Law of Unintended Consequences

New uniforms...sleeker, more aerodynamic, offers a whole new revenue stream with updated designs and logos, repels moisture...

"Repels" moisture...OK, so where does all this moisture go? Well, as we see in this article by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Dave Molinari, the moisture collects in the equipment -- most notably gloves and skates. As the Penguins' Mark Eaton pointed out...

"They do what they were designed to do, as far as repelling the water. But we've found, the last three or four days of wearing them, that, when the water's repelled, it has nowhere to go but into your skates and gloves. By the end of the second [period] or the start of the third, your skates are sloshing around and you have to change your gloves because they're [soaked]."

The league might look at this new performance system as a work in progress, but no amount of tweaking will end up looking like this...


Imagine this look on Zdeno Chara...

...yeesh.

And with that, The Peerless is going dark for a few days. Remember to visit all the bloggers, and while you're at it...floss.


Thanks to Direwolf on The Official for pointing the way to this issue.