from Paul Lukas of ESPN,

If you were thinking that the NHL looked a little bland last season, things are going to look a lot more interesting this time around.

When Adidas took over for Reebok last year as the NHL's uniform outfitter, one unfortunate side effect was a one-year hiatus for alternate uniforms (or, as the league prefers to call them, "third jerseys," although that's a misnomer, because a uniform involves a lot more than just a jersey). So for 2017-18, teams were limited to their primary home and road uni designs.

But the drought is over. As of this writing, 14 of the 30 NHL teams have introduced alternate uniforms for 2018-19, and several more are expected to follow. Some of the freshly unveiled alts are essentially continuations of pre-existing alternate designs that teams had already been wearing before the one-year speed bump; others are new designs that will be making their NHL debuts.

All of which should make for a much more visually interesting scene than we had last season. With the regular season set to begin on Oct. 3, here's our annual team-by-team rundown of what you can expect to see on the ice.

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