Avalanche to unveil third jersey Thursday.

So, the Colorado Avalanche are set to unveil their third jersey (read: money maker) on Thursday the 12th. They will wear the new alternates on Saturday November 14th for the first time. Internet speculation (which is usually very reliable...or not) is that the jersey will look like this...





Those aren't too terrible, although that is an awful lot of that bright blue. I dig the stripes on the arms, and I'm always a big fan of the diagonal name on the front. Although, if they were going to go with that, I was always partial to the old third jerseys that looked like this...

Of course, if they really wanted to make an amazing statement with their alt jerseys they could do something like this which would really rock...



Just so long as they don't do what the Montreal Canadiens have done, and break out a monstrosity like these...