In 1955 the Bruins decided to switch from wearing black as their dark colour to yellow, using the same jersey design and spoked-B logo design as had been featured on their whites for the past several seasons. Boston used this uniform here-and-there for four seasons, but it wasn’t until their next uniform that yellow would come back to the league in a big way. Click for larger imageĪ good decade would pass before another team would try out a yellow uniform, the Boston Bruins would become the torchbearer of the colour when they introduced an alternate yellow jersey (yes, they had a few alternates back then) with “Bruins” scripted across the front in black for the 1940-41 season. The Pirates wore yellow for the next four seasons over two different designs before switching to orange in 1929 and eventually moving to Philadelphia where they would drop out of the league after the 1930 season. The NHL wasn’t without a yellow team for long following the end of the Tigers, an expansion team popped up in Pittsburgh the very next season and adopted Hamilton’s yellow-and-black look (a good 20 years before baseball’s Pirates went with those colours). This design only lasted one season before the yellow stripes were reduced in and turned onto their side for 1921, in all the Tigers would wear four different uniforms in their brief five-season history, all of which were yellow and black.
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The Tigers first uniform had the look similar to a modern on-ice official’s uniform with a series of vertical black stripes, unlike today’s referee it was on a yellow base instead of white with a detailed tiger head logo on the chest. The first NHL team to wear something other than other than red, black, or blue. In 1920, Quebec’s NHL team relocated to Hamilton, Ontario, and as was common practice at the time, they took on a name and colour scheme already used by several Hamilton-based teams – they’d be the Hamilton Tigers, and they’d wear black and yellow. The National Hockey League has seen nine franchises in yellow at least some point in their history over their 100+ seasons going all the way back to the 1920s.
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While it’s not unheard of, it is still relatively uncommon to see yellow as the main colour of a pro sports jersey. With the Penguins now in yellow, at least 15% of the time, that gives the league two teams wearing yellow uniforms, the Nashville Predators have used the colour as the base of their home jersey for the past seven years. The Pittsburgh Penguins announced earlier this week that the club would be sporting a yellow (they call it “Pittsburgh gold”) alternate uniform for 12 of their 82 games this season the design an amalgamation of two previous yellow jerseys the team has worn.