
Here is Part II of Rocket's far-reaching and hard-hitting series on best and worst hockey jerseys in the NHL. Right now, we deal with the best. Rocket?
(Updated with links to the less obvious jerseys, for those too lazy to do a Google image search).
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All right, in the last post I gave you the worst jerseys in the NHL. Now I give you the best. Please do remember that these results were determined my many fine scientific minds who conducted months upon months of research. They are thus irrefutable and your own opinions on the subject do not matter. They will be listed in order from merely great and awesome to the truly sublime.
If you read the last post you probably picked up on the fact that many of the uglier jerseys are also some of the newer jerseys. At one point in time, Phoenix would have easily fit on that list, if not had sat on the very top of it looking down at the rest of the pretenders to the "ugly throne" with disdain. But someone in Arizona finally made a rational and well-reasoned decision (for the first time ever?) and decided to get back to basics with a simple and dignified color scheme and symbol. Red and white with a coyote that looks like an actual animal and not the product of a meth addict's fevered dream was just plain smart. I am not sure that any other team has ever gone from so bad to so good in their jersey choices in the history of sports. However, it should be noted that the black third jersey is terrible.
How can a team both be on the best and worst list? You would imagine that such a thing wouldn't be possible, but it's true. Calgary has pulled off this remarkable feat by instituting a "third jersey" that was actually their original jersey before they starting cramming a bunch of unnecessary junk all over it. When you strip away all of the pointless lines and colors you are left with a truly distinctive jersey that looks awfully good as it races up and down the ice. Much like their predecessors on this list, the Flames have seemed to (partially) learn the lesson that, when it comes to jerseys, most often less is more.