Yesterday’s alumni game is proof we need those jerseys back

Yesterday evening, the Flyers played their long awaited (at least by myself) Hall of Fame Celebration game, honoring the newest inductees, Paul Holmgren and Rick Tocchet. The guest list of both players and coaches included the likes of Eric Lindros and Danny Briere, and while unfortunately, the game was not televised, we did get quite a few highlights and photos via the team’s official social media accounts, including the aforementioned pair.

Now, we saw Lindros rock those black jerseys numerous times in the late 1990’s, but Briere never wore the orange variant of that iconic style (he did wear the black and white Reebok variants of the design that didn’t end up lasting very long). In fact,…