With less than six weeks until the big game, the Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues have today officially unveiled the uniforms they’ll be wearing at Wrigley Field for this year’s NHL Winter Classic on New Year’s Eve.
As is the case with all Winter Classic games, both teams will be wearing uniforms inspired by the history of hockey in their communities.
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CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS 2025 WINTER CLASSIC UNIFORM
For the Blackhawks, they’ll again reach back into the wealth of options their ninety-eight year old wardrobe offers St Louis, on the other hand, with fewer unique uniform designs over the years (and having already used up the big ones several times) have gone away from the franchise a bit.
Starting with Chicago, a uniform that already had leaked a couple of months ago is confirmed. We get the first time the Blackhawks have worn red for an outdoor game. Inspired by their uniforms and crests worn during the 1940s and ’50s, the Blackhawks will have several horizontal stripes across the chest in white and black with a mishmash of team logos together as the main crest.
The current Blackhawks primary logo serves as the centrepiece inside a roundel with four stars around the bottom, a nod to the Chicago city flag. The typeface within the roundel is a block, serif-style font which is very close to what the crest featured on their uniforms of the late ’40s/early ’50s. You’ll note that the team name was presented as two words in those original photos, the team made their name a single word in 1986. On the back of the jersey, the player numbers incorporate a pinstripe pattern, a nod to the Chicago Cubs (perfect for a game at Wrigley Field).
ST. LOUIS BLUES 2025 WINTER CLASSIC UNIFORM
For the St Louis Blues, they’re going all the way back to the 1930s St. Louis Flyers, a team that predates the Blues time in the NHL by three decades. The striping across the chest, with the team name across it, is directly inspired by those Flyers uniforms. The colours of blue and gold, not what the Flyers wore, but ties this uniform to the Blues franchise.
The font for the ST LOUIS name across the chest is a modified version of that prototype Blues jersey which served as the inspiration for their Reverse Retro 2.0 uniform back in 2022-23. Something that caught my eye is a modified Bluenote logo on the shoulder, perhaps testing the waters for a future change?
