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The Better Looking Blues

08/28/2014 at 11:23am EDT

from Paul Lukas of ESPN,

The classics are classic for a reason.

The uni-verse has taught us that lesson countless times, and it did so again this week when the St. Louis Blues finally dispensed of all the nonsense and got back to basics with their new uniform design.

How superior is this new design to the one it's replacing? Let us count the ways:

1. No more apron strings.

Those annoying gold stripes that ran down the torso and continued onto the pants, which were added to the Blues' uniform in 2007, were a disaster from the get-go. They made the chest logo feel too boxed in and confined, they looked like dangling apron strings, and they almost never lined up from jersey to pant leg. They reeked of gimmickry and templating -- two surefire ways to ruin a uniform -- and getting rid of them is a textbook case of addition by subtraction.

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