{"id":5288,"date":"2017-01-11T15:48:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=5288"},"modified":"2017-01-11T15:48:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:48:19","slug":"nhl-releases-2017-all-star-game-jerseys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/01\/11\/nhl-releases-2017-all-star-game-jerseys\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Releases 2017 All-Star Game Jerseys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL released the 2017 All-Star Game jerseys earlier this morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLAllStar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHLAllStar<\/a> uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>The 4 teams will wear jerseys w\/ colors worn by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LAKings?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@LAKings<\/a> from their 50-year history. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PaN42gvW3q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/PaN42gvW3q<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i8liFMjgIR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/i8liFMjgIR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/819217304814637060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Central\u00a0Division &#8211; Purple<\/li>\n<li>Atlantic Division &#8211;\u00a0Gold<\/li>\n<li>Metropolitan Division &#8211; White<\/li>\n<li>Pacific Division &#8211; Black<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Initial reaction online to\u00a0the unveiling has generally been positive. The colors pay homage to the uniforms worn by the Los Angeles Kings throughout their 50 year history.<\/p>\n<p>Purple and gold were the Kings primary colors from their inaugural season in 1967 until 1988. For the 1988-89 season, the club switched to a more generic uniform consisting of silver, black, and white. This lasted until 1993, spanning the majority of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gretzwa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wayne Gretzky<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s Los Angeles tenure. The Kings fiddled around with purple in the following years, but re-adopted the colorless\u00a0scheme\u00a0in 2008 and have used it ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping with the theme of nostalgia, the 2017 NHL All-Star jerseys were given the stars and stripes pattern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/nhl-unveils-jerseys-for-2017-all-star-game\/c-285554206?tid=277549086\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seen on the ones worn from 1989-91.<\/a>\u00a0Being as the NHL is celebrating its milestone 100th anniversary, there are ten stars on each jersey. Each star symbolizes a\u00a0decade of the league&#8217;s rich history. The NHL also explained that there will be four stars on the socks, representing the four divisions the league uses today.<\/p>\n<p>The All-Stars\u00a0are set to take\u00a0stage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, hence their choice\u00a0of color.\u00a0The\u00a0Annual Skills Competition will take place on January 28, while the 3-on-3 tournament will be played on the 29th.<\/p>\n<p>The rosters for each team, as voted by fans, were released yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2017\/01\/10\/nhl-announces-2017-star-game-rosters\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and can be viewed here.<\/a>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/subbapk01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">P.K. Subban<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/priceca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carey Price<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcdavco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connor McDavid<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/crosbsi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sidney Crosby<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0were named captain of their respective divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/631194388\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/631194388?et=RDkhkKPuQERBAlrr15qa7Q&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=Z787CWzhj2ysdXVpz_yHvYiCgXm8pYqPNXnRPLAZl_g=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL released the 2017 All-Star Game jerseys earlier this morning. The 2017 #NHLAllStar uniforms. The 4 teams will wear jerseys w\/ colors worn by @LAKings from their 50-year history. https:\/\/t.co\/PaN42gvW3q pic.twitter.com\/i8liFMjgIR &mdash; NHL (@NHL) January 11, 2017 Central\u00a0Division &#8211; Purple Atlantic Division &#8211;\u00a0Gold Metropolitan Division &#8211; White Pacific Division &#8211; Black Initial reaction online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":757,"featured_media":5313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1127,37,38],"class_list":["post-5288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2017-nhl-all-star-game","tag-hockey","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Nic Hendrickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}