Sweaters and hockey have been synonymous with each other since the infancy of the sport.
Teams have been identified by their iconic colours and patterns.
Some of them are classic while others are classically awful.
This summer our annual series focuses on the best and the worst sweaters in each team’s history.
Today we have the best and the worst New York Rangers sweaters in team history.
We at Last Word on Hockey used a variety of methods to compile this list.
Polling came from social media, our writers, and fans.
We wanted to get a variety of opinions when we put out our list.
This compilation will likely spur debate.
However, we wanted to see who had the most memorable sweaters in each team’s history.
Let’s put our best foot forward with the best sweaters.
The Rangers franchise had pretty much had the words “New York” or “Rangers” across their chest for most of their history.
There were a couple of exceptions and we’ll get to those down the way.
Manhattan’s hockey team had rarely dipped its toe into having a logo on its chest.
However, that would change in the 1996-97 season when a logo featuring the Statue of Liberty with the initials NYR on the bottom.
This alternate was very well received and stayed an alternate for a number of seasons until 2007.
