18 Most Horrifyingly Ugly Uniform Combinations in NHL History

Jerseys are the things that identify our favorite NHL teams.

Sometimes, no matter how much we love our team, the jerseys the teams put on are absolutely impossible to stand by—they might even keep people from coming to the games because of how bad they are.

Here are some of the jerseys that make us wonder whether or not we should adjust the colors on our televisions because of how disgusting they are.

18. Lightning Storm Jerseys

We already have the Lightning logo on the front of the jersey, we really don't need to see all of these other lightning bolts on the sleeves.

And is that rain or sleet or more lightning bolts coming out of the blue background?

Fail.

17. The Bull Stars

This is easily the worst uniform combination in the history of the Dallas Stars.

Who came up with this? They might as well have just thrown the Milky Way galaxy on the jersey rather than a constellation that creates a logo that doesn't have anything to do with the team.

At least a galaxy is nothing but stars—this makes it look like they should be called the Shooting Stars, Bulls, Tauruses or Constellations.

16. The Buffalo Slug

The slug jersey, as many people refer to it, is another example of a very poorly implemented logo design that features lot of curved lines and an interesting use of some type of golden orange on the Buffalo.

It's a good thing these Sabres have returned to their older logo because this whole jersey was just gross.

15. Flying Duck

This jersey isn't so much ugly as it is just one of the worst concepts for a jersey in the history of the game.

The colors aren't awful; it is really the flying duck and the numbers that really kills this one.

This was one of the worst jerseys ever created.

14. Beady-Eyed Bruin

These all-yellow jerseys just don't ever work for anybody not named the Los Angeles Lakers.

Then there is the bear head on the jersey—the eyes are very beady and look possessed.

The Bruins B insignia is iconic not just to their franchise, but to the NHL as a whole. This bear face is a blight on the Bruin franchise.

Now let us never speak of it again.

13. Vancouver: The Red

Vancouver has had some seriously bad luck in the realm of uniforms over the years.

This one was an alternate jersey that didn't see a lot of action, thank goodness.

Vancouver has a history of taking colors that are really hard to complement and making those colors the dominant one.

We'll see more from Vancouver later on the list.

12. The Fisherman

The jersey referred to as "The Fisherman" is one Islander fans—and the rest of us—would like to forget ever existed.

The changes in color weren't very flattering, the random squiggly line towards the bottom of the jersey was weird, and the guy standing in the net looked more like Gandalf the Grey than a fisherman.

All in all, epic jersey fail.

11. Tiger Stripes

The stripes on this old Hamilton Tigers sweater is a little bit out of control.

Combining both vertical and horizontal stripes definitely is harmful to the eyes in this setting.

If they were the Yellow Jackets, this might be a bit more fitting.

10. The Dijon Mustard Predators

When I look at this jersey, the only thing that I can think of is "Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?"

This mustard color alternate jersey is just ugly as ugly can be.

9. The Star-Spangled Hockey Jersey

If Captain America played for a hockey team, this would be his jersey.

This one definitely overdoes the whole American concept with the barrage of stars and stripes all over the place.

Perhaps this is was the real Team America.

8. The Teal Seals

There is just something wrong with that much teal on a hockey jersey.

It really just looks soft—perhaps trying to lull the opponent to sleep through some tricky psychological color tricks.

Plus, isn't the name of the team the Golden Seals, not the Teal Seals?

7. Calgary Flames' Flaming Horse

The colors aren't so bad in this one, it's the logo that kills this jersey.

The flaming horse with explosive allergies.

This jersey is supposed to be one of those jerseys that ties in with the rodeo culture that exists in Calgary, but it really makes for one of the worst jerseys ever.

6. Red Rock Coyotes

I generally liked the original Southwest-style Phoenix Coyotes jersey, but this alternate jersey was pretty horrendous.

An all-green background with what looks like red rock formations on the along the bottom of the jersey to mimic the Phoenix skyline at night.

Pretty awful.

5. The Burger Kings

One of the worst jerseys ever conceived was this alternate jersey of the Los Angeles Kings.

There are just no words to describe exactly how horrendously terrible this jersey was and how stupid the players must have felt wearing it.

4. Old-Time Ottawa

These old-time jerseys really enjoyed the horizontal lines up and down the jersey.

As if that wasn't bad enough on this one, the big O in the middle of the chest doesn't exactly pop out like I'm sure they wanted it to.

The thing that kicks it over the edge is the tan pants.

Not quite "Where's Waldo?" but it's pretty close.

3. New York Islanders Alternates

These orange monstrosities have to be the ugliest jerseys in the history of the New York Islanders, and they definitely earned a spot of the ugliest of all time.

The Islanders look more like the Denver Broncos, or a caution cone on ice.

Horrendous.

2. Vancouver Canucks: Mellow Yellow

The only real positive about this particular uniform was that the Canucks got rid of that horrendous V that was so awful.

Yes, the color scheme remains.

Whoever thought that shade of yellow as the main background was a good idea with that red and black was just plain wrong.

Disgusting.

1. The Flying V

This is easily the ugliest uniform in the history of hockey.

From all the weird color combinations and funny stripes, this terrible combination of colors placed in the big V is so awful, especially with that bright yellow.

It wasn't a good time to play in Vancouver, style-wise, for several years.

Kevin Goff is a featured columnist for the Colorado Avalanche and NHL on Bleacher Report. For more NHL news and discussion,