While that might be sad for some teams, it'll be a relief to see some of those other sweaters mothballed for a while.
We got to see our fair share of new jerseys this season and while we wait to see how the playoff chips fall into place, let's look back and pick out our absolute favorite jerseys for each team.
A lot of teams had fun with throwbacks while others embraced trying to do something different. Even a few others tried to take something that was inspired by the past and updated it for the current era.
We might be haters for some designs, but we do love seeing the new stuff because it gives us something to pine for... or straight up dunk on.
Anaheim Ducks: Home Jersey
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The Ducks' home and road set couldn't be more divisive. For every fan who loves seeing the old logo in the new colors, there's one who wants to make all the orange go away as quickly as possible.
As for us, we love seeing the different colors and going hog-wild with orange. The home jersey is our ideal style. It's all orange, with black, white and gold stripes and accents to break it up a little, but not too much.
The classic Mighty Ducks–style logo, made sort of new, is perfect, and seeing it on this very orange jersey—unlike anything we've seen before in the NHL—helps us remember they're still one of the relatively new kids in the league.
Boston Bruins: Home Jersey
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The Bruins sort of threw it back to their new home and road sets this season. The jerseys are very 80s-90s styled and the standing bear logo on the shoulder helped make it a wholly new style.
With how good both the black and white jerseys look, it was more or less a coin toss to decide which one got the nod here. In the end, the Bruins are most known for wearing black and if you take that to mean they're the bad guys, then you get it. But if you understand that to mean they're the bad guys, yet you love them, then you get it too.
The classic spoked-B logo with the simply styled black jersey with gold and white stripes is just too good and it makes you nostalgic at the same time.
Buffalo Sabres: Road Jersey
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The Sabres arguably have the cleanest set of jerseys in the league. The home royal blue, the road white, and the 90s black-and-red alternates give everyone in Buffalo something to choose from.
As mean and menacing as the black and red "goathead" jerseys are, the best look belongs to their road white sweaters. The blue and gold mix on the white jersey really pops, and the classic-style jersey that's almost exactly like what they wore when they debuted in 1970 doesn't look dated even though it very much is.
The look and color scheme is something fans desperately wanted back when the franchise tinkered with a more modern version of it that fell flat. Bringing back the old look was a big hit and continues to be one of the best looks in the NHL.
Calgary Flames: Home Jersey
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The Flames' home-and-road set is in the running for one of the best in the NHL and even though it's a complete throwback to what they wore in the 80s and early 90s, it's more proof that people who designed uniforms then knew what they were doing.
As good as the road white sweaters are and how they make all the colors pop, the home red jerseys are where it's at. Flames mean fire and if your name has to do with that element, you'd better look the part. A red jersey with gold and white stripes evokes fire and then you've got the perfect "flaming C" logo on the front to top it off.
Calgary's jerseys are as good as it gets in the NHL. It's just a shame they couldn't capture the spark they had last season that nearly put them in the postseason.
Carolina Hurricanes: Road Jersey
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The really easy call to make here would've been to select their Hartford Whalers throwback jersey and call it a day. Doing that would've let us take shots at their standard home, road and alternate jerseys. That would've been fine had they not made any changes.
But Carolina did get a little bold with their road white sweaters and it was a good change! They took the style from their 2023 Stadium Series jerseys and flipped the colors, making it white and running with it on the road. It took a little time to get used to them, but they stand out nicely.
Carolina's logo can make it difficult to pull off a great style, but with the way they've tinkered with the logo's look for this jersey, it works well.
Chicago Blackhawks: Centennial Home Jersey
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Chicago was one of the teams that celebrated their 100th anniversary this season, and while the others did so with special alternate jerseys, the Blackhawks did things a little differently.
Since Chicago's jerseys haven't changed much over the last century, they made one small change to their home sweaters that was enough to make it stand out. They added a golden highlight around the numbers on the back of the jersey, along with a centennial patch on the shoulder, to celebrate.
The gold outline on the numbers is enough of a difference to catch your eye if you're watching Chicago play at United Center and as far as low-key touches go, it's both neat and classy.
Colorado Avalanche: Road Jersey
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Just like with Carolina, the easiest thing we could've done is to select Colorado's heritage throwback Quebec Nordiques jersey and walk away. But here's the thing: As great as the Nordiques jerseys are and how gorgeous they look, they're not the Colorado Avalanche.
Sure, they came from Quebec City and moved to Denver, but they dropped the logo and colors instantly, then immediately won the Stanley Cup in Denver under a new name, logo, and colors. The Avalanche's current home-and-road sets are as close to a throwback to those initial jerseys without being one, and their road jersey is supremely clean because of it.
