- Every orange concept lost, and four navy designs are all that’s left
- The Navy Lighthouse pulled the biggest number of the round at 70.9 percent
- Read below for the round two matchups and when the voting window closes
Isles Nation made its color preference obvious.
Fans knocked out every orange concept in the opening round of the New York Islanders third jersey bracket, leaving the Navy Lighthouse, Navy Fisherman, Navy NY and Navy Islanders designs as the final four. Round two opened Saturday at noon ET and closes Monday at 5 p.m. ET.
The Navy Lighthouse posted the loudest win of the round, taking 70.9 percent against the orange version of the same crest. That was the highest share any of the eight finalists managed.
Here is how the first round shook out:
- Navy Lighthouse 70.9% over Orange Lighthouse 29.1%
- Navy Fisherman 67.2% over Orange Fisherman 32.8%
- Navy NY 62.6% over Orange NY 37.4%
- Navy Islanders 62.3% over Navy ISLES 37.7%
Cal Clutterbuck handled the announcement duties for the team. Watch the longtime Islanders winger read out the four survivors:
Two matchups remain. The Navy Lighthouse meets the Navy Fisherman on one side of the bracket, while the Navy NY takes on the Navy Islanders wordmark on the other.
Round three runs Aug. 18 through Aug. 20 and settles the whole thing. The winning concept gets unveiled in the days after that, then heads into a full design process to build out the rest of the kit.
Getting to this point took some sorting. Fans submitted 80,490 designs, and a committee of players and hockey operations staff cut that pile down to the eight finalists announced Aug. 11. No NHL team had ever handed the design of a sweater to its fan base like this.
One of those four navy sweaters will be on the ice at UBS Arena for the 2027-28 season.
