The Islanders are about to wear a little piece of their past on their shoulders this season.
With training camp underway, the club is giving fans a first look at the 2027 NHL All-Star Weekend logo as a jersey shoulder patch, and it carries far more Islanders flavor than your standard league event mark. The design leans hard into the team’s Fisherman-era imagery, with the bottom of the logo featuring teal and orange waves that echo the striping introduced on the Fisherman uniforms in 1995-96.
There’s another familiar detail worked in as well: a lighthouse tucked into the “ALL-STAR” wordmark. That nod reaches back to Islanders imagery from that era and, naturally, connects to something closely tied to Long Island itself.
The NHL unveiled the logo in July, and now it’s been shown on an actual Islanders sweater. Rob Taub posted the first look on September 17, 2026, showing how the patch sits on the jersey.
The timing lines up with the organization getting ready to host the NHL’s stars at UBS Arena on Feb. 5-6. It will be the Islanders’ first All-Star Game since 1983 at Nassau Coliseum, when Wayne Gretzky was named MVP.
This year’s event will also use a different format, with players representing the United States, Canada, Sweden, Finland and a World team in a five-team, 3-on-3 tournament.
The most striking part, though, is how clearly the logo connects back to Long Island. The Fisherman look was once widely disliked, but over the last 30 years it has turned into a piece of Islanders nostalgia, with its colors and symbols coming back again and again. This time, the influence isn’t returning as the club’s main logo - fans already voted that down in favor of the lighthouse - but it is back on the shoulders as the league brings its All-Star showcase to Long Island.
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