It also helps that they won a Stanley Cup in it.
A winning style, a likely Presidents' Trophy this year in it, and a chance to win another Cup with this style makes it stand out even more.
Columbus Blue Jackets: Road Jersey
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It's well noted that we're not huge fans of the Blue Jackets' current jersey set. While we were once big fans of their old-timey alternates, the whole package has kind of worn us down. Apathy is a burden.
Choosing between the very blue home jersey and the road whites makes us appreciate how the road jersey breaks up the colors enough to really help it stand out more.
A team called the Blue Jackets should have great blue jerseys, but here we are giving a bigger thumbs-up to the road jersey because it makes our eyes happier.
Ironic? Coincidental? Either way, we're happier to see Columbus on the road and no, that's got nothing to do with the cannon not being there. Nope, not at all.
Dallas Stars: "The '99" Alternate
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We're big fans of the Dallas Stars home and road set, mostly because of how great their logo is and for the bright "victory green" color that's prominent in it. That said, when they broke out a new throwback jersey dubbed "The '99," we were intrigued. When did we finally get to lay our eyes on it? We were in love.
The jersey is a straight rip of the Stars jerseys from when they won the Stanley Cup in 1999, but updated with the team's current colors. That one change was enough to make it something old but something completely new and awesome at the same time.
Maybe it was inspired by the Reverse Retro program we had for a couple of seasons in the NHL, or maybe it was just a fun way for the team to throw it back to their brightest moment in Dallas, whatever it was, we're excited it happened.
Detroit Red Wings: Centennial Alternate Jersey
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The Red Wings are another team that celebrated their 100th anniversary this season, and, like their other century-old compatriots, their jerseys haven't changed much over the years. To do something special for their 100th birthday, the Red Wings sought inspiration from one of their best alternates, the 2014 Winter Classic.
Detroit took the old-timey style of the 2014 jersey and got rid of the wordmark, made their iconic winged wheel logo bigger with some artistic license on the intricacies of the design, and made a gorgeous red alternate sweater that could've been used in 1926 or 2026.
When you've got as perfect a logo as the Red Wings have, doing something different with it is almost impossible, but the centennial sweaters accomplished it in a subtle, yet great, way.
Edmonton Oilers: Home Jersey
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When the Oilers unveiled their new alternate jerseys this year, a style that made it seem like something from the past, but made new, all it managed to do was show how perfect their home and road sets continue to be. It's been over 50 years running for the Oilers, dating back to their WHA days with that look, and it remains perfect.
Picking between the road white and home blue jerseys is the hardest part, but the home blues, what used to be their road jerseys in their dynasty heyday, are where it's at. Blue, orange, and white are the Oilers. Seeing Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl in these sweaters and making you think back to Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier and how great they were is the right reaction and connection to the past.
If the Oilers can ever win the Stanley Cup again in these sweaters, the ties that bind to that legacy will be even stronger, and maybe, just maybe, they'll stop making brutal alternates that distract from a perfect look.
Florida Panthers: Winter Classic Jersey
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Something we found out when we ranked out Winter Classic jerseys midseason was that you all really did not like the Florida Panthers' Winter Classic jersey. We knew it'd be divisive and that people would either love it or hate it, but we found out that almost everyone seems to really dislike it.
What makes that really funny is that of the three jerseys the Panthers wore this season, their Winter Classic jersey is still the best. Yeah, it had a lot of funky design quirks and had all the touches of being something from way back in the day, but for a team that's been around since the early '90s, they don't really have that to inspire them.
We liked the stripes, we liked the old-timey leaping panther, we just liked it, period. Most of all, we like it more than their home and road set, which is something we're not the biggest fans of, and that's really all it took for this one to win out.
Los Angeles Kings: Alternate Jersey
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The most fun part of the Kings' alternate jersey is that they didn't hint or tease at all that they would have an alternate jersey this season. Out of nowhere on opening night, there they were wearing something new, and the rest of us scrambled to find out all the new details.
The black jersey with silver striping featured a silver-and-black crown that harkened back to the Kings' "Crown Royal" jerseys from their early years in the league. Sure, it wasn't purple and gold, but the crown was enough to get us into our memories all the same.
As much as we like their home and road set, that is a modernized version of their 90s silver and black era, the black alternate jersey is something mostly new and cool, and just looks really good, particularly with the font for the letters and numbers.
Minnesota Wild: 25th Anniversary Jersey
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We're not haters of the Wild's jerseys at all. We like the logo, the prominence of the color green, and their North Stars-inspired alternates.
