Breaking: Flyers changing home/away uniforms next season!

According to a report from NHL jersey and logo specialist Chris Creamer of SportsLogos.net, the Philadelphia Flyers will be changing both their home and road uniforms for the 2023-24 season. Creamer reports that the Flyers will be throwing it back a bit, using a design that's very similar to the uniform the team wore in the 1980s and majority of the 1990s.

More info from Creamer:

Starting with the colours, sources tell SportsLogos.Net that the Flyers will be bringing back their original shade of orange, which is a bit lighter than what the club is currently using (see the side-by-side comparison below). The Flyers had used their original orange from their 1967-68 expansion season, through their two Stanley Cup Championships, right up until the NHL started standardizing colours league-wide in 1999. The Flyers have used their current shade of orange since that 1999-2000 switch.

- Chris Creamer

The home orange and road white uniform designs will be a throwback to the style used for a quarter century from 1982 to 2007 — the ones with very wide stripes down each arm, made famous by former Flyers such as Eric Lindros, Rod Brind’Amour, Mark Recchi, Jeremy Roenick, and Ron Hextall. These uniforms all originally used that aforementioned shade of orange that the Flyers will be flipping back to.

There will be some changes, of course. I’m told the black trim that borders those wide sleeve stripes will not be returning, and the single orange or black stripe (depending on the jersey) that appears before the patch of black near the cuffs will also be gone.

- Chris Creamer

Of course, the new uniform will be on the modern Adidas cut with that big collar thing and an NHL shield in there; for ease of Photoshopping, I simply used photos from the ’90s for this mockup and edited where necessary.

Note: there will not be a black uniform; there will not be an alternate uniform for the Flyers in 2023-24. Just the home orange and road white. Aside from the change to the shade of orange, the logo will remain exactly the same (and rightfully so!).

- Chris Creamer

So there you have it... a new twist on an old design, which personally I think is just fine. To me, the Flyers have one of the most recognizable jerseys and logos in the sport and I'd be very wary of messing with it. Thankfully, it seems like the team's braintrust recognizes this and isn't interested in creating the latest fad or trend with a brand new look.