The New York Islanders are bringing back the Lighthouse, and that old alternate mark is set to live on as the club’s new third jersey logo after a fan vote.
The team announced the result on August 20, 2026, posting that “The winning Third Jersey Design Concept is the Navy Lighthouse!” and saying, “Stay tuned for the final kit design.”
That choice adds another chapter to a logo history that has bounced between familiar and infamous. The Islanders have leaned on their primary logo for most of their existence, aside from one notorious detour in 1995, when the team switched to the fisherman look. That change never caught on with fans or players, and the league eventually went back to the original primary logo.
The Lighthouse itself is hardly new territory for the franchise. It served as an alternate logo from 1995-1997, and the Islanders also used an alternate mark on their 2014 Stadium Series jerseys. That version featured the NY and hockey stick from the primary logo without the island background.
The new third jersey keeps the Lighthouse close to its original form. It comes on a dark navy sweater with orange and teal bands on the sleeves and hem, and the logo is nearly identical to the one the Islanders used before.
If you’re sorting the Islanders’ logos against one another, the fisherman still has its defenders despite being one of the most disliked logos in NHL history. The case for it is simple: it feels like an Islander. It also brings a stronger, more intimidating look than the circular primary mark.
The primary logo, meanwhile, remains the team’s most recognizable symbol. It has been around since the inaugural season in different variations, with changes mostly limited to color and border tweaks. In 2010, the stick was updated to include four lines instead of three, a nod to the four consecutive Stanley Cups the Islanders won in the 1980s.
The Lighthouse comes in third in that comparison. The biggest knock against it is straightforward: it doesn’t say Islanders anywhere on the jersey. The color scheme works, and the design fits naturally into the franchise’s history, especially with the callback to the original alternate Lighthouse logo, but it lacks the clear team identity that the other two marks carry.
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