Andrew Gross

Staff Writer, @AGrossRecord

There’s a veil of secrecy currently over the NHL with regards to adidas taking over next season as the manufacturer and designer of the teams’ jerseys.

But The Record can tell you Devils’ fans this much: If you like the team’s current jerseys, take a deep breath and relax. An industry source outside the Devils’ organization confirmed to The Record on Monday that the logo will remain the same, the black-and-red color scheme will remain the same. The Devils’ primary identity jerseys are not being redesigned.

There’s been plenty of Internet speculation the past couple of weeks about potential changes.

The Devils cannot comment yet on next season’s jerseys, and there was no comment on Monday when The Record reached out to the organization on the subject.

But the Devils will continue to look like the Devils, and, frankly, that’s a really good thing.

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The Devils might not be an Original Six team, with an Original Six jersey. But their simple, clean logo is one of the NHL’s better ones, and probably one of the league’s more underrated designs.

Adidas will take over for Reebok next season, and all 30 current teams — Team No. 31, the Vegas Golden Knights, join the NHL in 2017-18 — will have their jerseys changed in this sense: New materials, designed to be better suited for enhanced performance, will be used. That may lead to some differences across the league, easily noticeable or not.

It’s likely that the form-fitting look Reebok introduced, which necessitated some subtle changes, will be replaced by the more free-flowing sweater look NHL fans were once used to. Maybe the bottom of the jerseys will go back to having a flat cutoff, rather than the current rounded look.

For the time being, at least, there will be no alternate jerseys.

So why is it a good thing the Devils still look like the Devils?

Because there is a tradition here in New Jersey, a legacy of three Stanley Cups from 1995-2003, and uniform continuity, potential subtle changes aside, provides a bridge to the past.

Especially after the late Dr. John J. McMullen just became the first inductee into the Devils’ Ring of Honor, it would seem wrong to radically alter the logo worn during McMullen’s tenure.

Sometimes, uniform changes are OK. For instance, I love the Florida Panthers' new sweaters. And the changes the Dallas Stars have made have been positive ones.

But it’s also a positive to know that, when the Devils take the ice next season, they’ll be recognizable as the Devils.

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