The league announced last year that Adidas would be replacing Reebok as the jersey supplier and official outfitter of the NHL. We saw first glimpses of what the designs might look like when Adidas supplied the 2016 Hockey World Cup with uniforms. Fast forward to the brink of the expansion draft and we finally get a look at what Adidas is doing with the NHL sweaters.
Lightning reporter Casey Chelios was in Las Vegas on the scene:
In typical NHL fashion, the new Adidas jerseys were leaked to the public a few hours before their official announcement.