FRISCO — Across 85 days, with a video chat meeting that banned the use of cell phones and a five-person committee that included the owner and four pillars of design laid out by the team, the Stars arrived at their Winter Classic uniform.

Unveiled on Wednesday morning, the Stars revealed an aesthetic that drew from the city’s hockey history as the Dallas Texans in the 1940s and steered clear of any reference to the franchise’s past in Minnesota. The Stars will play the Predators in the Winter Classic on New Year’s Day in the Cotton Bowl, the southernmost outdoor game in NHL history.

The Stars will wear a Victory green jersey with a white yoke along the shoulders and a crest on the chest that features a large “D” with the word “Stars” through the middle of the letter, although the “A” in Stars is a five-pointed star. The helmet will be green. The gloves will be caramel. The pants will be beige.

“Our primary goal, the one that we gave to Adidas and the NHL from the outset was: We want a classic hockey look that is uniquely tied to Dallas,” Stars senior vice president of marketing Dan Stuchal said. “That was the mantra we gave them.”

The logo is reminiscent of the Texans’ design from the 1940s, when they played first in the minor-league American Hockey Association and then in the United States Hockey League. They stopped playing after the 1948-49 season.

Wednesday was the 78th anniversary of the Texans’ first game on Nov. 6, 1941, against the St. Paul Saints.

A look at Tyler Seguin in the Winter Classic uniform. pic.twitter.com/butM7SOm7t — Matthew DeFranks (@MDeFranks) November 6, 2019

Stuchal was part of the five-man team for the Stars that worked in tandem with the league and Adidas to help design the uniform. Also included were owner Tom Gaglardi, creative director Jeff Neal, director of merchandise Kris Smith and color commentator Daryl “Razor” Reaugh.

After the team was awarded the Winter Classic from the league on Nov. 19 (it wasn’t announced publicly until Jan. 1), the committee held its first meeting Dec. 5, had a video meeting with Adidas in early January and finalized the design on Feb. 28.

There were four items the Stars wanted to make clear:

1. They didn’t want a black design.

“We didn’t feel like black worked in an outdoor game that is going to be so festive and alive,” Stuchal said. “It just didn’t seem to fit.”

2. They wanted to have their signature Victory green integrated in some way.

3. Didn’t feel like this was the place for a North Stars connection.

“While that’s a part of our history and a really big part of our history and it’s something that we feel a lot of ownership of because it is our franchise and we had several players who went on from Minnesota to play crucial roles with our championship team here, we just didn’t feel like this was the place or the time to do anything like that,” Stuchal said.

4. They were open to different color helmets, gloves, pants and skates.

After the video chat meeting, Adidas sent back four designs that the Stars cobbled together into the finished product. They discussed whether to have a yoke or not, whether to place the Winter Classic patch on the sleeve, the shoulder or the chest, where to place the numbers, whether or not to have laces on the collar.

The final design will feature felt fabric for the logo and numbers with silver stitching to give it a retro feel and look. Like Dallas, Nashville will also be wearing uniforms winking to its city’s hockey history as the Nashville Dixie Flyers. But the two teams did not work in concert with each other.

“We had no idea what Nashville was doing,” Stuchal said. “They kept each of us completely separated when we were designing. Obviously, the designers at Adidas knew, so maybe that was their idea. I would have to think that Nashville, I don’t know this, but I’m guessing they came to the table talking about their own hockey heritage in the same way.”

While the Stars did include the city’s history, they didn’t include their past as the Minnesota North Stars. The franchise moved to Texas in 1993-94 after spending 26 seasons in Minnesota, losing in the Stanley Cup Final twice. Outside of the retired numbers in American Airlines Center and the walkway at Comerica Center in Frisco that lists the franchise’s accomplishments, odes to the North Stars and their brand are sparse.

“Using the brand has been something that we’ve really tried to get away from,” Stars president Brad Alberts said. “We’re really trying to focus on what is our Dallas history, because that’s what our fans know and are used to. So we’ve really steered away from promoting and showcasing Minnesota North Stars brand, yet still honoring the history.”

Perhaps the Stars could try to bring back the design from 1998-99, when the team won its only Stanley Cup, a uniform that was dark green and black with a star spanning the shoulders and abdomen. Did they consider that?

“Oh yeah,” Stuchal said. “We discussed it. We definitely discussed it, but I think the general feeling was it looked a little too modern for a classic game, just the way that star was sublimated on that jersey. That just didn’t seem to fit a classic look for classic hockey.”

Instead, the Stars will use the same shade of green they rebranded with in 2013-14: Victory Green. When the Stars redesigned the logo and color scheme to get rid of the dark green and gold palette, it landed with a brighter green, though Alberts said the team also thought about blue, red, white and blue, or even black.

“We looked at the whole and those guys were kind of like ‘Are you guys crazy? Green is yours. Own it,’” Alberts said. “I remember having that discussion six years ago, and the decision to own it has been right dead on.”

“It’s become uniquely ours,” Stuchal said of Victory Green.

Here are other tidbits about the uniform:

-- The patch on the left sleeve of the state of Texas with a D on it was not part of the original Texans look, but was important for the Stars to include. The jersey will also have Texas’ flag on the inside of the back collar.

Up close details of the Winter Classic jersey. pic.twitter.com/43k6QUA2mr — Matthew DeFranks (@MDeFranks) November 6, 2019

“That came loud and clear from our director of merchandise,” Stuchal said. “He said people are always asking for it. It’s true. It sells better than other things, so having that Texas connection to it was important at the end of the day.”

-- The gloves and pants don’t match, and that’s something the Stars understood they might not be able to match, and actually like having different looks.

“It screams retro,” Stuchal said. “It screams something that you might have seen back then. … We knew that we couldn’t match them. We actually sort of like the fact that they don’t match.”

-- The Stars will wear the uniform twice more in the regular season: Jan. 29 against Toronto and Feb. 21 against St. Louis, both at American Airlines Center. Feb. 21 will double as Jamie Benn bobblehead night, when the bobblehead will be wearing the Winter Classic uniform.

The only difference between the one on Jan. 1 and the ones later in the season is that the Winter Classic patch will be removed after Jan. 1.

-- Jerseys are available to pre-order now online but won’t be available until Nov. 15. According to The Hangar website, “due to production issues,” Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin, Miro Heiskanen and blank jerseys will be available Nov. 15 while John Klingberg, Alexander Radulov, Ben Bishop and Roope Hintz jerseys will be available Dec. 15.

Customizable jerseys are not available.

-- The team does not have current plans to make the Winter Classic uniforms their third uniforms next season, with Alberts saying the use of the uniforms is a “small window right now.”

“There are no plans for us to wear it beyond those two other times,” Stuchal said. “We can always have that discussion. But I think a lot of it will depend on what fans think of it and how our team likes playing in it and everything else.”