The Lightning gave fans their first real look at the Hometown Remix uniform Tuesday morning when the team was back on the ice at Benchmark International Arena.
What showed up in practice was not the full jersey, but enough to read the design language. Players were already wearing the game pants, gloves and helmet, and the look points strongly in one direction: black as the main color, with sky blue returning in a supporting role.
The pants are black with a solid sky-blue lightning bolt running down the side. The gloves are black too, accented with sky blue and white. The helmets were black as well, with a sky-blue TGH sponsor logo and numbers that match the style used in last season’s Stadium Series game.
That’s why the early read on the jersey is pretty clear. The Hometown Remix top appears set to lean black, with the sky blue that surfaced in the Stadium Series look coming back as the secondary color.
The team also gave a clue earlier this month with an encoded social media message tied to the new jersey. Once decoded, it read: “Anchored in the Bay.” It’s still unclear whether that points toward the pirate shoulder patch logo used in the Stadium Series game, but the tease also included a lower hem interior trim inspired by the Bayshore Boulevard balustrade, one of Tampa’s signature visual markers.
The new Hometown Remix jersey also seems poised to take the place of the Lightning’s retired black third jersey, which featured the primary shoulder patch logo on the chest along with white, blue and gray striping.
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