But, for one season only, they brought back their original home white jerseys to celebrate their 25th year in the league and, man, did it ever make us miss what they used to have.
The massive Wild crest on the front, with the jagged-edge numbers on the sleeves and back of the jersey. The full-sleeve style of striping and the unique sort of wordmark shoulder logo made this initial franchise style something unto itself.
So much about the Wild's original look was just really well done, and while it may have been seemingly plain at the time, it's a look that's aged incredibly well.
Getting to see Kirill Kaprizov, Matt Boldy and Quinn Hughes all rock that look this season was a treat. We're doubting it sticks around into next season, but it would be pretty cool if it somehow did.
Montréal Canadiens: Home Jersey
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The hardest choice in this entire piece today was deciding between the Canadiens' home and road jerseys as their best. How do you pick between one of two perfect sweaters?
Tossing a coin seems disrespectful. Assigning random numbers to them and allowing RNG to pick them seems even more disingenuous. Nitpicking between what we like more between the two of them? First-world problems when the Habs boast two of the best jerseys ever created.
We chose the home red sweaters because they're the most iconic in all of the league. The road white jerseys are just as fabulous, but the Canadiens' home sweater is as good as it gets in any sport anywhere. What the pinstripes are to the New York Yankees and baseball, the Canadiens' red sweater with the "CH" and blue-and-white striping is to hockey.
Nashville Predators: Home Jersey
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When the Predators dove headfirst into wearing more gold, more often, we were right there to stand up and applaud them for leaning hard into it. No one else goes as hard with gold as Nashville, and even though Pittsburgh dipped its toes in this season, the Preds have been there for a few years now.
Nashville's home gold sweaters aren't perfect, but when they're wearing them with their gold helmets? That's the good stuff. We're all about teams picking a bold color and running as hard as they can with it.
Nashville's white road jerseys are fine, but with how gold their home jerseys are, they could still wear them on the road and not clash with anyone else in the league if they wore their regular home jerseys.
Are we advocating for the Predators to go full-time gold at home and on the road? We might be.
New Jersey Devils: Home Jersey
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Given that the Devils have absolutely ideal home and road jerseys, picking one is just a matter of taste. Having taste means not selecting their "Jersey" alternate jerseys, which are going away after this season.
Choosing between the home red-and-black jersey and the road white-and-black jersey was not nearly as difficult as it was for the Canadiens, but it was still difficult because both are good. Ultimately, the home reds won out because the Devils' iconic logo set on the red background is how it was always meant to be.
As much as we here may pine for the green-and-red throwbacks, it's hard to hate on their current jerseys because they're naturally excellent with the color scheme and logo.
New York Islanders: Home Jersey
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It's a good thing the Islanders' home and road jerseys are naturally perfect, because if they had an alternate jersey this season, it would force us to be snarky about it more than likely, because there's no way it would compare.
We find ourselves tending towards picking the home jerseys because of the colorization and the overall design. There's also how the road white jerseys sometimes lack design features, but with how beautifully simple the Islanders jerseys are, you cannot go wrong with your preference. Our preference is for the blue home sweaters, however.
Seeing the blue jerseys with the classic Isles logo and orange-and-white stripes just screams hockey and makes us think of Nassau Coliseum and what a bonkers place it was to see a game. Maybe one day, UBS Arena will be something like that, but now, with Matthew Schaefer leading the way, it may not be long before that happens.
New York Rangers: Centennial Alternate Jersey
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While teams like Chicago and Detroit went their own way in celebrating their centennial this season, the Rangers threw it back. Like, all the way back to the franchise's first season, and showed us that, yes, they've always looked this good.
The Rangers' lighter-blue throwbacks to 1926 are a virtual carbon copy of their original sweaters, and they absolutely sing. The almost baby-blue color, the simple, lettered style, and the red-and-white stripes all work together perfectly to honor the franchise's 100 years of existence.
The Rangers have done such a great job over the years with old-fashioned jerseys, and they did it again with these. It can be difficult for a team with a style as unique as the Rangers to pull off alternates that both make sense and look good, but they do so by not messing with success. Diagonal lettering never fails, and neither does having a blue shirt.
Ottawa Senators: Home Jersey
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The best thing the Senators did was bring back their original 90s logo in 2021, and with that, jerseys that were essentially straight rips of the ones they had when they entered the league. Even though Ottawa added a new alternate this season, it's really hard to move past how good their home and road sets are.
