Blackhawks Unveil 100th Anniversary Home Uniform for 2025–26 NHL Season

The Chicago Blackhawks today unveiled their special 100th anniversary uniform, which they’ll wear in place of their usual home jersey throughout the upcoming 2025-26 NHL season. The design was officially unveiled ahead of the 2025 NHL Draft, allowing this year’s Blackhawks selections to be the first players to wear it.

The red uniform retains the Blackhawks home jersey design, which has remained largely unchanged since 1955, while incorporating several subtle elements to celebrate the milestone season.

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“The Blackhawks sweater has consistently been voted the best jersey in sports by players and fans alike. For our Centennial season, we wanted to honour that iconic symbol of Chicago’s hockey heritage that has remained largely unchanged since 1955,” said Blackhawks Chairman and CEO Danny Wirtz in the team’s press release. “While the classic elements of the jersey stay the same, thoughtful design details make this jersey unique – melding past and present while proving that the best traditions transcend trends.”

The crest on the chest remains chain-stitched, as has been the standard for the club’s uniforms for decades, but now includes a stroke of metallic gold trim around it. Matching gold outlines have also been added to the back numbers. These gold highlights were inspired by uniforms “worn in the earliest days of Blackhawks hockey,” says the release – the Blackhawks wore simple black and white uniforms for their first several seasons, adding a beige/gold stripe for a couple of seasons about a decade in. They began wearing gold trim around the sweater crest on their uniforms in the 1960s and continued this tradition until 1999.

A new 100th anniversary logo was also unveiled, featuring the Blackhawks’ logo on the number 100 in white, with a black ribbon behind it, and the years 1926 and 2026 in white. This new logo will be worn as a patch on the right shoulder. The club’s usual secondary mark, a “C” with crossed tomahawks, remains on the left shoulder, also recoloured in a metallic gold finish. The team is using a vintage lace-up collar for this uniform, which is paired with a scripted “Always an Original” design on the inside back collar.

Along the inside of the hem, the six years in which the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup — 1934, 1938, 1961, 2010, 2013, and 2015 — are displayed, alongside a metallic gold centennial jock tag.

According to the team, this uniform is a one-season-only design and will be worn exclusively for home games at the United Center during the 2025–26 NHL season. The club has not yet announced whether a corresponding road white or alternate uniform will be unveiled.

Chicago’s entry into the National Hockey League was made official on May 15, 1926, following months of debate among league governors. The franchise was initially awarded to Tack Hardwick, a former Harvard football star, for a reported $50,000. Hardwick soon sold controlling interest in the team to Major Frederic McLaughlin, a wealthy coffee company executive.

The name “Black Hawks” was selected by McLaughlin in honour of his former military unit, the 86th Infantry Division, nicknamed the “Black Hawk Division” after Chief Black Hawk of the Sauk Nation. In 1986, the club dropped the space and made the team’s name a single word – “Blackhawks.”

The original Blackhawks logo is widely credited to McLaughlin’s wife, Irene Castle. The original crest, a side-profile of a Native American head within a black circle and surrounded by the team name, is believed to have been based on an insignia used by the Onwentsia Club, an exclusive polo organization based in Lake Forest, Illinois, where McLaughlin was a regular competitor.

Fans hoping to get the new Blackhawks centennial season jersey can pre-order theirs now through the official team shop at CBHShop.com. All pre-orders will include a commemorative centennial puck and free shipping, with delivery expected in September.

Chicago becomes the first of the three Original Six teams celebrating a centennial season to unveil a centennial season uniform for 2025–26. The other two, the Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers, have both previously released their 100th season logos, but not the jerseys that accompany them.