Sabres Confirm: Yellow Alts Are History

Another Sabres uniform bites the dust.

Buffalo Sabres president Ted Black confirmed the oft-criticized (and rightly so) half-yellow/half-blue alternate uniforms will be eliminated following the current 2014-15 season. Black originally made the comments this morning on Buffalo radio station WGR, later posted by Buffalo News reporter Mike Harrington.

From Harrington’s post:

Black admitted the team did a poor job running the design past focus groups and also said, “we didn’t anticipate the amount of ‘third-jersey fatigue’ ” in the market in the wake of the team’s 40th anniversary throwbacks.

The Sabres originally unveiled the new uniform via a fake Twitter leak by captain Steve Ott just prior to the 2013-14 season, it features the front half in yellow, back half in blue with the blue extending down the arms creating almost a cape-like appearance. Player names and numbers on the back were gigantic and just looked silly. The one neat part about the new look was the treatment of the captain/alternate captain patches, moved from the front to the shoulders and placed between two crossed sabres.

Black, in a little bit of “if you don’t like this one then fine, you get nothing!” later added that there would be no new Sabres alternate uniform for quite some time, possibly not until the Sabres’ 50th anniversary season in 2020.