The Ottawa Senators held their second annual Season Seat Member Spring Summit at Canadian Tire Centre on Tuesday night. It was an opportunity for season ticket holders to rub elbows and get an insider’s view on what’s happening with the club.
One of the biggest pieces of news on the evening was a glimpse at what the Senators and Fanatics (the NHL’s outfitter of on-ice uniforms) appear to have settled on for their new third jersey. It appeared in a video the team showed to fans on the CTC big screen. Naturally, it had some fans and media members grabbing their cell phone cameras to share on the new look on social media.
The video provided close ups of the new third jerseys, which are all-red with black and metallic gold trim (think Vegas Golden Knights). At the end of the video, a blurry image of a player wearing the jersey walks toward the camera, came into reasonably clear view for one single frame before the video ends.
This image falls completely in line with a social media post that surfaced earlier this season from a Reddit user. It had photos of a player wearing a similar uniform, standing on the CTC ice surface on a non-game day, perhaps as part of the production of the very video that was shown to fans on Tuesday, or simply testing how it looked to the TV cameras.
For example, for TV viewers, going with black numbers directly on red is rarely a good choice. They look fine and they’re legible up close but the lack of colour contrast makes it a struggle on the standard wide shot from a distance. Perhaps the gold trim in this case will make them stand out enough. Regardless, this is the kind of thing they test for.
The only visible difference in the two images might be the added detail in the centurion’s red plume and possibly the removal of the S logo on the shoulders, but it’s hard to tell for certain.
(Image at left credit: Sens Reddit user)
It’s probably not fair to fully judge a jersey until you see it in person, or at least in higher resolution. But barring any last minute changes, this gives you a good sense of what appears to be the Sens’ new thirds that will launch in September.
We’ll have more on Tuesday’s Season Seat Member Spring Summit coming up shortly.
Steve Warne
The Hockey News Ottawa
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