In the end, we picked their home black jerseys because they give off a vibe that makes you unsure of what kind of team you're dealing with. They might come in and start knocking you around, or they're going to light you up and make you look bad... or they're going to play the villain role and make opposing fans see red all night.
Ottawa's road white jerseys get us thinking too much about Daniel Alfredsson and Marian Hossa which is great and all, but when you have stars like Brady Tkachuk and Jake Sanderson, the black jerseys help us lock in on them more than those original Senators teams.
Philadelphia Flyers: Home Jersey
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What color do you think of the most when you think of the Flyers? It's orange, right? Yeah, it's black too, but it's definitely orange, and that's why their home jersey remains unbeatable.
The Flyers made some mild changes to their home and road sets in 2023, mostly with the shade of orange to make it more like what they had in the past, but it's their look with the jersey and logo that has made them an iconic franchise, even when not successful.
There are so few looks that are as legendary as the Flyers, especially for a team that hasn't been around for 100 years. The impressions made in the past have stuck with them ever since, and that jersey is synonymous with all of that. Don't fix what ain't broke.
Pittsburgh Penguins: Home Jersey
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Pittsburgh added to their wardrobe this season with a bright gold alternate jersey that's not too bad, but when you've got a home and road set as good as the Penguins have, it's hard to do better than that.
Yes, the Penguins' home and road jerseys are throwbacks from the 90s themselves, but re-adopting an old look is a good way to do business. The look was perfect then and remains so now with the skating penguin logo in a triangle. Black and gold coloring is synonymous with Pittsburgh, and matching what the Steelers and Pirates wear works best there. Winning a few Stanley Cups in that style jersey helps, too.
Picking between the home and road jersey here is difficult, but the black jerseys look so perfectly Pittsburgh it makes it hard to not choose it as the best.
San Jose Sharks: Home Jersey
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The Sharks' jersey set is really strong. Their home teal and road white jerseys are excellent, and their black alternate is also very good.
This season, they added a 35th-anniversary throwback to their jerseys from 1998-2007, which they wore a handful of times.
All of them are really good, but it's hard to ignore how outstanding the home teal sweaters are.
The Sharks have always been teal, except when they delved more into wearing black, especially in the playoffs, or when they added orange to their mix for a handful of years.
But switching back to this style of jersey in 2022 that modernized their original shirts helped us all realize the teal jerseys were where it's at.
Seattle Kraken: Alternate Jersey
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We're big fans of the Kraken's home and road sets because of the colors, the great logo on the front, and how unique all of it is to the NHL. When they set out to introduce an alternate jersey this year, we were anxious to see what they'd come up with.
What Seattle came out with was something that genuinely excited us to see. The Kraken's black alternate was like something from the depths of the ocean. The radial waves of sea green and red stripes, along with a sort of blacked-out version of their logo that also glows in the dark, were equal parts cool and unsettling. In other words, it's the total opposite in vibes compared to their home and road jerseys.
That polar-opposite kind of feel makes it the ideal alternate jersey. Some alternates are like gentle spinoffs of their regular set, but the Kraken did not want to evoke those kinds of feelings at all, and we love that.
St. Louis Blues: Road Jersey
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One of the best things the Blues did in the offseason was perfecting their jersey set.
Their lighter blue throwback jersey from the past few seasons became their standard home jersey, and the throwback counterpart of that jersey became their road jersey.
Aesthetically, it was a massive improvement, and the old home jersey was bumped down to alternate status.
As much as we adore the blue home jersey, there's something really special about the road white. It's still got the lighter blue and a softer gold to go with it. The shoulder styling is like something out of their early days, and with their perfect logo, it makes everything perfect for the look.
The Blues desperately needed to update their look and doing that by throwing it back almost fully was the best way to go about it. Blues rivals are the only ones who cannot appreciate how good they look, but fans everywhere have to appreciate how nice everything looks with their jerseys these days.
Tampa Bay Lightning: Stadium Series Jersey
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The biggest "sin" the Lightning have with their home and road set is that it's kind of boring.
Boring is OK, mind you, especially when it has a legacy built around winning Stanley Cups attached to it. But it's still pretty plain just the same, and while their black alternates scratch a few design itches, the lengths they went to for their Stadium Series jerseys are worthy of commendation.
Even though there are a few aspects of their Stadium Series jersey worth taking issue with, the touches, big and small, really make this a fun one. The lightning imaging in the "TBL" on the front is great, as are the embedded Gasparilla pirate images in the sleeve stripes.
The color scheme is excellent with the different shades of blue and the funky sort of electrified font for the front letters and numbers is excellent. It's a huge departure from their regular jerseys which makes them divisive, but it's the uniqueness that makes us like it all the more.
