After 32 years within the Nationwide Hockey League, the Tampa Bay Lightning really feel they’ve lastly earned their stripes, and so they’ll be carrying them entrance and middle on their new third jerseys.

The Lightning unveiled the brand new jerseys on their web site and social media channels on Thursday, February 15. They’ll them seven occasions earlier than the tip of the 2023-24 common season, together with 3 times within the 5 days after the revealing.

The design unveiled Thursday matches up with a leak that was spotted in early January. The bottom of the jersey is black, with the Lightning’s typical shoulder patch emblem enlarged and positioned on the entrance of the sweater.

The stripes across the arms are white, blue and silver — an homage to the “victory stripes” that have been discovered beneath the arms of the Lightning’s unique sweaters, which they wore some variation of between their inaugural season in 1992 to 2007. On these jerseys, the stripes have been solely seen when a participant raised their arms in celebration; now they’re out within the open for all to see.

*“Victory Stripes” seen beneath the arm of the unique Lightning uniform throughout their 2004 Stanley Cup win.*

Since 1992, the Lightning’s storied rise from budding hockey membership to perennial energy has run parallel to its fanbase and neighborhood. Within the 2024 third jersey, each component is designed to commemorate the heritage of a franchise and the rising legacy of its thunder. It’s a nod to the championship nature of our area. We combat, evolve, endure. In Tampa Bay, we earn our stripes. Now we put on the legacy.

— Tampa Bay Lightning website

The jersey additionally has a broad white stripe across the waist and blue trim on the collar.

One other homage to the Lightning’s 1992 sweaters comes within the type of the numbers on the sleeves and again. Whereas the font is similar block font the workforce makes use of on their present dwelling and highway sweaters, a blue define and drop shadow harkens again to the inaugural jerseys.

The jerseys might be paired with matte black helmets, black gloves, black pants and black socks with the identical victory stripe sample because the arms of the jersey.

Printed contained in the collar are the years the Lightning have received the Stanley Cup, all within the 2000s: ’04, ’20 and ’21.

The Lightning’s third jersey schedule for the remainder of the 2023-24 common season contains seven video games: