First look at NY Islanders All-Star logo placement on sweaters this season

The Islanders' controversial Fisherman era continues to find new life, and now a piece of it will be riding on their shoulders all season.

With training camp underway, we're getting our first look at the 2027 NHL All-Star Weekend logo as a shoulder patch on the Islanders' jersey, and the design certainly doesn't look like a generic All-Star logo. That's because there's a lot of Islanders history packed into it.

The NHL unveiled the logo in July with a design inspired heavily by the team's infamous Fisherman era of the mid-1990s. The bottom of the logo features teal and orange waves reminiscent of the striping introduced with the Fisherman uniforms in 1995-96.

There's another familiar piece of Islanders history in there, too.

A lighthouse is incorporated into the "ALL-STAR" wordmark, another callback to imagery used by the Islanders during that era and, of course, something synonymous with Long Island itself.

Now we're seeing how all of that looks on an actual Islanders sweater.

The patch will be worn as the organization prepares to host the NHL's stars at UBS Arena on Feb. 5-6. It will mark the first All-Star Game hosted by the Islanders since 1983 at Nassau Coliseum, when Wayne Gretzky was named MVP.

This year's event will feature another new look, with players representing the United States, Canada, Sweden, Finland and a World team in a five-team, 3-on-3 tournament.

But the logo itself is unmistakably Long Island.

That's especially interesting given how dramatically opinions about the Fisherman have changed over the last 30 years. What was once despised by a large portion of the fan base has become a piece of Islanders nostalgia, with its colors and imagery repeatedly resurfacing.

Now the Fisherman's influence is back again. Not as an Islanders primary logo (the fans voted that down in favor of the lighthouse) but elements of that logo's design is now sitting on their shoulders as the NHL prepares to bring its All-Star showcase back to Long Island.

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