Toronto Maple Leafs: Home Jersey
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As bad as this season was for the Maple Leafs, the cold comfort they always have to fall back on is that at least they always looked good.
Toronto's home and road sets are flat-out iconic, and the simplicity of their blue-and-white jerseys is what makes them so good. That and the Leafs' fantastic old-style logo, too.
Toronto's home jersey is where it's at, though. The blue jersey with the white Maple Leafs logo crest and the white striping makes it an ideal hockey jersey.
They've ditched their black alternate jersey and their once-a-year dress-up. As the Toronto St. Pats on St. Patrick's Day is fun and all, the only thing that compares to their home blue jersey is their own road white jersey.
Utah Mammoth: Home Jersey
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As much as we liked the simplicity of the Utah Hockey Club's jerseys a year ago and how the road white jersey still remains, the Mammoth getting a nickname, a snazzy logo, and putting it on their home jersey is too good to pass up.
The Mammoth logo takes center stage on the crest of the black home jersey, with light blue and white stripes. The color scheme is outstanding, and the logo is very good. The secondary logo on the shoulder is also very good and adds to the Utah-ness of everything.
The mission the franchise had when it came to picking a name and logo was to make sure they didn't mess up the jerseys, and they cleared that bar pretty easily. Now the only question is whether we'll see the logo take a more prominent place on the road white jerseys in the future, or if they'll stick with the diagonal "UTAH" lettering.
Vancouver Canucks: Road Jersey
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As much as we really enjoy what the Canucks have done, incorporating their 1990s jerseys and logo as an alternate has helped make it an even better look, and the way they've cleaned up their home and road sets over time has only made it better.
We love the blue, green, and white color scheme, one that dates back to the franchise's inception in 1970, and the inclusion of the original logo on the shoulders of the home and road jerseys, but the road white jersey really stands out.
The deep blue color of the home jersey is good, but the team colors stand out on the white sweater.
The Canucks logo is solid enough, but the coloring and the nods to the past are what really tie it all together. A little of them and a lot of now works out nicely, and if they ever get their act together on the ice to get back to the postseason, fans elsewhere can get back to appreciating/hating it all over again.
Vegas Golden Knights: Home Jersey
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The Vegas uniform set is really interesting when you think about it. Their road white jersey is unchanged since they began play in the NHL, and their original home jersey is their alternate, which doesn't get nearly enough play. Meanwhile, their current gold home jersey is, by far, their best one and doesn't get nearly enough love.
The Golden Knights logo is excellent, and seeing it front and center on the sparkling gold home jersey really brings it home that they are, indeed, the Golden Knights. That the gold actually does sparkle makes it very Vegas, and the use of the Stardust-like secondary logo on the shoulder is a nice touch.
Seeing the Golden Knights donning gold on the Strip in Las Vegas really helps make it all make sense and turns it into a look worth appreciating.
Washington Capitals: Alternate Jersey
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By now, we're pretty renowned for being outspoken about the Capitals' need to freshen up their home and road jerseys, so when they introduced a new, red alternate jersey this season that features the "screaming eagle" logo from the 90s and 2000s, we were all about it.
When we saw how the jersey was designed, we were even more excited to see how it managed to be something like out of the past but entirely new. The white shoulder yoke outlined in blue, the red jersey with blue-and-white striping, and, of course, the screaming eagle crest make it a kind of beautiful Frankenstein's monster of a jersey from the team's previous eras.
There's just something about the entire look that pops. Maybe it's the bright red, or maybe it's the crest. Perhaps it's the Capitals' former third jersey logo being on the shoulders? Whatever it is, we're big fans of it, and we hope this jersey style signals that maybe more changes are coming to their home and road sets in the future.
Winnipeg Jets: Home Jersey
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Even though we appreciate how the Jets pay homage to their history with their WHA throwback-style alternates, what's easy to forget is that they've got a fantastic current logo and a jersey set that's a little dated toward the end of the Reebok era, yet still looks really good.
There was a time when we didn't appreciate what the Jets have going on with their home and road sets, but when you sit down and look at them closer and see them in action, it all makes a lot more sense.
The quirks with the stripes on the road jersey are kind of fun, but they don't exist on the home jersey; that's the ideal look any team would want to have.
The Jets color mix is good with a couple shades of blue, white and red along with some gray/silver. It doesn't try to do too much with the home jersey and that's what makes it as good as it is.
Do we miss the old Jets logos? Of course, but the current iteration of the team has its own look that's extremely good.
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